Sunday School Lesson

1. Romans 6:1-14
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April 5, 2020
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA
What’s the number one thing?
The glory of God!
1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.
Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote a song in the early 1970s called: The King is
Coming!
Even though the Rapture and the Second Coming are separate events, there are
signs that are common to both that lead up to the end times and some of these
lyrics are so interesting as we Shelter in Place here in Mississippi.
The King Is Coming!
Bill & Gloria Gaither
The marketplace is empty
No more traffic in the streets
All the builders' tools are silent
No more time to harvest wheat
Busy housewives cease their labors
In the courtroom no debate
Work on Earth is all suspended
As the King comes through the gate
O the King is coming!
The King is coming!
I just heard the trumpets sounding
And now His face I see
O the King is coming!
The King is coming!
Praise God, He's coming for me!

2. Songwriters: Charles Millhuff (Jim Bohi), Gloria Gaither, William J. Gaither (Jim
Crabtree sermon)
© Capitol Christian Music Group
For non-commercial use only.
Data from: LyricFind
Making your Christian life work and what to do when it doesn’t. Fall 1999
“The Holy Spirit targeted my heart in 1957 while watching the first nationally
televised Billy Graham Crusade.”
Bill Gillham
In Romans chapters 5-8 the word sin appears 41 times, once as a verb and forty
times as a noun!
Why the emphasis?
Because if you interpret the word sin in Romans 5-8 as a verb, you will never
understand these chapters, and they are vital to victory, to living the abundant
Christian life!
We have been conditioned to perceive the word sin as an action word, as a
verb, as something we do.
The first-time the word “sin” is mentioned in the Bible is concerning Cain in
Genesis 4:7.
Genesis 4:7 KJV
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin
lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
God personifies this power which He calls sin by saying “his” desire is to
overpower you and you must rule over “him”.
Romans 7:20-21 NKJV
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in
me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
Sin dwells in you (Romans 7:20-21) yet it is not you any more than a gold tooth
that dwells in your mouth is you.

3. The key tactic of the power of sin is to personify itself as your old sin nature, the
old man or the old you who was crucified with Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 NKJV
14 Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
Satan accomplishes this by sending thoughts into your sound mind, the “mind of
Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16) with first person singular pronouns in order to deceive
you into believing that the old you has somehow jumped off the cross to “do the
very thing you do not wish to do.”
Nobody but Jesus could come down from the cross, yet He chose to stay until
He would say, “It is finished!”
Romans 6:12 NKJV
12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts.
Since sin is a personified noun, let’s call it “Mr. Sin” so we won’t confuse it with
the verb.
Mr. Sin (the personification) is not able to master you.
Romans 6:14 NKJV
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under
grace.
Mr. Sin tries to control you, to make you live to satisfy your bodily needs through
the wrong method.
Galatians 2:20 NASB
20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives
in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Psalm 119:9 & 11 NASB
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your
word.
11 Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against You.

4. Romans 6:1-14
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Romans 5:20-21 MSG
20-21 All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin
didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive
forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.
All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because
God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into
life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
Romans 6:1-14 NKJV
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may
abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or
do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into His death? 4 Therefore 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.
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, 6 knowing 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. 7 For he who has died has been freed from
sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no
longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once
for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon
yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its
lusts. 13 And 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. 14 For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:1-14 NKJV
Last Sunday’s lesson took us through Romans 5:11.
To summarize Romans 5:12-21 look at Romans 5:18.

5. Romans 5:18 NKJV
18 Therefore, as through one man’s (Adam’s) offense judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s (Jesus’) righteous act the
free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
The cross answers our problem, for through it we are justified.
Justification (just-as-if-it-didn’t-happen) is a legal concept meaning that in
God’s courtroom, He pronounced us innocent of all charges, not guilty!
Just how does God do that?
Jonathan Cahn in The Book of Mysteries says that it is even better than “just as if
we never sinned”.
In God’s redemption through the blood of Jesus, it has become that we never
sinned!
How can that be true?
The first recorded miracle of the Messiah was the changing of water into the best
wine. (John 2:1-11)
The best wine is only superior if it has been aged.
So, it had to be given a new past.
Since God gave a past where there was no past, He can also remove a past
where there once was one!
He changes your past and by that He changes reality, you become a new
creature!
God brought time into existence and He can bring time out of existence!
It is as if you never sinned in the first place.
The impossible becomes the true reality, the guilty become innocent, the tainted
become pure, the rejected become those who were always beloved children
and our sins, which were as scarlet, become as white as snow!

6. Isaiah 1:18b NKJV
18b “Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
Ray Stedman 1917-1992
Message transcript and recording © 1976 by Ray Stedman Ministries, owner of
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Romans 3:25a NKJV
25a Whom God set forth (Jesus) as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to
demonstrate His righteousness,
The Greek word - hilasterion (he los STER ee ohn) can be translated "expiation" in
some versions, and "propitiation" (pro pi shee EH shun) in others.
We need to understand their meanings because this is the heart of the Gospel:
Expiation ‒ Satisfies justice.
Propitiation ‒ Awakens love.
Both of these terms are involved in the death of Jesus, but expiation does not go
nearly as far as propitiation.
Propitiation carries us clear through to the awakening of God's love toward us.
That is why propitiation is a much better translation than the word “expiation.”
We have offended God many times, the Bible even called us God’s enemies.
Romans 5:10 NKJV
10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of
His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Let’s illustrate the difference between expiation and propitiation.
We often read of industrial accidents, folks getting injured on the job.
Let us say that someone has been injured in the course of his work and has been
partially paralyzed.

7. The company is at fault, having neglected to provide safety equipment, thus
creating the conditions that put this man in danger, so the company is held
accountable for the man's injury and subsequent paralysis.
Therefore, the court awards this man a tremendous sum of money to be paid by
the company.
When the money is paid, the company has expiated its wrongdoings; it has
satisfied the demands of justice.
It no longer has any legal responsibility toward this man; it has paid its costly
debt and that is what expiation means.
But that does not say anything about how the man feels toward the company.
He may yet be filled with anger, even hatred toward the offender.
He may spend the rest of his life abhorring the name of that company even
though it has given him all the money he could possibly use.
The debt has been expiated but it has not been propitiated.
What Paul is saying here is that human sin has injured God, just as that man was
injured by the negligence of the company.
Our sin has hurt, and offended God and His justice demands that we be
punished for that sin in some way.
In the death of Jesus, that punishment was accomplished so that God's justice
was satisfied.
If you read this only as expiation, that is all the cross would mean.
In a way, it means that it paid God off, so that He no longer holds us to blame;
but that is not all that Paul is saying here.
The word means also that God's love has been awakened toward us and He
reaches out to love us and grants us the feeling of worth and acceptance and
value in His sight even though we committed many offenses toward Him.
That is what propitiation means, that is what the death of Jesus did.
It did satisfy God's justice, but it went further; it awakened His love, and now He is
ready to pour out love upon us.

8. Romans 5:5 NKJV
5 Hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out His love into our
hearts by the Holy Spirit Whom He has given us.
Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Not only did what Jesus accomplish for us on the cross avoid divine retribution
(the wrath of God) but it also incurred divine favor!
Sin’s goal is to deceive the saints into living to get their needs met by sinning
rather than by using the Matthew 6:33 method; that is, “seeking Christ first.”
Matthew 6:33 NKJV
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you.
The Bible addresses Christians 56 times as “saints” (holy one) rather than sinners
saved by grace like we’ve erroneously believed.
You were a sinner, then you were saved by grace and you became a saint.
You are no longer a “sinner” saved by grace.
You used to be a sinner, then you were saved by grace and now you are a saint
that sometimes sins.
Your birth determines your identity, not your behavior.
Everyone inherited their dead-to-God spirit from Adam and their birth
determines their identity (their nature) not their behavior.
It is not the flying that makes a bird a bird; it’s his birth that makes a bird a bird.
Barnabas told John Mark, you failed but you are not a failure!
God tells us, “You sinned but you are not a sinner, that is not your nature.”
Even the Corinthians, the most carnal church in the epistles, are called
“sanctified” and “saints” (1 Corinthians 1:2).
Yet the power of sin is alive and well in you, saint. It indwells your body (Romans
7:23).

9. The Bible doesn’t say, “you were freed from sinning (verb)”; rather, it teaches
that you have been freed from being controlled by the power of sin, Mr. Sin.
There’s a tremendous difference.
The first (freed from sinning) would be robotically sinless perfection; the second
would require a moment-by-moment appropriation of your freedom from being
controlled by Mr. Sin (the old slave master).
How is the power of sin involved in your sinning?
The same way wind is involved in a windmill, electricity in a light bulb, water in a
hydroelectric generator, or gasoline in an engine.
It’s a power.
If you let it, it will control you and you will sin (verb).
In the same way, Christ is your wind, electricity, water or gasoline, for righteous
behavior if you will believe He is and act like He is by faith.
The Holy Spirit vs unholy spirit.
Both are powers.
You choose which power works through you!
Jesus, Himself, is the power in the Christian life.
Romans 7:23 NKJV
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin (Mr. Sin) which is in my members.
In a war there must be at least two sides represented and they must oppose one
another.
Otherwise the war would cease.
Mr. Sin is on Satan’s side.
Whose side is your mind on?
God’s side! (1 Corinthians 2:16)

10. Your mind is on God’s side.
1 Corinthians 2:16 NKJV
16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we
have the mind of Christ.
Mr. Sin is on Satan’s side, your mind is on God’s side - otherwise the war would
cease!
You hate to sin, right?
It is not a battle between the old nature and the new nature, between the old
man and the new man.
It certainly is a war, but it is not a civil war, it is spiritual warfare!
God would never join His Holy Spirit to anyone who had an old sin nature.
In Matthew 12:25 Jesus said that every house divided against itself will not stand.
God would never set you up for guaranteed failure by making you a house
divided against yourself, with an old nature and a new nature in conflict.
So, Jesus’ sacrifice of propitiation not only saved us from the wrath of God but
also took us from being an enemy of God to being a friend of God! (Abraham,
Moses)
John 15:13-15 NKJV
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his
friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do
I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I
have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made
known to you.
1 Corinthians 10:12-13 NKJV
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation
has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who
will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the
temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

11. The Plan of Hope & Salvation:
John 3:16-17 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him
might be saved.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me.”
Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to
pay the penalty for our sin.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the “second death” explained in
Revelation 21:8.
Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with
fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation 21:8,
will experience the “second death,” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction, to turn
away from sin and believe in Jesus.
Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be
My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explain to us how to be overcomers.

12. Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that
God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
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