Rom 6.1-14

Psg: Rom 6.1-14 (http://biblia.com/bible/gs-netbible/Ro6.1-14)
Date: 4/21/12

Read

6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 6:2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 6:3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 6:4Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.*

6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.* 6:6 We know that* our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us,* so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 6:7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)*

6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 6:9 We know* that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die* again; death no longer has mastery over him. 6:10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 6:11 So you too consider yourselves* dead to sin, but* alive to God in Christ Jesus.

6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments* to be used for unrighteousness,* but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments* to be used for righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Record

"The body of sin would no longer dominate us" (6)
"We would no longer be enslaved to sin" (6)
"Death no longer has mastery over us" (9)

Reflect

• We have this attitude that sin still has mastery over us. It's not true.
• It is true that everything we are and everything we do will be stained with sin and impurity.
• It is also true that we cannot achieve sinlessness.
• But sin and death do not rule over me. I don't have to sin against my will. I can always choose obedience, unlike the unsaved.
• How is this true? How do I have options that the unsaved do not when it comes to sin? Can't the unsaved choose to no murder, not lie, etc.?
• The HS is inside of us, constantly influencing us toward Christlikeness. Rom 8 is coming up!
• He who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it.
• The break of the power of sin and death are also positional truths. God will do his part. This passage says, "This is true about you. Therefore, don't go on with the old actions." It acknowledges that we can still sin, but it shows how incongruous and counterproductive it is.
• How do I take advantage of this?
• Believing that the HS is doing his work, look for it, yield to it out of obedience (AOT personal power to be good, which is all the unsaved have).
• It's a mortification of the personal will. I will experience more of the resurrection life the more I die to self.
• There is no resurrection without death.
• If I want to experience the goodness of the resurrection in a given area of my life, there must also be a death in that part of my life.

Respond

• Father, my will is strong. It is by no means too strong for you, but you allow this will to have its way to some extent. You have a much better life for me than this, free for the taking, through taking up my cross following your Son. You have resurrection life in abundance for me - if I would merely yield my stubborn will in complete obedience.
• Intercessory: Open X's eyes to see how much more bountiful is the resurrection life that you offer.