Romans 6:1-11
Summary
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Our bodies are
affected because the fall in the Garden of Eden.
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Even after we
become Christians we still age, suffer disease, and die.
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Our body's
natural desires and instincts have now become affected by the sinful
environment in which we live.
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Living in a
fallen world, we are more susceptible to gluttony, anger, and improper sexual
behavior.
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This is not to
say, “I am not a sinner, it is only my body.”.
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It is not to say
our body is, itself, evil. My body is
created by God – good but living in a fallen world.
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Vs. 12 “Therefore do not let sin reign in your
mortal body, so that you obey its desires.”
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8:13 “But if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
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8:23 “Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption
as sons, the redemption of our bodies..”
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Vs. 12 “Therefore do not let sin reign in your
mortal body, so that you obey its desires.”
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8:13 “But if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
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8:23 “We also groan within ourselves, eagerly
waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.”
How do we experience the Cross
Jesus Is My
Representative Substitute
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Jesus was acting
on my behalf as my substitute and as my representative.
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He bore my guilt
before God
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He was punished
in my place
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His death
fulfilled my obligation to the Law of God; I am no longer obligated to suffer
the punishment for breaking the law.
Jesus Acted On My
Behalf
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Romans 8:3-4 “For
what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,
God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin
offering. And so he condemned sin in
sinful man, [4] in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be
fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according
to the Spirit.”
I Am Dead to the
Law
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7:4 “So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the
body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from
the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
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7:6 “But now, by
dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we
serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written
code.”
Our Union with
Christ
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Vs. 4 “We were therefore buried with Him through
baptism into death…”
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Vs. 5 “If we have been united with him in his
death…”
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Vs. 6 “For we know that our old self was crucified with him…”
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Vs. 8 “Now if we died with Christ…”
Our Union with
Christ
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Vs. 4 “We were buried with Him by baptism into
death”
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Vs. 5 “For if we have been joined with Him in the
likeness of His death”
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Vs. 6 “For we know that our old self was crucified with Him”
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Vs. 8 “Now if we died with Christ…”
The Cross Ends My
Old Life
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Vs. 1-2 “What shall we say then? Shall we go on
sinning so that grace my increase? [2] By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any
longer?.”
The Cross Breaks
The Power of Sin
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Vs. 6 “For we know that our old self was crucified
with him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no
longer be slaves to sin—”
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Vs. 7 “because anyone who has died has been freed
from sin.”
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8:12 “Therefore, brothers, we have an
obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.”
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Adam before the
Fall: Able to sin
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Non-Christians:
Not able not to sin
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Christians: Able
not to sin
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Christians in
Heaven: Not able to sin
Take Your
Death Into Account
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Vs. 11 “In the same way, count yourselves dead to
sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
A. Take Your
Death Into Account
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Vs. 11 “So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
Reckon What This
Means?
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He is not saying
that sin has been eradicated out of me.
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He is not
commanding me to “die to sin”
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He is not saying
that “reckoning” (or “considering”) myself dead to sin actually makes me dead
to sin in practice.
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He is not saying
we should pretend something is true that is not true.
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It means… Realize
that you are already dead to sin because Jesus is dead to sin and you are in
union with Him.
B. Rely on the
Spirit
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8:13 “…but if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
B. Rely on the
Spirit
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8:13 “…but if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
Quote
“Kill sin by the Spirit… The children
of God hate sin. The children of God have the values and priorities and
preferences and tastes of their Father. They are chips off the old block, as it
were.
And the reason they share these
traits of God their Father is because they have his Spirit who, through their
faith… gives them the new tastes and new preferences and the new values and the
new pleasures and the new sadness. And so an evidence of our sonship is: Do we
fight sin in our lives, or do we feel blasé about sin in our lives?”
C. Offer Yourself
to God
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Vs. 13 “Do not offer the parts of your body to sin,
as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who
have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him
as instruments of righteousness.”
C. Offer Yourself to
God
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Vs. 13 “And do not offer any parts of it [your body]
to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the
dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as
weapons for righteousness.”