When we consider all of the various elements of how a person is born as a son of God, it is certainly an amazing gift that has been given to us by the work of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. What more could there possibly be?
Paul also recognized this amazing reality of having been saved by grace and born of God. He also asked, ‘What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?’ Of course, his answer was, ‘May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?’ Unless a person is baptized into the death of Christ, so that their natural inclination and propensity to sin is removed from their life, the seed of the divine nature will die and it will not produce the fruit of sonship.
This is the lesson of the parable of the sower. The seed of the divine nature will die within a person if they do not join the fellowship of Christ’s death by baptism, so that they can be raised by the Father to walk in newness of life. Jesus likened those who have received the benefits of Christ’s offering but do not want to participate in the fellowship of Christ’s death, as those who have received the word on stony ground. They rejoice for a little while in the life of God that they have received, but they stumble at the need to join the fellowship of the cross.
Rom 6:1-4
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? (2) May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? (4) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Mat 13:20-21
"The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; (21) yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away."
Rom 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
Php 3:10
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? (2) May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? (4) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Mat 13:20-21
"The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; (21) yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away."
Rom 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
Php 3:10
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
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