Lesson 425

(Lesson 425)(10-14-12) Romans 6:14-23, "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. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

In this lesson, Paul further explains how, after salvation, we should be changed from the old, sin laden outcast into a loving caring worker for the furtherance of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As was established in prior lessons, upon establishing a law, one also establishes the sin that comes through the violation of that law. Eternal salvation removes all the laws that before the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, governed mankind. Therefore, there is no law left for the saved to violate (Jesus fulfilled all prior laws). However, Christians are left with two distinct Commandments by which the redeemed are to live, Matthew 22:37-40, "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Just as Jesus said, we, the saved, are to live by these two simple commandments.
It is my belief that the only way the saved can sin against a lost person is to fail to live a life that is conducive to the promotion of the gospel of Christ crucified. This is pretty much proven by what Jesus called the "second" commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
It is my experience that, even thought we continue to sometimes cross the line, salvation takes away the desire to violate either of these greatest commandments.~