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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Romans 6 The Apostle having finished his design concerning the doctrine of justification, refutes the charge brought against it as a licentious doctrine, and prevents any ill use that might be made of it by men of evil minds, justified persons by the strongest arguments, and with the best of motives to holiness of life and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What shall we say then?.... The apostle here obviates an objection he saw would be made against the doctrine he had advanced, concerning the aboundings of the grace of God in such persons and places, where sin had abounded; which if true, might some persons say, then it will be most fit and proper to continue in a sinful course of life, to give up...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of that sweet flower, and turn that grace of God into wantonness and licentiousness, he, with a like zeal, copiousness of expression, and cogency of argument, presses the absolute necessity of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” That were very horrible inference. It is one great instance of the shocking depravity of man that the inference has been drawn sometimes, I hope not often, for surely Satan himself might scarcely draw an inference of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? This seems to be a very plausible temptation, it is one which frequently came in the apostle’s way, and therefore he very often had to denounce it. It is one of the vilest suggestions of Satan that could possibly come to men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? If the sinfulness of man has really given an opportunity for the display of divine mercy, then the devil’s logic would be, “ Let us commit more sin, that there may be more room for grace to work.” But Christians have learned their reasoning in another school, and to such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that “where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.” Then he goes on to say, “What shall we say then?” What inference shall we draw from the fact that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound? Shall we be base enough to draw a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
God forbid,.... By which he expresses his abhorrence of such a practice, and that this was a consequence which did not follow from the premises, and was far enough from his thoughts, and which he had in the greatest detestation: and he further argues against it by asking, how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? There is a death...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Now, he goes on by an argument to prove that those in whom the grace of God has wrought the wondrous change cannot possibly choose sin, nor live in it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? The whole spirit of the gospel is opposed to the idea of sinning because God is gracious. It is a horrible Satanic suggestion, — “As pardon can be so easily obtained from God, let us sin the more against him.” The bare suggestion is utterly degrading and diabolical. It is to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? The two terms are exactly opposite to one another. If, through grace, we are dead to sin how can we live in it ? If, sinners as we are, we come to Christ to be saved from sin, then it would be a complete misuse of language to talk of being saved from sin, yet still to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? The grace of God makes us dead to sin. This is the grace of God, which delivers us from the power of evil, and if this be so, how can we live any longer therein?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Know ye not that so many of us as, etc.] You must know this, you cannot be ignorant of it, that whoever were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death: and therefore must be dead to sin, and consequently ought not to live, nor can they live in sin. This does not suppose, that some of this church were baptized persons, and others...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? That is the very hinge of our religion. His death, not into his example merely, nor primarily into his life, but “into his death.” In this we have believed — with a dying Saviour we are linked, and our baptism sets this forth. We “were baptized into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Was not that the real meaning of our baptism? Had it any meaning whatever unless we were really dead with Christ and therefore were buried with him?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. You remember, my brethren and sisters in Christ, that hallowed hour when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? If we are in Christ at all, we are partakers of his death; and as his was a death for sin and a death to sin, we are made partakers of it; we are really dead because Christ died, and we are in him. Therefore we are dead to the old life, to the old way...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death,.... The nature and end of baptism are here expressed; the nature of it, it is a "burial"; and when the apostle so calls it, he manifestly refers to the ancient and only way of administering this ordinance, by immersion; when a person is covered, and as it were buried in water, as a corpse is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life. The operations, therefore, of the Spirit of God forbid that a saved man should live in sin. He is dead; he is raised into newness of life: at the very entrance into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even as we also should walk in newness of life. There is a parallel between Christ and the true Christian. There is a likeness between the Head of the Church and the members of his mystical body. Christ died, and was...