Righteous Living

Every Believer Can have, and should have, a lifestyle of Righteous Living by embracing Three simple truths.

Lets look to God and dwell on what this looks like for us.. Before we do…

Lets Pray…

Romans 6:1–5 CSB

1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection.

This Next Section is the first Truth i want to look at, here’s what it says…

Romans 6:6–11 CSB

6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, 7 since a person who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

So here’s Truth #1 if you’re taking notes:

Truth #1: Righteousness destroys the Power of Sin. (6-11)

Trends of Freedom in the text say:

“so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless”

“no longer be enslaved to sin”

“Death no longer rules over him.”

IT HOLD NO POWER

Truth #2: Righteousness is rooted in Self Control (1-6; 12-15)

Self-Control to stop Intentionally Sinning

Romans 6:1–3 “1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”

Self-Control to control your lifestyle

Romans 6:12–14 “12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.”

Self-Control to submit to God

Romans 6:4–5 “4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection.”

Romans 6:14–16 “14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace. 15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

We are all slave to something… What this tells me, and what our third truth is,

Truth #3: Righteousness is Demanding: (15-23)

Demanding of your lifestyle

Can we keep doing what we did before hearing this news?! Lets read it again…

Romans 6:1–2 “1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?”

Romans 6:15–16 “15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

demanding of your standards