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Last week Pastor Dean helped us dig into the before and after of salvation.
Before salvation we were on the broad road to destruction, lost, condemned, and under God’s wrath.
There are many other descriptors in God’s word of our terrible state.
Our ultimate destruction due to our sins that separate us from God.
It was so refreshing to look at what is true after salvation.
When we trust in Christ as our savior our salvation is complete, we have been 100% forgiven, our sins have been taken away, I have been declared righteous and saved by his grace, delivered from the power of darkness.
We will have eternity to recount the blessings that God has granted to us through salvation.
We will be able to marvel at his many instances of grace in our lives forever.
God’s grace is truly magnified when you see the sinners that he has saved.
I don’t believe we looked at Romans chapter 6 last week and I wanted to spend some time here sharing from one of my favorite passages talking about the saved sinner.
A continuation of what Pastor Dean shared with us.
We will be in Romans chapter 6. Lets take 5 minutes to look at the larger context of Romans.
The Righteousness of God and Justification by Faith is the main themes of Romans.
The larger context of Romans is how is one justified by faith.
Romans brings the reader through how Israel has sinned, the gentiles have sinned, everyone has sinned.
Everyone is deserving of judgement.
And then the book transitions into our need of grace through faith.
It talks of Abraham the father of the Jews, someone who had in some Jews lives become an idol.
My heritage is so great.
John the baptist said.
The chosen people of God are special and precious to us and to God.
But they were always meant to be the heralds of God’s glory and to teach and show the nations who God is.
The focus should never be on you or I, but on God’s glory.
An all time purpose of God is to be glorified.
Back to the summary.
Everyone is deserving of wrath.
Justification is offered through faith in Christ.
Abraham was an example of Justification by faith in Romans 4.
There is a beautiful definition of faith in Romans 4:21.
On to Romans 5 where it explains that sin entered through one man Adam.
Judgement along with that.
And salvation was offered through one man Jesus.
The extent of sin was to the world because all sinned.
The extent of grace is to all who believe.
Skip down a few verses.
This is our immediate context to Romans 6. Paul was bragging on the great grace of His savior, as we should.
Even though the law was like a great big magnifying glass on all that Israel was doing wrong, when the transgression increased God’s grace increased.
Grace abounded, not so that sin could reign, as some back then and some today suppose.
Grace abounded so that grace might reign through righteousness.
The lie Romans 6 confronts is that it is ok for believers to sin a whole bunch.
Paul knew that if you preached grace as strong as you should, there were going to be those that would abuse it.
That’s what he writes Romans 6 to confront.
Pray
Lord, I pray that you would help us to grasp the truths of Romans 6. Lord, help grace to reign in our lives, teach us more about what that means today.
If you only remember one thing from this message I believe it should be to: let God’s grace reign!
If you don’t know Christ as your savior.
Take this moment, let sin no longer reign over you, let grace reign.
Accept God’s free gift.
As a believer, let the grace of God rule over you.
Let the wow of your salvation get a hold of you and run your life.
Let grace reign.
When we realize how much our Lord Jesus has done for us we should have the God given desire to serve and follow Him.
It’s not going to always be the easy choice to serve Him, but it is the best the right choice.
Let Grace Reign.
Why?
We have died to sin.
Sin has no right to sit on the throne of a believers life.
Shackled by sin is our state before salvation.
When God’s grace is displayed by His righteousness being counted to us because Jesus died for us our hand cuffs of sin are removed.
We now have the power only with His help to live a God honoring life.
Not a perfect life, but any time we sin its like we are trying to put the hand cuffs back on our hands.
To many times we do.
Praise Him his grace is sufficient.
We can see His grace active in forgiveness.
We see His grace even better when we see Him giving us the power to stand firm against the attacks of the evil one.
We have died to sin.
“died to sin” telling us at one point that was what your life was run by, sin.
But at that moment of salvation, you died to sin.
Its important to remember also that death carries an idea of separation not annihilation.
When we die to sin at the moment of salvation sin does not disappear from our life, but its hold on our life is loosed, we are not defined by sin we are defined by grace.
Let grace reign.
You have died to sin, how can you live in it?
You can’t.
We have died to sin.
Let grace reign.
Why?
We have died to sin.
And...
We have been baptized into Christ Jesus.
This isn’t talking about being baptized into water, it says baptized into Christ Jesus.
This is talking Spirit baptism that occurs at the moment of salvation when you were placed into Christ or identified with Christ.
Baptism does not always refer to water baptism, but it does always carry the idea of “identification or being placed into.”
Here in this passage it is very clear what we are being baptized into, Christ Jesus.
We have been identified with Christ.
Who was without sin Heb 4.15.
Why should we desire to keep sinning?
We by no means should, we have been identified with Christ.
Let His grace reign.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death.
All of this emphasizing the finality of the old self.
Christ’s burial shows that He actually died (cf. 1 Cor.
15:3–4).
Christians’ “burial” with Christ shows that they in fact died with Him to their former sinful ways of living.
Witmer, J. A. (1985).
Romans.
In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.),
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol.
2, p. 462).
Victor Books.
Our old self died when Christ died and is gone, its buried, it has no control over you.
Let grace reign, Let God’s grace control you, not sin.
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