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In Election Is Ther Any Unjustice With God Romans 9

Charles e Whisnant, preaching from Romans

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Romans 9 Introduction

Be Filled With The Holy Spirit Video

Romans 8 Suffering and Glorification

How TO Know You Have Been Adopted By God Video

ROMANS CHAPTER SIX VERSES ONE TO THREE

MESSAGES IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 6:

MARCH 06, 2011

MARCH 13, 2011

MARCH 20, 2011




MARCH 27, 2011

Romans 6:2 DEATH TO SIN

DOES THE GOSPEL ALLOW MEN TO BE UNHOLY AND CONTINIUE TO ABIDE IN SIN?

SHOULD SAINTS SIN?  OR 

HOW SHOULD SAINTS LIVE IN VIEW OF Romans 6:1-14?

HOW ARE SAINTS TO VIEW THE DEATH OF SIN AND ALIVE WITH CHRIST

JESUS CHRIST CAME TO DIE THAT WE MIGHT DIE TO SIN AND LIVE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS[i]

Charles e. Whisnant, March 27, 2011  #45.69

GOD FORBID³³⁶¹. HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?

The transliteration of the Romans 6:2 is:

NOT   MAY IT BE  WHO  WE DIED TO THE  SIN  HOW  STILL  SHALL WE LIVE IN IT?[i]

INTRODU CTION

·       In every age there have been those who have criticized the doctrine of justification by faith on the grounds that it logically leads to sin.  “If all the believer’s sins have already been paid for, if he has already been credited with perfect righteousness, if his good works will not help save him—if all this is true,” ask the antagonist; “then why worry about sin?” :”why try to do good? Why strive to live a righteous life”

Romans 6 is going to give us that answer.  

ANSWER:   PAUL is going to  SHOW how unreasonable the proposition of verse 1 really is, Paul answers the question with another, “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

Paul says to the question “Can we continue to sin that grace may abound?” Paul says:

• LET IT NOT BE.  

• FAR BE IT FROM.

• PERISH THE THOUGHT. 

·       NO WAY.·       MAY IT NEVER BE.·       NO NO NO.·       YOU CAN NOT CONTINUE IN SIN.·        DOESN’T ALLOW YOU THAT.·       IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.

NOW WE WANT TO KNOW WHY NOT?

• Barnhouse:  “Holiness starts where justification leaves off or finishes, and if holiness does not start we have the right to suspect that justification never started either..”  And he is right.

• John Murray has said:  The question really needs to be answered.  I agree. Far too many people believe in a salvation experience that does not have to show righteousness or sanctification.  In our pop culture today preachers are watering down the means whereby God will bring people to a saving knowledge of Himself.

·       People who are genuinely saved and they see those who make a profession of faith live in a world of sin, see their life as a embarrassment or disgrace.  They want to believe they are saved, but they know in their minds that there has been no really change in their life.  Some want to believe they were saved, but at some point they have lost their salvation.  Others believe they have “backslide”.   In other words they are still saved but have just fallen from the grace of God for a while.  

If I were to ask the average person in the pew in the average church today, HOW DID YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN AND WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE THE RESULT WILL BE IN YOUR LIFE?  You ask the average person who says they are a “Christian” when they were saved, and what has been their progress since they became a “Christian” and you will most likely learn they have not made in progress.

So understanding this chapter and knowing what Paul is saying there is uttermost important.   Paul makes this statement:  ‘WE WHO DIED TO SIN, HOW SHALL WE LIVE IN IT.”  

·       I am afraid that the average person in the pew would have little understanding of what it means to have died to sin.

Therefore Paul felt it was needed to deal with the subject set before us.

In my style of teaching, I am trying to go from verse to verse, and sometimes that takes awhile and sometimes it overlaps into the other verses. 

THE OVER ALL POINT THAT PAUL  IS MAKING:   

• A person who has been born again, how can that person continue in sin, and Paul said it cannot be.

• SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS MATTER OF SIN.   We need to understand this matter of THE BELIEVER’S DEATH TO SIN[ii]  We tend to look at the SIN as an action rather than a fact.  

• Paul want to show that SIN has been dealt with and is no longer an issue in the believers life.

·       Paul has shown this doctrine of SALVATION in Romans 3:15-5:21 .  If we can understand this matter of salvation we shall understand that God through Jesus Christ as accomplished the victory over SIN.  

Here is what Paul is hoping to established in this chapter:

• DEATH AND LIFE CANNOT COEXISIT.  WE CANNOT BE DEAD AND LIVING with respect to the same thing at the same time.

SO LET US LOOK AT THIS ROMANS 6:2 word by word and see if we can have a better understanding

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[i] READING FROM THE GREEK IN THE COMPLETE BIBLICAL LIBRARY

[ii] In Romans 6:2,7 and 11, it stated that believers have died to sin: ‘we who died to sin” vs 2; “he who has died is freed from sin” vs 7 and “you must consider yourselves dead to sin” v. 11.  These expressions means that believers, through their identification with Christ, are dead to the GUILT of sin..

They are viewed by God as if they themselves died in the death of Christ and suffered the full penalty of sin’s guilt.  Sin can no longer make any legal claim on them; thus, they are dead to it----free from its condemnation. 

That a believer are not dead to the influence or power of sin in their lives is proved both by the Bible (Romans 7:14-25) and Christian experience.

As Robert Haldane points out the meaning  of the phrase

·       “dead to sin” is often extended to included “death to the power of sin, to which it has not the smallest reference. (so says Robert.) ????

·       It exclusively indicates the justification of believers, and their freedom from the guilt of sin, having no allusion to their sanctification, which however, as the Apostsle immediately proceeds to prove, necessarily follows.

Smeation, in commenting on this praise in Romans 6:2

·       “we died to sin,” observes that  “It frequently occurs in the Pauline epistles in  different  forms, and uniformly alludes not to an inward deliverance from sin, but to the Christian’s objective relation, or to his personal standing before God in the vicarious work of Christ; it means that we are legally dead to sin in Christ.

Romans: An interpretive outline: by David  Steele and Curtis Thomas

My copy was in 1972

 (This is not the full notes/outline of the lesson I past out Sunday.

Obey God and Live Obey Self and Die

TO OBEY YOUR WANTS AND DESIRES WILL NOT GET YOU YOUR DESIRED RESULTS. TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE CULTURE AND YOUR FLESHLY DESIRES AT THE EXPENSE OF DISOBEYING GOD WILL PROVE DISASTER FOR YOUR LIFE.

Adam had no idea that his disobedience would cause such a death sentences. What Satan told them to do did not have the ability to produce the desired result they were hoping for. As a matter of fact the opposite happen. Rather than making them little gods, they were ruined

Note my fish aquarium in the background, Charity got me. Today photo.

PREACHING AND TEACHING THE WORD IN A MODERN WORLD?

"Rather than trying to take the Bible and bring it into the modern day, I try to take the modern day and bring it back to the Bible. And that’s a distinction you want to make. This stuff about culture shaping preaching is taking the Bible and redefining it in modern terms. My goal is to take modern culture and the people of that culture and redefine them in biblical terms so that they are living back in the Scriptures. "  John MacArthur

Charles e. Whisnant, part five of the message from SundayMoring January 09 2010

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[Pastor], my message to you is very simple and very precarious. It is 2 Timothy 4:2, "Preach the Word." I call it precarious, because there is a constant temptation to do other things in the place of this. There ARE other things to do in the ministry, as these letters to Timothy show. And we must do them to be found faithful. But none of them is treated as solemnly and forcefully as this one simple exhortation from the apostle: "Preach the Word."

What Is the Word?

The God-Inspired Scripture

 

• First, in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." This is immediately followed by the command, "I charge you to preach the Word." So it is fitting to say that the Word to be preached is first the Scriptures that Timothy grew up on, the Old Testament. When you preach, preach the inspired Scriptures. The "Word" of 4:2 is the "God-inspired Scripture" of 3:16. 

• Don't miss the simple fact that the word "Scripture" means simply "writing" or "letter." This means that the Word of God has come to us in a written form—in a book. Which means that your preparation for preaching will be in large measure book work. You must find your preaching in a book. It must not be dead. It must not be bookish. But it must be book-derived. Book-faithful. Book-saturated. Book-balanced. It must be Spirit-given, Spirit-shaped, Spirit-carried, and Spirit-delivered. But the Spirit inspired the book and broods over the book and lives to exalt the Christ of the book. So preach the Word, [pastor], that is, preach the book.

The Standard of Sound Doctrine

1. The second clue that we can see about "the Word" in these verses is in 2 Timothy 4:3 which gives the reason for preaching the Word: Preach the Word, "FOR the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine." So the Word to be preached is "sound doctrine." 

• Now what does this "sound doctrine" refer to? 2 Timothy 1:13 gives us the answer: "Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me." Sound doctrine in 2 Timothy 4:3 refers to a "standard of sound words" transmitted to Timothy by the apostle Paul. "Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me." 
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• SO YOU ARE TO TEACH THE WORD AND YOU ARE TO PREACH THE WORD. 
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Preaching Is Not Just Explaining or Teaching
 

• Preaching (kerussõn) is different from teaching. In 2 Timothy 1:10–11, Paul says, "[Christ] abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher." That is, I was appointed for three tasks: heralding or announcing the Truth as a preacher; composing, preserving, and transmitting the authoritative pattern of Truth as an apostle; and explaining and applying the Truth as a teacher.

• So preaching is not just explaining or teaching. Preaching is heralding. Preaching is what a town crier does when there is a message from the king.

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