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Romans Revelation
The One Continuous Letter to the Romans

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6th Chapter

1 Then what shall we do? Shall we go on sinning so that Grace of God Almighty may increase?

2 God forbid! How shall we that are dead to sin, continue to live any longer in its bondage of death?

Sin is death for Sin only kills.  Why would anyone continue in that which only brings destruction, rather than to seek the Grace of God Almighty that only Promises the abundance of LIFE in the Creator's Spirit of LIFE IN Christ and His obedience?  We may have been made alive once in the Yahweh's Grace IN the Christ of Yahweh God. however  our deceitful vanity has not left us to our own self centered desires. Choose today Whom you will follow, whether it be Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE or that of the spirit of death. If we follow the vanity of sin without repentance, then we make ourselves accountable to our chosen selves that is controlled by Satan, and not to the Grace of the Almighty God that frees us from the bondage of sin and its charge of death.   If  we continually return to the bondage of sin, which we were originally redeemed from, then are we again held under the curse of death? 

Yes, but Jesus says to the floundering soul:

I AM the Bread of LIFE.  He that comes to Me and Believes in Me shall never hunger and thirst. All that the Father gives to Me, shall come to Me, and they that come [believing in] Me, I will in no wise cast out. (See John 6 verse 35 thru 38.)

Father Yahweh God is not willing that any one should parish, but declares The TRUTH through His Majestic WORD:
All that He [the Father] has given Me, I should lose nothing, but should raise up [the believer] from death on the last day.  

Why should we foolishly lose ourselves in the vanity of our own mind and continue in sin and death, rather than to freely chose the WAY of LIFE in Christ Jesus? Says the Lord Jesus: He that eats of My Flesh in this Bread and drinks of My Blood in this Wine, Lives IN Me and I Live IN him.

3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His crucifixion (Body of) death for our sin?

4 By Faith, having died with Christ, therefore we were  buried with Christ through baptism into His death [for our death was because of our sin], in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Glory of His Father Yahweh God, we also should live the  new LIFE IN Christ Jesus (being the sinless Body of the risen Messiah Yeshua.)

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death (for our sin), then we shall also be raised up to LIFE in the Likeness of HIS resurrection by the Spirit of His Father.

6 Do not forget that our old sinful person is crucified to HIM (Jesus/Yeshua), so that our body of sin might be destroyed by death, so that we should not continue to serve in the bondage of sin.

1 Corinthians 15 verse

13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen from the dead:

14 And if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

15 Then we are found [to be] false witnesses of Yahweh God; because we have testified of Yahweh God that He raised up Christ: Whom if He did not raise not up, then we the dead do not rise from death.

16 For if the dead do not rise into Life, then Christ is not raised from death:

17 And if Christ be not raised from death, then your faith is vain; and you are yet [dead] in your sins.

20 But now [we know that] Christ is risen from the dead, and become the First Fruit of them that slept.

21 For since by Man [Adam] came death, being the [genetic] Son of Man, (the first Adam Jesus Christ) also came the resurrection of the dead [into Life].

22 For as in Adam all die, even so IN Christ Jesus shall they be made alive.

If the TRUTH of risen Christ of God is the only WAY to LIFE, then why do the wise of the world, act like unwise fools and dismiss the LIFE giving Blood of the Man Jesus Christ that is One with His Father Yahweh God's New Covenant of LIFE.  Awake from death and make no further mistake, for sin breeds death in all of mankind. Now first, of all,  if we sinners in the flesh of MAN, desire to see LIFE that defeats our sin and death, then it is of absolute necessity that we redeemed sinners eat with with Faith of the Communion Body of Jesus Christ, and that we are in agreement that we are the sin that slayed our sinless Savior.  And then in accordance with His WORD, we must drink IN of the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ that through the Life giving Spirit of His Father, obliterates our confessed sins of death, with HIS LIFE. 

From the beginnings of time, the Eternal Wisdom of God has provided the remedy for man's sin and death in the Blood of the LAMB. slain from before the foundation of the world.  If mankind is to live free from sin and death, then they must have the LIFE IN the Blood of the One Man Jesus Christ flowing throughout their souls and spirit.  In the Faith of Yahweh God, the Son of Adam says: Drink all of you; for this is MY Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for you for the remission of your sins of death. Why will you die O man and not have the LIFE of the Christ of God?

Romans 6:

6 For we know that our old self [selfish man] was crucified with Him [Christ] so that the [our] body ruled by sin might be done away with, and that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

If a person is dead, then he is no longer capable of sinning.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live IN Him.
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; because death no longer has mastery over the Man. 

10 The death that Christ died, He died to sin once; but now the LIFE that Christ Jesus Lives, He Lives to God.

 The sinless Lamb and Christ of Yahweh God, in His innocent death on the cross for the sins of Adam kind, totally fulfilled His Father's New Covenant that gives LIFE to the repentant dead who were bound in sin.  The Christ of God having died once for sin, can die no more, for He Eternally Lives in the LIFE of His Eternal Father Yahweh God Almighty.

11 In the same WAY [as IN Christ], fully consider yourselves [ to be factually] dead to [the rule of ] sin but Alive to God IN Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

In spite of the Lord's victory over our sin and death, the entity of sin remains to be an influence in the flesh of our person. Yahweh God is the Only God of the Living, and those that He has called, are called to Live in the LIFE of His only Begotten Son, Yeshua/Jesus haMashiach.{

13 Neither yield [present] your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: But yield [present] yourselves unto God, as those that are [made] alive from the dead, and your members instrument of righteousness unto God.

13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been raised from death to Life; and offer [present] every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness.

 

Romans 12 verse 1:

Therefore by the mercies of God, I beseech you brethren to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12 verse 1.)

Paul is encouraging the Roman listener to discipline themselves in their knowledge of the risen Christ.  They are to have a mind set that no longer lets sin have its rule in their person. They are to see themselves as having been raised from the dead to LIFE IN Christ Jesus, and like Christ, they would present themselves as an offering to Holy Yahweh God.

14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under [led by] the condemnation of sin that brings death, but under [being led by] the Grace of God's Spirit.
15 What then, shall we sin because we are not under [led by] the law of flesh, but under [being led by] grace? God forbid!

16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

If sin should have its sway over a person, and they find themselves in sin's clutches of death, then they should know that the Lord God Almighty, in His Righteous Mercy, has provided His WAY of escape in the New Covenant Communion Blood of His victorious Son Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus declares: My Doctrine is not Mine, but It is His Who sent Me. (See John 7 verse 16 thru 18.)

Yahweh your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me [Moses]; unto Him you shall hearken;  And the Lord Said unto me: They have well spoken: I will raise them up a Prophet from among the brethren, like into you [Moses], and I will put My Words in His Mouth, and He shall Speak unto them 'all' that I shall Command Him. And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto My Words which He shall Speak in My Name [Yahweh], I will require it of him. (See Deuteronomy 18 verse 15 thru 19.) The requirement is execution.

That Form of Doctrine [Didache]

17 But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but [we trust] that you have obeyed from the heart that Form of Doctrine which was delivered to you.

We would do well to understand that that Form of Doctrine spoken of in Paul's writings, is Communion in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and was dismissed by the ministering puppets of the pulpit so as to create their own form of permissive grace. Communion in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ was exchanged for the pulpit and the demigods behind the idolatrous pulpit.

But know this: The Authority for Communion IN the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, is IN the Word of Yahweh God Almighty and His Only Begotten  Son Jesus Christ.  What is IN the WORD of God that is not understood in His WORD, Who created the universe? Take and Drink; This IS MY BLOOD of the NEW COVENANT SHED for many for the REMISSION sin. If you say that you have not sinned then you make God to be  liar and the TRUTH of the WORD of God Almighty is not in you. But if you confess you are a sinner, then Yahweh God is Faithful and Just to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  Why would we choose to remain in sin and death, when you can choose to have LIFE IN Christ Jesus?

18 Being then made free from sin [and death], [through the Authority of God's Spirit of LIFE Who administers that Form of Doctrine [The Didache is inclusive of Communion IN the Body and Blood of Jesus] ] you [now] became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of man, because of the infirmity of the flesh [if mankind to sin and die]: For as you have yielded your members  as servants to uncleanness, and iniquity to iniquity, even now yield your members as servants of righteousness unto holiness.

The flesh of man is naturally enslaved to sin, and in the end the natural man will conform to the corruption of innate sin in death. For Man/Adam was taken out of the ground, and in his death, because of his rebellion in sin, he would return to the earth from which he was created: For dust you are and to dust you shall return. (See Genesis 3 verse 19.)

Bond Servants to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under [the guilt] of the law but under grace? By no means!

16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart that form of doctrine [the Didache] that has now claimed your allegiance.

Obedience to that form of doctrine presented to the new believers, will  set them free from their bondage to sin and death.  The Life giving Blood of  Jesus Christ is liberating to all that follow the Lord in His Word of freedom from sin.

18 You have been set free from the slavery of sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

There is only one WAY to be set free from the slavery of sin and death, and that is to submit one's enslaved Lifeless self, to The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE of Christ by drinking in Faith, the Righteous LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, that brings us into the Presence of His Holy Father, Yahweh God. The Lord God Almighty, the Creator of all things, created in His Image the lifeless form of Adam, and then breathed into Adam's nostrils, His Breath of LIFE and Man became a Living Soul in the Likeness of his Creator. 

The life is in all of the natural creatures of God, including fallen mankind.  There is life is in the blood, and like all natural creatures, all of mankind will perish and disintegrate into dust. But the Almighty God breathed the Life of His Spirit into the Man we know as Adam, and Adam the first Man, truly became alive because of God's Spirit of LIFE that flowed IN Adam's Blood.

God gave natural life in the blood to all of His creatures, but Adam was special to God.  Adam's created form in the earthen dust was dead, and we know our God to be the God of the Living.  Therefore, Adam was not to be like the living animal creatures of the earth, but was to be activated in True LIFE through God's Holy Spirit of LIFE.  The dead, like the earth formed Adam, are all to be made alive by the Breath of God to serve in the Likeness of the Spirit of their Creator God.

Leviticus 17

11 The life of the flesh is in the blood. and I have given it [the life blood] to  you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: For it is the [life] blood that makes an atonement for the soul.

The word life and soul come from the one Hebrew word nephesh; therefore they are synonymous. The life in the soul of the natural man is the natural force that gives life to man, that genetic life is distinguished from the life of an animal, nevertheless will all natural life will perish into the dust of the earth.

12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel: No soul of you shall drink the life blood of the sacrificed animals, neither shall any stranger who lives among you drink the life blood of the animals.

It is of absolute necessity to have the LIFE of God Spirit in our souls, and that LIFE only comes from the LIFE giving Blood of God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. The Word of God that created all things, took the cup of wine after dinner, gave thanks to His Father God and said: Take and Drink all of you; for this IS My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission [obliteration] of sin. 

Almighty God is not the god of the confusion of sin that breeds death, but is the Almighty God of Peace and LIFE.  For Yahweh's Spirit of TRUTH gives the abundance of His LIFE to believing souls, who hold to the Promise of God IN His Only Begotten Son.  The flesh of all creatures have the life force of natural blood within them, and will die and corrupt back to dust. Adam and his prodigy, are no different than the animals, without the Spirit of God, their flesh of sin will die, and corrupt into the dust of the earth.

19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to [the] Righteousness [of Christ] leading to holiness.
20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of the Righteousness [of Christ].
21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things resulted in death!
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God: The benefit you reap [IN Communion with the Lord] leads to holiness, and the result is Eternal Life.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is Eternal LIFE IN G1722 Christ Jesus our Lord.

We will see in the beginnings of Romans 7 a continuation of this last thought concerning the consequences of sin revealed in the Commandments, but now the Gift of Life in Christ Jesus can be attained by Faith.

9 For I was alive once without the Law, but when Commandment came, sin was revealed [by the Commandments] and sin killed me.

In Spiritual reality, we should consider that Paul was once alive in his new birth, but when his prideful sin found him out by way of the Commandments , he knew he was again dead in his trespass.  The Lord God did not kill Paul, but sin by its very nature of death revealed in the Commandments, killed Paul.

10 And the Commandment, which I thought was given for life, I found it to be of death.

11 For sin, [revealed by the Commandment], had deceived me, and sin slew me.
 

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