Romans 6:1-11
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It is true that if you take a group of kids swimming and maybe this is just ministry kids but maybe not. At some point, someone is going to get baptized!
True yes or no?
So growing up or messing around with kids...
Have you ever Baptized someone? Did you know the meaning of baptism when you did it to someone else?
One of my favorite baptism stories of all time is my nephew Isaiah.
He was told that if he cannonballed into the baptistry that he would get money from the people who put him up to it. The closer we got to his baptism the bigger the pool of money was getting.
Everyone had pictured the curtains to the baptismal opening up and then Isaiah cannonballing into the baptistry. It didn’t quite happen like this.
Myself, Isaiah and my brother (Isaiah’s dad) were all back stage. They said after this song you guys are up. They told Isaiah to go ahead and get in to be ready. So what did Isaiah do? You guessed it. Curtains closed no audience, just me, his dad, and a few staff from the church witnessed Isaiah taking a side step and landing in the baptistry with a cannonball.
It was a little awkward when they opened the curtain and his hair was wet like I had already baptized him before hand. So I made it more awkward by stating that those who said they would give Isaiah money for a cannonball well guess what you need to pay up because he did that!
Today’s passage in Romans Paul goes in depth about baptism. We will see today in Romans that baptism represents so much more than what you or your kids do in the pool or creek.
Today’s scripture is needed more than ever in our church and our community.
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?
This question was probably being asked to Paul
another way to phrase it
If we are justified by faith as chapter 5 says, then why should we do any works. We are saved by faith so we can live how we want right?
ABSOLUTELY NOT
Died vs Live
You can’t be partly dead. You are either dead or you are not. (Some may say you are dyeing haha)
Same with live. You either alive or you are not.
So if you have died to sin you cannot live in it any longer
Romans: An Introduction and Commentary 2. The Meaning of Baptism (6:3–14)
Life in sin cannot coexist with death to sin
We have a comparison of the Kingdom of Sin and the Kingdom of Grace
(Slide sin vs grace)
3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
All who were baptized into Christ Jesus we baptized into His death
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ like a garment.
You have been incorporated in Him, have become members of his body and you have by faith shared in those experiences that historically were only his ie His crucifixion and burial, his resurrection and exaltation.
3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Brace yourselves because this is good news!
4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.
Buried
Burial sets the seal on death
The Christian’s baptism is a token burial in which the old order of live in sin comes to end
The old way of living (Stinking thinking) comes to an end. The once enemy of Jesus is ended!
The old way of life that is not in Jesus is buried. It dies that is for some of you the “way you were raised” comes to an end. “raised in sin”(Amen)
Look at the person next to you and say the stinking think you were raised in has come to an end in Christ!
Just as Christ was raised from the dead
How?
By the glory of the Father (Circle on screen)
I like putting emphasis on this because many of you have said “I can’t change” Notice how Jesus is raised from the dead. By the glory of the father.
It’s the glory that Moses had to hide his face from in the cleft of the rock.
The Glory of almighty God, The glory of the father
God’s glorious power! The working of his great might that he accomplished when he raised Jesus from the dead.
This is incredible
You may not be able to change but the glory of the father will change you if you keep surrendering daily your life to Jesus.
So we too may walk in a new way of life
Stinking thinking, Stinking living, stinking heart on the inside is done away with by the Glory of the Father so that you may walk in a new way of life.
This is the new mode or quality of life
This is resurrection living
Living in the Kingdom of Grace
(Slide)
(Story of New mode or quality of life)
Two examples:
First, no one handed me a how to pastor in Rockaway Beach when I started at the age of 23. Wait… take that back just a little. I had my Bible and that was my how to book.
I didn’t have pastoring in Rockaway Beach for dummies if you know what I mean.
In the new humanity, I was never and I mean never alone. I encountered some crazy, challenging, weird, awkward, scary, and funny things and as I look back I was never alone. Jesus was always empowering me. God’s glory was constantly moving in me. His Spirit was always at work in me and through me. His Word was guiding decisions.
Second would be in being a husband
Amy and I got some paddle boards to take out on Lake Taneycomo. The first several times we were out on these she was flying past me...
I watched and learned from her.
This is a drastic difference from the prideful man I was when we were dating and she invited me to go hiking with her. She woke me up from a nap and I was cranky. I thought it was dumb to hike and I didn’t think
5 For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.
Likeness of His death also be in the likeness of His resurrection
That is we already stand on resurrection ground.
The ultimate resurrection we still await. That is be with Jesus forever in new Jerusalem.
But here Paul states that we should constantly remind ourselves that you already stand on resurrection ground.
The enemy wants to make us feel as though we have been defeated. That we don’t have victory, but remind yourselves you in Christ stand on resurrection ground.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
Old Self
This refers back to chapter 5 and that is in Adam.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.
The power of sin is taking humanity towards death.
Enslaved to sin
The crowd mentality which is all under the power of Sin
New self
Sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished
Abolished:
rendered inactive, made of no effect
The Bible Exposition Commentary Chapter Five: Dying to Live (Romans 6)
But in Jesus Christ, we died to sin; and the old nature was crucified so that the old life is rendered inoperative. Paul was not describing an experience; he was stating a fact. The practical experience was to come later. It is a fact of history that Jesus Christ died on the cross. It is also a fact of history that the believer died with Him; and “he that is dead is freed from sin”
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
We may no longer be enslaved to sin
Liberation language
All about the death and resurrection of Jesus, Israelites being freed from Slavery in Egypt, and Passover image.
(Slide)
7 since a person who has died is freed from sin’s claims. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.
A person who has died is freed from Sin’s claims
Set free and liberated from sin’s claims
Set free from a stinking thinking, stinking heart, and Stinking mind
v.8
Died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him
because
v.9
Christ having been raised form the dead, will not die again
Death no longer rules over Him
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10 For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.
Everything that is true of Christ and you have been baptized into Christ this is true of you as well.
He died to sin once for all
He lives
He lives to God
What would Monday morning look like if this was our motto?
I have died to sin and my life is to LIVE and to LIVE to God
My parenting to God
My Health to God
My dating life to God
My Singleness to God
My marriage to God
My work to God
My possessions to God
My Self to God
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11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Consider yourselves
Calculate it up
If you have been baptized into His death and Raised in His life, then go ahead and calculate it up.
The end calculation if you will is that you are dead to sin but
Alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans: An Introduction and Commentary 2. The Meaning of Baptism (6:3–14)
the Spirit has come to make effective in them what Christ has done for them, and to enable them to become in daily experience, as far as may be in the present conditions of mortality, what they already are ‘in Christ Jesus’ and what they will be fully in the resurrection life.
Amy after lunch one day on the deck of the coffee shop starts to affirm me.
Don’t argue against Resurrection living
Baptism into Christ Professing Christ as Lord and Savior is so much more. We are joined to Him; what’s true of Him is now true of us.