Sunday School Lesson

1. Romans 6:1-14
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April 5, 2019
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

2. What’s the number one thing?
The glory of God!
1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

3. Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote a song in the early
1970s called:The King is Coming!

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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!

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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!

10. 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.

11. 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”.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.”

16. 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
12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal
body that you should obey its lusts.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Psalm 119:9 & 11 NASB
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By
keeping it according toYour word.
11Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I
may not sin againstYou.

20. Romans 6:1-14
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21. 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.

22. Romans 6:1-14 NKJV
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1What 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?

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. 12Therefore 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

27. Last Sunday’s lesson took us through Romans
5:11.
To summarize Romans 5:12-21 look at Romans
5:18.

28. Romans 5:18 NKJV
18Therefore, 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.

29. 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?

30. Jonathan Cahn inThe 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?

31. 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.

32. 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!

33. God brought time into existence and He can
bring time out of existence!
It is as if you never sinned in the first place.

34. 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!

35. 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.

36. Ray Stedman 1917-1992
Message transcript and recording © 1976 by
Ray Stedman Ministries, owner of sole
copyright by assignment from the author.
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Permission granted 03/15/20 all rights reserved.

37. Romans 3:25a NKJV
25aWhom 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.

38. We need to understand their meanings because
this is the heart of the Gospel:
Expiation ‒ Satisfies justice.
Propitiation ‒ Awakens love.

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. 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.

50. 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.

51. 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.

52. Romans 5:5 NKJV
5 Hope does not disappoint us because God has
poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy
SpiritWhom He has given us.

53. 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!

54. 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.”

55. Matthew 6:33 NKJV
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added to you.

56. 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.

57. 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.

58. 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.

59. 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.”

60. 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).

61. 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.

62. 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).

63. 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.

64. It’s a power.
If you let it, it will control you and you
will sin (verb).

65. 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 in you!

66. 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.

67. In a war there must be at least two sides
represented and they must oppose one
another.
Otherwise the war would cease.

68. Mr. Sin is on Satan’s side.
Whose side is your mind on?
God’s side! (1 Corinthians 2:16)

69. 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.

70. Mr. Sin is on Satan’s side, your mind is on God’s
side - otherwise the war would cease!
You hate to sin, right?

71. 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!

72. 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.

73. 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.

74. 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!

75. John 15:13-15 NKJV
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay
down one’s life for his friends. 14You 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.

76. 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 NKJV
12Therefore 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.

77. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 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.”

78. 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 sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

79. 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 to come to Jesus.
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

80. Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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.

81. 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.”

82. Have questions?
Would you like to know more?
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/