Gospel: Sanctification through the Spirit
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· 4 viewsSanctification is living to honor God through the Spirit.
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Introduction
Introduction
Major topics of the Gospel
Reality of Humanity under Sin (1:18-3:20)
Justification by Faith, not works of the Law (3:21-5:21)
Sanctification by the Spirit, not through Law (6-8)
Response/result of Jewish rejection of Jesus (9-11)
Practical application for believers (12-15:13)
Paul’s Ministry/plans (15:14-31)
Final greeting (16)
Sanctification by the Spirit, not through Law (6-8)
Paul addresses believers (those in Christ by Faith, who are now justified) in the next 3 chapters about living out this new life in Christ.
sanctification (vs 19, 22) n. — “the act of becoming more personally dedicated to God; especially by becoming more distinct, devoted, or morally pure.” (Sense)
Sanctification - “to dedicate to the service of and to loyalty to deity—‘to consecrate, consecration, to dedicate to God, dedication.’” (Louw-Nida)
How do we live loyal to to God now that we are Justified (in right relationship with Him)?
The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination (6:1-14)
The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination (6:1-14)
Dead to Sin
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.
“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.” (Romans 6:1–4, ESV)
Died to Sin
Dead - “(a figurative extension of meaning of ἀποθνῄσκωa ‘to die,’ 23.99); ἀπο-γίνομαιb (a figurative extension of meaning of ἀπογίνομαι ‘to die,’ not occurring in the NT): to be unable to respond or react to any impulse or desire—‘to be dead to, to not respond to, to have no part in.’” (Louw-Nida)
Sin - “to act contrary to the will and law of God—‘to sin, to engage in wrongdoing, sin.’” (Louw-Nida)
sin (personification) n. — sin personified as a destructive and depraved principle reigning over unbelievers and persisting in believers; especially as a slavemaster doling out payment with the currency of death and decay. (Sense)
because we are Baptized into Christ
Baptize - “② to use water in a rite for purpose of renewing or establishing a relationship w. God, plunge, dip, wash, baptize...ⓒ of the Christian sacrament of initiation after Jesus’ death.” (BDAG)
Is their a licence to sin in order that Grace might increase? Paul makes it clear that the answer is No. We died or separated from Sin. Freed from the imprisonment 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.” (Romans 6:1–4, ESV)
Walk - “to live or behave in a customary manner, with possible focus upon continuity of action—‘to live, to behave, to go about doing.’" (Louw-Nida)
Newness - “the state of being new and different, with the implication of superiority—‘newness.’" (Louw-Nida)
We have been baptized (united) to Christ into his death, burial, and resurrection. We continue living not under the dominion of Sin but alive to God.
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 6:11, ESV)
Consider - “to keep records of commercial accounts, involving both debits and credits—‘to put into one’s account, to charge one’s account, to regard as an account.’" (Louw-Nida)
“For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”” (Romans 4:3, ESV)
The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness (6:15-23)
The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness (6:15-23)
Enslaved to God
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 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?
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 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?” (Romans 6:15–16, ESV)
Present - “to make something available to someone without necessarily involving actual change of ownership—‘to make available, to provide, to present to.’" (Louw-Nida)
Slave - “one who is solely committed to another, slave, subject” (BDAG)
Obey - “to obey on the basis of having paid attention to—‘to obey, obedience.’" (Louw-Nida)
“either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?”
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, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
“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, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.” (Romans 6:17–18, ESV)
We are freed from the dominion of Sin to the dominion of Christ. Jesus is our new master in which we obey Him.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:13–14, ESV)
Domain - “a state of control over someone or something—‘control.’" (Louw-Nida)
Kingdom - “an area or district ruled by a king—‘kingdom.’" (Louw-Nida)
Obedience brings fruits.
Present ourselves
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.
“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.” (Romans 6:12–13, ESV)
Present - “to make something available to someone without necessarily involving actual change of ownership—‘to make available, to provide, to present to.’" (Louw-Nida)
Members - “a part of the body—‘body part, member." (Louw-Nida)
“ Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness...your members to God as instruments for righteousness.”
Present our lives (how we live, and what we do) to God as obedient to His Commands.
Fruit of obedience
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 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. 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.
“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 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. 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.” (Romans 6:20–22, ESV)
Fruit of Sin is death
Fruit of righteousness is sanctification and eternal life.
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law (7)
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law (7)
Released from the Law
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
“Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?” (Romans 7:1, ESV) (Addressing Jews)
Paul using the illustration of marriage shows that because we are united with Christ in His death we are released from the Law.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
“Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.” (Romans 7:4, ESV)
We are released from being under the Law to belong to another.
The Law and Sin
Sin used the good Law (7-12)
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
“What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”” (Romans 7:7, ESV)
The Law was to identify Sin.
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
“But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.” (Romans 7:8–11, ESV)
If we obey the Law life is the fruit. Sin uses the commandments to bring death to us. We are in the middle.
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
“Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.” (Romans 7:13, ESV)
Law cannot bring righteousness
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.” (Romans 7:15–17, ESV)
If we try to live sanctified by obedience of the Law we will fail.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
“Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.” (Romans 7:24–25, ESV)
The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit (8)
The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit (8)
Life in the Spirit (1-4)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1–4, ESV)
Law of the Spirit…Law of Sin - “Nomos in both parts of the verse might have a figurative meaning, contrasting the “principle,” “authority,” or “power” of sin and death with the “principle,” “authority,” or “power” of the Spirit...The actor in the situation is, then, the Spirit himself. It is God’s Spirit, coming to the believer with power and authority, who brings liberation from the powers of the old age and from the condemnation that is the lot of all who are imprisoned by those powers.” (Moo, Douglas J. The Epistle to the Romans. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996. Print. The New International Commentary on the New Testament.)
We walk and set our minds on or in the Spirit and not in or on the flesh.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” (Romans 8:5–6, ESV)
Live according to - “to live or behave in a customary manner, with possible focus upon continuity of action—‘to live, to behave, to go about doing.’ … a marker of a relation involving similarity of process—‘in accordance with, in relation to.’” (Louw-Nida)
Set their minds - “to keep on giving serious consideration to something—‘to ponder, to let one’s mind dwell on, to keep thinking about, to fix one’s attention on.’" (Louw-Nida)
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.” (Romans 8:9, ESV)
Heirs with Christ (12-17)
Spirit of Adoptions
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”” (Romans 8:15, ESV)
Adoption - “to formally and legally declare that someone who is not one’s own child is henceforth to be treated and cared for as one’s own child, including complete rights of inheritance—‘to adopt, adoption.’" (Louw-Nida)
Abba! Father! - “(a Greek transliteration of an Aramaic word meaning ‘father’): (titles for God, literally ‘father’) one who combines aspects of supernatural authority and care for his people—‘Father.’" (louw-Nida)
Future Glory (23)
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
“And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:23, ESV)
Wait Eagerly - “to await eagerly or expectantly for some future event—‘to look forward eagerly, to await expectantly.’" (Louw-Nida)
Redemption of our bodies - “to release or set free, with the implied analogy to the process of freeing a slave—‘to set free, to liberate, to deliver, liberation, deliverance.’ … the physical body of persons, animals, or plants, either dead or alive —‘body.” (Louw-Nida)
Spirits Help (26-30)
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” (Romans 8:26, ESV)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28, ESV)
God’s everlasting Love (37-39)
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:37–39, ESV)
Takeaways
Takeaways
Living Sanctified does not mean we have a licences to Sin or legalism of the Law, but living by the Spirit of God in us.
We live by the Spirit and not the Flesh.
We are heirs with Christ.
We have a future Glory.
We have the help of the Holy Spirit for our weakness.
We are love by God with an everlasting Love.