In other words, I am not just making up this battle imagery. Paul is pointing to it. Don t let the rebel, sin, capture the members of your body and turn them into weapons against the true King. There is a true king over the realm, namely, God. So the true King is God.
Sin is the rebel and the insurrectionist.
Stay loyal to the true King with all your weapons and all your servants all your desires and all your members. Finally, there is the constitutional authority of the kingdom, namely, grace, not law. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace . That s the situation Paul describes, the conflict. Now let me make three comments of application to us.