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What is the OBJECTIVE of this Sermon?
To prove that we are responsible to die to sin because we are dead to sin.
What is the DESIRED RESPONSE for this Sermon?
A repulsion not attraction to sin.
TENSION - Where does the tension lie?
We still sin yet we hate to sin.
The process of sanctification is drawing us away from sin.
Are we helping this process or hindering it?
Me - Movie where they say, “You are dead to me.”
Unfortunately, while I should say should say this to my sinful desires - You are dead to me! - I often don’t.
Many times, even though I am a follower of Jesus, I’m lured by the siren song of sin, and I run to it instead of being repulsed by it.
We - Have you ever struggled with sin in this way?
Or worse yet, have you had the attitude, “I’ll sin and God is obligated to forgive me of my sin because of His superabounding grace.
The, “He’ll forgive me anyway” spirit.
Or worse yet, If I sin, God’s grace will abound more and more and therefore God receives more glory when I sin!
So I’m actually doing God a favor by sinning!! UGH!
This is what Paul is addressing in this passage.
If you remember from last week, The Grace of God Supersedes Your Sin!
And we all agreed on two realities from those verses.
1.
Your Sin is Greater than You Think
2. God’s Grace is Greater Still!
And I remember you all saying, amen and amen to this fact.
But here’s the rub.
Paul’s detractors were accusing him of Antinomianism.
A general name for the view that Christians are by grace set free from the need of observing any moral law.
It was attributed to St *Paul by his opponents (Rom.
3:8) because of his disparagement of the Mosaic Law in favour of the Law of the New Covenant ‘written in the heart’—an internal impulse towards good—and strenuously repudiated by him.
Paul has already started to deal with this accusation back in chapter 3...
And he made it clear in chapter 3, and here in chapter 6 - God is not unrighteous, we are.
So, the question Paul deals with is clear...
God - Should we take advantage of God’s Superabounding, Amazing grace?
Should we, as Martin Luther says, “Sin boldly!”
Should we walk all over God’s moral law and live any and every way we want depending on God’s grace to clean it up?
I’ll answer this by saying there is one simple point Paul wants believers to understand very well in light of God’s superabounding grace...
Main Idea - Christ Followers are Dead to Sin and Alive in Christ
It’s a simple axiom, but a challenging one for sure.
Why?
Because...
We may be dead to sin, but sin is still alive in us (Romans 7)
We may be dead to sin, but sin’s power is undeniably real.
We may be dead to sin, but sin’s presence is all too real in the culture around us.
This is why sin continues to challenge you and me even as followers of Christ.
And sometimes its just easier to give in instead of fighting this seemingly ultimate powerful force.
But, Paul wants believers to know pursing a life of sin is off limits for the Jesus loving believer!
In fact, for the genuine follower of Christ, a continuious lifestyle of sin is impossible for believers.
More on this later...
And He starts this discussion by asking a rhetorical question...
Look at what he asks in verse 1...
Imagine sitting in a room and hearing this letter for the first time.
This question would have been shocking!
How does Paul answer this shocking, rhetorical question?
Look at the first part of verse 2...
Romans 6:2 (ESV)
By no means!
This is about as emphatic as Paul can be!
By no means!
Lit.
“may it never be!” Used 14 times in Paul’s epistles (10 in Romans: 3:4, 6, 31; 6:2, 15; 7:7, 13; 9:14; 11:1, 11), this expression is the strongest Gr. idiom for repudiating a statement, and it contains a sense of outrage that anyone would ever think the statement was true.
John MacArthur Jr., ed., The MacArthur Study Bible, electronic ed.
(Nashville, TN: Word Pub., 1997), 1702.
Let’s call this Paul’s Emphatic NO!
And Paul’s emphatic NO is so strong that in verses 2b-4 he gives three levels of this “NO!”
Why?
Because it is important that we get this right!
Yes it is wonderfully true - Superabound grace is amazing!
But, as Christ followers, we do not take advantage of the graciousness of God! How wicked it is of people to make this kind of accusation against Paul, God, and His gracious gospel?
Check out the first level of Paul’s three levels of “NO!”
1. NO, You Shouldn’t Sin!
You Are Dead To Sin! (vs.
2b)
Explain -
What does Paul mean “We died to sin.”? Believers are “In Christ” and Christ is “in us.”
In either case, Christ in us or us in Christ - this divine mystery links the believer with Jesus starting at our regeneration.
And in that sense, we died with Christ to our old sinful nature, and have been born again unto new life.
Death, whether physical or spiritual, means separation, not extinction (cf.
vv.
6–7, 14).
Death to sin is separation from sin’s power, not the extinction of sin.
Being dead to sin means being “set free from sin” (vv.
18, 22).
Of course, the logical conclusion from Paul’s perspective is if we are dead to sin because our new identity is Christ’s identity - if we are “Jesus” in this time and space, how can “Jesus” sin?
And the logical, honest answer is to this rhetorical question is - YOU, as a little Christ, CAN’T!
Just as Christ died on the cross to pay for you sin, so you died on the cross with Him and you are now dead to your sin.
This is how we must think regarding the sin that so easily trips us up!
But there is a great tension that you are feeling right now if you are going to be honest with yourself.
If I am dead to sin, why is sin still attractive to me?
Fair question.
One of three answers.
You are not a Christians...
You are a Christian who has gotten his or her eyes off your savior...
You are a Christian who is winning the battle of sin - ever aware of its presence and vigilantly standing guard against it by the power of the Holy Spirit and the direction of God’s holy word.
I think Christians will always live in some tension with this issue - God is in the process of growing you out of your sinful nature.
But here’s a secrete to help you in this process
Set your affections on Christ!
That’s it!
The more you love your savior, the less you’ll love you sin.
Illustrate - When one is on a Keto diet, in order for the diet to work you must live like refined sugars and carbohydrates are anathema to you.
You are dead to them.
They are not an option if you want to lose weight.
Apply - This is how we as believers must look at SIN! Cultivate a distaste for your sin.
Folks how do you handle sin in your life?
discern what is and is not sin...
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