“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14. Paul feared this verse would be misunderstood to mean that if we are under grace we no are no longer accountable to the law. This is why Paul continues, “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Yahuwah forbid.” Romans 6:15. Yahuwah forbid that we should break His commandments under the pretense of grace. Those who are under the grace of Yahuwah keep His law.
Grace does not give us license to disobey Yahuwah. Suppose you are speeding down the highway, and a policeman catches you and stops to give you a ticket, but you explain that you are on your way home from a long tired day at work and all you want to do is go home and rest. The police man looks at you sympathetically and tells you that he won’t give you the ticket; you are now under his grace. Do you then speed off with screeching tires or do you cautiously drive within speed limit? Being under grace means that you should take special precaution to be obedient.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14. To live under the law means that we should die because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and all have sinned (Romans 3:23). But Yahushua paid the penalty of death for us and by His gift of love, grace, we are alive today.
Sin has dominion over a person who in under the law. But the person who is under grace is not under the condemnation of the law because he is not transgressing it. Yahuwah’s people are not under the law because they are not breaking the law; therefore not under His condemnation, but rather under His grace. Paul clarifies this later in his letter when he writes - “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Yahushua, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Yahushua hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Rom. 8:1-2. The 'law of sin and death' = 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23). This means that while the whole ETERNAL law of Yahuwah remains intact, the believing non-transgressor is no longer under its CONDEMNATION and freed from its PENALTY/WAGES [THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH], because Yahushua paid the penalty on behalf of the faithful law abiding believer.
The gospel of good news was not to be interpreted as allowing men to live in continued rebellion against Yahuwah by transgressing His just and holy law. Why cannot those who claim to understand the Scriptures, see that Yahuwah's requirement under grace is just the same He made in
The gospel of the New Testament is not the Old Testament standard lowered to meet the sinner and save him in his sins. Yahuwah requires of all His subjects obedience, entire obedience to all His commandments. He demands now as ever perfect righteousness as the only title to heaven. Yahushua is our hope and our refuge. His righteousness is imputed only to the obedient. Let us accept it through faith, that the Father shall find in us no sin. But those who continue to wilfully trample on the holy law will have no right to claim that righteousness.