Sermon Tone Analysis

Romans 6:11-23 - Freedom

Secular:

* Bethany and Luke

*  Twin thing… weird little babble language

*  Cribs opposite

* Babble little schemes (Hum the theme to the Great Escape)

* Look at a crib like a parent… bars good

*  Look at a crib as a child… bars = jail

*  Mission… to get out!!

*  Up to all kind of mischief

*  Drawers… Styrofoam…

* Freedom?

Biblical: NAU Romans 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

15 What then?

Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?

May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.

For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed?

For the outcome of those things is death.

22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

*Personal:*

* Tax time

*  We approach taxes…

* How do I get out of this

* Liberate my money

*  Tax accountants, lawyers, tax code

* Tax shelters…

* Pay as little as possible

* /Approach to Scripture/

Bridge:

* Negative

*  Pessimistic

*  Restrictive

* Liberating

* Freedom

* Slave to good for you…

* Not bound like an animal

* Not bound to sinful nature

* Bound to the rightouesness of Christ

* FREEDOM in Christ!!

 

Body:

The Fact… Consider

Romans 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

* Even so … “You must know and fully believe what I have just said, or else what I am about to say will make no sense.

The truth that you are spiritually dead to sin, and the reality that you are spiritually alive to Christ are not abstract concepts for your finite minds to attempt to verify.

They are divinely-revealed, foundational axioms behind Christian living, apart from which you can never hope to live the holy lives your new Lord demands.”

*  NAU 1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behaviour; 16 because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."

* Do you get it…           */Crucified with Christ/*

*/Raised with Christ/*

*/Life with Him/*

*/            /Start*

* Fleshly body… Worldly Heart

* Fleshly Container – New Heart

* New Body – New Heart

* God enables that Spirit….

Dead to sin

* 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it….

* 1 John 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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* /Consider yourselves to be dead to sin /

* /Consider yourselves alive to God in Christ Jesus/

* Reckon

* Claim

* The Fact

* Know it… live it….

* Face the fact…

*  /Consider yourselves to be dead to sin            /

* /And  alive to God in Christ Jesus/

Yielding – the Wrong Kind

Romans 6:12-13a

It is up to you…

God gave you a new heart…

God gives you the power… God gives you the opportunity… to avoid sin… so…

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness;

* Something changed….

Heart

Master

Eternal Destiny

Hope

* We received a now and not yet gift…

* Like a plastic gun… only as real as we let it be…

* #1 of 4

* Often we only recognize the Forensic holiness… meaning God, because of our relationship to Christ… sees us as holy… but otherwise we are in the same relationship to sin and that we will be stuck in that realty until we meet Christ face-to-face

* That view that we wrestle with sin… odd man versus new is the view that salvation is like an add-on…

* We are they same… some beat up old house but we have some God-wallpaper applied

* This is paper thin salvation… it is not the transformation promised by God.

* This addition not transformation

 

* #2 of 4

* Cuz Satan keeps lying to you…

* #3 of 4

* Cuz new birth isn’t experiential

* Isn’t physically observable….

* It is not fireworks…

* It is a spiritual transaction… that may or may not have a physical or emotional response…

* It is not humanly verifiable… the moment that one dies to the flesh… and is reborn in Spirit.

* #4 of 4

* The battle rages…