Romans from a Torah Covenant Perspective – Chapter 6

Romans 6:1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? 2  let it not be! we who died to the sin—how shall we still live in it? Remember Romans 5.20? ’But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.’ Paul’s question here in 6:1 is prompted by what he’d already laid out earlier in the letter. The question may arise in some twisted minds that if YHWH’s chên/charis/grace is present in it’s zenith; then maybe we can live in, to some degree or another SIN! Grace Heb:chên, Gk: charis. Heb related words: gedulah, chalaq, chesed, tov, racham, ratson. It’s a point that’s clear if we spend time understanding the framework of ‘Chen, Chesed and Charis – Grace!’ Noach found it, but it was יהוה who ratified it into the BoC  – covenants of promise with Abraham. Grace cannot be divorced from its inception point of national covenant blessing to which Paul is speaking! Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all. The BoC is faith, it’s the definition of grace, grace so the promises given to Abraham can be given to all, not just to the Jews coming out from the BoL, but to those in the nations who have the faith of Abraham and have crossed over from paganism and idolatry. Romans 6:3  are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Messiah Yahusha, to his death were baptized? 4  we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Messiah was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk. We live amidst an eschatological tension. Romans 6:5  For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of the rising again; 6  this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin. Matthew 8:22 Let the dead bury their dead. 2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creature old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Ephesians 4:22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. Colossians 3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. An authentic walk always has a tension between the old man and the new, one foot in the grave with the first Adam and the other foot set on the kingdom with the second Adam. 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. Romans 6:7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.8 and if we died with Messiah, we believe that we also shall live with him,9  knowing that Messiah, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship. Romans 6:10  for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to Elohim. 11  so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to Elohim in Yahusha Messiah our Kurios/YHWH. The divine name יהוה – Kurios. Romans 6:12  Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; 13  neither present ye your membersinstruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to Elohim as living out of the dead, and your membersinstruments of righteousness to Elohim. Romans 6:14  for sin over you shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law, but under grace. 15  What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be! This isn’t a proof text to assert that believers aren’t ‘under the law’, with ‘under the law’ interpreted to mean the commandments found in the Torah or what’s termed ‘The Law of Moses’. So what does ‘under the law’ ‘hupo nomon’ really mean? Considering in the past few