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Most Christians are frustrated, discouraged, and defeated because they do not know and apply the fantastic truths taught in Romans 6.
If you will learn these truths and apply them, you will feel victorious in your Christian walk.
I. Three Phases of Your Salvation
1. Justification
Justification is being free from the penalty of sin.
Justification means how to be accepted by God, how to have a right relationship to God.
Justification is not by doing good works, going to church, having religion, keeping the law.
Justification comes by faith in Jesus.
As a result we are completely forgiven.
That means we're not going to have to pay for our sins.
We are freed from the penalty of sin.
Justification takes care of the fact that you're going to make it to heaven and not go to hell.
2. Sanctification
Sanctification being set free from the power of sin.
You want to do what's right but just can't make yourself do it.
It's a struggle.
Even though you knew what you were doing was wrong but you still did it anyway and you didn't feel like you could change to do what was right.
Sanctification is the key to overcoming that problem.
How do I break the power of sin in my life?
3. Glorification: being set free from the presence of sin.
One day we're going to be in heaven.
There will be no sin there.
As a result there's no sorrow, no tears, no problems, no worries.
We'll be set free from the presence of sin.
It won't even be around.
We won't be bothered by it any more.
As we get into this passage, Section 3, on Sanctification all of us are going to be able to identify.
He talks about the struggles of the Christians -- struggles with ourselves, with sin, with Satan.
He actually shows us how to overcome the power of temptation in our lives.
How do you handle the struggles in your life?
When your old sin nature keeps popping up at inappropriate times in your Christian life?
How do you deal with that?
Our sin nature is basically a desire to live for ourselves.
The old sin nature comes from Adam, the father of the human race.
It's been passed down.
Because you're human you get part of the human nature, the nature to be your own god, your own boss.
How do I break the power of my old nature?
You can't.
You can't break the power of your old sin nature on your own.
Otherwise you wouldn't need Jesus if you could.
The fact is, Jesus Christ has already broken it and we're going to see how we can appropriate that into our lives.
The truths we're going to talk about tonight are very, very important.
Yet, most Christians don't understand what we're going to talk about.
The majority of Christians are defeated, frustrated, discouraged and have no power in their life.
They don't understand what we're going to talk about.
They're ignorant of it.
Have you ever heard anybody say, "I can't be a consistent Christian."
They don't understand Romans 6.
Paul says that in order for you to break the power of sin in your life, the temptation to do what's wrong, you have to know some things and you have to do some things.
The secret of victory over sin in your life is knowing three facts and doing three acts.
That's why I'm calling this "The Facts and the Acts of the Christian Life.
The difference is the difference between positional truth and experiential truth.
Positional truth is different from what I often experience.
Can something be true without your ever having experienced it?
Sure.
Can something be true even though you've never felt it?
Sure.
Can something be true even though you don't understand it?
Yes.
Can something be true even though you may not believe it?
Sure.
There are some things God says in the Bible about you that from a circumstantial viewpoint you say, "That does not make sense!"
But they're true whether you believe them or not or whether you feel it or not.
For instance: The Bible says that once you're saved your sins are completely forgiven.
Yet many Christians still feel guilty.
They positionally are forgiven but experientially they still feel guilty.
God says that in Christ you are covered with His righteousness and you are seen perfect before God.
But do you feel perfect?
No.
Positional Truth: What God says about my Christian Life.
Experiential Truth: When I begin to live the way God sees me.
In the 1860's President Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
The minute he wrote it, as President, every slave in the United States was legally set free.
Did the slaves experience it?
Not at all.
It wasn't until the end of the war that they were actually given their freedom.
Positionally they were free from their master, but experientially they still were slaves.
Even many years later they did not experience that.
If God says some neat things about me, how can I experience in my life what God says is true?
If God says I'm free from, dead to, sin how do I experience that?
How do I convert something God says about me into my practical life so I can enjoy it?
How can I experience in my life what God says is true?
1.
I must know it.
I must know what God has said.
How can you act on something if you don't even know what He said about it.
I've got to know it.
2. I must believe it.
3. I must act on it.
Key Words: know; count; offer.
II.
The Facts of the Christian Life (Romans 6:1-10)
Paul begins this section with a question...
He's talking about Christians -- all Christians, Paul included.
Should we go on sinning?
He's talking about continuous deliberate sin.
Why does he bring this question up?
Because some people believe that where sin increases, Grace increases more.
Paul answers the question in v 2
We don’t continue to sin because we died to sin.
If you are a genuine Christian, your lifestyle changes.
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