Baptism: Dead to sin Alive to God
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Dead to Sin, Alive to God
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now 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. For 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.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
2 Cor 5:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
The Old Self
the old self
But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Eph 4:20-24
It is corrupted
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 88.266 φθείρω; διαφθείρω; καταφθείρω
88.266 φθείρωc; διαφθείρωb; καταφθείρω: to cause someone to become perverse or depraved, as a type of moral destruction—‘to deprave, to pervert, to ruin, to cause the moral ruin of.
to cause someone to become perverse or depraved, as a type of moral destruction—‘to deprave, to pervert, to ruin, to cause the moral ruin
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
It is dead-
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 74.28 νεκρός, ά, όν
pertaining to being unable to respond to any impulse or to perform some function—‘unable, ineffective, dead, powerless
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 74.28 νεκρός, ά, όν
pertaining to being unable to respond to any impulse or to perform some function—‘unable, ineffective, dead, powerless
There was no hope
we were powerless
But we have died to the old
But we have died to the old
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now 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. For 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.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Baptism - it signifies the burying and death of the old self
Baptism - it signifies the burying and death of the old self
Baptism
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 53.41 βαπτίζω; βάπτισμα, τος; βαπτισμός, οῦ
to symbolize purification and initiation on the basis of repentance
He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day, and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
Luke 24:46-48
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Repentance
Repentance
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 41.52 μετανοέω; μετάνοια, ας
to change one’s way of life as the result of a complete change of thought and attitude with regard to sin and righteousness—‘to repent, to change one’s way, repentance.’
μετανοέω: ἐξελθόντες ἐκήρυξαν ἵνα μετανοῶσιν ‘they went out and preached that the people should repent’ Mk 6:12.
μετάνοια: ἀγνοῶν ὅτι τὸ χρηστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς μετάνοιάν σε ἄγει; ‘do you fail to understand that God is kind because he wants to lead you to repent?’ Ro 2:4.
Though in English a focal component of repent is the sorrow or contrition that a person experiences because of sin, the emphasis in μετανοέω and μετάνοια seems to be more specifically the total change, both in thought and behavior, with respect to how one should both think and act. Whether the focus is upon attitude or behavior varies somewhat in different contexts. Compare, for example, Lk 3:8, He 6:1, and Ac 26:20.
Baptism
it that statement
“I have change my ways”
not just my lip service
It is a total change
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
since we have died to our former ways
we no longer do the same actions
we no longer think the same thoughts
we no longer live in darkness
We have newness of life
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 58.70 καινότης, ητος
the state of being new and different, with the implication of superiority—‘newness
The life we now live is far superior
nothing compares
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Have you tasted that the Lord is good?
Have you repented ?
Have you turned from the former ways?
Have you gone back?
Maybe you need to cry out
God I’m sorry i have return to my former ways
to my insecurity
to cutting
to this relationship
to anger and pain
Maybe you cry is God i am sorry that I turned to
cutting
insecurity
boys?girls
the things i used to turn to
Rather then turning to you
God is gracious God who
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.