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Please Stand.

Please Stand. Turn to Romans 6:1-14. Dead to Sin, Alive To God— That Grace May Abound. Please use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you. pg. 833. From Chapter 5. where sin increased , grace abounded all the more. Romans 6:1. “What shall we say then?

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Please Stand.

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  1. Please Stand. Turn to Romans 6:1-14. Dead to Sin, Alive To God— That Grace May Abound

  2. Please use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you. pg. 833

  3. From Chapter 5 • where sin increased, • grace abounded all the more.

  4. Romans 6:1 • “What shall we say then? • Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” Some suggested that the implications of Paul’s doctrine was that Christians should sin more . . . so that grace can abound even more . . . Seems reasonable, right?

  5. Here’s the Idea: Look at what these Christians can get away with and God still forgives them; isn’t God just sooo loving—what a loving God to let them sin and just overlook it!

  6. Paul’s Response • Romans 6:2 • “God forbid.”

  7. In Our Theology • We must cling to a strong view of God’s unconditional love for His people with just as high a view of His holiness!

  8. Romans 6:2 • “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” • Paul doesn’t expect an answer. • His rhetorical question is structured to make a point.

  9. Illustration • He doesn’t ask “How can you make a mess?” • He asks “How can you live in such a mess?”

  10. Commentary • Death to sin is separation from sin’s power, not the extinction of sin. • Being dead to sin means being “set free from sin.” John Walvoord The Bible Knowledge Commentary

  11. Romans 6:3 • Don’t you know: • “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” Symbolic Baptism

  12. Simultaneously Paul Teaches • 1 Corinthians 12:13 • “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” • The Holy Spirit is the agent who baptizes me in Christ and in His body.

  13. Do You Have an Answer? • This is why I have a very hard time believing that someone is born-again or regenerated who wants NOTHING to do with a local body of Christians. • How can you be baptized into Christ’s body and then want NOTHING to do with a body of Christians?

  14. Implications of this Truth Verse Four

  15. Romans 6:4 • “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.”

  16. What does it mean to “walk in newness of life”? Turn to 1st Thessalonians 1.

  17. Do you remember when . . . • You STARTED loving God with all your heart, mind, and soul? • Your church attendance was excellent because YOU came to church for yourself with NO external pressure from a spouse or mom/dad? • You began singing worship songs and you were actually worshipping God?

  18. Do you remember when . . . • You were convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit when NO ONE else prompted you? • Your priorities in life changed from self things to God things? • God became more important to you than sports? • Personal sin began bothering you?

  19. Romans 6:5 • “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be alsoin the likeness of his resurrection . . .”

  20. Colossians 2:12 • “Buried with him in baptism, wherein [in which] also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” • God (the Spirit) was the operator who buried you in Christ, and God will resurrect you as well.

  21. Romans 6:6 • “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

  22. Commentary • From the Word of God: • 2 Corinthians 5:17 • “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: • old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

  23. Clarification • Old versus New doesn’t always have to be pre-salvation days. • If sanctification is a progressive process in the life of the believer, then every Christian is continually becoming “newer” through the power of the Holy Spirit and your concerted effort to be more like Christ.

  24. Romans 6:7-8 • “For he that is dead is freed from sin. • Now if we be dead with Christ, • we believe that we shall also live with him . . .”

  25. “Sin's rule, however, was broken when Christians died with Christ, and therefore Christians are no longer enslaved to sin. Paul does not argue that Christians do not sin at all (a view called sinless perfection); instead, the tyranny, domination, and rule of sin have been defeated for them. This means that the normal pattern of life for Christians should be progressive growth in sanctification, resulting in ever greater maturity and conformity to God's moral law in thought and action.” ESV Study Bible

  26. Romans 6:9 • “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; • death hath no more dominion over him.” 1 Corinthians 15:26 “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

  27. Romans 6:10 • “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.” NOT:God is a big part of my life— God is MY LIFE!

  28. Romans 6:11 • “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” • Reckon = Consider • I am dead to sin—it doesn’t have to have dominion over me—I can control it!

  29. Romans 6:12 DON’T YOU DARE: • “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, • that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.” This is an internal war!

  30. Romans 6:13 • “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: • but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, • and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”

  31. Hear the words of our Lord. Matthew 18:7-9

  32. Turn to James 1:26, 3:6ff

  33. Romans 6:14 • “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”

  34. Therefore We Conclude • God’s grace is not the freedom to sin. • I am dead to sin. • Being under grace means I have been given the power NOT to sin— • Sin no longer has dominion over my body the way it did prior to Christ.

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