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ROMANS CHAPTER 6
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Rom 6,1-23
· (104b) Thy kingdom come Ø
Purifying process Ø Purified by circumstances Ø
Purified through dying to sin
· (190a) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Separation from the old man Ø Masochism
(Self-made martyr) Ø
Laying your body on the altar--
According to this chapter, is obedience mandatory
to our faith or is it optional? If it is optional, then where is the holiness
of Christianity, having never been commanded to obey God, and if it is mandatory,
then how did we get away from the law? The law is a list of do's and don'ts;
isn't Romans six suggesting such an un-itemized list? Christianity can be
defined as: fulfilling the law by faith in God's righteousness. Yes it is
requiring us to obey God, but under different terms than the old covenant law.
These terms are where many of our different religions drop the ball in the
application of Christianity.
· (191f) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Result of putting off the old man Ø Set apart Ø
God sanctifies us through our devotion to Him
Rom 6,1-22
· (6d) Responsible to advocate God’s cause Ø
Jesus’ yoke of death
-- Jesus' yoke repulses people from the gospel,
but what they don't know is that it is lighter than the current yoke they are
carrying that the world put around their necks. Mat 11,28-30 says, "Come
to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take my
yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I an gentle and humble in heart; and you
shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my load is
light." Jesus meant that it is light by comparison to the world's burden.
The world won't tell you that it even has a yoke, but Jesus was upfront with
us about His. What yoke you decide to wear is ultimately made not by which one
is lighter, but by the benefits each one promises. The yoke of the world
promises freedom to your flesh and from righteousness, which leads to a
heavier yoke, whereas Jesus yoke promises freedom to your spirit and from sin.
The reason most people go with the heavier yoke of the world is because they
don't understand the benefit of being free in spirit, but they do understand
freedom in the flesh.
Rom 6,1-11
· (56g) Paradox Ø
Opposites Ø Seek God’s life by subduing your
flesh -- These verses go with verses 16-22.
"He must increase, but I must decrease," John the Baptist said in Jn
3-30. It works like a seesaw; the goal is to raise up Jesus with your flesh.
The seesaw's fulcrum stands for our own will. The closer you get to the
fulcrum (your ideas about what you should do with your own life), the less
force your body exerts on the poll to push down your end of the seesaw, which
makes you higher than Jesus -- goal not met. However, if you scoot back on the
poll (get farther away from the fulcrum -- your own will), the more force you
have to raise the other end. So, the farther away you get from the center of
your life, the more power you have to glorify God. The only way to raise Jesus
is to lower yourself. That takes humility; that takes determination; that
takes faith.
Rom 6,1-4
· (53a) Paradox Ø
Opposites Ø Of life and death Ø
Die in order to live
· (184f) Works of the devil Ø
The origin of lawlessness Ø Abusing the grace
of God Ø Spending His grace on your pleasures Ø
Trying to take advantage of God’s kindness -- These verses go with
verses 15-18
Rom 6-1,2
· (184e) Abusing The Grace Of God
(Key verse)
Rom 6-1
· (16i) Sin Ø
Continuing in sin to avoid the light Ø Deny
the truth -- This verse goes with verse 15
· (96k) Thy kingdom come Ø
Having a negative attitude about sin Ø Being
willing to practice sin -- This verse goes with verse
15
Rom 6,3-14
· (43a) Judgment Ø
Satan destroyed Ø Conform to the Resurrection
of Christ’s death
-- Jesus said in Jn 12-24, "Unless a
grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but
if it dies, it bears much fruit." This is what Paul is talking about here
in Romans. He is referring to living and walking in the Spirit. However, before
we can walk in the life of the Spirit as Christ did, we must first partake of
Jesus' death. What does the Bible mean by dying to self? Does it mean
suppressing our petty sins, watching what we say and do every minute,
suppressing our evil thoughts, becoming paranoid and living in fear of
sinning? No, if that were all it meant, we would get paranoid and
live in fear. Fortunately, God is after more than our petty sins; He is
looking to harness the direction of our lives, the plans we make, and the
goals we set. God wants to control the purpose of our being that we
have established for ourselves and kill it, and reestablish His own purpose in
our hearts, create new direction, plans and priorities for us.
Essentially, God wants to establish His kingdom in our hearts. Guess what
happens to our petty sins when all these things begin to take place. They get
bumped down the priority list until they become dormant. There cannot be two kingdoms
in our hearts at the same time; ours must die to make room for His. Jesus said
in Mat 6-24, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Mammon means to put your confidence
in wealth; you can loosely consider it to mean the world in general. We
need to put our confidence in God.
Rom 6-3,4
· (190j) Baptism
(Key verse)
· (191b) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Separation from the old man Ø
Baptism symbolizes death, burial and resurrection
Rom 6-4,5
· (38e) Judgment Ø
Jesus defeated death (Satan) Ø Resurrection
anointing -- These verses go with verses 9&10.
The anointing is by far the number one least understood subject of the Bible.
You either have denominations on the one hand that forbid you to even speak
the word anointing. Or on the other hand you have denominations that build
entire religions around the word, and work the topic to death until it becomes so
muddied in their heads that they know less about the anointing than the people
who are trying to avoid it, and their is almost nothing in between. Here in
Romans, the entire chapter six is devoted to this one topic. Let's look at it.
We have previously determined that obedience is mandatory in Christianity,
since it remains from the old covenant law, and the law is still in effect.
According to Paul in this chapter, the anointing is the result of obedience;
therefore, the anointing is mandatory in Christianity. (I am not saying that
you must have an anointing to be saved; I am saying that you have an anointing
because you are saved. The difference is seeing the anointing as a
natural result of obedience instead of using it as evidence of
salvation.) The anointing is the benefit of the new covenant, take it out and
all that's left is rules and regulations, the new covenant is nullified and
the cross is compromised. The anointing is the life of the new covenant; it is
interwoven within faith and obedience so that you cannot extract it without
also extracting obedience and thus disturbing your faith. The definition of
the anointing is: Obeying the voice of the Spirit. So,
the difference between the old and the new covenants, that is, between the law
and faith, can be best understood by what we are required to obey. The old
covenant required us to obey the law, while the new covenant requires us to
obey the Holy Spirit. I can prove everything I've said in this one statement,
in verse five, when he says, "we shall certainly be in the likeness of
His resurrection," does he mean in the by and by in the sky when we die,
or is he referring to experiencing the new life of the resurrection in the here and now? If he
only means it for the next life, then how must we die in the likeness of His
death? Paul is entreating us to give up our old way of life willingly in the
here and now as Jesus willingly gave up His, and if we must die in the here
and now, then we can also live a new life in the here and now through the power of God
called the anointing!
· (254c) Trinity Ø
Holy Spirit’s relationship between Father and Son Ø
Jesus is the life of the Spirit Ø We live
because He is life Ø We live because we died
with Him -- These verses go with verse 8
Rom 6-5
· (58m) Paradox Ø
Two implied meanings Ø Literally die and
partake of the first resurrection / Die to self to receive the anointing
-- This verse goes with verse 8
Rom 6,6-14
· (139i) Temple Ø
Building the temple (with hands) Ø Tear down
the old to rebuild the new
· (187h) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Separation from the old man Ø Die to the flesh Ø
Spirit versus the flesh Ø Deny the flesh to
walk in the Spirit
-- After studying the Bible's idea of
righteousness, it becomes clear that it is referring to more than being good
or even to the goodness of Christ, but extends further into the area of
walking in the Spirit, which involves first listening for His voice in your
own spirit and then doing what He says. This is the essence of what God
considers righteousness, because it covers the conventional idea of believing
in God's word and believing in His character. However, the basis of walking in
the Spirit is the cross, a simple faith that believes what Jesus did for us is
sufficient for passing our inevitable judgment by a holy God. In so making
life decisions by the inner voice of our Spirit is putting faith in God on a
higher plane than the foundation of our faith, which is the cross.
Rom 6,6-9
· (119c) Thy kingdom come Ø
Manifestations of faith Ø
Freedom from satanic influence Ø Free from sin
-- Sin creates an opportunity for the world of
darkness that is all around us to spread its inward channels of demonic
influence further into our lives. To sin is to relate to the devil and to
dabble in the things that he loves. To make that kind of statement with your
life is asking for trouble, and we often get more than we want. The
consequences of our actions are often harsh, but covered up by secular
rationalizations, so the underworld goes undetected. If we knew what happens
behind the scenes, we would run to God in our prayer closets and never come
out.
Rom 6-6
· (16c) Sin Ø
Man has a body of sin – The base of man’s sinful nature is
essentially located in our bodies, in our flesh; otherwise, how else could
the curse be transferred from one generation to the next? To better
understand the idea of the sin natures in the body and spreading to
all other dimensions of our human existence (the soul and spirit), consider the fact that we have
lost most of our physical functionality from the fall of Adam. That applies to our brains, the organ upon which our minds
depend. The
mind is considered the soul; this means the mind is dependent on a
physical structure that is fallen, which means that our minds are also
fallen. So, the curse has infected the body and spread to the mind (the soul) through
the brain. That accounts for two of the three dimensions of man; but what
about the spirit? With our mind
weakened by the brain, we cannot comprehend our own spirit. Without
Christ, our spirit lies dormant within us; the lost are not even aware
they have a spirit. Therefore, man's spirit (his very essence) is directly
affected by the curse of our flesh, being mentally limited to an
understanding of our own existence. If God were to fix our bodies,
everything else would fall in line with it. However, God by His infinite
wisdom chooses to fix us from the opposite direction, from
the inside out, that is to heal the spirit, and let it influence the soul
(the mind) to make the right decisions about what we should do with our bodies.
God has given us the opportunity to prove our loyalty to Him by
leaving our minds and our bodies unchecked.
· (162g) Works of the devil Ø
Being a slave to the devil (Addictions) Ø
Bondage Ø Addicted to sin Ø
Being a slave to the sinful nature -- This verse goes with verses
12-16
· (190i) Die to self (Process of substitution)
Ø Separation from the old man Ø
Circumcision Ø Circumcision is a sign of
obedience Ø Obedience by the Spirit makes
circumcision obsolete
· (244j) Kingdom of God Ø
Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm Ø
Literal
manifestation of God’s word Ø His cross is
the manifestation of truth -- This verse goes with verses
11-14. The cross is the manifestation of truth because the whole
reason God sent His Son into the world was to "redeem us from every
lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous
for good works," Tit 2-14. It was inevitable that Christ should
go to the cross, because He was God, and for that reason Jesus never fails.
It was preordained for Him to go
before the foundation of the world, and in so doing, the cross completed and
confirmed the will of the Father for His Son, the cross also confirmed His own deity with the
Father as an integral member of the godhead, and it confirmed God's authority over sin and the devil.
For these reasons the cross is considered the ultimate manifestation of
truth. Moreover, when we die
to the sinful deeds of the flesh, we are associating with the cross, and our
association with the cross completes and confirms our faith in God, our
victory over sin through Jesus' blood sacrifice, and confirms an anointing
from the holy one as His
pledge of a future resurrected body.
Rom 6,8-22
· (193l) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Turn from sin to God Ø Run to God in your freedom to choose righteousness
-- There is a small window through which we must
pass in order to walk in the kind of freedom from sin that the Bible promises.
God sets us free through a revelation of that freedom, and if we don't soon
afterward walk in that same freedom we will loose it, because if we are not
using it we are abusing it. Therefore, let us run to God while we have the
right to choose righteousness before it becomes obvious that we don't value
that kind of freedom and it dries up and disappears like the manna did
for Israel in the Old Testament and our old sins regain a stronghold in our
lives again.
Rom 6,8-13
· (27d) Consequences of sin Ø
Knowledge can bring a curse if you don’t walk in it
Rom 6-8
· (58m) Paradox Ø
Two implied meanings Ø Literally die and
partake of the first resurrection / Die to self to receive the anointing
-- This verse goes with verse 5. How can this verse be referring only to the
first resurrection and not be referring also to dying to self to receive an
anointing from God? For one thing, this is the biblically prescribe way of
receiving an anointing, by dying to the sinful deeds of the flesh. This verse
is laying down a very simple spiritual principle -- those who have passed away
while believing in Jesus will also live with Him forever in heaven. However,
the context is wrong for Paul to be talking about dying and going to heaven.
The context was not about physically dying but about living in obedience to
the will of God by dying to the sinful deeds of the flesh. So, Paul was
equating physically dying and going to heaven with dying to self to receive
the anointing. In other words, the anointing is a piece of heaven that has
come down to us to share with our brothers and sisters in Christ and with the
world. It is a well accepted fact that the Holy Spirit lives inside a person
who believes in Jesus, so why is it so hard to believe that we can feel His
presence and that He can demonstrate His existence in our lives through the
power of God? The anointing is one of the most controversial topics of the
Bible; in fact the controversy starts from believing it exists; all you have
to do is say the word "anointing" and you will have just started an
argument with some folks. The reason it is so controversial is because it
would be obvious to all if someone had an anointing from God and yet there is
no evidence of anyone having one, so it is all theoretical. The reason it is
only theoretical is because no one is willing to die to the deeds of their
flesh, which is the basis of receiving one. If you are still wondering what
the anointing is, then die to the ways of your flesh and find out!
· (116m) Thy kingdom come Ø
Rest in Jesus Ø Rest in His yoke by dying to
self Ø Dying to self by the Spirit
· (254c) Trinity Ø
Holy Spirit’s relationship between Father and Son Ø
Jesus is the life of the Spirit Ø We live
because He is life Ø We live because we died
with Him -- This verse goes with verses 4&5
Rom 6-9,10
· (38e) Judgment Ø
Jesus defeated death (Satan) Ø Resurrection
anointing -- These verses go with verses 4&5
· (172i) Works of the devil Ø
The religion of witchcraft Ø Catholicism Ø
Scripture that contradicts the catholic faith Ø
Jesus never to die again Ø Because He conquered
death
-- Jesus conquered death and placed it under His
feet, so why does the bread and the wine have to transform into the body and
the blood of Christ every time you take communion? Doesn't that constitute
offering His flesh more than once? The Bible teaches that we are redeemed
through faith in Jesus' blood sacrifice that He offered once for all,
not every week thereafter.
Rom 6,10-23
· (168e) Works of the devil Ø
Manifestations of the devil Ø Do not conform to
the world who did not recognize Jesus
Rom 6,10-16
· (173h) Works of the devil Ø
The religion of witchcraft Ø Catholicism Ø
Unholy sacrifice Ø Offering sacrifice without
God’s approval Ø Sacrifice against the way of
God -- These verses go with verses 19&20.
As you can see here, it is not Jesus who needs to die again, but the Catholic,
and the protestant and anyone who believes in Jesus. We all need to die to our
evil lusts and desires as a way of agreeing with God that Jesus had to die for
our sin, so we should no longer live in them.
Rom 6,10-14
· (111i) Thy kingdom come Ø
Spirit and the word Ø Kingdom of God revealed Ø
Manifestation of truth
-- Jesus is the word of God, while the
life of God that He intends for us to experience in this life today is the
Spirit that He promises to those who obey Him.
· (135a) Temple Ø
Your body is the temple of God Ø Sins of the
body Ø Immorality Ø
Sexual perversion Ø A mixed bag of impurities
Rom 6-10
· (253k) Trinity Ø
Relationship between Father and Son Ø Jesus is
subject to the Father Ø Jesus is subject to God’s
ability
Rom 6,11-23
· (134g) Temple Ø
Your body is the temple of God Ø Body of sin Ø
Our bodies are home to the sinful nature
· (194i) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Turn from sin to God Ø Yielding Ø
Yield to God’s right to direct your way
Rom 6,11-22
· (194h) Die to self (Process of substitution) Ø
Turn from sin to God Ø Hate evil Ø
Victory over sin Ø Hate evil by doing good
· (196d) Denying Christ Ø
Man exercises his will against God Ø Immaturity
Ø Not mature enough to die to self Ø
Unable to put down your own flesh
Rom 6,11-19
· (79a) Thy kingdom come Ø
Putting your heart on display Ø Depending if
your mind is renewed
Rom 6,11-14
· (213g) Sovereignty Ø
God is infinite Ø Jesus owns you Ø
We are his instruments Ø We are reflectors of
His glory
· (244j) Kingdom of God Ø
Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm Ø
Literal manifestations Ø Literal manifestation
of God’s word Ø His cross is the
manifestation of truth -- These verses go with verse 6
Rom 6,11-13
· (194h) Yielding
(Key verse)
Rom 6,12-16
· (162g) Works of the devil Ø
Being a slave to the devil (Addictions) Ø
Bondage Ø Addicted to sin Ø
Being a slave to the sinful nature -- These verses go with verses 19-21
Rom 6-12,13
· (97g) Thy kingdom come Ø
Attention Ø Facing the direction of God’s
will Ø Focusing your attention on finishing
the project
Rom 6-14
· (32c) Gift of God Ø
God is our Father Ø The Spirit of His grace
Rom 6,15-22
· (13m) Serve God faithfully – We
have an option as to whom we are going to serve, but we do not have an
option whether to be a servant. You are going to serve someone, be it God or
be it your own flesh, if you consider
your flesh a viable option. After weighing the
consequences of serving self, it is hard to believe that anyone would choose
it over serving God, but most people do.
· (87j) Thy kingdom come Ø
Obedience Ø Being a slave to obedience
-- When we get to heaven, we will no
longer be slaves to obedience after receiving our new bodies that will
gladly do the will of God. However, in our current bodies we will remain a
slave to God's will, because our minds and our bodies don't want to serve
Him. We prefer to serve ourselves. We were born with nothing, and although
we may have a houses and a cars and other possessions, the fact remains that
we are still living in stark poverty. Nothing has changed since we were
born, except that we have accumulated a bunch of meaningless junk, but our
bodies will die without the bare essentials: food, shelter, sleep, etc. As
born again children of God, our spirit is occupied by a genuine substance
from heaven that makes us want to serve God, but our bodies still operate in
the survival mode. So, if we are going to serve God, we first need to put
our flesh under subjection to the will of God, and force it to operate in
the faith mode of trusting God, and learning how to relax and let God be our
provider, regardless of our income status.
· (213j) Sovereignty Ø
God is infinite Ø Jesus owns you Ø
His will becomes our will Ø As a master owns
a servant
Rom 6,15-19
· (129m) Thy kingdom come Ø
Manifestations of faith Ø Unity Ø
Being in one accord Ø Single minded Ø
Avoid contradicting yourself
-- The key to Christianity is aligning
your body, soul and spirit to converge at the one focal point of obeying
Christ. It takes sacrifice of time and duty to the
word of God and to prayer, but when you achieve it, all your efforts are paid off in
your participation of the realm of the spirit that is opened up to
your renewed mind.
· (195d) Denying Christ Ø
Man exercises his will against God Ø Idolatry Ø
Serving two masters Ø You cannot serve
righteousness and sin together
Rom 6,15-18
· (184f) Works of the devil Ø
The origin of lawlessness Ø Abusing the grace
of God Ø Spending His grace on your pleasures Ø
Trying to take advantage of God’s kindness -- These verses go with
verses 1-4
Rom 6-15,16
· (161l) Works of the devil Ø
Essential characteristics Ø Satan’s attitude
determines our direction Ø
Carried away by sin
Rom 6-15
· (16i) Sin Ø
Continuing in sin to avoid the light Ø Deny
the truth – This verse goes with verse 1
· (96k) Thy kingdom come Ø
Having a negative attitude about sin Ø Being
willing to practice sin -- This verse goes with verse
1
Rom 6,16-22
· (56g) Paradox Ø
Opposites Ø Seek God’s life by subduing your
flesh -- These verses go with verses 1-11
Rom 6,16-19
· (105c) Thy kingdom come Ø
Pure in heart Ø Being a slave to a pure heart
-- We all know that our hearts can grow pretty
dark without much prompting. We don't have heavenly bodies and we don't have
heavenly minds, but we are bound to the earth and we think like the world, and
we mostly live like the world without renewing our minds in the word of God.
Even then it doesn't affect our bodies, but we must subject our bodies to the
will of God through a mind that is renewed daily. We are slaves to the things
that make us angry, envy, lust and feel better, and most of our slaveries in
the end make us feel worse than if we served God without the reward of His
revelation in our hearts. If you don't think that sounds like much of a
reward, then you haven't had a revelation of Jesus Christ. People have
accepted imprisonments, beatings, tortures of every kind for a better
resurrection, just to spend another minute fellowshipping with the master
instead of recanting their faith. Once you become addicted to the Holy Spirit,
there is no turning back and there is no substitute for hearing that reaffirming
voice in your heart that always changes your life and even the place where you
are standing to holy ground.
Rom 6-16
· (25l) Consequences of sin Ø
You’re walking in death if you’re not walking in Jesus -- This
verse goes with verses 21-23. The result of sin is death, and sin is the same
as unbelief, according to Jesus in Jn 16-8,9. Therefore, it would be safe to conclude
that the cause of sin is unbelief, and it would be just as safe to conclude
that faith is the remedy to our sin problem. Therefore, freedom from the
bondage of sin is not a matter of exerting yourself to get rid of it,
suppressing it, or even ignoring it, for all these things still merely give
attention to it. The Bible says that we can be released from certain bondages
that were impossible before Christ, which indicates that it is something to do
with the Hole Spirit. Act 13-39 says, "And through Him everyone who
believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through
the law of Moses." That word freed there essentially means
"forgiven." Again, the Bible equates forgiveness of sin with freedom
from its bondage. Nevertheless, how many of us believe our sins are forgiven,
yet can't seem to stop practicing certain sins? The Bible assumes a couple
things, one being that when you believe, you will commit your life
wholeheartedly to your faith. This one simple act would change your life more
dramatically than anything else possibly could, starting with a change of focus from
getting over certain pet sins to meeting a goal outlined for you by the Holy
Spirit Himself!
Rom 6,17-22
· (86f) Obedience (Those who obey believe)
(Key verse)
Rom 6,17-19
· (8d) Responsible to prepare to interact with
God Ø Entering the realm of the Spirit –
That
saying, "caught between a rock and a hard spot," applies to
Christians first, because we are in that situation more than anyone else. The
Bible says that we are slaves no matter what we do, either to God or to our
passions and desires. Therefore the question is not whether we
will ever be free, but who will be our master. Here is the dilemma; if you are
free to sin, then the kingdom of God is cut off to you; you have no access to
God’s blessings, but if you are free to obey Christ (walking in
the Spirit), then certain options pertaining to sin are no longer available to
you without loosing your grip on the Spirit. Therefore, as a slave to
sin, you have no choice but to sin, but being a slave to righteousness is a
choice, meaning that we are free to sin if we choose, implying that we have
more freedom as slaves of Christ than as slaves of sin. Looking at it from a different
angle, if you are a slave to sin, then you can either do a good deed or not, the option is yours, but it is not an option to sin
because your fleshly mind is a slave to it. However, the reverse is not
exactly the same. That is, if you are a slave to righteousness you ignore the
choice to do evil, but you will always
have that choice to sin, and walking in obedience will also be a daily choice, because the only thing stopping
you from sinning is your own will and God’s small, still voice, which are
both easy to manipulate. So it really is an uphill battle that attempts to answer the
question of whether we are going to listen to that gentle voice or not.
Rom 6-17
· (74d) Thy kingdom come Ø
The heart is the location of all
truth
Rom 6-18
· (54j) Paradox Ø
Opposites Ø Freedom with fences
Rom 6,19-23
· (232b) Kingdom of God Ø
Pursuing the kingdom Ø Seeking the kingdom Ø
Count the cost Ø The cost is more than you can
imagine so don’t count
Rom 6,19-21
· (162g) Works of the devil Ø
Being a slave to the devil (Addictions) Ø
Bondage Ø Addicted to sin Ø
Being a slave to the sinful nature -- These verses go with verse 6
Rom 6-19,20
· (173h) Works of the devil Ø
The religion of witchcraft Ø Catholicism Ø
Unholy sacrifice Ø Offering sacrifice without
God’s approval Ø Sacrifice against the way of
God -- These verses go with verses 10-16
Rom 6-19
· (94i) Thy kingdom come Ø
God’s perspective Ø His perspective on your
sinful nature
-- All of Romans chapter six is hinged on this
one verse, actually chapter seven is too. Paul has been telling us to lay down
our evil ways and pick up the ways of the Spirit, but I thought we would be
willing to do that now that we are born of God? Yes we are willing, but not
all of us; that is, our bodies are not willing. The spirit is willing, but the
flesh is weak. We are still
living in the same old body that loves sin. Though we love God, we also love sin, and we always will
so long as we are in this body! Therefore, we must put our flesh
under subjection to keep ourselves from resisting God. You might say that
we are right back to practicing the law, but don't forget the Holy
Spirit who stands by to help us in our weakness. We serve God from love, not
duty, because God has given us a new heart that loves Him and wants to serve
Him. In that way we are free, but when we go to do His will, we are confronted
by our own flesh that cannot be reasoned with or renewed. The only solution is
to remove it by dying to its evil desires. We do that by focusing on God's
will and letting the will of the flesh shrivel up and die. What remains alive
we wrestle under submission, daily.
Rom 6-20,21
· (153g) Witness Ø
Validity of the Father Ø God bears witness
against the world Ø Shame Ø
Walking in condemnation Ø Walking in sin
Rom 6-20
· (159f) Works of the devil Ø
Essential characteristics Ø Counterfeit godliness Ø Counterfeit freedom
-- This is a good example of man's concept of
freedom. People today want to be free to do whatever they want, but is freedom
really about doing what you want, or is freedom far too delicate of a thing to
be pulled around by the hair like a doll? The minute you abuse freedom, you
loose it. It may be still on the books as a government policy, but in practice
it's already gone. True freedom is meant to protect the truth and give us the
right to practice righteousness, but if anyone chooses to use freedom to
practice sin, they are no longer free to practice the truth. Freedom, truth
and righteousness are all in one basket, as are sin, bondage, and deception.
You cannot put freedom in the sin basket, because freedom withers and dies
next to sin.
Rom 6,21-23
· (25l) Consequences of sin Ø
You’re walking in death if you’re not walking in Jesus -- These
verses go with verse 16
· (26h) Consequences of sin Ø
Death is the result of sin
· (218f) Sovereignty Ø
God overrides the will of man Ø God’s will
over man Ø Reaping the harvest Ø
We choose our actions, not their consequences Ø
wages of sin is death
Rom 6-21
· (155f) Witness Ø
Validity of the believer Ø Witness of the
believer Ø Conscience Ø
An evil conscience keeps us from believing God Ø
Knowledge of evil testifies against our lifestyles
Rom 6-22,23
· (244e) Kingdom of God Ø
The eternal kingdom Ø Eternal life of the
trinity Ø Father is the source of eternal life
Rom 6-23
· (35k) Gift Ø
God gives Himself to us Ø Gifts from the Holy
Spirit Ø The gift of life
· (39k) Judgment Ø
Jesus defeated death Ø Jesus defeated the law
of sin
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