OUR EDGE

“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.”

ROMANS 6:14 (KJV)

In our previous post we considered what the sting of death is – sin; and we also considered what the strength of sin is – law. It implies that when sin takes root in the life of a person it produces death which is a separation from the life of God. It also implies that sin will not be able to produce death in a person except it is strengthened by the law.

It therefore appears that if we are going to deal with sin we need eliminate its strength and not be bothered about its effect since there won’t be an effect without sin being strengthened.

Our opening scripture lets us know that sin shall have no dominion over us because we are not under the law, but under grace. The dispensation of law, which is a dispensation of good and bad, causes man to focus on his weaknesses; while, the dispensation of grace, which is a dispensation of God’s strength, causes man to focus on God.

Whenever we focus on our faults, we keep ourselves from the life of God; whenever we focus on God, our faults notwithstanding, we bring ourselves in union with his life.

The dominion of sin is sickness, death, poverty, depression, oppression, affliction etc. As long as we keep our eyes away from our shortcomings and focus on God’s grace the effect of sin will not be an experience of our lives.

When Adam and Eve became conscious of their nakedness they kept themselves away from God’s grace and thereby incurred the dominion of sin over their lives. Our shortcomings are not the big deal here as man will always have areas of shortcomings, the big deal is the effect of our shortcomings and grace presents us with a way out.