The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
August 16, 2009
Pastor Dana Johnson
"....reckon
yourselves to be dead...alive." -Romans 6:11
Likewise you also, reckon
yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
1. The death and life
experience that is true of every believer is a result of our
position in Christ.
a. This
position is established at conversion when we are
baptized into Christ.
Romans
6:3-4 - Or 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.
b. This position is
an organic union that is established by the Holy Spirit
who baptizes us into Christ.
1
Corinthians 12:13 - For by one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body; whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves or free; and have all been made to drink into one
Spirit.
2. At conversion, when
the Spirit baptized us into Christ He baptized us into the
death and resurrection of Christ.
a. We
experience a death and resurrection enacted within us by
the Spirit that is in the likeness of Christ's death and
resurrection.
Romans
6:5 - For if we have been united together in the likeness
of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness
of His resurrection.
b. Through this
Spiritual death and resurrection we are "united together"
in the likeness of His death and resurrection.
c. As a result, now
we have all the enablement we need to walk in newness of
life.
3. In order to walk in
newness of life our responsibility is to:
Romans
6:11-13 - Likewise 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.
a. Reckon: a
financial term that quite literally and simply means "do
the math."
b. Do not let sin
reign, nor obey sin.
c. Present
yourselves to God and righteousness, not to
unrighteousness.
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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