Slaves No More
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5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
Where we left off last week: Grace is greater/deeper/stronger than sin.
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
13 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.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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v2 If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there?
v11 Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God.
Death separates. PawPaw
Physical death, apart from Christ, brings eternal separation. Remember the Rich Man and Lazarus. The gulf between them after death.
Physical death, in Christ, is always only temporary. Even when David’s infant child died, he stated that he would go to him. D.L. Moody. Heaven: After seeing Jesus, gold streets etc. But then his little brother died.
Spiritual death, which results from being apart from Christ, is where we all begin. Spiritually dead. In the same way God breathed life into Adam at creation, He breathes life into us at salvation.
If I have died to sin, then I am separated from sin.
14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
This verse has been an inspiration and comfort to me over the years.
There are others that not only state our condition, but our responsibility as well:
Physical death, apart from Christ, brings eternal separation. Remember the Rich Man and Lazarus. The gulf between them after death.
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Spiritual death, which results from being apart from Christ, is where we all begin. Spiritually dead. We have to be brought to life by God as He ‘calls us from out of the grave’.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5
The death of our old sin nature should separate us from sin!
If I have died to sin, then I am separated from sin.
Resurrection is certain.
The resurrection of Christ finished the work of providing salvation.
Salvation is not just a statement, a date on a calendar. It is a transformation!
The resurrection we experience on earth, is demonstrated by baptism.
Baptism is THE picture of resurrection. Here and now. Yes, resurrection from the dead at the last trumpet call. But v.4 ‘buried with Christ in baptism, raised to walk in newness of life’. Sets us to walk a resurrected life on this earth. Symbolic of...
The resurrection of all who believe in Christ will finish our work on earth. We will enter into that perfect rest.
What that means for us is the end of our striving. The end of the curse.
Part of the meaning of the rest we enter is our struggle with sin and self will be over!
The resurrection teaches us that God’s Word is true and reliable.
Dominion has changed. Implies a system of Authority or Control. Jesus called that the Kingdom of God.
The authority I am now under is God’s.
The one who abides in Christ “cannot sin” simply because he is “born of God.” The verb “cannot sin” is present active indicative in the Greek text, meaning that John is not saying that man will not ever sin again but that he cannot continue to sin in a perpetual way. This is crucial to understanding John’s meaning. John knows that man remains imperfect in his flesh and that Christ continues to advocate for His people due their sins (). Yet John also realizes that the sinner’s previous life of habitual sin is completely incompatible with the new life one has in Christ through faith. As a new creation in Christ (), the believer so hates his sin that he cannot allow himself to practice it. He may commit a sin, but he refuses to allow it to dominate him. He will never allow ongoing sin to define him as a new creature in Christ.
In that same book of 1 John, we are reminded that we are now God’s children, no longer belonging to satan.
FCA Kingdom
Children, servants, ambassadors. That makes us really good influencers.