Sunday 5-4-25
Paul tells believers how they should live in light of their position in Christ, emphasizing that they are dead to sin and alive to God. He urges them to actively live out this reality by considering themselves dead to sin and presenting themselves to God as instruments of righteousness. The message outlines the four verbs of personal holiness: accept the truth, believe the truth, consider it true of them, and dedicate oneself to God.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body’s parts as instruments of righteousness for God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the Law but under grace.
You Are Alive in Christ (Romans 6:8-14)
The Four Verbs of Personal Holiness…
1. A
the Truth (6:3,6,9 ginosko)
2. B
Truth (6:8 pisteuo)
3. C
It True of You (6:11 logizomai)
4. D
Yourself to God (6:13 paristemi)