Bible Readings
1 John 3:1-15
Romans 6:1-23
Sermon Outline:
Romans 6:1–14 (NKJV)
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
3Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
10For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
I Union with Christ
II United to Christ in his death
III United to Christ in his life
1 John 3:5–6 (NKJV)
5And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
6Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
1 John 3:9 (NKJV)
9Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Union with Christ is a unique emphasis among the world’s
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religion.
Union with Christ is the foundation of
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all our spiritual experience and all our spiritual blessings.
Martin Luther on faith
Faith is a busy thing. It kills the old Adam and makes altogether
different people, in heart and spirit and mind and powers, and it
brings with it the Holy Spirit.
Faith is a living, active, mighty thing. And so it is impossible for
it not to do good works incessantly.