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February 17, 2012
By John Barnett
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As we turn to Romans, think of this: Christ’s death on the Cross is the heart of our salvation.
His substitutionary death paid the penalty of our sin, removed the record of our transgressions, and purchased our eternal salvation.
Christ’s life now lived in and for us opens to us His sanctifying power to save us from sin’s destructive power, and keep us useful for his glory.
As Savior and Lord of His Church, Jesus Christ went to vist one of His local churches in the city of Laodicea.
He went looking to see if they were living out what He had died to make possible for them.
The sad news is that He found them neglecting what He bought them to be, and their lifestyles sickened Him.
Jesus wanted them to live a life that was always over-shadowed by His work on the Cross.
That lifestyle is what still pleases Christ, and any lack of that crucified lifestyle strongly displeases Him.
Today, we need to do a study on our way to Laodicea.
I call it: finding the first command, or imperative from Christ to each of us in Christ, from the MOST important book of the Bible.
*The First Command in The Book of Romans*
For many of us, we have a favorite verse, chapter, and even book; and we most prefer the NT over the OT.
But, what is the most important book of the Bible?
Most theologians would say it is the book of ____ (Romans), right.
The book of Romans is usally seen as the key to fully understanding the Gospel of Christ, His salvation, and our security in Him.
So open with me to Romans today and starting at chapter one, turn the pages until we get to chapter 6 where we will read a very powerful passage.
The Book of Romans defines the heart of the Gospel.
This is the content of what Christ Jesus had delivered and taught to all the true, Bible-believing churches of the First Century.
If they were a part of Christ’s Body, this is the truth they knew because they heard it taught or read if for themselves.
*A Short Survey of Romans 1-6*
Now remember, the Church at Laodicea was a literal church at the end of the First Century.
They represent all churches then and to this day.
They knew the Gospel.
Romans is the declaration of the Gospel.
Here is what we see.
• Romans 1: The Justified or Righteous live by faith (v.
1-17); and God’s Wrath is forever against Unrighteousness (rest of the chapter).
• Romans 2: God is just, and an impartial Judge, with or without the Law.
• Romans 3: Everyone is a guilty convict to sin; and only justification can save me.
• Romans 4: Abraham was justified by believing, not law-keeping.
• Romans 5: The glorious by-products of Christ’s Justify death for me.
• Romans 6: The justifying death of Christ opens to me the sanctifying life of Christ.
Now as we come to look at chapter 6, we find the VERY first imperative in the entire book of Romans.
So the first imperative in the most important book in the Bible is quite a vital truth to behold.
What would God want us to know that He would use this first usage of an imperative command to reveal?
After 5 solid chapters of so many major doctrines, what response does God want for us?
God’s first command to each of us in the book of Romans comes in Romans 6:11, and it is the command to Live in the Shadow of the Cross, all of our days.
*The Command to Live Daily A Crucified Life*
Please read with me the first command from God, an imperative, in the most important book of the Bible.
Romans 6:1-11 (NKJV) "/What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not!
How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.
Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord."/
Remember again the context of these verses.
Romans 1-6 is what Christ expects from born-again believers (and Romans 7-16 also for that matter).
Romans 6 living in the shadow of the Cross means: that the justifying death of Christ for me, opens the sanctifying life of Christ in me.
If I am neglecting the sanctification Jesus Christ purchased, then the Savior who justified me is nauseated at my choices.
Jesus gets sick of my living an unsanctified life.
*The Power of the Sanctifying Life of Christ*
But before we study more of that in Revelation, look at the six incredible truths of Romans 6, given to us by Paul:
• Point One is in v.1-2: Christ’s death on the Cross has once and for all freed me from sin’s hold upon my life.
I am “dead” to sin every moment of life that I choose to be by faith.
• Point Two is in v. 3: When I was obediently baptized in the Name of Jesus as a believer, I made a public declaration that I have been justified.
I am going to to be forever impacted by Christ’s death in my place.
• Point Three is in v. 4: I “should” walk in sanctification because Christ justified me.
• Point Four is in v. 5: Christ’s death means my justification; His life means my sanctification.
• Point Five is in v. 6-10: The justifying death of Christ opens to me the sanctifying life of Christ.
• Point Six is in v. 11: We must know what Christ has done, before we know what we must do.
The key to this chapter is understanding that Paul teaches all that doctrine so that each of us as believers can start:
*Operating Upon What we Know to be True*
The heart of Romans 6:11 is the word that is in the command form (an imperative).
That word is the word “reckon” in the NKJV/KJV, or “count/consider” in the NIV/NAS/ESV.
That word breathed out by God is the Greek word logidzomai.
That word chosen by God unlocks the power of the Cross into our daily lives.
The word is an accounting term that speaks of the usable balance that is clear of any debts or holds.
It is the available, usable balance.
Here is the simple definition of that Greek word logidzomai: “operate on what you know to be true”.
On the Cross Jesus paid the penalty of sin, broke the hold of sin, and released His power into our lives to make each of us able to resist even the most powerful temptations, and say no to sin.
All we have to do is draw upon that balance in our account.
All we have to do is operate on the truth that we have all the strength and power we need already deposited and ready to be used by faith.
Today, and every day of our lives, the Cross of Christ is the source of our power to live in this world of sin.
Living a life that glorifies God is called sanctified living.
Sanctification means that God is leading and controlling our lives.
As we return to Christ’s Last Words to His Church, we find that His Church at:
*Laodicea was not Operating In the Truth of Christ’s Cross*
For two generations, all the local churches around Laodicea had savored the truths about the Cross of Christ.
Today, as we gather as Christ’s Church, we gather to hear again for our generation, His warning to: Never stop living the crucified life.
The essence of daily life boils down to the Cross of Christ, and whether or not I will ALLOW Christ to crucify the world to me, and me to the world.
Only the Cross deals with both the “Hold” of sin on our lives (habits, besetting sins, addictions, enslavements to sin, persistent areas of defeat, and so on); and the “Hunger” for sin our flesh constantly maintains (distractions, trifles, wasted time, deadening behavior, lost spiritual appetites, unfocused living, and so on).
*Unsanctified Living was the Sickening Condition Laodicea Fell Into*
The church at Laodicea had all but stopped glorying in the power and sanctifying effects of the Cross.
Thus they had slowly drifted away from Christ’s control over their lives.
They then cultivated, drifted into, and began to live out some very bad habits.
These habits were so serious that Jesus Christ tells them they are sickening to Him.
The bad habits that form around an uncrucified life will always sicken Christ.
He is the same as He was in Revelation 3, sickened whenever one of His own pick up these bad habits.
As we open to Revelation 3:14-22, Jesus writes a letter that asks them, and us today to repent as often as needed until we are personally pursuing:
*The Seven Habits of Sanctified Believers*
As we start in v. 15, note the first of these seven habits of sanctification Christ desires in their lives, and ours.
*Habit One: Jesus wants us to Repent of any Spiritual Neutrality
v. 15 /“I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot.
I could wish you were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."/
• Spiritual Neutrality is when we stop agressively resisting sin in our lives.
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