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Dead to Sin: Our Position in Christ 0:11 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Thanks for joining me this morning. The sun is coming up here in Southern California as we're getting ready for the Prevost Stand Summit, which begins this evening. And, I know0:23 we've got a lot of folks here in Southern California. Still time to join us? If not, you can join us from anywhere by having the Stand Firm app. So go ahead and download the Stand Firm app, and you can join us for the0:35 Prevost Stand Summit. Alright. Today, we're looking at Romans chapter 6 and 7. Paul walks us through the struggle between our old nature, which is dominated by sin, and our0:47 new nature, which we have in Christ Jesus. So verses, 7 24 and 25 in chapter 7. 0, wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from this body of0:58 death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our lord. Now in chapters 6 and 7, we move from justification that we've been looking at to sanctification. Now1:10 our justification comes at the moment that we accept Jesus Christ as our savior, that we believe and we receive God's grace. Now our sanctification is a process. It1:22 starts the moment of justification, but it continues up until the point of glorification. That's when we enter into God's presence. Now we see Paul painting this picture of1:34 himself that is he he's locked in this struggle between the old man, his old nature, and the new man that he is in Christ. And I we can so relate to this.1:46 The new man overcomes the old man through being sanctified, which as I said is a lifelong process, but we've gotta be active in it. Verse 1, chapter1:58 6. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? If our sin what what what they're saying here, and and we see a lot of this with Paul that he's kinda playing the2:09 devil's advocate or he's bringing up the arguments that the other side uses. If our sin is the backdrop of God's grace, should we not sin on the more so that grace2:21 is seen even more abundantly? Verse 2. Certainly not. How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as2:32 many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? So how can we continue in something that we died to? Right? In2:44 Christ, we are dead to sin, and our identity is in Christ. For the new man to prevail over the old man, 1 of the first things we must understand2:56 is our position in Christ. We have died to sin because Christ has died to sin. If you are in Christ, you qualify for sanctification. Right? In3:07 fact, as we'll see, this is God's will for your life that we be sanctified. However, if you have not been reconciled to God through Jesus, you can't be sanctified.3:20 It is first it is first being reconciled, justified, then we're sanctified. So how are we positioned for sanctification? Verse 4. Therefore, we were buried with3:32 him through baptism into death that Jesus as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. We3:44 died with Christ. Those who are identified with Christ, those who have accepted him as lord and savior, we are positioned for sanctification. Verse 5, for if we have been3:56 united together in the likeness of his death, certainly, we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this that our old man was crucified with him,4:08 that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Right. Grab4:19 this. We are dead to sin. Sin no longer has authority over us. For he who has died has been freed from sin. We are no longer slaves to4:31 sin. But there's more. Look at verse 8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. See, we are raised to walk in the newness of life. We4:43 died to sin, but now we're raised to live for God. Verse 9, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him. For the death that he4:54 died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God5:06 in Christ Jesus our lord. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey in it its lust. And do not present yourself present your members as instruments of5:18 unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to god as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to god. So we have a new mission.5:30 Right? Serve God, not sin. As Christians, we are not to be defined by our behavior, rather we are to be defined by our savior. Verse5:41 14, for sin and by the way, in this world in in the world, people are defined by their behaviors. In fact, they're embracing the definition and their identity based upon their behaviors5:54 when we, as followers of Christ, those who have died to sin, we're identified with the savior. Let's let's, okay. For for sin verse 14. For6:06 sin shall not have dominion over you. Alright. For you are not under the law, but under grace. What then shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Certainly not. So let's unpack what6:17 Paul writes here about sin not having dominion over us. Now there are action items. Right? There are takeaways here from this passage for us. If we wanna walk in this reality that we're dead6:29 to sin, we have to pursue it. So let let's look at this pursuit of sanctification. In verse 11, Paul writes, we must reckon. Now that's not like, well, I reckon it's not gonna rain today.6:41 Well, it's not an opinion. It's not, a a a thought. It it is fact. Alright? That's what the the Greek word there. It it's to accept as fact that we are6:53 dead to sin. This is not based upon feeling. It's based upon reason and logic. It's based upon the fact of the word of God. Christ died to sin for all. All.7:05 That includes us. He is now living to God. If we are in Christ, we too are dead to sin and are to live to God. Do not let sin reign in your bodies. Right?7:17 Do not let. It's it's not like we can pray, Lord. Don't let these things happen. Don't do them. This requires discipline, and we're gonna see here in a moment what that discipline looks like.7:29 Don't yield your body to sin. Right? Don't don't tempt yourself with the sin. Don't go to places. Don't do things. Don't read things. Don't look at things. Rather yield yourself, the7:41 members of your body, your eyes, your ears to god, your mouth. We need to yield it to god. Verse 16. Do not do you not know to whom you present yourselves slaves who7:53 obey you or that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or obedience leading to righteousness? So who's here's the question. Who's are you?8:05 Are are are you gods? Are you yielding yourself to him, or are you yielding yourself to sin? Verse 22, but now having been set free from sin and having become slaves of8:17 god, you have your fruit to holiness and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ8:29 Jesus, our lord. What a great verse. So here here's the reality of this verse 23 is that we have earned death. We've earned that. But here's the good news.8:40 By god's grace, we've been given life. Alright. Chapter 7, very clear that Paul is trying to get through to them that they are no longer under the law. So he uses theThe Law's Role and the Power of Grace 8:52 illustration of marriage in verses 1 through 6. Verse 1. Or do you not know, brethren, for I speak to those who know the law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has9:04 a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. Then he zeroes in on the fact that it is not the law that's the problem. In verses 79:16 through 14, he says, but it is our sin nature which makes the law evident, which the the law makes evident our sin. Verse 7, what shall we say then? Is the law9:28 sin? Certainly not. On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said you shall not cover. So it9:39 is the the law that makes evident our sin. The law is not sinful. The law exposes our sin. Drop down to verse 12. Therefore, the law is holy and the commandment holy and9:51 just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not. But sin that it might appear sin was producing death in me through what is good so that sin10:03 through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. So this is the law is not evil. What the law does is exposes evil, and it exposed the sin in my life.10:15 Paul, as you read through here, Paul says, you know, I thought I was doing really well trying to keep the law. But then when I really understood the law, really, I understood that it was exposing my need for a savior.10:27 So how do we overcome the old man? How do we overcome the old nature? Well, the sanctification. Let's look at this. Verse 15. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For10:39 what I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do. This is a struggle. Have you ever experienced it? I have almost every day. If then I do what I10:51 will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. There's in the sanctification process, which I said is a lifelong process,11:03 there's this tension. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells. For to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good, I do not find.11:15 For the good that I will to do, I do not do, but the evil, I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no11:26 longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me. There's this internal struggle. Look at verse 24. Oh, wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from this body of death? I11:38 thank God through Jesus Christ our lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. So where do we find this power for11:50 sanctification? Number 1 is by grace. We were not justified by the law. Therefore, we cannot be sanctified by the law. The law is not gonna sanctify us.12:01 Galatians 3 3 says, are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Right? Our sanctification does not come by the law. The law is the12:13 tutor. It brings us to Christ, exposes our sin, but it's by grace that we're sanctified and by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit and the word of God is what sanctifies us.12:25 Ephesians 5 18 says, do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation or waste, but be filled with the spirit. So why are we to be filled with the spirit? Because the Holy Spirit is12:37 the power of our sanctification, and it is through the word that the Holy Spirit uses in our lives to sanctify us, to set us apart, and change12:49 us. And it's through the renewing of our mind in Romans 12 2, which we'll see shortly. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind13:01 that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. What is the perfect will of God? Our sanctification, being set apart for the purposes that God designed us for, and13:13 that is to bring glory to him. Well, this is Paul's writings are so rich, and I encourage you just to kinda meditate upon us, pray through these things. Let the Holy Spirit speak13:25 to you because this the holy spirit is key to our sanctification as is the word of God. So I congratulate you for being on this journey because part of this journey is that13:36 sanctification process, and it doesn't happen by osmosis. Again, as we read here even in in this passage, we have to be active participants in the sanctification13:49 that takes place as a result of us being justified by faith in Christ. Father, we thank you for your word and and, lord, the journey that we're on of sanctification.14:01 Lord, being being transformed by the renewing of our mind to, lord, to to to be identified with Christ and to seek those14:13 things which are above, lord, to to live in the world but not of the world, and to be a light in the darkness, and, lord, to have a testimony that brings glory and honor to you. So, father,14:25 I pray you would strengthen us on this journey. And, lord, I pray that, through the testimony of our lives, others would join this journey of faith in the lord Jesus Christ. For we pray this14:37 in his name. Amen. Alright. Thanks so much for joining me this morning, and until next time, keep standing on the word.14:47 Today's study comes from the stand on the word bible reading plan available f r c dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you14:59 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 Dead to Sin: Our Position in Christ8:45 The Law's Role and the Power of Grace
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