#10 Romans 6:1-23 The Choice of a Slave
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Christ died for everyone, and...............
Christ died for everyone, and...............
20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
We should not sin because we should be walking in Christ.
We should not sin to make grace look better. It is good enough already, it never needed our help, but we sure needed grace.
2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—
Is living in the world better? We already know it is not. By choosing to live worldly, we are choosing to suffer.
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
By being saved, Jesus already paid the price. There is a difference between the sins we perform. With David and Bathsheba, they both had to pay the price for their sin by losing their first son. Although we don’t know much about Bathsheba, we know about David. We know that he had to suffer more for his sin with Bathsheba. We do the same thing when we do sins of such offense.
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Our 2nd death, is through the Lord’s.
8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Death comes for all, and we have the choice to choose the one with the Lord. Although you can wait to make that decision to wait, don’t. Don’t give up on your loved ones. No one is promised tomorrow.
38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He is a gift. He is an active blessing. We are better to function with Him instead of without Him. He never lets us down.
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
You will have a very difficult time living in your old life with Jesus in your life. The Holy Spirit is always pressing on us, influencing our lives in a Godly perspective. We can take over at anytime, but you will know it was wrong when you did it.
It comes down to as simple as when we talk. I belief we are watching our own words as we speak. The Holy Spirit is always with us as we walk and perform throughout our lives.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
We can’t be in the likeness of God in our own state. We need the impression of the Holy Spirit in order to mirror the Lord.
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
How much time do you spend with Jesus?
The challenge of being in the world:
The radio in the office
The music in the shop
How the people around us talk
The advertisements everywhere
How people dress
How people act
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
The same mind as Christ. How do we get that mind? By spending time with Jesus.
Read the Bible
Prayer
Worship
Fellowship with Believers
The result will be more time with Jesus, less time in the flesh.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
There is freedom in Christ.
11 This is a faithful saying:
For if we died with Him,
We shall also live with Him.
18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
Born twice, Die twice. One each for the spirit and the flesh.
38 For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”
We are alive in Christ. We are no longer dead.
The life in Christ is not about the things we do in Christ. It is more than the experience we share through the ministry that we do for the Lord. It is apart of everything we do combined.
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
Be alive in Christ, and dead in the old person.
God is patient. Remember we don’t get cleaned up before we come to Jesus. You may still be suffering from the same thing as before, because the transition will take a lifetime.
Examine yourself. Anything you still struggle with?
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Run away. You won’t run away from anything that you don’t realize is an illness. What are you blind too?
13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Do not purposely sin. Don’t walk with the sinners.
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
It is based on where we put ourselves. The act of putting on Christ is like putting on your pants or your shoes. It is a purposeful act in our daily lives.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
When we are in the Spirit, we will be led. The discernment of the Lord becomes an active part of our minds.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law;
The law of God is written on our hearts. The Word of God is living.
16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
We can only have one master. Anyone who has 2 masters, 1 they will love, and the other they will hate.
This applies to all things in life.
22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
Romans 6:17 (NKJV)
17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered (entrusted).
13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
You didn’t have freedom before. It was never enough to just quit drinking for example. You need Jesus to fill the hole in our hearts.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
So this have to bring up the conversation of who we are slaves to. We are slaves to someone, but who is the master? Yes, we are slaves to Christ, but the Master is one who loves us unconditionally.
If you don’t like that, then you are automatically opting for some other kind of master. But the other master doesn’t love you, and wants you to suffer.
Your crutch is something that exists no matter where you go. The crutch of Christ is more than enough, and the crutch of sin is never enough, all the way to death. Sometimes, that is exactly where the crutch of sin will take you, right to death.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
unto sanctification
We are weak in our flesh. When will be released from the flesh, we will no longer struggle with that of the flesh. But we are not there yet. And God is not asking us to go there before it is our time. Time is for the flesh, no time is for the spirit. God knows no time.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
What do you allow to influence you?
21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
You have the choice to sin. You have the choice to not sin. You have the choice to walk away. You have the choice to not talk. You have the choice to not look. And you have the choice to not engage or participate.
It does not matter what others think about you. Rest in Jesus, not people.
13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;
They have put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
63 that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
Sins fruit if you call it that, is death. God’s fruit is holiness.
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
The reward is not something you put in your pocket, or take home and put on you mantel. It is not something you can show to others. It is not something you flaunt to others, or brag about.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
Slavery is alive today. Not a good thing by most standards and discussions. But there is a reality that we can choose to ignore, but the fact that we are slaves is not something we can ignore, no matter who our master is. You can chose to serve the Master, or the slave to the Master, which is Satan. God wants to see us flourish, and Satan wants to see us fail like him. He doesn’t want to be alone. He wants for as many people to suffer as he will suffer.
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