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• 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
• 5:20b 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! How can we who
died to sin still live in it?
MAIN PRINCIPLE
• People that God justifies by grace through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ…
• He always sanctifies by grace through the
power of the Holy spirit.
• 6:22 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.
• Justification: saved from sin’s penalty
– Impute Christ’s righteousness
– Expiate the believer’s sins
– 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 a person
– God always sanctifies those He justifies
• 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
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Chosen by God before creation
Born again by the Holy Spirit
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 by the Holy Spirit
Glorified by God
3 ABERRATIONS ON JUSTIFICATION
• Moralism (Social Gospel)
– Ethics without Justification
• Legalism (Christian Pharisee)
– Rules without Justification
• Antinomianism (Cheap Grace)
– Knowledge without Justification
• “Dynamics of Spiritual Life”
– Richard Lovelace
• 6:1 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.
6:5 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.
CHRIST IN YOU – YOU IN CHRIST
• 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer
I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I
now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
• 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation. The old has passed away; behold, the
new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
• 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who
became to us wisdom from God, righteousness
and sanctification and redemption, 1 Corinthians
1:30
2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses
and sins 2 in which you once walked,
following the course of this world,
following the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit that is now at work in the
sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we
all once lived in the passions of our flesh,
carrying out the desires of the body and
the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:1-3
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great
love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were
dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and
raised us up with him and seated us with him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the
coming ages he might show the immeasurable
riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through
faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of
God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may
boast. Ephesians 2:4-9
• 10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in
them. Ephesians 2:10
6:11 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.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people for his own possession, that
you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once
you were not a people, but now you are God's
people; once you had not received mercy, but now
you have received mercy. 11 Beloved, I urge you as
sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of
the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep
your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that
when they speak against you as evildoers, they may
see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of
visitation. 1 Peter 1:9-12
CHRISTIAN LIFE BY GOD’S GRACE
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Chosen by God before creation
Born again by the Holy Spirit
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 by the Holy Spirit
Glorified by God
PRINCIPLES
• All believers should be baptized to publically
identify with the Lord Jesus Christ.
• People that God justifies by grace through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ…
• He always sanctifies by grace through the
power of the Holy spirit.
• And I am sure of this, that he who began a
good work in you will bring it to completion at
the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6
APPLICATIONS
• By God’s grace have you had godly sorrow
over your sin; confessed your sin; repented of
your sin, and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ
for salvation?
• What evidence is there in your life that God is
sanctifying you by His Holy Spirit?
• What does God want to change in your life to
make you more like Christ?
• Will you pray daily that God will make the
change in you?