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Romans 6
!! Romans 6
*Tape #8123*
*Pastor Chuck Smith*
At the end of chapter of five, Paul tells us, “so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
He tells us, “where sins abounded, grace abounded much more.”
/What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
/Paul’s answer is, /2Certainly not! /Or God forbid! /How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
/It’s interesting how that people will take a certain truth of God and then run with it to an illogical conclusion.
If when we sin, God’s grace abounds, shall we then just go ahead and not worry about our sins?
Shall we just continue in sin in order that God's grace might just continually abound to us? Paul responds to that with this strong statement, “Certainly not!” or God forbid?
Or perish the thought!
And then he tells us what the principle is: 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?
/Notice we were baptized into Christ Jesus.
Into this relationship with Him.
Into this identity with Him.
Into this oneness in Him.
Jesus said, “In that day, you shall know that I am in the Father.
You are in Me.
I am in you.”
We have been baptized into this beautiful relationship with Jesus Christ.
I’m one with Him!
He dwells within me!
So being baptized into Jesus Christ, we were baptized into His death.
That is as Jesus died, so my old life died, baptized into His death.
Paul will tell us in a few moments that we are to reckon ourselves crucified with Christ.
Declaring that we were crucified with Him, baptized into His death.
/4//Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, /So the water actually represents the grave.
My old life lived after the flesh, my natural life of the flesh, which is sinful.
And all of the activity that came out of that natural life in sin is now buried.
Many people try to excuse their sin by saying, I was born this way.
They’re right!
They were born that way.
We’ve all been born in sin.
None of us are righteous.
No not one!
Everyone of us was born with a sinful nature that we received from Adam.
So the Scripture refers to that as “the old man.”
It refers to it as the “life of the flesh.”
A life that is dominated by our fleshly desires.
You see when God created man, He created him a three fold being: body, mind, spirit.
When he created him, He created him in the other order.
He created him, spirit, mind and body.
The spirit uppermost.
And with the spirit uppermost, man’s mind being filled with the knowledge of God and fellowshipping with God.
Now when man sinned, Adam sinned.
By one man’s sin, sin entered the world and death by sin.
God had warned him that in the day that you eat of the tree, you will surely die.
And he died spiritually.
The spirit of man died when Adam disobeyed God.
Adam could not pass on what he did not have.
His spirit was dead and thus he could not pass on the spirit, which was now dead.
What he passed on was a body and a mind.
But now the body is uppermost and the mind is occupied by the needs of the body.
The thing that separated man from the animal kingdom was the spirit.
Animals have a body and they have a consciousness, but they do not have a spirit.
That’s what separated us from the animal kingdom, the fact that man has a spirit.
But that spirit died and thus man became like an animal and his life was ruled by his body appetites.
The Bible refers to that as the natural man or the old man.
A man that is ruled by his body appetites and his mind is constantly occupied with the needs of his body.
Now God has made our bodies.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
And God has so designed our bodies that when you study it, you have to stand back in amazement at those things that God has built into the human body.
The study of the human body is just a marvel of design and creation.
We have certain physical needs for the body to continue to function.
We need oxygen and thus we have an air drive that insures that the oxygen level remains high enough to fuel the cells of the body.
We need moisture because our body is about seventy percent moisture.
And thus we need water or moisture and thus we have that thirst drive.
We need food and so we have the hunger drive.
We need to expel the refuse so we have a bowel and bladder drive.
We need to procreate in order that life will go on and thus we have the sex drive.
And there are many biological needs of the body that are defined as drives of the human body because these are the things that we need for survival for the perpetuation of the human race.
Marvelously designed by God.
But God did not intend that man be ruled by these body needs.
He never intended for us to be ruled by our sex drive, or by our hunger drive.
They all have their place, but they are not intended to master over man and rule over man that your mind be constantly occupied with these things.
And yet with the spirit dead, that’s exactly what happened.
The natural man does not understand the things of God, neither can he know them.
They are spiritually discerned.
So the natural man is alienated from God.
And he lives in this animal kind of existence without an awareness or consciousness of God and thus dead.
The Bible says that he is dead in his trespasses and sin.
The Bible tells us that if a person is living only for pleasure.
That’s all you think about, then you are dead while you yet live.
Paul says, you He had made alive who were dead in your trespasses and sins!
So Jesus said Nicodemus, you’ve got to have a new birth.
You’ve got to be born again.
For that which is born of the flesh is flesh.
It is now necessary if you are going to enter the kingdom of God, that you have a spiritual birth.
And when he asked how, He said, by believing in Me, basically.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever believes in Him.
That’s how you are born again.
By believing in Jesus Christ.
And what happens is that you have a spiritual birth.
Your spirit comes alive!
And it is God's intention that your spirit be uppermost.
And that you be as God originally created man, spirit, mind, and body.
When the spirit is uppermost, you now experience glorious fellowship with God.
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