Can We Take Advantage of Grace?

backdrop notes: Paul had just penned that grace abounded. The law was never intended to make man righteous but to show man he was a sinner in need of redemption. Once man realized that God’s Grace covered his sin as a result of mercy showed to man, the question is then, Should man continue to sin?

Application: Sin led our Savior to the cross. He died for you. When we sin it should remind of us the cost of our freedom. Grace has been demonstrated to you through the cross. Should we continue to sin to make grace more effective?

Romans 6:1–14 NKJV

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 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. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 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. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 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. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

1. Should we continue to Sin once we have been set free? NO

Colossians 3:3 NKJV

3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

1 John

1 John 3:9 NKJV

9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Christian- impossible to remain in sin

Guy told me one time he could sin bc he is saved so its without consequence.

continuous sin in a Christians life is a perversion of the mind

Luke 18:11 NKJV

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

613 laws- 365 negative and 248 positive

You shall have no other God’s before me.

Do not make yourself a carved image

Do not take my name in Vain

Observe the Sabbath and keep it Holy

Honor your parents

Do not murder

Do not commit adultery

Do not steal

Do not bear false witness

Do not covet

Jesus related anger to murder, lust to adultery, and love your neighbor.

2. Why? We have been made new!

a. baptized in Christ Jesus

Matthew 28:20 NKJV

20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Galatians 3:27 NKJV

27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:15 NKJV

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!

Romans 6:3 NKJV

3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

b. Identity in His death and resurrection

Romans 6:4 NKJV

4 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.

c. Sin had been destroyed

d. No longer a slave to sin

Romans 6:

Romans 6:5 NKJV

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

Romans 6:6 NKJV

6 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.

Galatians 2:20 NKJV

20 I have been crucified with Christ; 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 for me.

3. What occurs at salvation? WE put to death the old and become new

Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 18:31 NKJV

31 Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?

Psalm 40:3 NKJV

3 He has put a new song in my mouth— Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the Lord.

Revelation 2:17 NKJV

17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’

Pslam 40:3

2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Galatians 6:15 NKJV

15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

Ephesians 4:24 NKJV

24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

4. No longer are we Held Captive by our sin.

Romans 6:9 NKJV

9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

example of passing by old house

5. Death has been defeated and the difference is you are now Alive in Christ.

Romans 6:11 NKJV

11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Peter 1:15–16 NKJV

15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

1 Peter

Philippians 4:8 NKJV

8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

John 10:27–29 NKJV

27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

6. Don’t give sin an opportunity to resurface.

Romans 6:12 NKJV

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

1 Peter 2:9–11 NKJV

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. 11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

7. You have been set Free

Romans 6:14 NKJV

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

John 8:36 NKJV

36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.