To Whom Do We Yield?

Romans 6:14-15, “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.”

under – Greek: hupo. to be under the control of, the agency or means through which…

law – Greek: nomos. idea of prescriptive usage, regulation, principle

grace – Greek: charis. an act, an instrument, a doing

Paul is in a discourse to the Saints in Rome on whether it is acceptable to sin based on being under the Grace of God. He has said, “reckon yourselves dead indeed unto sin” (v.11), “let not sin reign in our mortal body” (v.12), & “neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin” (v.13).

The point is who is over (has the rule of) a Saint? The law or the Grace of God? And to whom we yield ourselves servants to obey, his servants we are (v.16).

Life as a Saint is supposed to be 100% under God’s doing (under His rule and working). Not anything of our doing, as in being under the law and trying to satisfy God by keeping His law.

Jesus said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

The law is still with us. But Jesus desires to keep/fulfill His law by Living it through our earthsuits. That is “under grace.”