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Romans 1-8

Romans 1-8. Sanctification. ROMANS. THE GOSPEL OF GRACE. THE THREE TYPES OF SINNERS. THE THREE TENSES OF SALVATION. SANCTIFICATON. JUSTIFICATION. 1:1-17. 1:18-3:20. 3:21-5:21. 6-8. The Immoral Sinner 1:18-32. Accountable for the Gospel 1:1-5. Justification Explained 3:21-31.

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Romans 1-8

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  1. Romans 1-8 Sanctification

  2. ROMANS THE GOSPEL OF GRACE THE THREE TYPES OF SINNERS THE THREE TENSES OF SALVATION SANCTIFICATON JUSTIFICATION 1:1-17 1:18-3:20 3:21-5:21 6-8 The ImmoralSinner 1:18-32 Accountable for the Gospel 1:1-5 Justification Explained 3:21-31 Sanctification Positional 6:1-10 Addressees The Romans 1:6-7 The MoralSinner 2:1-16 Justification Exemplified 4:1-25 Aspirations in the Gospel 1:8-15 The ReligiousSinner 2:17-3:8 Justification’s End Results 5:1-11 Acclamation of the Gospel: Salvation to all who believe 1:16-17 Conclusion: All Are Sinners 3:9-20 Identification: In Adam All Die In Christ All Live 5:11-21 The Justice of God Revealed

  3. Sanctification • Romans 6:1-8:17 – THE DOCTRINE OF SANCTIFICATION: DELIVERANCE FROM THE POWER OF SIN Let’s take a look at Sanctification

  4. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12 Phase Two – Sanctification Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21 Phase #1 Saved from the Penalty of sin Titus 3:5 Acts 16:31 Justification Phase #2 Saved from the Power of sin Philippians 2:12 James 1:21 Sanctification He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5 “The Righteous shall live by faith” – Habakkuk 2:4 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:31 Believer in Time R.C. Ward, October 2005; adapted from a chart by Ronald C. Merryman

  5. Sanctification • Romans 6:1-8:17 – The Doctrine of Sanctification: Deliverance from the Power of Sin • Positional Sanctification: Since you are now in Christ, you should understand your new relationship to sin. • Sin

  6. Sanctification • Sin as a noun (Greek: HAMARTIA) appears in 39 verses in Romans. • It appears 7 times in chapter 5 after verse 12. • It appears 16 times in chapter 6.

  7. Sanctification • It appears 16 times in chapter 7. • It appears 5 times in chapter 8:1-10. • The sanctification chapters (5:12-8:17) refer to sin no fewer than 40 times.

  8. Sanctification • Remarkably, in the first four chapters of Romans, sin (HAMARTIA) as a noun appears only 4 times. • Similarly, in Romans 8:11 through 16:27, the word sin appears only 2 times.

  9. Sanctification • The plural form of sin (sins) appears only 3 times in Romans (4:7, 7:5, 11:27) and only once in the chapters dealing with sanctification.

  10. Sanctification • Sin as a verb (Greek: HAMARTANO) appears 7 times in Romans. Of the 7 uses of sin as a verb, 4 are in the sanctification chapters. • The great number of uses of the word sin in the sanctification chapters shows that God focuses on sin in the life of the believer rather than on sin in the ungodly.

  11. Sanctification • God cares about your attitude toward sin in your Christian life! • Note also that the Greek noun for sin is most often in the singular rather than in the plural (sins). This is significant, as you will see. • In Romans 5-8, the Greek usually pairs sin with the definite article the (the sin).

  12. Sanctification • The use of the definite article the with the singular noun sin leaves us to ask: “The sin what?” • Romans 7:17-18 tells us that the answer to “the sin what?” is the sin nature. • “Thesin” refers to the indwellingsin, the fleshly nature of a person.

  13. Sanctification • In summary • When Paul referred to sin in the believer’s life, he purposely used the singular form of the word sin to indicate the source of sin (the fleshly nature) and not its products, sins in the plural.

  14. Sanctification • In essence, he focused on the root of sin, not the fruit. • You will never properly deal with the issue of sin by dealing with your individual sins. You must go to the root, the sin nature or “thesin.”

  15. Sanctification • The devil and the world are curiously absent in this passage that deals with sin in the believer’s life. Too many Christians blame Satan and the worldfor all their ills and never deal with the root problem, their sin nature.

  16. Sanctification • Romans 6:1 – Why shouldn’t we go on sinning? • Suppose a well-meaning Christian asked you, “Shall I continue in sin that grace may abound?” Wouldn’t you answer, “No!”? Place an X beside all the reasons this person should not sin.

  17. Sanctification • Sin is bad for you. _________ • Sin offends God. _________ • Sin is not good for your health. __________ • Sin will cause you to lose rewards. __________ • If you sin, you will be submitting to the devil and the world. __________

  18. Sanctification • God will discipline you for sinning. __________ • Don’t sin, because ____________ ___________________________.

  19. Sanctification • Paul posed this question because in Romans 5:20-21, he stated that God’s grace is always greater than sin’s ability to condemn. • You cannot out-sin the grace of God. • When sin abounds, grace super-abounds. 

  20. Sanctification • Romans 6:2 – Paul gave an astounding answer to the question, “Why not sin?” • Romans 6:2a – We who died to the sin… is a meaningful statement that we might disregard if we don’t stop and give it proper consideration. • When explaining why we should not sin, Paul reasoned differently than most Bible teachers. Paul declared that the reason a Christian should not sin is because we are dead to sin. Astounding!

  21. Sanctification • Paul took care not to say that our sin nature is dead. This is not a matter of semantics. He meant exactly what he wrote. • We are dead to sin (thesin, our sin nature), but our sin nature is not dead.

  22. Sanctification • Romans 6:2b – How shall we…still live in it? • Dead people don’t live in their old homes or participate in their old relationships. Dead people feel no pain. • With death comes separation.

  23. Sanctification • We are not to continue in sin because our relationship with the sin nature is no longer the same. We are now to count ourselves dead to sin (sin singular, thesinnature).

  24. Sanctification • Romans 6:1-2 – Positional Sanctification: KNOW your new relationship to sin (HAMARTIA). • A Review of Romans 6:1-2

  25. Sanctification • Romans 6:1 – Remember that Paul posed the question, “Why not continue sinning so that grace might abound?” • Romans 6:2a – Paul’s startling answer was that we are dead to the sin nature.

  26. Sanctification • Romans 6:2b – Now let’s take some time to KNOW what this means! • The pronoun we refers only to believers. • The phrase died to sin refers to each believer’s position, while the phrase live any longer in it obviously refers to the believer’s practice.

  27. Sanctification • You must clearly know and understand the difference between your position in Christ and your condition, or your eternal state in Christ versus present standing in life. • First, let’s examine what the positional statement died to sin does not mean.

  28. Sanctification • It does not mean that the sin nature is dead inme (that would be eradication). • It does not mean that you must cause yourself to die to the sin nature. Paul stated we died to sin as a fact, not as a command for us to obey.

  29. Sanctification • It does not mean that you are dying to the sin nature. This verb is in the aorist tense, not the present tense, meaning that it happened at one punctuated point in time. • It does not mean that you must kill, or crucify, the sin nature. This human effort would result only in frustration. You cannot crucify yourself!

  30. Sanctification • So, what does dead to sin mean? • It means Iam dead to my sin nature by virtue of the fact that I was positionally crucified with Christ. • In His death, He (and we also since we are in Him) died to the whole realm of sin (including sins plural), Satan, the world, even our indwelling sin nature). Romans 6:10, Galatians 2:20

  31. Sanctification • It means that in God’s estimation, every believer has been crucified with Christ. Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:1-3 • With Christ, we have positionally died, or been separated and freed, from the sin nature’s right to rule in our lives. Romans 6:6

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