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. UNION WITH CHRIST
Last week we looked saw HOW MUCH MORE Jesus grace act OVERCOMES Adam’s sin act.
Even the WORST that sin can try and do CAN’T OUTDO God’s grace.
Where sin increased, grace OVERFLOWED all the more.
Jesus THOROUGHLY UNDOES all that Adam did.
He brings eternal life for all those who were once dead in Adam and in sin.
But I’m sure you’ve heard this response before.
“If you’re saying we’re saved by grace, not by a good life, that Jesus has done it all, doesn’t that mean I can just live however I want, cause I’ll be forgiven anyway?”
“Doesn’t this message give people a licence to go and sin?”
Maybe you’ve heard this being whispered into your own ear when temptation’s come your way.
Hey, you don’t need to resist this sin.
Go ahead and do it, then just ask for forgiveness.
Remember, the more you sin, the more his grace and forgiveness abounds.
It’s actually a good think that you do this because it will show up God’s incredible grace.
Paul shows us this issue was present right from the start of the gospel message going out.
6 What shall we say, then?
Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
So then, DOES the gospel message lead you to change sinful patterns in your life?
Or does it lead you to APATHY towards sin?
At the heart of this thinking is a misunderstanding of who Jesus is and what he’s all about.
That’s why Paul’s answer is initially very simple
but EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL!
During our time working at the drug rehab in Coffs, we met many old seekers would come back for visits and reunions.
And they’d share their story about how they came to know Christ while at Sherwood.
And that coming to know the gift of grace was far more than they ever imagined they’d get by going to a drug rehab.
And then they’d go on to say, and drugs has never had the place it had in my life before coming to Sherwood.
If I was to say to them, “But since you understood grace, didn’t that motivate you to go out and just keep doing drugs?”
They’d be like, are you kidding.
What did you just say?
Living under the rule of that sin that ruined my life.
How could you ever suggest that I’d go back to that?”
I’m not that person anymore.
That was the old me.
And this is Paul’s point.
V2: 2 BY NO MEANS!
Are you kidding!
Have you experienced life under the reign and rule of sin?
The guilt, the shame, the condemnation that it brought?
Have you experienced life under the reign and rule of Christ?
The forgiveness, the acceptance, the freedom and assurance that his grace brings?
It’s extremely unsettling to even be asking the question of whether we should go back to living in that place!
Christ didn’t just come to give us forgiveness, he came to free is from sin’s clutches.
V2: 2 BY NO MEANS!
May this never happen!
It’s the pull your hair out groaning kind of response.
Don’t even go there.
I can’t think of anything more opposed to God’s glory and your good!
He’s saying that if you come to this conclusion, it shows that you haven’t understood who Christ is and what’s he’s about in the first place.
So he goes back to Christ, and our identity in union with Him.
WE ARE those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Do you remember who you are?
Remember Christ.
You know how he died.
And that was because of sin.
Remember that sin’s the problem yeah.
We live in a this broken world full of death and brokenness because of sin yeah.
But Jesus came to fix that.
He defeated it by dying to it.
And we are those who in union with Christ have died to sin too!
So how can we live in that any longer!
How can we live as if nothing’s changed?
As if nothing’s happened?
As if Christ’s death and resurrection means nothing!
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Now why does Paul bring baptism into his explanation at this point?
Remember he’s just been talking about Adam and Christ as the two representative heads for humanity, and what is our baptism?
It’s a naming ceremony isn’t it?
What were Jesus last words recorded for us in Scripture?
“Go out into all nations, and baptise them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit.”
He gives us the clearest explanation of the name of God, that all believers are baptised into and have fellowship with.
When you and I were baptised, we were given a new name.
We were given God’s name.
Signifying us becoming a new person
no longer in Adam
but in Christ.
Meaning that everything that was once true of us in Adam became undone.
Replaced with everything that is true of Christ.
What happened when you were named at birth?
You took on an identity that has shaped your life ever since.
Every time your name is called, instinctively you respond, because you recognise, that’s me.
When Christ is named, do you respond in the same way?
That’s me.
That’s who I am.
So everything that’s true of Jesus is true of me.
So Paul says, DON’T YOU KNOW.
Have you forgotten who you are?
You are one with the one who died to solve the problem of sin.
This is now your history.
You were baptised into all of Christ, his death, burial, resurrection.
When Christ first began his public ministry, he came to John and asked to be baptised.
John tried to stop him.
Why?
Because he knew that this baptism was not for sinners, not for Jesus.
The Jordan river was polluted with all the sins of the 1000’s John had baptised.
And he’s saying, I don’t want to dip your pure head in one drop of this water.
But Jesus says to him.
Do it.
For it is necessary to fulfil all righteousness.
Let me be baptised into them, for soon, they will be baptised into me.
I will be immersed in their sin, and die to it.
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