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

Oct 22, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:8-11 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but ...  Read More

Oct 21, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:4-7 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. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self wa...  Read More

Oct 21, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:4-7 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. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self wa...  Read More