Sin Says
Notes
Transcript
Recap
Recap
What has Romans been about so far?
The gospel
That Jews and Gentiles are a part of the people of God now
That God has always judged people the same way
Sin is real
One dude sinned and messed everything up for everyone
One better dude fixed everything for everyone
Baptism
Baptism
Has any one played Simon says before?
It’s a hard one, even when you’re “good at it”
Why?
If God was always going to save people through faith, and we were never able to fulfil the law, why did He give it?
Romans 5:20 “But law came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,”
Romans 5:21 “so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Hold on to this tension for a minute, because it makes sense then that God only gave the law to make more evil so that His goodness would be “better”
Who has been baptized?
What is baptism?
Matthew 28:18–20 “And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””
Acts 2:38 “Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 1:17 “For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power.”
There are many different realities to baptism, but at it’s core, it’s a picture.
You baptize dishes/ your hands before a meal
It symbolizes that we have died to ourselves and come back up, just like Jesus died and rose
Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Baptism shows what it looks like to die and rise again—it’s a new life!
Jesus rose into a new body as well, but we don’t have that yet, so what do we have
Can we still sin?
Some people believe that we can’t.
They think that we are basically perfect, but they have to really water down what Paul is saying here.
Basically, Jesus defeated the law, so we don’t have any rules.
Some people believe that we still sin, so we shouldn’t try.
Based on his argument so far, Paul assumes some people will think “well I guess the worse we were, the more Jesus’ sacrifice covered… we should be bad so that Jesus looks good!”
Or the more colored version of this: “God wants evil to exist so that He looks good”
Paul calls this crazy!
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin.
Sanctification
Sanctification
Big word that means getting better.
In Paul’s words here, he basically says it’s like from inside to outside pressure
When we were “enslaved to sin” it was like we had a mean coach that would tell us to run a lap, and we ran a lap because we had to!
Paul’s logic:
Sin leads to death, so if you get to death, you’re out from sin.
We got free from that mean coach, we no longer have to listen when he says run a lap!
But we do sometimes listen…
It’s our reflex!
We “Simon-says” our way back into sinning!
So what is the benefit of being “freed from sin?”
We can say “no”
If sin has to lead to death, Jesus said “bet!” and died for us, so sin doesn’t have any more power.
The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Jesus’ life is what God sees, Jesus’ death is what sin sees!
Being saved means we get to live with Jesus in us. So, can you live with Jesus and not be made better?
Judas did?
God empowers us, so if we want to be changed we will be changed for the better!
God has empowered us through Christ’s death to be freed from needing to sin
I kind of explained what this passage says and the logic, but let’s close out and read it all together:
But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
