Devotionals

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

Why does all this talk of death and resurrection matter? Where do we learn how to die to our sin and live lives of holiness? When do we get the pep talk on mortifying our flesh and fighting our sin?

I do not talk about that here because this is not where Paul talks about it. It is crucial we understand the flow of Paul’s thought. He does not spend five chapters teaching us about the glories of the free gift of grace apart from any works on our part, only to double-back with, “But it’s still important to keep the commandments.

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

In what sense does Christ now live to God? Again, understanding what Paul means is important if we are going to live to God ourselves. Christ somehow “lives to God

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

What does it mean to say Christ “died to sin

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

This is a guest post by Luke Gilkerson (who runs @covenanteyes) from Covenant Eyes.

The Problem Created by Romans 1-5

At the risk of writing something overly familiar to you, it is important to summary Paul’s argument in Romans 1-5. Paul’s gospel is as follows: The whole human race, Jew and Greek alike, is under the wrath of God because of the rebellion of sin (Romans 1:18-3:20). The whole world is accountable to God. But the good new is: “[A]ll have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.