For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Believers, the bible says in Romans 6:14- "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." 

If we read this correctly, it says sin will not have power over us because we are not under law but under grace; we will not be slaves of sin because we are not under law but under grace.

But religious devils sent by Satan have fashioned their own interpretation of this verse to deceive believers. These agents of the devil lie that you have to be under the Law (keep the Ten Commandments) in order for sin not to have dominion over you when God's word says the exact opposite. They say keeping the Ten Commandments is how to get right with God when the bible says differently: "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace." Galatians 5:4. Keeping the Ten Commandments to get right with God has the opposite effect of cutting one off from Christ!

They say the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is "too cheap a gospel" conveniently leaving out the truth: that it cost our heavenly Father His beloved Son, because He loved us so.

Galatians 3:10 says "10 For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.” But these agents of the devil lie to the flock that keeping the Ten Commandments and doing works of the Law (both cannot make any righteous before God) is the way to avoid the curses of Deuteronomy 28.

Believers, don't be deceived by these agents of the devil who know exactly what they are doing. Their plan is to keep believers under the Law where the devil can devour. The Accuser has no power in and of himself. His power comes from accusing those who are keeping the law in order to attain righteousness to God. Because no one can be made righteous in God's sight by doing what the law commands (Romans 3:20,) because God is a righteous Judge whose righteousness demands that even the tiniest sin be punished to the uttermost, judgment must follow.

Those who are ignorantly following their false teaching by trying to get right with God via law-keeping do not yet understand just how much God hates sin. God hates sin so much that if you stumble at just one point of the Law, you are guilty of all, according to James 2:10. Just one tiny sin is all it takes to undo an entire lifetime of keeping the Ten Commandments. God is a righteous Judge and when you stand before Him as one who can keep His Law to get right with Him, shunning that righteousness which He freely gives through Christ, He will be to you a Judge. His righteousness demands that the tiniest sin be punished to the uttermost - by death. And all have sinned.

Even the holiest church Daddy cannot say he has not sinned since he became born-again. If he believes that his law-keeping is what makes him right with God and not "one Man’s obedience," he is under Law and thus cut off from Christ (Galatians 5:4). No amount of "Jesus, forgive me" will work here. You cannot mix law and grace. You cannot add filthy rags righteousnesses that proceed from the old nature to the righteousness which is given to us through Christ's obedience.

Keeping the Ten Commandments in order to be holy or righteous is an effort in futility and leads to death, no matter how good your intentions are. God cannot bend the Law for anyone by making concessions because of "how hard you tried to be good" or "how you did your best." The Law is not interested in your best if you are obeying it to be holy. It demands perfect obedience which no one can give. All have sinned and the wages of sin is death, even the tiniest sin.

Under Law is smack where the Accuser wants everyone to be, with believers shunning God’s grace (His gift of righteousness to us in Christ) and trying hard to keep the Ten Commandments to get right with God, an impossible task according to Romans 3:20 "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

Since the Law condemns everybody, the devil's accusations stick to such that are accused based on their failure to keep the whole law and judgment (death) follows. Recall that Adam and Eve did not die immediately after they disobeyed God. Physical and the second death are preceded by symptoms of death (sickness, stress, oppression by the devil, lack, all the curses of Deuteronomy 28).

No wonder many people who profess Christ but shun His gift of righteousness for their own which proceed from keeping the Ten Commandments are still running around looking for church daddies to tell them what to do in order to be free from the devil's oppression. They are under Law where the devil can devour and where their church daddies who preach the Law can be agents of Satan. They are fearful and more conscious of what the devil can do than what Christ has done.

Believers, there is only one way to get right standing with God and it is by the obedience of His Son and our Saviour, Jesus Christ according to Romans 5:19 -

"For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous."

Here we see that acts of sin is not what makes a person a sinner. Sinners are sinners because of the sin (old) nature inherited from Adam. Sinners sin because they are in the prison of sin via Adam's sin and are thus slaves of sin. 

By the same token, we do not become righteous in God's sight because of our righteous acts or keeping the Law. We are righteous because of Christ's obedience; we become righteous "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21.

All who accept His gift of righteousness are dead to the Law and no longer slaves of sin who will produce acts of sin. Christ set us free from that sin prison. In Him, we are slaves of righteousness, Romans 6: "17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness."

"That form of teaching to which you were committed" is Grace not the Ten Commandments.

The old nature is applicable to all who reject the right-standing with God that Christ died that we might have, as they are keeping the Ten Commandments to be holy or right with God, an effort in futility. Romans 3:20 says "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

The sin (old) nature which every human inherits from Adam by default, is what makes people produce acts of sin like stealing and lying. No amount of law-keeping, holy living or good works done with this old nature can make a person righteous or acceptable in God's sight. All have sinned and just one tiny sin will ruin a lifetime of keeping the Law. All who are here, even though they have the best intentions, have to pay the wages of sin - death. A death that Christ died for us and as us to set us free from this sin nature according to Romans 6:8- 

"For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."

This sin that Christ died to is not acts of sin but the sin nature that all inherited from Adam. When we receive the righteousness that comes from His obedience and forsake ours which come from law-keeping in the old sin nature, we will not continue to sin because the sin nature which produces acts of sin is gone. We are dead to it and alive in God's righteousness which can only produce acts of righteousness.

Romans 7:4-5 explains it beautifully:

4 So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. 5 When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power."

The very law that these beloved of God try to keep arouses evil desires that produce a harvest of sinful deeds!

Slaves of sin (those who shun God's gift of righteousness and keep the Ten Commandments to be righteous) will produce acts of sin and continue to sin in their prison of sin. Sin has dominion over them.

Slaves of righteousness (those who receive God's gift of righteousness) will not continue to sin. They will produce "a harvest of good deeds for God" according to Romans 7:4.

Under grace, "...we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit."

The more you try to keep the Law to attain righteousness, the more you sin! When you accept God's gift of righteousness through Christ, you will not continue to sin, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."

Believe Right and you will Live Right.