YG Romans 6:7-13
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Dead and Alive
Dead and Alive
What have yall learned so far in the study of Romans? (three people)
The point of the passage tonight is that Believers are to walk in newness of life and not in sin.
Vs 1:
Paul poses a rhetorical question that is the progression of a former argument.
can anyone identify the previous point Paul made regarding this thinking?
And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
Vs 2:
The answer is how can people that died to sin still live in it.
Paul discusses the old nature vs the new nature in terms of selves
But you did not learn Christ in this way,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
why cant people who are saved live in sin according to their old self?
Vs 3:
Continues the argument “or did you not know we were baptized into Christ death”
Follow the logic
How can we who have died to sin still live in it?
all who have been baptized in Christ are baptized in His death
Vs4:
Therefore,
we are buried with Him through baptism in death
so as Christ was raised so we too will walk in new life
Vs 5
if we are united in death, it follows we are united in resurrection.
Vs 6
old self was crucified with Him.
to do away with body of sin.
so we would no longer be slaves to sin.
Vs 7
for he who has died is free
The argument from vs 1-7
The argument from vs 1-7
How can people that have died live in sin? (vs1-2)
people who have been baptized in christ are so in death (vs3)
we are buried with Christ so we will also walk in new life (vs4)
if we are united in His death we will be united in resurrection (vs 5)
Our old self was crucified with Him (vs 6)
our old self would be done away with (vs 6)
so we would no longer be slaves to sin (vs 6)
He who has died is free (vs 7)
Conclusions from vs 1-7
Conclusions from vs 1-7
Pauls entire point in vs 1-7 is to present a Biblical Anthropology, study of man, after salvation.
Chapter 3 of this book describes the anthropology of the natural man.
When God saves us our nature changes form one ruled by sin and death to one alive and enslaved to Christ.
Our New Life (8-13)
Our New Life (8-13)
Vs 8-9
Vs 8-9
These two verses are a complete thought. The language of dying and living with him, is not exclusive to this chapter.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and 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 up for me.
having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
If we die with Christ, if we believe the gospel, it logically follows that we will be raised with Christ. This is not just describing going to heaven. Is a radical transformation that will result in our life style changing.
Question: do you think the gospel merely changes your internal destination (just a get out of hell card)? Or do you believe that it is transformative?
R.C. Sproul says, “We shall live for ever with him. But again, Paul is not so much concerned to give us assurance of our eternal life, as to speak about living with Christ in the present. Christ is raised; Christ is alive now; Christ’s power of life is alive in us now. Since we identify with his cross in justification, then we must also identify with his life right now”
R. C. Sproul, The Gospel of God: An Exposition of Romans (Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 1994), 113.
The word “believing” here in vs 8 according to the Bible Knowledge Commentary is present, indicating “we keep on believing.”
What I hope you understand is the the people of God will do the will of God.
Paul here is discussing Justification and sanctification
In the previous chapter Paul Says
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Being buried with Christ happens when we get save and therefore having been buried we are likewise raised to walk in newness of life.
Do a discourse on the similar teaching of Christ in Matthew 7 and James 2:14, 1 John 1
Good Trees cannot produce bad fruit or vice versa
Faith without works s dead
If we say we have fellowship but walk in darkness we lie
What is the mark of a true Believer?
Keep Gods Word
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Regard ourselves as dead to sin and alive to God
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Vs 9-10
Vs 9-10
“Knowing” in verse 9 is also according to the BKC is an intuitive knowledge, that is perceiving a self evident truth. “Because we believe X we know X”
Just as death is no longer a master over Christ it is also no longer a master over us because we are united in Christ.
Playing off of the assumption in verse 8, knowing (self evidently) Christ has been raised, (1) He wont die again, (2) it is no longer a master over Him. This reality is self evident in the heart of the believer.
Through the Holy Spirit
“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Although Jesus was speaking to the 12, and we do not hear audible the oracles of God like the apostles. The Holy Spirit still ministers to the believers by guiding them.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
The Holy Spirit is a witness to the reality of our salvation, and our guide in Truth.
Vs 10-11
Vs 10-11
“The death He died, He died once for all” 10a
Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,
by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
“all” here is all the believing ones.
The life He lives, He lives to God
On this the Bible Knowledge Commentary says,
Resurrection life is eternal in quality and everlasting in duration. Furthermore, God is its Source and also its Goal. What is true of Jesus Christ in reality and experience, believers who are identified with Him by faith are commanded to reckon true for themselves. They are to count themselves dead to (in reference to) sin but alive to God
We are called to be dead to sin, and like Christ, alive to God (in Christ), because all we have is in Christ.
Application
Application
Live in obedience to God
Be dead to sin and alive in Christ
Meditate on the truths of this passage, being united in Christ’s death and life.
Pray to close
