Rom 6:2 (Identifying the Sin Nature)

I thought yesterday that i would move on from verse 3 to verse 4, and as i studied, the Lord pulled me back to verse 2..which i had not studied. i am finding that we really need to take all of the verses into context when studying, because it is line upon line, precept upon precept.

This is going to be a long blog, so i think i will break them up, because i have a lot to share that i learned here. i began reading again in Bro Swaggart's commentary on Romans.

first, it is important to recognize the difference between sin and the sin nature. sin is plural, the acts of sin. the sin nature is singular, we all have just one nature that we are born with, and it is the Sin Nature. This nature is the one that compells us to commit acts of sin against God and man, mainly and always the One it offends most importantly, is God. When one sins, meaning, commits acts of sin, such as lust, adultery, ect...it is a direct result of the Sin Nature. we are all born with this disease. the infection of our heart is that it is decieitful and desperately wicked...so don't listen to it! it will deceive you.

Now that we have established that the sin nature is our problem, we need to understand further what it does and how we are effected by it. Death means separation. Physical sin is the separation of a person from their body. Spiritual death is the separation of a person from God.

When a sinner accepts Christ, there is a cleavage that is created between the person and his evil nature. *God uses a surgical knife to cut the believing sinner loose from his evil nature. This is through Jesus Christ and His Death on the Cross the moment that Faith is placed in Jesus Christ.

1 Jn 1:8 tells us the evil nature remains (until we physically die). this verse of scripture could be read: "if we say that sin (the Sin Nature), we are constantly having, we are deceiving ourselves (nobody else), and the Truth is not in us." John is talking about the nature of sin, not a particular act of sin.