1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
Romans 3:20
because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
The Torah defines sin for us. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt is a picture of our deliverance from lawlessness what did Israel have to do now that they were delivered, what were they to do? Be obedient to His Torah. If that’s a picture of our deliverance from sin, what should we be doing? Be obedient to Him, follow the instructions of God(Elohim) just as Israel is commanded here in this chapter. Paul, Peter, and Jude told us the same thing.
Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?
These terms are used way too casually. We just defined sin, that’s lawlessness. We just read what John and Paul wrote, they said, it’s through the Torah that we know what it is, sin is lawlessness. Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? What is grace? Loving-kindness. So should we ignore the Torah and His instructions therefore Elohim’s graciousness is that much greater, wouldn’t that be great? No, that’s ridiculous, that’s what Paul is saying here. Now that you’re delivered don’t continue in sin. Look at grace as the graciousness of the Father, His graciousness. To whom does graciousness go? Does it go to the son that is obedient to his parents, that tries hard, does what mom and dad say, but he dented the defender in the car last night. Whereas, you have the other son who is failing in school, you caught marijuana in his bedroom, he sneaks out at night to see his girlfriend, hadn’t cleaned his room up in three years, now he goes out and gets a dent in the fender, is there a difference in the way you’re going to treat those two young men? You bet there is, one’s going to get the graciousness of the father the other one isn’t.
Rom 6:1-2
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? 2May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Revelation talks about two resurrections and people need to realize this. The first resurrection, is when you die to sin, and you live through Messiah. That’s the first resurrection.
Rom 6:3-4
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Baptist preachers say that with every baptism, and they don’t have the foggiest idea what it means. But with what you know about sin and the graciousness of the Father in the New Covenant, doesn’t it make complete sense? Absolutely makes complete sense.
Rom 6:5-12
For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; 7for he who has died is freed from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts,
It’s not just talking about sexual lusts it’s talking about lusting after those things that go against His commands, working on the Sabbath day, idols, cheating, stealing, things that you think at the time, make life easier.
Rom 6:13-14
and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
You’re not under the curses of the Torah, you’re under the graciousness of the Father. Why are you not under the curses of the Torah? Because you’re chosen to be His and He’s put His breath within you, to give you a desire to be obedient to Him, that’s the New Covenant.
Rom 6:15-18
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Leviticus 6:2
“When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,
Who has he sinned against? God(Elohim) What is sin? Lawlessness, sin is breaking the Torah, whose Torah, is it? God(Elohim). Those Commandments are His Commandments all sin is against Him and Him alone. According to His Torah there’s always restitution against those who have broken His Torah. There’s restitution, compensation, there’s punishment and so forth that all comes from above. Those are His words, not ours, our job is to be obedient to His word. Gen 18:19 “For I have chosen him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”