- Introduction
- 1. I want to concentrate on verse 6
- 2. Romans 6:6
- 3. "The body of sin"
- 4. Three parts to this verse:
- A. Something happened so that
- B. Something else could happen
- C. So that something final could happen
- 5. Best understood if we reverse the order
- I. NO LONGER ENSLAVED IN SIN
- A. God's End Purpose in Plan of Salvation - No Longer Subject to Sin's Tyranny
- 1. Sin is personified
- a. Described as a master
- b. We have been enslaved
- c. Sin becomes a cruel dominion that exercises us
- 2. The results of sin - it kills those that are captivated by the body clinging to it
- a. We deserve death (Romans 6:23)
- b. A contrast between wages and gift
- 3. How do we get into this slavery to sin?
- a. We present ourselves (Romans 6:16)
- b. We have to obey, sin drives us
- 4. How do we escape? (Romans 6:17)
- 5. This is done when the body of sin is destroyed
- II. THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED (What Is This Body?)
- A. Not the Physical Body (That Was Gnostic View)
- 1. God did not create a body of sin
- 2. Jesus had a body, it was not bad
- 3. Jesus' body was resurrected
- 4. Our body is a member of Christ (I Corinthians 6:15)
- 5. Our body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:19-20)
- 6. Nothing is changed with the physical body when baptized
- 7. Our nature is not changed wen we are baptized
- 8. Something about us dies and then free (Romans 6:7)
- 9. When Paul was crucified with Christ, he died; Paul the sinner died, or he died to sin (Galatians 2:19-20)
- 10. When a person becomes a Christian, a sinner dies
- 11. We die as sinners and raised as saints
- III. OUR OLD SELF WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM
- A. This Is the Means by Which the Body of Sin Was Executed
- B. Christ Was Crucified for Our Sin
- 1. When we die, we are crucified with him
- 2. Crucifixion is a violent death
- a. Sin does not go away easily
- b. It is literally in our baptism
- c. Baptism (immersion used of people being drowned or ships being sunk)
- 3. Jesus called His crucifixion a baptism (Mark 10:38; Luke 12:50)
- Conclusion
- 1. We get rid of the body of sin as we are baptized into Christ
- 2. It is God removing the power of sin on your life
- 3. Now the grace of God removes the power of sin as you enter into His Son
- 4. The blood of Christ removes the body of sin
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