Dead to Sin, Alive to God
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
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.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
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.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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.
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Intro:
Intro:
AG: 200 years ago in the 19th century by a very famous monk by the name of Rasputin. Rasputin was the spiritual advisor to the Russian Royal family. He said this “The more you sin, the more you give God the opportunity, to glorify Himself.” Rasputin was known for his drunkenness, womanizing, and poor manners. In his mind and teaching, the more he was sinning for God’s glory.
That is NONSENSE!
Yet some Christians have had that thought since the 1st century and some today continue to teach, or at least act like it.
TS: Paul opens this section of his letter to the Romans addressing that. In section 1 of his letter, Paul made it clear that we are all sinners and our only hope for justification is faith. Now, he focuses on our sanctification. When God justifies us, He declares us righteous by washing away our sin. In sanctification, He changes us to conform to the image of Jesus. He grows within us the desire and will to live in a way which pleases Him.
1. We Are Dead to Sin (6:1–3).
1. We Are Dead to Sin (6:1–3).
A. Crucified with Christ
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
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.
Paul knew the Pharisees. After all, he described himself as a “Pharisee of the Pharisees” (Philippians 3:5)
He knew they would counter Paul’s insistence that we are justified by faith by saying that Paul was encouraging sin!
Paul had taught that we are saved solely by the grace of God and we do nothing in our own justification.
God offers the gift of salvation and we receive it in faith. At that moment we are 100% justified and will remain so.
So what then?
V.1 Should we sin to show the grace of God?
today, people argue “You’re saying it doesn’t matter ho you live, you can still go to heaven!”
The answer is yes, we can because we are justified, but Paul points out in Ro 6 that our very nature changes! A genuinely justified person will not DESIRE sin in the same way.
V 2. May it never be!
I can hear Him shout NOOOO!
Paul uses this idiom 14 times in the book of Romans.
John MacArthur-
this expression is the strongest Gr. idiom for repudiating a statement, and it contains a sense of outrage that anyone would ever think the statement was true
Paul is so forceful because of the fact that “We are dead to sin!”
At justification, our nature changed
We once lived for sin, but now we are dead to it.
This doesn’t mean we no longer are tempted, rather it is saying it is no longer part of our core values. It is a temptation, not what we live for!
Jesus died in our place we are to consider that our own crucifixion.
V. 3 Baptized in Christ
Not referencing our water baptism, but the real immersion in Christ it pictures.
All Christians have, by placing saving faith in Him, been spiritually immersed into the person of Christ, that is, united and identified with Him
v. 4 The picture
Water baptism is a picture of what has happened
Buried with Him
His death and burial become ours!
Resurrected with Him
His Resurrection becomes ours!
AP: We as born again believers, need to understand, that we did not get saved so we can sin more. God saved us so we don’t have to sin anymore. You see God did not save us from sin, to give us a licence to sin. God saved us so He can give us a licence to practice righteousness.
It is absurd to think otherwise!
2. We are Alive to God (Ro 6:4-14)
2. We are Alive to God (Ro 6:4-14)
A. We have been resurrected with Christ (6:4–5).
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.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
We are raised to walk in a new life
He changes our nature and our new nature is righteous
sin describes who we were, not who we are!
B. We are now both dead and alive (6:6–10).
1. Dead to their sin (6:6–7):
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.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
We should no longer be slaves to sin, for we have been crucified with Christ.
This is why it isn’t in our nature to keep living in sin to display the glory of the grace of God
Salvation sets us free!
That is why when Paul lists sins in various passages, he concluded with “Such WERE some of you.”
That was our old self
We are no longer defined by our sin!
2. Alive in the Savior (6:8–10):
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
We are now to live in the resurrection power of the one who rose from the dead and is forever alive.
We live here in a way that is consistent with His holiness.
We are to count our crucifixion and resurrection as accomplished events.
C. Yield to the Savior
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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.
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
v. 11 Paul urges us to embrace what he has taught us to be true: consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God
This new way of thinking changes how we view the world
V. 12 Don’t let sin reign in our bodies
Biologically, we still have a sin nature
Lusts of the flesh will be with us until we die
But due to Christ, we have a choice!
Paul urges us to NOT give in to sin
WE have a choice when tempted
sin or not
Like the hymn says, “Yield not to temptation!”
V. 13 & 14
Presenting: act of will
Instead slaves of lust, we have a choice. Pauls is saying choose the one we serve: Sin or God
Present ourselves to Sin or To GOD
Sin must be able to exercise control in our bodies or Paul’s admonition becomes unnecessary (v. 13).
But sin does not have to reign there; so the apostle expresses his confidence that those who are Christ’s will not allow it to.
Paul concludes by saying we are not under law but under grace.
This does not mean God has discarded His moral law (3:31; cf. Mt 5:17–19).
The law is good, holy, and righteous (7:12; cf. 1Ti 1:8), but it cannot be kept, so it curses.
Since it cannot assist anyone to keep God’s moral standard (cf. 7:7–11), it can only show the standard and thus rebuke and condemn those who fail to keep it.
But the believer is no longer under the law as a condition of acceptance with God but under grace, which enables him to truly fulfill the law’s righteous requirements (7:6; 8:3, 4).
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
Does your life reflect the reality that you are dead to sin and alive to God?
To whom do you yield?
Sin
God
References:
MacArthur Study Bible NASB (Commentary)
The Outline Bible (Section Outline Six (Romans 6))
