Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6: 6 Our Death with Christ. Cont.

Memorize

Rom 6:6  This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;

Questions:

1. What does it mean that “Our Old Man”; “Our old self”; was nailed to the Cross with Him?
2. What is this in our everyday life: Our sinful nature has been deprived of its power or our body of sin might be annulled?
3. How are we no longer slaves in the service of sin?

Rom 6:6  This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him

Our old man or our old self: This is our old selves which we inherited from Adam through our parents. What a contrast to the New Man which is what we are in Christ right now. See:

Col 3:9  Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self (man) with its doings,

Col 3:10  and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it. WNT

Cain, the son of Adam, is the picture of the old man. Watchman Nee illustrates this by saying, “Why do I have a round face and short black straight hair? It is because my father has a round face and short black straight hair and His name is Nee too. My grandfather was the same with the name Nee as well. I am just like them. So we are sons of Adam and morally we are after the flesh.”

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Cain was like his father, Adam; his spirit was dead to God, both soul and body. He was controlled by the sin through his body. So here is mankind controlled by lust and passion, mankind made in the image and likeness of God, now controlled by sin.

The Old Man represents all we are naturally: evil desires, lusts, ambitions, hopes and judgments. This is what we used to be in Adam. But we have “put away as concerning the former manner of living the Old Man.”

Note here

1. Our old man was crucified with Christ Romans 6:6 above.
2. Those in Christ have put off the old man. Col 3:9 above.
3. He still exists, “ because the old waxed corrupt after the lusts of deceit”. Eph 4:22
4. He is to be put away as belonging to our former manner of life. 2 Cor 5:17  So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

Our old self was nailed to the Cross with Him - CRUCIFIED.

The old self or sinful flesh is all we inherited from Adam federally. This old nature has been crucified with Christ on the Cross by God.

Those in Christ have seen that federally their sinful nature has been nailed to the cross. Yet of the flesh we read. They willing put themselves under a new head, even Jesus.

Gal 5:24  Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature (their flesh) with its passions and appetites (lusts).

Gal 5:25  If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

So our flesh has passions and lusts. This mind of the flesh is directly antagonistic and against God. Sin is the manifestation of the flesh or the sinful nature

Rom 6:6  This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power,

At the cross the past sins have all been pardoned, But the power of sin over our lives has also been broken. our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power,

We can live in constant victory over sin in our lives as we believe that what Christ did. It is a matter of seeing our sinful selves nailed to the Cross.

That the sinful nature might be deprived of its power.

Deprived of its power or annulled: Greek katargeo  put out of business.

The body of sin = the sinful nature.  

We still live in our unredeemed bodies but all the rights of sin to controlled us have been stripped. Sin has no rights over us. Live in the knowledge that the sinful nature need no longer dominate you. It was nailed to the Cross with Christ.

The Word “sin” can mean two things: sinful cats we do or have done; and also that sinful nature we inherited from Adam and lives in our fleshly bodies.

We are not just going to get victory over sin when our hearts stop and we die. NO!!! WE HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST NOW.  We have been freed from the domination of the old nature because Christ has deprived it of its power. HalleluYAH  !!!

Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6: 5 Our Death with Christ. Cont.

Memorize: Rom 6:5  For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

Questions:  1.What does it mean to become one with Him in His death?

2. How do we share in His Resurrection?

Think about these questions for they are vital to your understanding of this verse.

Introduction.

In verse 3 We looked at our baptism as a Public confession of our death, burial and resurrection with Christ. Christ was made sin for us so really we died unto sin in Christ. Sin no longer has the power over the believer in Christ. Baptism is the outward SYMBOL of an inner spiritual experience with Christ. Now we are his true disciples joined to Him in death and shown in picture in our Baptism. If we have not died with Christ by faith, all the water of baptism will never make this happen in reality.

This is not talking about covenantal washings by sprinkling. Baptism is the Symbol of Death Burial and resurrection to a BRAND NEW WAY OF LIVING.

Rom 6:5  For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

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Christ died for us, we died with Him.

For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death

BECOME ONE G4854 σύμφυτος sumphutos Thayer Definition:

1) born together with, of joint origin

1a) connate, congenital, innate, implanted by birth or nature

2) grown together, united with

According to W. Newell the word means to grow together, as a graft in a tree , so the graft shares the tree’s life. So the V.5 means “If I became actually united with Him, which in baptism we profess the Likeness of His death,” so we also shall also be united in the likeness of His resurrection.

Conybeare “If we have shared the reality of His death, whereof we have undergone the likeness in our baptism…...

we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

Now Paul is speaking of the “newness of Life”: because we are joined, become one, united with Him in life with the Risen Glorified Lord.  Hourly daily we walk in a wonderful brand new Life where we are saved by “His Life”. Paul said, “For, to me to live is Christ”. “Our outward man is being renewed day by day”; I was crucified with Christ, Nevertheless… Christ lives in me.”

We may look also on that day when we shall be changed and the mortal shall put on immortality. These bodies shall experience Resurrection Life.

Christ has borne our sins in His own Body on the Tree. Then we bear them no more.

Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6: 1-11  Our Death with Christ. Cont.

Notes from Esword and Romans Verse by Verse by William R. Newell.

Memorize:

Rom 6:3  And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Rom 6:4  Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life. (a brand new life).

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We died with Christ: our baptism being the witness and now we are to reckon or count Ourselves as Dead to Sin and Alive to God in Christ Jesus. Vv 1-11

Verse 3 Our Baptism witnesses that we were baptized into His death.

That initial step in Confession of Christ set forth in Baptism their identification with Christ as crucified dead and buried and raised to new life.

Each believer sees the picture in Baptism by Immersion of our death with Him and Burial and Resurrection with Him. In Verse 2 it said, “Such Onyou who are es as we are…” All true believers, who died.

Symbolically Baptism is a picture of our federal death burial and resurrection as the reason for our deliverance from the Punishment and power of sin in our lives.

Have you willing stepped out in the face of all the opposition and criticism and definitely and forever declared your Faith in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ as your only CONFESSION.

The fact of your baptism declares that you who are Christ’s have died with Him. Baptism signifies not cleansing but DEATH.

1Pe 3:20  who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons--eight in number--were brought safely through the water.

1Pe 3:21  And, corresponding to that figure, the water of baptism now saves you--not the washing off of material defilement, but the craving of a good conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1Pe 3:22  who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

Eight souls were saved in Noahs Day in the Ark - a TYPE of CHRIST. For those eight were, in the Ark, brought safely through the waters of judgment which drowned the world; as were are brought, through by Christ, safely through the judgment of sin at the Cross: now we have a good conscience towards God. This is what Baptism sets forth.

Scripture here connects Baptism with death, not cleansing, with burial not with exaltation; with an ending of our former connection that we may enter a new one with christ. It is the Blood of Christ which cleanses from all sin.

Note

• Paul had been Baptised which WAS COMMON FOR ALL CHRISTIANS IN THE EARLY CHURCH.
• That it was unto Christ that believers were baptized. (eis) Grk. This is not the Holy Spirit Baptism of 1 Cor 12:13
• Baptism is an outward confession of an inner experience. That our old man was crucified with Christ is one thing and our Baptism is another. If we had not died with Christ then baptism would have no meaning.

Rom 6:4  Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life. (a brand new life).

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The Entombment of Christ by Carl Bloch

All believers proclaim by their very Baptism as having  been identified with Christ’s death that they were buried; that their past has ended.

“Burial is the act that consummates the breaking of the last tie between man and his earthly life. By Baptism the believer publically consummates the breaking of the old life with this present evil world, and with his own natural life. Now we are no longer contralled by the World, the flesh and the Devil. They have no power over us any longer. Hallelujah

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• just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power:From this we learn, that as it required the glory of the Father, that is, his glorious energy, to raise up from the grave the dead body of Christ, so it requires the same glorious energy to quicken the dead soul of a sinner, and enable him to walk in newness of life. A. Clark

Because Christ is raised from the dead were are to walk about in newness of life : a brand new kind of life. This is the amazing new resurrection life which Jesus gives to us. We are one with the Risen Glorified LORD. We have been joined to Him. Our new bodies will shortly be conformed to His Glorious Body. 1 Cor 6:17

Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6: 1-11  Our Death with Christ.

Notes from Esword and Romans Verse by Verse by William R. Newell.

We died with Christ: our baptism being the witness and now we are to reckon or count Ourselves as Dead to Sin and Alive to God in Christ Jesus. Vv 1-11

Notes from Newell Page 200

We now come to the Second Part of Christ’s Death and His work for us. - Our Identification with Him in His Death. Now we come the question of walking a holy life in the Grace of God. Q.1. Shall we keep on sinning that Grace MAY KEEP ABOUNDING TOWARDS US ?  Q.2. Because now that we are no longer under the principle of law by under Grace shall we use our liberty to keep sinning? Or shall we use our freedom from the law-principle to our own selfish ends?

Notes these five parts of Salvation. W. Newell

1. Christ’s Propitiatory work ( hilastērion) Thayer Definition: 1) relating to an appeasing or expiating, having placating or expiating force, expiatory; a means of appeasing or expiating, a propitiation) This work was towards God, appeasing His wrath and expiating our sin, through His precious blood: He bore our guilt and the condemnation of our sin.
2. Christ’s identification with us as connected to Adam “becoming sin for us,” and releasing us from Adam, our federal head, : Our old man (Adamic sinful nature) has been crucified with Christ.
3. The Holy Spirit’s work in us as the “Spirit of Grace”, involves His conviction of sin, Regeneration, His Baptizing us into the Body of Christ, (His Baptizing is in the Holy Spirit with power Acts 1:8)His being in us as the “Law of Life” against indwelling sin, the witness of our Sonship, our helper, INtercessor, and finally the Mighty Aganet of our Rapture from this world.
4. Christ's present work in Heaven: Leading our worship and praise as our Great High Priest in Glory: and protecting us should we sin as our Advocate with the Father, against our Accuser.
5. Christ’s Second Coming to redeeem our bodies, and receive us to Himself in Glory: The Rapture of the redeemed.

Q.1. Are we to remain in sin that Grace may keep on overflowing to us?

The message of simple grace is too simplistic for many even some untaught believers. This message seems inconsistent and impossible sure there are some laws that we must keep in order to be accepted with God. “If sin abounds then grace overflows” then they say, “then the more sin, the more grace”. God is loving and merciful and He will forgive us. So called Christians think they can continue in sin and still be accepted. GOD FORBID!!!!!!

Romans 6:2  No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

1. how shall we: We who are “in a special class of people”; all Christians, “such ones as we…”
2. He characterizes all Christians as “those who died to sin.” “Died” is an aorist tense something in the past that happen and was completed. It is a past act and fact.Newell. My question to you is this: Have you died as a Fact something that has taken place.Yes you have if you are a true believer. All Christians shared in Christ’s death, they Died to sin in Christ.
3. Paul here affirms that it was in regard to their relationship to sin that believers died. They died not for us - but to sin. Only Christ died for sin as our substitute.
4. Paul's Question: “How shall those whose relationship to sin has been broken by their dying, be still, as before, be living in sin? It is an impossibility!!!! How can those who died to sin continue to live in it?  Eg. Those who died in New York how can they keep walking the streets of New York city?

Not all Christians have yet discovered or walk in the path of Victory over sin. But  whosoever is born of god does not practice sin, because God's seed abides in him, and he is not able to practice sin because he is begotten or born of God. 1 John 3:9 compare 2 Cor. 5:17

Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6,7,8.

Notes from Esword and Romans Verse by Verse by William R. Newell.

Memorize :

Rom 6:1  To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?

Rom 6:2  No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Rom 6:3  And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Rom 6:4  Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life. WNT

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Resumee of these three Chapters:

Chapter 6  We died with Christ: our baptism being the witness and now we are to reckon or count Ourselves as Dead to Sin and Alive to God in Christ Jesus. Vv 1-11

We are to present ourselves to God as Risen Ones, not under Law but under Grace, Sin looses its dominion over us. Vv. 12-14

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Grace is not to be abused for sin always enslaves and will End in Death; Obedience alawys brings freedom in Christ, with but one end, Eternal Life. This is God's Free Gift to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. Vv. 15-23

Chapter 7. Released from the Legal principle Illustrated; Jewish believers, to whom the Law was given; We are dead to the Law by identification in Death with Christ Jesus who was made sin; we are joined now to the Risen Christ. We now bear fruit to God and render Glad service Vv 1-6

Paul’s vain struggle to be holy by the Law. Vv 7-24

Deliverance seen through Christ alone; the flesh is declared hopeless. V.25

Chapter 8 Life in the Spirit as against living according to the flesh or the sinful nature. Vv1-13

The Holy Spirit witnesses to our Sonship and heirship - even though suffering Vv 14-25

The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness by interceding for us Vv 26 -27

The triumphant response to faith in all these things Vv 31-34

We will never be separated from God’s Love, since it is Christ Jesus our Lord. VV 35-39

The Doctrine of Salvation : Sanctification Part 5 The Timing of Sanctification.

Notes from Myer Pearlman Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible p.252-253

Sanctification is both a) Positional and Instantaneous and b) Practical and Progressive.

1. Positional and Instantaneous.

Some teach a “second Definite work “ of sanctification but this also in anti-Scriptural because it teaches that you can be saved without being sanctified. This is contrary to the New Testament where the Apostles addresses all believers as “saints” literally SANCTIFIED ONES.

1Co 1:2  Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

1Co 6:11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Yet the same letter was written to correct those Christians becaue of their carnality and even open sin. 1 Cor :3:1; 5:1; 2;7;8; They were “saints and sanctified in Christ Jesus” but sme of them were far from being such in their daily conduct. They were not living in manner worthy of their calling to be sanctified one.

Thus there is a sense in the NT, then where sanctification is simultaneous

with being saved or Justified.

b) Practical and Progressive.

The Initial setting apart is just the beginning of a progressive life of Sanctification. All true Christians are separated to God in Jesus Christ; from this springs the responsibility to live for God. This is a daily separation unto God where the believer is seeking to be more and more conformed to the Image of Christ.

“ Sanctification is a work of the Free Grace whereby we are renewed in whole man after the Image of God. We are enabled to die daily to sin and to live unto righteousness.”

This does not mean that we grow into sanctification but that we progress in sanctification.

It was a work done once and for all. Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

So Sanctification is both Positional and Progressive.