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0:00Romans [music] chapter 6.
0:02Now this is the baptism chapter.
0:05This is where Paul's going to teach us
0:07how [music] we can become united with
0:10what Jesus did on the cross.
0:12What is the ceremony? What is the right
0:14of passage whereby we cease to be
0:18condemned under our own authority and we
0:21become children, [music] bond slaves,
0:24liberated servants of God through
0:26Christ.
0:27That's what this chapter is going to be
0:29about, okay?
0:30>> [music]
0:30>> And he finished [clears throat] the last
0:33chapter by telling us that where sin
0:37abounded, grace abounded more.
0:41And what he was talking about is he he
0:43was saying that as the world got worse
0:45and worse, Jesus came with a bigger
0:48love, a bigger grace, a bigger salvation
0:52than the biggest sins that the world had
0:53ever known.
0:55But that raises a question of whether
0:58we, not the world, but we in the church,
1:02can keep on sinning. Paul's going to fix
1:04that problem [music] real decisively.
1:07Does that make sense? Cuz he's he's
1:08raised a question for the Roman church,
1:11the saints of God at Rome. He's raised a
1:13question, oh, well, if grace multiplied
1:17from God through Jesus when the world
1:19got more sinful, maybe we should be more
1:21sinful and we'll get more grace, too.
1:25They had a little 21st century questions
1:27there. But Romans chapter 6 verse 1,
1:30"What shall we say then?
1:35What shall we say then?
1:38Are we to continue in sin so that grace
1:42may increase?
1:45May it never be.
1:49How shall we who died to sin
1:55live in it?"
1:57So Paul's saying,
1:59"Are you thinking I'm suggesting sin can
2:02be in the church and that's okay?"
2:04Absolutely
2:06not.
2:07He asks a question, "How shall we who
2:11died to sin live in it?"
2:15And the answer has to be, "Paul, we
2:17can't."
2:19Whatever dying to sin is, it means we
2:22can't keep living in it.
2:25for Paul.
2:27Or do you not know that all of us who
2:30have been baptized into Christ Jesus
2:36have been baptized into his death?
2:40How do you get under the atoning blood?
2:43How do you get under the sacrifice
2:46that bore and absorbed and took away
2:49your sins? You're baptized into his
2:52death.
2:54That's what it means to die to sin.
2:56Therefore, we have been buried with him
3:00through baptism
3:02into
3:04death.
3:07Where were we buried?
3:10Into death.
3:14Death to what?
3:15Death to the reign of sin.
3:19If baptism doesn't do that, it doesn't
3:21do what the Bible wants it to do.
3:25Notice that in the first place, he says
3:27we were baptized into Christ.
3:33As if Christ were a place
3:36and we were submerged
3:38through baptism into a place.
3:41He didn't say we were baptized into
3:42water.
3:44We're baptized into the bottom of the
3:45river.
3:47Baptized means to submerge.
3:49If I If I take a tissue
3:53and I
3:55take this tissue and I submerge it into
3:57my tea, I baptized it into tea.
4:01And that's what the word baptizo means.
4:03It means to submerge a piece of cloth
4:07until it's dyed and changes color. It's
4:10so utterly submerged. So, baptism is the
4:13idea of being plunged into a place until
4:17you change identity.
4:20But, he says we were baptized into
4:22Christ.
4:24Do you want to be in Jesus?
4:27Do you want to be inside the only saved
4:30man?
4:33Jesus does not present formulaic
4:36salvation. Do this and you'll be saved.
4:39The Bible presents positional salvation.
4:43Come in here and you'll be saved.
4:47So, salvation is spoken of as in Christ.
4:51Christ is a place. That means our minds
4:54get out of a certain place and into a
4:55new place. Out of the world, out of
4:58self, into Christ.
5:00That means our habits leave. We're no
5:01longer conformed to the patterns of this
5:03world, but we're transformed by the
5:05renewing of our minds. That means our
5:08friendships and relationships are
5:10different. The friends you formerly
5:12walked with, Peter spoke of, now we are
5:15in Christ. That means we are translated
5:18out of the kingdom of darkness into the
5:21kingdom of the son of his love. So, it's
5:23positional. We're moved from one state
5:26into another state.
5:28We're moved from one kingdom into
5:30another kingdom, one culture into
5:31another culture, one name into another
5:33name, one spirit into another spirit.
5:36So, he says
5:38or do you not know that all of us who
5:39have been baptized into Christ, into
5:42Christ, we were baptized into Christ.
5:44That's how you get in him through
5:45baptism.
5:46That's the watery doorway
5:49into Christ Jesus have been baptized
5:52into his death.
5:54So, you enter Jesus through a death.
5:59Therefore, we have been buried with him
6:01through baptism into death. So, that as
6:05Christ was raised from the dead through
6:08the glory of the Father, so we too might
6:10walk in newness of life. And this word
6:14might walk in newness of life answers
6:16the question, how can we live in it any
6:19longer sin?
6:20We can't. We got to walk in newness of
6:23life.
6:24For if we have become united with him in
6:30the likeness of his death, certainly we
6:32shall also be in the likeness of his
6:34resurrection. If
6:37If
6:38If you haven't undergone the death of
6:40your self-will in repentance, you
6:43haven't been united with his death.
6:46His death is what atones for you. Your
6:48repentance is what unites you
6:52to the death that atones for you. Your
6:54repentance doesn't atone for you.
6:57It just gets rid of the old master so
6:59that you can be part of him who atoned
7:01for you.
7:02But you can't marry him while still
7:04married to your old man.
7:06That's asking God to commit adultery.
7:08There's got to be a divorce. You got to
7:11have a death to the old self in order to
7:13have a union with the new man, Jesus
7:15Christ.
7:17For if we have been united with him in
7:19the likeness of his death, certainly we
7:21shall be in the likeness of his
7:22resurrection. Knowing this, that our old
7:25self was crucified
7:27with him.
7:29Our old self was crucified with him.
7:32In order that our body of sin might be
7:35done away with.
7:37He's still answering the question, shall
7:39we continue in sin?
7:41And he's he's saying, "No, no, no."
7:46Was your old man, your old self, the old
7:49you crucified?
7:52Did it go through such a surrender, such
7:54an abdication of the throne that it was
7:57like death on a Roman cross?
8:00Oh, good. That's repentance. And through
8:02that repentance, you have union with
8:04Jesus.
8:06Knowing this, that our old self was
8:08crucified with him in order that our
8:09body of sin might be done away with, so
8:12that we would no longer be slaves to
8:15sin.
8:17When repentance is accomplished, does
8:19that mean we never make mistakes?
8:22No. We make mistakes. James says we all
8:25stumble in many ways.
8:28Does that mean we never sin? No, we sin.
8:31Revelations tells us to repent from the
8:34sin in the place from which we have
8:35fallen.
8:38Right?
8:39But,
8:41we never become a slave of sin again.
8:46We never accept the tyranny of our
8:49self-will as lord of our life again.
8:53God, through grace, has broken that
8:56bondage.
8:59And that death to the old tyranny of
9:01self-will,
9:03that's what it means to die with him.
9:04>> [clears throat]
9:06>> So that we would no longer be slaves to
9:09sin.
9:10For he who has died
9:13is freed
9:15from sin.
9:18How do you know if you've died? Are you
9:19freed from sin?
9:22If you're not freed from sin, then
9:24there's a deeper place of repentance God
9:25wants to bring you to.
9:27How do you know when you're freed from
9:28sin? If you're perfect? Nope.
9:31But if the pattern and habit of your
9:33life is not habitual sin. If you're not
9:37a slave
9:39to sin,
9:40then you've died.
9:41But if you are overcome
9:44by powers beyond your control,
9:48often,
9:49rhythmically, habitually, you're a slave
9:52to sin.
9:53For by whatever a man is overcome, by
9:55that he is enslaved. Don't kid yourself.
9:58Now, if we have died with Christ, we
10:00believe we shall also live with him. If
10:03we have died with him. Knowing that
10:05Christ, having been raised from the
10:08dead, is never to die again.
10:11>> [clears throat]
10:11>> Death no longer is master over him.
10:16So, we got to get the master of sin off
10:19so that we can become part of him who
10:21overcame the master of death.
10:24For the death that he died, he died to
10:27sin once for all.
10:31But the life that he lives, he lives to
10:33God.
10:35Even so, consider yourselves to be dead
10:38to sin, but alive to God in Jesus
10:41Christ.
10:42Therefore,
10:44do not let
10:48sin reign in your mortal [clears throat]
10:50body, so that you obey its lust.
10:55Uh people are going to try to say that
10:56everything he's talking about is
10:57something Jesus did apart from us. Nope.
11:00Nope, that's a lie. That's a stupid
11:02deception.
11:04Or else Paul wouldn't say, "Therefore,
11:06don't let."
11:10If he's telling the church, "Do not let
11:12sin reign in your body," he's saying you
11:14have a will. You have a part to play in
11:16this equation.
11:18Now, how do we put to death
11:20the deeds of the flesh? He's going to
11:22tell us in two chapters, "If by the
11:24Spirit you put to death the deeds of the
11:26flesh, you will live."
11:28You can't put to death the deeds of the
11:29flesh by your will, but your will
11:32decides who's going to be Lord.
11:35Your will says yes to God and God
11:38through grace conquers your your flesh.
11:41Your conscience says, "I'm going to
11:43surrender. I'm going to say yes."
11:46And then by the Spirit, you put to death
11:48the deeds of the flesh. Therefore, do
11:50not let sin reign in your mortal bodies
11:53so that you obey its lust. And do not go
11:56on presenting the members of your body
11:59to sin as instruments of
12:02unrighteousness.
12:04But present yourself to God.
12:07This is the terminology that a slave
12:10would do with a master every morning.
12:12Good morning, master. I am here. What
12:14are my orders for today? Present
12:16yourself to God
12:19as those alive from the dead.
12:22I just came out of the grave. The grave
12:26of habitual bondage to my own desires.
12:29The grave of the tyranny of my own
12:32fallen will.
12:33And I by grace have made a choice to
12:36accept you as Lord and Savior.
12:38Present yourself to God as those alive
12:42from the dead and your members as
12:44instruments of righteousness. What good
12:47do you want to do through me today, God?
12:49This right here is an instrument of
12:51righteousness. This right here is an
12:53instrument of righteousness. These eyes,
12:56too, instruments of righteousness. These
12:58feet are instruments of righteousness.
13:00How do you want to use your instruments,
13:02God? I'm alive from the dead.
13:07For sin shall not be master
13:12over you. Are you going to make
13:14mistakes?
13:16Are you going to blow it? Are you going
13:17to say things you wish you hadn't said?
13:20Are you going to sin at times? Yes.
13:23But Peter said
13:25that if we are entangled in sin and
13:29overcome,
13:32our last state is going to be worse than
13:34before we believed and became a
13:35Christian.
13:37You're going to get entangled. You're
13:38going to make mistakes. You're going to
13:40blow it.
13:41But don't ever choose to go back
13:45to the master of sin.
13:48Let those mistakes
13:50bring you back to repentance.
13:53Bring you back to a reconciliation
13:55of Jesus' lordship.
13:58For sin shall not be master over you,
14:02for you are not under law, but under
14:05grace.
14:06What then?
14:07Shall we sin because we are not under
14:10law, but under grace? May it never be!
14:14He asks the same question he starts the
14:16chapter with. He's saying, "Are y'all
14:18going to confuse what I'm saying and act
14:20like you can sin because you're not
14:21under law, but under grace? May it never
14:24be!" Why?
14:27Do you not know
14:29that when you present yourselves to
14:31someone as slaves for obedience, you are
14:36slaves of the one whom you obey?
14:39Whether of sin resulting in death
14:44or of obedience resulting in
14:46righteousness.
14:48So he says, "You think because you're
14:50under grace, you're not going to be
14:51accountable for becoming a slave to sin?
14:53Oh,
14:54let me disabuse you of that delusion."
14:57He says, "Do you not know?"
14:59Christians who are asking Paul the
15:01question, "Do you not know?"
15:03Whomever you present yourself to obey,
15:06you are in fact the slave of that
15:07person.
15:08If you are habitually committing sin,
15:12you are a slave to sin, which means
15:15you're no longer the slave of Jesus.
15:19But thanks be to God
15:22that though you were slaves
15:25of sin
15:26you became obedient from the heart
15:30to that form of teaching to which you
15:34were committed.
15:36What was the solution? It was faith.
15:39What did faith look like? Becoming
15:41obedient from the heart.
15:44That's not law adherence.
15:46Legalism is becoming externally
15:49compliant.
15:51Faith is becoming obedient from the
15:54heart. I love my master. I want to do
15:57God's will. He's changed my affections.
16:00He's purchased my
16:02loyalty and I want to do it for his
16:04pleasure.
16:06You became obedient from the heart to
16:08that form of doctrine to which you were
16:12committed.
16:13The doctrine wasn't given to you.
16:16You were given into the form of a
16:18doctrine.
16:19You were given into the body, a design
16:23that God gave. You were given to it.
16:26But you can walk out of it.
16:30And having been freed from sin, you
16:33became slaves
16:35of righteousness.
16:38I am speaking in human terms because of
16:40the weakness of your flesh.
16:44For just as you presented your members
16:46as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness
16:49resulting in further lawlessness, so now
16:53present your members as slaves to
16:56righteousness resulting
16:59in sanctification.
17:02Now, we're told that without
17:03sanctification, no one will see the
17:05Lord. And we're told that presenting
17:07your actual body as a slave of
17:10righteousness results in sanctification.
17:13There's no scenario where Paul does not
17:15want us to live holy. Where Paul thinks
17:17we can be saved in an unsanctified
17:20rebellious life that is still enslaved
17:23to sin. If that's what you believe,
17:24you're believing a lie.
17:28For when you were slaves of sin,
17:31you were free in regard to
17:33righteousness.
17:34He means you had righteousness had no
17:37authority in your life.
17:40Somebody godly could say something to
17:41you, "I'm free from obeying that."
17:43Doesn't it feel good?
17:45But you're not free
17:47to disobey your instincts.
17:50You're not free from your pride.
17:52You're not free from your fear. You're a
17:53slave to that.
17:58Therefore, what benefit
18:01were you then deriving
18:03from the things of which you are now
18:05ashamed? He's like, "How did you like
18:07that?
18:08You're going to go back to that?
18:10You liked the life where you were the
18:12slave of sin?
18:13And you had righteousness had no power
18:15over you? Cuz you were free from
18:17righteousness.
18:19What benefit?
18:21For the outcome of those things
18:24is death.
18:25He doesn't say it was death.
18:27But now you've been rubber-stamped by
18:29Jesus, so don't worry about it. He says
18:30it is death.
18:32And who's he writing to? Who's he
18:33talking to?
18:34Born-again Christians.
18:36It's still death.
18:38The outcome of those things is death.
18:42But now having been freed from sin
18:46and enslaved to God,
18:49you derive your benefit
18:51resulting in sanctification. That's your
18:54benefit.
18:56And the outcome of sanctification?
18:58Eternal life.
19:02For
19:04the wages of sin
19:07is death.
19:09But the free gift of God is eternal life
19:13in Jesus [music] Christ our Lord.
19:16If you're going to go back to that sin,
19:19you're going to get paid for that
19:21that time
19:22and those wages are not going to be a
19:24paycheck, they're going to be death.
19:27But God has given you a free gift
19:30and it's going to come to your life as
19:32you freely accept his lordship
19:34and as you let yourself be sanctified
19:37through his grace
19:39to be more and more like him.
19:41And you're never going to be good enough
19:43to have earned heaven.
19:45You're always going to need his
19:47righteousness imputed to you.
19:50But you need to be a slave of
19:51righteousness [music]
19:52and that process of perfection needs to
19:54be happening and improving all the time.
19:58So long
19:59as our salvation is nearer than when we
20:01began, we're on the right track. We're
20:04persevering, we're heading in the right
20:05direction. As soon as it stops,
20:09as soon as we're no longer increasing in
20:11the knowledge of the Lord,
20:13we are becoming [music] barren and
20:14unfruitful.
20:16Repentance is where you die to
20:18self-will. Baptism is where you bury it.
20:20In that barrier, you're put under the
20:22blood of Jesus. [music] When you come
20:23back up, you're not allowed to go back
20:25and live for sin. If you do, you're
20:27actually a slave to sin. If you're a
20:28slave to sin, you're going to die in
20:30sin. But if you're submitting to what
20:33you promised, submitting to the lordship
20:35of Jesus, then by faith [music]
20:37you're being sanctified and so long as
20:39that's happening, God is accepting you
20:41because of what Jesus suffered for
20:43[music] you at the cross.

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