What's the big deal about those Greek verbs?John Farley
Pastor-Teacher Wednesday, July 23, 2014 “What’s the big deal about those Greek verbs?”Rom 6:1 Grace and sin draw human beings in COMPLETELY OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS! As believers in Christ we CANNOT continue headlong at full speed in the direction of sin and death. Believers, born of God, do not keep on habitually sinning. They do not continuously practice sin. On that cross, Christ’s death to sin was your death to sin. The old relationship that you had to sin - that’s over. Your servitude to sin is over. Not only has God forgiven you of all your sins. You are also freed from sin as your master. Prepositions last week, verbs tonight. Getting the verb right can mean the difference between deep inner peace and constant inner turmoil. Rom 6:2 Rom 6:2 We that are dead to sin One is describing a present condition in progress, while the other is stating a past action as a complete whole. Now this takes on a real significance when we are talking about our relationship to sin! Rom 6:6 Rom 6:6 Rom 6:8 Rom 6:8 The Greek verb for “died” is the aorist active indicative of ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko to have no part in to become wholly alienated from a thing, and freed from all connection with it The aorist tense means “this happened”. Verse 2: We died to sin – aorist tense |