Freedom from Sin
Romans 6:1-14
Romans 6:1-14
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, 7 since a person who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.
Romans 5:20 The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
Three Misunderstandings Dealt with in Romans 6:
1) We don't understand sin.
2) We don't understand grace.
3) We don't understand the work of the cross concerning transformation.
1) We don't understand sin.
• Original Sin
• Personal Sin- the sin of commission and the sin of omission
The Sin of Commission
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things—as I warned you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Sin of Omission
James 4:17 So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.
Nazarene Articles of Faith, Article 5.1
• corruption of the nature of all the offspring of Adam
• averse (opposition) to God
• without spiritual life
• inclined to evil
"It is impossible to be 'in Christ' and remain 'in Sin.' ...there is absolutley no place for cheap grace in the Christian life. In baptism believers have relocated. They have died to the power called Sin; they have terminated their bondage and alligence to it. Therefore, now we present our bodies to God, not to Sin."
–Michael J. Gorman
2) We don't understand grace.
2) We don't understand the continuing role of grace in our lives.
Romans 6:11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Grace makes me a part of a new movement in the world– "walking in the newness of life."
3) We don't understand the work of the cross concerning transformation.
Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come.Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Romans 6:8-11
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.
