I will give you my thoughts. What the heck is exegesis?
Just playing but just so you know, I am not much for our complex religious terminology.
Here are the verses:
"For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Romans 6:10-18
Amazing verses. In these 9 verses are hidden all we have missed and as our eyes are opened to what God is most plainly telling us, and we embrace them as FACT, regardless of how we have walked, we will find is is always, always, always "according to our faith be it unto us.".
We will finally understand why, if we are truly new creatures, if sin really has no authority of us any longer, why we are not walking in newness of life.... overcomers, victorious over the world, the flesh and the devil.
And why? "but it did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
We are about to believe our God.
When I received my revelation, now 12 years ago, God knew full well what a miserable defeated man I was. I had tried everything to please God, and all I had to show for it was failure...one after another.
Had I tried for 38 years? LOL. With everything I had. That night I cried out to God, because I was the poster boy for Romans 7 and had no more things to try. i wanted to die.
Well, God obliged me, LOL. When He appeared in goldan blinding light, it put me on my face, He spoke to me... yes... audibly.
"For this, my son, I am well pleased with you."
Say what? Pleased with a man so addicted to inappropriate content he could not go a day without giving in? Pleased with a man who was angry at the church for not showing me hoe to walk free indeed as Jesus promised? Like Paul, I was a wretch of a man.
I had longed for 38 years as a Christian to feel my God was actually pleased with me and .....crickets. Npw, now when I come to Him fully defeated, with no strength, no hope to ever see improvement, ready to give up, now He tells me He is pleased with me?? it made zero sense.
But He spoke again and one word explained everything.
"I knew you could not live the life I have for you, but you did not yet know it.
Yet. I finally knew it. I had finally come to the place where I had no strength, no confidence in my flesh. That is all God wanted. To fully give up.
And the scriptures back this up.
"...and to them who have no strength, He increases might."
and
"He who enters his rest has ceased from his own works, even as God did from His."
God was not finished. He asked me a question.
"In all your efforts to try to please me, to die to self, to defeat sin in your walk, to bear spiritual fruits, did you ever do what I told you to do through Paul?"
He did not wait for me to answer. Probably because He would have a hard time understanding me, with me crying and overwhelmed as I was, lol. He then simply poured light into me so I could clearly see... and boy did I!
Paul tells us in Romans 6 that there are two facts we must know.
1) When Christ died, so did our old carnal nature. The old us died. We are dead.
2) When Christ rose again to newness of life, so DID we. We are new creatures.
But it was that darned next verse that had been hidden from my eyes. Knowing these things, he then instructs us to DO something!
This is the key verse. Everything balances on it.
"Therefore, reckon yourselves dead to sin, and alive unto God."
My jaw dropped. A serious Christian for almost four decades. I have chapters 6-8 memorized, lol. But never... never had I seen what Paul plainly told me to do, told you to do. I had never laid claim to what I said I believed was true. I had never put off my old man by faith and put on my new man.
What did I do? I spoke! Out loud! LOUDLY out loud. Loud enough for every demon in hell to hear me. Loud enough for every saint and angel in Heaven to hear me. But most importantly, loud enough for my own ears to hear the truth. truth that had been true since the day I was born again.
I confessed who I was not. I am not that same old worm of a sinner. I was, but no more. I confessed who I was, a new creature in Christ. An overcomer, victorious over the world, the flesh and the devil. I confessed that it was no longer me but Christ who now lived in me, and I yielded myself to God in a way I had never done before..... as one who is alive from the dead.
It has now been 12 years since that amazing night. I have learned so much, and yet have so much to learn. I have been changed so much, but still have far more to go. It has been lonely as God leads me, save for a few precious brothers and sisters.
I will sum this up before all the readers fall asleep. What I share works. No matter how weak, no matter how addicted to sin, you are a perfect candidate for having your feet planted on the highway of holiness.
This amazing walk is for the weakest to the strongest, and in that order, lol.
How was my exegesis?
blessings,
Gideon
