Romans 6:14 “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
What does it mean to be “under the law of God,”
it means that lost souls are bounded to live the law to obey it in fulfillment.
Lost souls cannot live the law of God because we were all (that is all souls)
born in sin and with sin. People are not condemned because we sin but because
we were born condemned in the sin of Adam. God made this crystal clear
in Rom. 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
Therefore, we must conclude that every soul born was born under sin and
therefore bound to sinfulness. So many people mistake moral goodness and
spiritual goodness as one in the same, but a soul can be morally good and a
condemned sinner at the same time. God’s law was ever written for us to be made
righteous; the law was written to show us our sinfulness. God said in, Gal.
3:24 “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.” The law was never meant for
salvation, meaning living good will never save a human soul. This is why God
said in Eph. 2:8,9 that salvation is through grace and not by works. In Rom.
6:14 God said, “For sin shall not have dominion over you…” the word
“dominion” means to lord over someone or to be a divine authority over someone.
When people are lost, they do not control their thinking nor actions, sin does.
The word “dominion” makes it clear that a lost or unredeemed soul is living in
a depraved state of mind and will never turn to God for redemption. The reason
for this is because every human soul is born not only depraved but at enmity
with God, or a hater of God. God said in Rom. 8:7 “Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God…” which means mankind, without redemption is hostile
to God and everything He is. Therefore, every lost soul’s thinking is opposed
to God’s Law, and not just a law but everything God is or says. God said that
mankind hates Him so much that, “There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God.” Rom 3:11 The reason they do not seek God
is because they do not understand God, to the unredeemed mind, God is their
enemy not their Saviour. Therefore, people make-up a god that suits their
condemned mind and that god is weak, subject to the will of man, and is
controlled by man’s thoughts and opinions. This is why people hate the
Sovereignty of God, because a Sovereign God controls the creature which is
reverse to what man wants. This is why so many mistakenly believes that “God
cannot change the human will” because man’s human will is so free that God
must beg man to come to Him. The truth is that salvation cannot be of works
because true salvation is a gift from God and is accomplished by and through
Jesus Christ. We who are saved were saved by God’s grace through the work of
Jesus Christ. God even went as far to say in Eph. 2:8 “…and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:” and He even went farther to clarify
this in verse 9 “Not of works…” because salvation is by grace.
This makes us that are saved, “under grace” and not under the law. We as
Christians are not subject to the condemnation of the law or “the curse of
the law” because “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us:” Gal. 3:13 Therefore, we are under grace
and no longer bound to the condemnation of the law. God said that salvation is
not of both grace and works because they do not accomplish the same thing but
are opposite of each other. “And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more
grace: otherwise work is no more work.” Romans 11:6 The law condemns the
soul to eternal hell, but grace saves our soul from hell. This does not mean
that the law is meaningless to a Christian, because Paul went on to write
in Rom 6:15 “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
but under grace? God forbid.” But the law no longer condemns us, but
it becomes our standard of life. God’s grace through the blood of Jesus
forgives and pardons our sin therefore if we sin, we are no longer condemned by
that sin. This is what God meant in 1 John1:7 “But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” His blood
cleanses us so much that we can walk in fellowship with God, beloved that is
grace!
