Nov 8, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:9-12 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died. 10 This commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and g...  Read More

Nov 7, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:7-8 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.Havi...  Read More

Nov 6, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.“But now” signifies a stark turn of events from the past to the present. Formerly, these Christians in Rome (indicative of Christians of all ages) were led by their flesh. Their fleshly desires ...  Read More

Nov 5, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:4-5 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for de...  Read More

Nov 4, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:1-3 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to an...  Read More

Nov 1, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:20-23 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal lif...  Read More

Oct 31, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:18-19 …and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.In keeping wi...  Read More

Oct 30, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed.Note in v. 17 that Paul gives thanks “to God” for the salvation of those in Rome. He did not commend the converts themselves for their good sense in choosing Christ for salvation and being set free from sin’s s...  Read More

Oct 28, 2024  Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:15-16 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?Some insist that God’s Law works to curb and control sin, ...  Read More

Oct 27, 2024  Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:15-16 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?After teaching that God’s grace abounds where sin abounds ...  Read More

Oct 24, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:3-4 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.Baptism is twofold in the New Testament. Christians are fir...  Read More

Oct 23, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:12-14 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not u...  Read More