Bible readings:
John 15:1-17
Romans 6:1-23
Sermon Outline:
Romans 6:1–2 (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?
I The new realm
Romans 6:8–10 (NKJV)
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.
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.
II Not sinless perfection
III A number of exhortations
Romans 6:11–13 (NKJV)
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.
IV Warning
Romans 6:16 (NKJV)
16Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Through union with Christ all that is his by incarnation
Sinclair Ferguson
becomes ours through faith.
Elisha Coles
Union with Christ entitles to all that is his.