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MAIN LESSONS FROM ROMANS 6

Doctrinal Truth: – Everyone who is saved by grace through faith will be progressively transformed by grace through faith

Warning #1:

– False faith is possible

Warning #2:

– Everyone with saving faith will be in a spiritual war until God calls you home

Encouragement:

– By grace, believers have a constant resource and can win each battle and will win more progressively

ALL A FREE GIFT BY GRACE • • • Justification: saved from sin’s penalty – Expiate the believer’s sins to Christ’s account – Impute Christ’s righteousness to believer’s account – Once for all declared “as righteous as Christ” Sanctification: being saved from sin’s power – A process on earth done by the Holy Spirit to infuse the character of Christ into the believer Glorification: will be saved from sin’s presence – In the presence of Christ His character is completely infused into the believer

CHRISTIAN LIFE BY GOD’S GRACE

• • • • • • • • • • • Chosen by God before creation Born again by the Holy Spirit – Regeneration Internally called by the Holy Spirit Godly sorrow over their sin Confession of their sin Repentance from their sin Faith/Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Justified by the Father Baptized to publically identify with Jesus Christ Sanctified progressively by the Holy Spirit on earth Glorified by God when in heaven

FALSE PROFESSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY • • • Moralism (Social Gospel) – Ethics without Saving Faith Legalism (Christian Pharisee) – Rules without Saving Faith Antinomianism (Cheap Grace) – Knowledge without Saving Faith

TRUTH/QUESTION/ANSWER • • • • 5:20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 6:2 By no means! You are united to Christ!

6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! You have a new master!

EVERYONE HAS A MASTER

• • 6:16 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? Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

• 6:17 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.

• 6:19 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.

• 6:20 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.

• • • All of us are by nature enslaved to sin – we don't rule sin; sin rules us. God alone is the decisive deliverer from this slavery, and our part – which is real and crucial – is dependent on his. Without this deliverance from the rule and slavery of sin – without a new direction of righteousness and holiness in our lives – we will not inherit eternal life. John Piper

6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Old Master: – Adam – Law – Sin – Wages – Death • New Master: – Christ – Grace – Obedience – Gift – Eternal life

• • • • Adam and Eve before the Fall on earth – – Able not to sin Able to sin All people after the Fall on earth – – Not able not to sin Able to sin Justified Believers after the Fall on earth – Able not to sin – Able to sin Glorified Believers in Heaven – – Able not to sin Not able to sin

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MAIN LESSONS FROM ROMANS 6

Doctrinal Truth: – Everyone who is saved by grace through faith will be progressively transformed by grace through faith

Warning #1:

– False faith is possible

Warning #2:

– Everyone with saving faith will be in a spiritual war until God calls you home

Encouragement:

– By grace, believers have a constant resource and can win each battle and will win more progressively

• John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

• “THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS – What is Authentic Faith?” John MacArthur

WHO ARE YOU?

• • • • Have you trusted in Christ alone to save you from your deserved penalty for sin What evidence is there in your life that you have saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?

What sin do you commit willingly (“I can’t help myself”) counting on God’s grace to forgive you?

Will you develop a habit of preparing for temptation (Bible, prayer, church involvement) and calling on God during temptation?