Romans 6 is the Apostle Paul’s revelation of God placing humanity in Jesus, so we could be crucified with Him, to destroy the body of sin; Romans 7 is Paul struggling between the revelation and him knowing it and experiencing it; thus, Romans 8 is the Apostle Paul experiencing what God revealed to him; therefor, Lord willing, we will examine Paul’s struggles from revelation to experience, which is also every Christian’s struggle, so we need to know what and how to get through it.
Romans 6:1-14 is God baptizing all humanity into Christ Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, so He could crucify and bury all humanity when Jesus was crucified and buried, and all humanity was resurrected when Christ was resurrected, for 1 Corinthians 15:35-38 shows when a seed is planted, it dies, and the seed-life in it, sprouts, grows into a plant, nothing like the seed, but as the plant matures, it produces multitudes of seeds exactly like the original planted seed, but all this is determined by God changing the crucified Jesus into the resurrected Christ, and changing sinner into Christians, members of Christ’s body, the church.
Before we continue, we need to answer your question: Since God places (planted) all humanity in Jesus, so all humanity would be crucified with Christ Jesus, to destroy the body of sin, then all humanity is “in Christ Jesus” and eternally saved and protected in Him, which Ephesians 1:1-14 says WAS God’s originally plan; :however, when the first man Adam, head of the human race, chose with his wife Eve, the mother of all living, to disobey God, eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and place the sin of disobedience in each descendant thereafter, thus 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 explains how the crucified Jesus, resurrected into the Christ, and how Adam, the FIRST man became a living person, but Christ the LAST Adam, became a life-giving Spirit; how the FIRST Adam was made of dust and head of the human race, but Christ the SECOND Adam is the heavenly Man, head of His body, the church.
Therefore, when the first Adam inoculated the entire human race with the desire to disobey God and sin, Jesus, the resurrected Christ, the LAST Adam and SECOND Man took humanity’s full punishment for the sin passed on to us from the FIRST Adam, but if we choose to continue in the sin of disobedience to God, Revelation 3:14-22 says, the resurrected Christ, head of His body, the church, “will vomit” us out of Him and into the lake of fire.
Either we repent of all sin, receive Jesus Christ, and ask Him to take all desire to sin out of us, so we can stop sinning, and live exclusively for Him, for as long as we enjoy sinning, God is not able to deliver us, but when we despise the sin life, and humbly cry out to God for help, then He will come to our rescue.
The only safe and secure salvation is the total surrender of our desire to sin, to Christ, asking Him to take it all out and fill us with His fullness, as Ephesians 3:14-21 says, for sin separates God and us; therefore, never allow Satan, the devil, to persuade us to sin in any way, but give God our all as young as we understand we are sinners in need of a Savior, but do not allow this to become an idol, so we think we are forever sin-free and never needing Christ to take all our desire to sin out of us, so we stop sinning, and live for Him without the desire to sin.
Jim Nabors
