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   From: .robert@mu.way   
      
   Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but   
   alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.   
      
   Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey   
   it in the lusts thereof.   
      
   Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto   
   sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,   
   and your membersas instruments of righteousness unto God.   
      
   Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the   
   law, but under grace.   
      
   Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under   
   grace? God forbid.   
      
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   Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his   
   servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience   
   unto righteousness?   
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   Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have   
   obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.   
      
   Rom 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of   
   righteousness.   
      
   Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your   
   flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to   
   iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to   
   righteousness unto holiness.   
      
   You were Born with a conscience, the knowledge of right and wrong, some might   
   call it a sense or feeling of what is right or wrong. It developed within us   
   and matures as we grow. We were sold into sin because of the fall of Adam,   
   and so we have a sin nature, one that is rebellious to God and authority.   
      
   Yet your body and soul are under your dominion this is a God given right to   
   man. Dominion, aka the right of authority/ownership of a Domain. Domain in   
   this sense being your Body, Mind, and Soul.   
      
   God created the earth and all that is upon it for man. It is His Domain, yet   
   he gave Dominion over it to Mankind, who then yielded it to Satan. Thus   
   entered in many forms of evil, sin, disease, malformations, many things that   
   destroyed the ease of living in the realm of God, and thus we were all given   
   or placed in disease.   
      
   There are various levels of authority, Domain, and Dominion which we are   
   fully aware of in the form of Governmental Dominions. i.e.; Federal, State,   
   counties, cities, townships. So it is in the spiritual world.   
      
   V 16, highlighted above, tells us about our authority as Born Again   
   Believers, who through the Work of Jesus the Messiah, set us free from the   
   bondage of the god of this world, the father of evil, and made us new   
   creatures restoring us to a Divine Nature plus the Dominion granted us in the   
   creation. Granted us full power over the enemy, that being Satan, his minions   
   and our sin nature. Restoring to us Full Dominion over our domain.   
      
   The few words used in V16 explains all that in a much simpler way should we   
   yield our hearts and souls to the Almighty God, which is spiritually   
   understood, supernaturally.   
      
   Therefore do not be deceived by the evil one thinking that the sin nature is   
   the overwhelming force that has the power to drag you down into a sin, or the   
   weakness of the flesh. Be strong in the Lord and the power of His Might and   
   make the proper choices using the wisdom of verse 16. Walk in the Spirit and   
   you shall not sin. V12   
      
   Mortal Body, one that is destined to die.   
      
   “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.” (Rom 4:8)   
      
   For more on that topic read chapter 4. The promise of it and how it is   
   realized for and in this life.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)