261 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 22 - The Old Sin Nature

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 22 THE OLD SIN NATURE We left off last lesson in Romans 6 at verse 14. Romans 6:14 "For sin (the old sin nature, old Adam) shall not have dominion over you (now in the last lesson I was stressing, "reigning like a king," or we can crucify old Adam, and let the Grace of God in the Person of Christ and the Holy Spirit reign as King); for ye are not under the law, but under grace." Romans 6:15,16a God forbid." "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are..." Paul again is going to bring everything back to this idea of old Adam. Now in Chapter 6, Paul is telling us over and over that we have to deal with "Old Adam." Old Adam has to be crucified, and put to death. Romans 6:16 "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey (if you are a child of Adam, then that's the one you're going to be serving); whether of sin unto death, or (the other side of the coin) of obedience unto righteousness?" Romans 6:17-19 "But God be thanked, that ye were (past tense) the servants of sin (our past), but (now the flip side) ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you (Paul's Gospel as found in I Corinthians 15:1-4). Being then made free from sin (old Adam), ye became the servants (bond slave) of righteousness." "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh (what's Paul saying in so many words? "We're living in the same old sin that has plagued the world since the beginning. Here in I Thessalonians Chapter 1, let's start with verse 9. Romans 6:20 "For when ye were (past tense) the servants (under the dominion of old Adam) of sin, ye were free from righteousness." What? God doesn't expect the unsaved person to live righteously. This certainly isn't giving the unbelieving world more free reign than they already have, but rather saying what the Word of God says. Romans 8:7a "Because the carnal mind..." On the other hand Paul can speak of carnal people as being totally unsaved. "Because the carnal mind (the lost) is enmity (an enemy) against God (most lost people if you tell them that they're an enemy of God they'd swat you. But whether they know it or not, the Book says the lost are enemies of God): for it (the carnal unbeliever) is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." God doesn't want us to, because it won't work. The only thing that will work is when they have that inner change, the work of God in their lives. Now back to Romans Chapter 6. Romans 6:20,21 "For when ye were the servants of sin (old Adam), ye were free from righteousness." So when you're lost you're under no demands to live righteously. God doesn't expect it. Now in the next verse Paul is going back into their idolatrous life style and ask: Spiritual death. Let's go for a moment to the Book of Revelation Chapter 20, and look at the spiritual death that Paul is referring to. He's not just talking about dying physically, but rather a spiritual death. So what's the second death that He's talking about? The eternal doom, when they will be sent away from the presence of God back over here in Chapter 20:11-15 at the Great White Throne Judgment. They will never again have any contact, or conversation with their Creator God because they are totally separated. That is the spiritual death. This is the same thing Paul is talking about in Romans. Either we take care of old Adam, and enter into this righteousness we call Salvation, and have eternal bliss in the presence of God, or we let old Adam reign supreme, and pass off the scene, never having done anything about it, and go to the second death. Romans 6:22 "But now (in their saved estate) being made free from sin (old Adam), and become servants to God, ye have your fruit (now you are producing something totally different. The old Adam produced fruit to nothing but condemnation and evil. But being made free from old Adam you have entered in to the Salvation experience that God has offered, and become) unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." We can't comprehend what it means to live forever in God's presence, but that's what the Scripture is talking about. We can enjoy the saving Grace of God in this life, but it's not going to stop at the grave; it's going to take us on into the everlasting life, that eternal abiding with God Himself. This is what Paul is burning himself out for. Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin (or you might say, the wages that old Adam pays is the second death, eternal doom) is death; but (the flip side is) the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible