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NASB | Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
Subject: what is the wages of sin? |
Bible Note: THE POSITION FACTOR -- Consider the believer's positional history. Before anything was brought into being--the universe, the world, Adam--I, a chosen, elect, and called person was conceived in my Father's heart and purpose. (See Eph. 1: 4, 5; 2 Tim. 1: 9; Ps. 139:16). My Father called the world into being, and created Adam to be head of the human race for that world. I was identified positionally with the source of humanity. When Adam sinned and thereby positionally died to God, I died in him. When he became flesh, I became flesh in him. When he was condemned, I was condemned in him. The rejected old Adam was replaced by the accepted new Man, the Last Adam. When the Father sent His only begotten Son into the world, He subjected Him to the death of the Cross in order to rescue me from my Adamic death, because He loved me as His chosen one from all eternity. While the Lamb of God was on the Cross, my Father laid all my as-yet-uncommitted sins upon Him, and His death for those sins freed me from their penalty. While the Lord Jesus was on that same Cross the Father identified me, in my Adamic life of sin, with His Son who was made to be that sin (2 Cor. 5:21). In Him, I died unto sin--positionally. I, the sinful one, was not forgiven--my sins were forgiven, but not the old man, the source of those sins. "God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh" (Rom. 8: 3). I was not forgiven in order to start all over as a first-Adam person. No; "I was crucified with Christ"; I died unto sin in Him. In that death I was positionally separated from my Adamic life, the source of sin. The Lord Jesus' death for me redeemed me from the penalty of my sins; my positional death with Him freed me from the condemned Adamic life and its reign. Though the "Old Man", the adamic nature still exists in my flesh, I am no longer a slave to that flesh. As "his (God's) workmanship, (newly) created in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2: 10), I may be progressively freed from the reign of indwelling Adamic sin in my condition, as I reckon myself dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God in Christ (Rom. 6:11). Eagle One |