GRACE UNVEILED, “Dominion of Grace” #25 | Jim Hammond
Recap
Pastor Jim gave the 25th installment to his teaching series entitled, “Grace Unveiled.” In the past messages, we’ve been studying Romans 3, 4, 5, and 6. Before teaching on chapter 7, Pastor Jim wanted to break down these chapters again in a way we have not heard them before. He said, “You’re going to hear these chapters taught in a different way.” So far, we focused on the gift of righteousness. And we focused on justification. But there is a third subject that Pastor Jim wanted to focus on before we moved on to the next chapter.
Dive Deeper
This is Pastor Jim’s 25th installment of his teaching series entitled, “Grace Unveiled.”
So far in this series, we have studied Romans chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6. The subjects of the gift of righteousness and justification have been the focus. But Pastor Jim will focus on a third subject from these chapters: Dominion of Grace.
Up to this point, chapter six is primarily about how to get victory over sin. Verse 13 says, “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 members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Verse 13 talks about no longer offering or yielding your bodily members up to sin being used as instruments of wickedness. Instead, yield yourself to God as though you’ve been raised from the dead.
Pastor Jim asked the question, “Do you ever think of yourself like that? Do you ever give yourself to God as though you’ve been raised from the dead? Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit, ‘Show me how to do that?’”
We are to present our faculties to God as implements of righteousness. And what’s interesting is that word righteousness.
As you already know, the New Testament was written in the Greek language. The Greek word for righteousness is Dikaiosune. Some people teach that, that word means right and wrong. They’re wrong. It has nothing to do with presenting the members of your body as implements of right and wrong. That New Testament word for righteousness, Dikaiosune, means justification.
Greek scholar, E.W. Kenyan, says that word in the New Testament means, “the ability to stand before God without a sense of guilt or inferiority.”
The Strongs Concordance says it means “justification.” It’s a gift that’s given to you through the resurrection and the cross. You are justified in God’s eyes.
Jesus got everything He asked for because He was perfect in God’s eyes. And that’s how God views you. People don’t grasp that. You have to have faith for that.
Your body is justified in God’s eyes. You have the ability to go before God without guilt or inferiority.
And if you’re going before God in prayer with inferiority, you’re probably not getting your prayers answered.
Verse 14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
Sin shall no longer have dominion over you since you are not under the law as a slave, but you are under grace.
And it says that word in the Greek means you are a subject. Subject of God’s favor. That’s what you are: a subject of His mercy. You are a subject.
Except we’re reading the Bible of not getting the bad things you deserve. That’s mercy. And so grace is a key.
Grace is a key to chipping away at your failure to overcome a desire for porn.
Grace is a key to chip away at the addiction of gossiping and judging other people.
Grace is a key to chip away at jealousy of other people at what they get and what you don’t have.
Grace is a key to chip away at the sin of overeating.
Grace is a key to chip away at fear and doubt.
Romans says anything not done out of faith is a sin. Is fear out of faith? No, it’s a sin. Are you doubting? Are you in faith? No. It’s a sin. All these things are types of sin.
It’s very clear. God’s favor that you don’t deserve is the key.
I want to show you Titus 2:11 again. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world…”
The grace of God is unmerited favor and blessing for deliverance from sin. People get deliverance and then eternal salvation. Deliverance and salvation are two different things. Here on earth, we get deliverance from sin. In Heaven, we get eternity with God.
Well, what’s it going to do for all of mankind? It’s supposed to train you to reject and renounce all ungodliness, irreligion, worldly passionate desires. And eventually live discreet, temperate, self-controlled, upright, devout spiritually whole lives now in the present world. Now! It’s for now.
It’s clear here, there is a dominion you can operate in by having belief or faith in attaining God’s grace.
Read About It
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 members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Titus 2:11, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 2 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world…”
Discussion Questions
In past teachings on Romans chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6, what were the two subjects taught?
What is the definition of the word righteousness, Dikaiosune?
What is the key to overcoming sinful addictions?