What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin. How can we live in it any longer (Romans 6:1-2)
Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains the point of Romans 6.
As a Christian I am here in the new field and Satan cannot touch me, as were are told in John’s First Epistle, chapter 5, verse 18, ‘That evil one toucheth him not’. He cannot touch us because we are no longer in his kingdom. He cannot touch us; but he can shout across the road at us. Every Christian who falls into sin is a fool. The devil cannot touch us; when then do we listen to him? We do we allow him to frighten us? Why do we pay attention to him? . . .We should resist him. ‘Resist the devil and he will flee from you’ (James 4:7); but we fail to realize it. The whole object of the Apostle in this sixth chapter is to get us to realize it. (David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 6, 26-27, emphasis added).
Yup….Satan has yelled across the road at me many times. I love this picture. It is good to know that we no longer are bound by him if we are in Christ. Sin no longer has dominion. How easily we forget that and then, we can fall in a trap of believing the enemy has power over us. Thanks for sharing this. It is good to know we are free in Him!