Every man a salve
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intro
antinomianism
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nomos- law
one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation
As yall turn to romans 6, and we continue our survey on romans, i have a confession to make. I’m a little nervous about the message i get to teach three sermons from now. next week we will be in romans 7, which is fun and easily relatable and applicable. the one after we will be in romans 8a, and again is easily applicable with how we can have hope in God’s sovereignty, but the next sermon we land at the doctrine of election, and the idea of predestination. i am going to have to walk the tight rope of holding true to the text and the biblical truths that God has led me to, and yet be sensitive to what most of you have believed all of your lives. i know that we are going to hit ground where you may vehemently disagree with me, and that is okay. in preparation for that set of sermons, i want you to start praying that God would open your mind and heart to the text. Whether you agree with me or not is, in all reality, inconsequential. I want you to agree with the Bible, and by proxy, agree with God.
However, that is still two weeks away and we still haven’t even gotten into this weeks text so i’ll let tomorrow worry about tomorrows problems. is a passage that attacks what is called antinomianism. so anti- latin for opposed and nomos - greek for law. so for our purposes this is how Webster describes it, one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation. Like the prosperity gospel, there are various stages of antinomianism. you have the Marcionist view that that old testament is all wrath, and the New Testament is all love. you have professing Christians who, because they have elevated these attributes of God above the others, have created a god they can worship rather than worshiping the God who created them. this is the modern view of romans 1 where they worship the creation rather than the creator. they attribute to God human nature rather than bring human nature under obedience to the Creator. I have two goals tonight. the first is to address so called free will, and the second is to help us look at who or what we are being enslaved by.
lets get to scripture first though.
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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Antinomianism
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being saved means walking in a newness of life
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baptisim
spiritual death, spiritual life, physical death, and physical life.
resurrection
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
look, this right here is why we preach that you aren’t David. your crappy boss, or lack of finances aren’t Goliath. Rather, Jesus is the greater David, and the Goliath he killed, other than the actual Goliath, is sin and death.
we are freed from the penalty of sin at salvation, and we are being sanctified from the power of sin, and because Christ was raised, we will one day be glorified and relieved from the presence of sin.
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since Christ has been raised and defeated sin and death....
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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we are slaves of the one we obey
free will is true in that we are free from the nature we do not have.
if we have an unregenerate heart we are free from righteousness
if he have a regenerate heart we are free from the bondage of sin.
free will air bud example
having been set free from sin we are now to walk in obedience to righteousness.
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the fruit of our labor
closing
i want to end where i began. I wanted to address free will. as we see here our will is never free. yes we are able to make decisions, but those decisions will be primarily driven by our heart. before we are saved, we have a heart that is set against God. we learned in chapter 3 that no man does good, and no man seeks after God. that kind of heart will never want God or the things of God. you may have moralistic men who a plethora of reasons that they want to be moral, but non of them will be simply because God is moral and i want to bring him glory and honor. A few weeks ago i read Luthers quote on faith. if you remember the difference between a true Christian and a moralistic man was that the Christian can’t help but to want and strive for morality, because of the righteousness that has been imputed on him and the new heart he was given when he was born again, and the moralistic man, search as he might, will never find enough good deeds to become moral. The man with an unregenerate heart will want things that are contrary to God, and his will is held captive to his heart. in the same way, the man that has been born again, and been given a heart that now longs to worship and glorify God, which if we remember is what it was created to do, will have a will that is enslaved to righteousness because God is righteous. so, the idea of free will, at least as most in evangelicals see it, is a myth. more realistically, i would say, and i believe that most theologians of old would agree, that we have the freedom of will to chase after the things that our hearts want, but we are not able to change our own hearts desires.
the second thing i wanted to do was help us identify our slave masters. i cant think of any place better to do this than . really look and if you find that you have a heart that lines up more with the fruit of the flesh rather than the spirit, i beg you to earnestly pray and ask that God would give you a new heart that longs for righteousness. When i finish reading this, i’ll pray and we will be dismissed. if you need to talk i’ll be up front here and would love to answer questions.
the second thing i wanted to do was help us identify our slave masters. i cant think of any place better to do this than . really look and if you fin
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. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.