Author Archives: Steve Hankins, Th.D.

“For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” (Romans 6:19, ESV) There are a variety of old expressions that describe behaviors and their results, like these. You are what you eat! ItContinue reading “What you seek changes you! (Rom 6:19)”

“But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.” (Romans 6:17–18, ESV) As we look back, one of the blights on our nation’sContinue reading “Change of Ownership (Romans 6:15-18)”

“Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.” (Romans 6:13–14, ESV)Continue reading “Beautiful Instruments (Romans 6:12-14)”

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:11, KJV 1900) When I was a boy, I used to watch a show called “The Beverly Hillbillies.” It was a show about a poor mountain man named Jed who stumbled upon oil whenContinue reading “Considering Fact (Romans 6:5-11)”

“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”Continue reading “Picture of Baptism (Romans 6:3-4)”

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1–2, ESV) In the previous verses, Paul concluded, “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:” (Romans 5:20, KJV 1900) One might derive from thisContinue reading “Death to Sin (Romans 6:1-3)”

“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 5:20–21, KJV 1900) I had a discussion with a man one time about religion.Continue reading “Abounding Grace (Romans 5:18-21)”

“But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.” (Romans 5:15, ESV) There is a television commercial running now that it is tax season,Continue reading “The Free Gift (Romans 5:15-17)”