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United to Christ

United to ChristRomans 6:1-7 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 6. We've been working our way through this great book, and in God's good providence we come to a wonderful passage, which stresses the resurrection of our Savior and its implications for us. We remind you that in Romans, chapter 5, verse 20, if you want to sneak a peek back at those verses at the end of that chapter, the apostle had said something absolutely stunning, shocking to the Jewish Christian and Jewish audience around him, when he had suggested that the law came in order that sin might increase. And he said something even more shocking when he said where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. And that particular assertion caused some confusion on the part of…

Living in Christ

Living in Christ Romans 6:8-14 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 6. As you do so, I want to remind you of a fact that may catch you off guard. For six and a half chapters, the apostle Paul has been writing to us about various things. If you notice, that not one time has he told you do anything. Isn’t it interesting that for six and half chapters, the apostle Paul hasn’t told us to do a single thing. Now, you may have been wanting that a little bit. “Paul when are you going to get finished with justification.” You may be saying, “Ligon, when are you going to get finished with justification?” But, the apostle, for a very specific reason, has not commanded you to do anything yet. Because it is more important, he believes,…

Under Grace

Grace Under Fire Romans 6:15-18 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn to Romans 6. We’re going to be looking at Romans 6, verses 15 through 18 today. I’d like to remind you of a couple of things before we read this passage. From Romans, chapter 3 through 5, Paul has especially reminded us that our forgiveness, our acceptance with God is grounded in His grace. Romans 6 has been stressing that grace transforms. In Romans chapter 6, he is stressing that we are not only forgiven by the grace of God in Jesus Christ, but we are transformed, we are changed; we are made a new creation. That’s been one of the great themes of the first fourteen verses of this particular chapter. You will remember, if you look back at verse 1 of chapter 6, that it begins with a question: Shall we…

Slaves of Righteousness

Slaves of Righteousness Romans 6:19-23 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 6. Paul has made it very clear especially from Romans, chapter 3 to 5, that our justification is by God’s grace. In other words, the forgiveness that we have, the acceptance that we have with God, is the product of God’s work, not our own work. We don’t save ourselves, we don’t work our way back into God’s good graces by attempting to be as good as we possibly can be, we…

The Newness of the Spirit

The Newness of the Spirit Romans 7:1-6 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 7. We’ll begin in verse 1. We move today into a new chapter of Romans, but not yet into a new section. In Romans 7, the first six verses, from 1 to 6, Paul has one more point to make about our union with Christ before he moves on to another topic. And then in verse 7, he's take up a new thought. But in general, however, we can characterize the teaching of Romans 6 and 7 as…

What Should We Think of the Law?

What Should We Think of the Law? Romans 7:7-12 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to take them and turn with me to Romans chapter 7. We begin a new section of this chapter and book today. Paul has been speaking about the implications of justification. We have outlined some of those. In Romans chapter 5, he reminds us that there is peace with God as a result of our free justification in Jesus Christ. We have peace with God and he develops that idea in the first verses of Romans chapter…

The Believer’s Struggle with Sin (1)

The Believer's Struggle with Sin (pt1) Romans 7:13-25 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Romans 7. As we do so, let me just make three or four introductory remarks about this great passage. Paul, so far in Romans 7, especially in verses 7-12 has made it clear that the believer's attitude towards the law as a gauge of the vitality and reality of his faith and that the believer's view of the law has to have two parts. Every believer has to look at the law in…

Delivered by the Spirit by Death of Christ

The Righteousness of God for Salvation Romans 8:1-4 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 8. We plunge into a new section of this great book. Romans 6, 7 and 8 we've already said are part of a portion of this book in which Paul is emphasizing how grace reigns in righteousness. It's not that justification isn't on his mind anymore, you’re going to be reminded that it is, as soon as you get to Romans, chapter 8, verse 1. But, it is also that…

Flesh and Spirit

Flesh and Spirit Romans 8:5-11 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 8. For the summer months we're going to be in this great chapter. It's a chapter that many of us have turned to in time of need, a chapter of great encouragement. We said that there's a theme that runs throughout this chapter, and that is the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. And one of the first ways we saw the Spirit working in an encouraging way in our…