Romans 6:1-14

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Crucified with Christ!

We have been discussing the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus. Now we are going to talk about our own crucifixion. Whenever we become saved we are then alive but we are also dead. When salvation comes into someones life they should die to their old sin nature but become alive in Christ. The purpose of this is when we die to sin we begin walking in the path of righteousness and by doing this we become closer in our fellowship with God. God hates sin! He hates it so much that He can’t even look upon it. When Jesus died on the Cross and the Sin of the World was placed on HIM God turned his back completely on HIM. God also takes sin so seriously that HE allowed his own son to take on the torture of the cross because SIN has to be paid for. This is the importance of us dying to ourselves daily so that we can be in constant fellowship with our creator.
So many people think that once they are saved that they can then live however they want to live. This is also not a new train of thought it has been around since the beginning of the church.
Romans 6:1–4 ESV
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
The churches in Rome were trying to blur the lines of sin and were basically saying that it is okay that I am living in sin. God will still forgive me and basically saying that only God can judge me so leave me alone. However Paul quickly nips that in the bud by answering their hypothetical question for all the churches to see.
Paul states their questions then immediately responds with ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!! He then explains to them the whole purpose of salvation and what Salvation truly is. Salvation is not fire insurance but a life in which we experience a love that is unimaginable and peace that is without comparison.
Salvation is us dying to ourselves which is the symbolism that is shown through the act of baptism and us raising our new lives in Christ. If we have died to our old selves why do we so often try to run back to our sinful lifestyles. We do it because that is where we are comfortable.
Romans 6:5–11 ESV
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
The reason we should be living our lives with Christ is because our old flesh has been Crucified with Christ. Crucifixion is not a pleasant process so it is neat that Paul writes that we are to be crucified with Christ. The separation of our sinful nature and what God has called us to is not easy. BUT it is so worth it!
When we are saved we are no longer a slave to sin. God has made away for us to evade the sin that so easily beset us. Christ has made to escape the temptations of sin but we have to be willing to accept the escape.
The only way that we have the escape from sin though is through Jesus conquering death and sin through his death on the cross. The issue with us living in sin is that we would rather spend time doing things that we would rather be doing than spending time with Christ.
I am just as guilty. I will to make my self so busy doing other things that I put Jesus and Christ on the back burner and then my personal bible study starts to drift away from what it should be. This is not because God has stopped being God but because I have willingly walked away from my fellowship with God.
As Paul has stated we must consider ourselves DEAD to sin. If we are dead to sin how can we be enticed to walk away from the fellowship we have with God? WE can’t if we are dead to it. We need to live our lives so focused on Christ that we flee from sin.
Another way that you can flee from sin is that once you are saved you do not just wander into sin. Lets take gossiping for instance. When you initially start talking about someone you know deep down that you should not be doing that. That is the Holy Spirit convicting you of sin before you ever step off into it. We should be attentive to the Holy Spirit when He is guiding us in our Christian life.
I am by no means talking about sinless perfection once you are saved because there will not be another sinless person on this side of eternity beside Jesus himself. However as we walk closer to Christ our desire becomes closeness to God.
Romans 6:12–14 ESV
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
We can not let sin be the norm in our christian life but rather the exception. If you are continuing in the same sin constantly you are making that sin the ruler of your life when indeed Christ has already conquered that sin. Paul is saying that we should be presenting our bodies to Christ to be used for righteousness rather then using our bodies for sinful purposes. Whenever we gossip we are using our mouths and tongues for sinful purposes rather than using tongues for glorification of God. I keep going back to gossiping because that is a common sin that we overlook because it happens so easily.
We love to gossip because that makes us feel better about ourselves. If we gossip we are always pointing out their flaws so that we can put them down to build ourselves up.
Through Jesus sin does not have dominion over us like it used too. We are set free from sin because we are no longer under the works of the law in which no one can keep. But we are under the law of grace because Jesus died in our place.
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