Intro - DEAD TO SIN
Friend from St Louis – Fan à Cardinals/Rams à StL Football is “dead to me”
The Rams still exist in another state,
but they have NO POWER over his life.
Romans 6:5-11
· 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly
be united with him in a resurrection
like his.
· 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order
that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no
longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one
who has died has been set free from sin.
· 8 Now if
we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We
know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die
again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to
sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
· 11 So you also
must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
·
Dead,
buried, resurrected
·
Dead
to sin, alive to God
· You
ARE who God says you are. - Sin has NO POWER over your life anymore
Dilemma
If
we are honest…
·
We
don’t live this way
·
We
don’t feel this way
·
We
don’t always believe this way
·
And
we start to get FRUSTRATED
Why?
1. We’re not sure how it works.
2. We don’t believe it works. (I
don’t always believe I’m dead sometimes)
PRAYER
Word - LET GO OF THE OLD
Paul tells us…
·
We
are dead (Rom 6)
·
MARRIAGE
Illustration – Go back home with mom/dad
·
We
are crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20)
·
We
are new creations
·
We
have killed our sins/sin nature
·
Galatians
5:24 (NLT) - Those who belong
to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to
his cross and crucified them there.
Take time on this… very important!
·
Not
believing this is actually DISOBEDIENCE
· You
are who God says you are!
So, what does ALIVE really look like?
·
Zeke
and I’s hiking trip
·
If
that is Alive?
·
Why
doesn’t our life in God reflect this?
·
Sin
usually seems a ton bigger than my Christian experience, right?!
·
Satan’s
Lie
You - JESUS BELIEVES IN YOU
Let’s walk through the gospel again…
·
John
17 prayer
· 20 “I do
not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me
through their word, 21 that they may all be one,
just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be
in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.22 The
glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be
one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in
me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know
that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
·
We
are one with the Father and the Son…
·
Jesus
believes this… Jesus only does what the Father is doing…
·
God
answers Jesus’ prayer… and we all go with Him through the pain & the life!
All believers died and resurrected with
Jesus (“all who are far off”)
·
Fall
– sin enters us
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Gospel
– Jesus kills it
·
We
become united with Him and FREE from all sin, condemnation, etc.
·
We
have already been resurrected… not waiting
You
are who God says you are!
Action - REMEMBER
Still don’t believe you’re free?
What remembrances has Jesus given us? He
knew we’d forget J
·
Teach
them about me
·
Show
them what I did
·
Baptize
them
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Communion
– remember the Easter story - YOU'RE DEAD
·
Miracles
– remember my power & demonstrate it (healing story) - JESUS LIVES IN YOU
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Baptism
– remember that you’re dead & now I live in you - YOU'RE RESURRECTED
'Repentance
·
Leave
your old life and accept Jesus’ life (Romans 6:11)
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Hebrews
6:1 – Therefore let us
leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying
again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God
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Elementary/Baby
steps à
repentance – God isn’t defining you as sinful
·
Maturity
= Believe what Jesus believes!
·
FREEDOM = You are who God says you are!
