Safeguards For Saved Sinners

Romans 13:14

Theme: Compassion

Key verse: v.1

23 verses; 525 words

Grade level: 2.45

Outline:

1. How to Treat the Converts. v.1

2. How to Treat the Complicated. vs.2-6

3. How to Treat the Church. vs.7-11

4. How to Treat the Conscience. vs.12-17

5. How to Treat the Carnal. vs.18-23

“Yes, besides regeneration there is sanctification. Besides righteousness imputed there is holiness imparted. Besides being “born of the Spirit” there is a being “filled with the Spirit”. Besides “forgiveness of sins” there is deliverance from “innate sin.”

J. Sidlow Baxter

In this verse we find SAFEGUARDS for saved sinners.

I. The Lord’s Command.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,

What to put on.

Galatians 3:27 (KJV)

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Ephesians 4:24 (KJV)

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Colossians 3:10–12 (KJV)

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

How to wear it.

Ephesians 6:12–18 (KJV)

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

II. The Lord’s Caution.

It is concerning our beliefs.

and make not provision for the flesh,

Romans 8:12-13

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Galatians 5:16, 17, 24

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Colossians 3:5–8 (KJV)

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

1 Peter 2:11 (KJV)

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

It is concerning our behavior.

to fulfil the lusts thereof.

John 2:15–17 (KJV)

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;

16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.

17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

Conclusion:

Do you want to obey the Lord’s command?

Will you that follow Jesus be cautious about those things that will destroy you?