Romans part 17

THE BOOK OF ROMANS PART 17ROMANS 6:1-23II. JUSTIFICATION- The Imputation of Righteousness: Romans 1:18-5:21III. SANCTIFICATION- The Impartation of Righteousness: Romans 6:1-8:17A. The Basis and New Principle of Sanctification — 6:1-231. The Basis of Sanctification: Identification with Christ — 6:1-14a. Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ — 6:1-10b. The Believer’s Consideration1. Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God (v11)c. The Believer’s Yielding1. Do not to let sin rule as king in your mortal bodies (v12)2. Do not to let your bodies be tools of the sin nature (v13)3. Because we are not under law but under grace (v14)2. The New Principle of Sanctification: Slaves to Righteousness1. Is it permissible to sin occasionally? No (v15)2. We are slaves to what we choose to obey (v16)3. We believed the teaching and committed to it (v17)4. We have become slaves of righteousness (v18)5. Once slaves to impurity, now to righteousness (v19)6. As a slave to sin, we were free from righteousness (v20)7. But the fruit of sin was shameful leading to death (v21)8. A slave to God, fruit is sanctification and eternal life (v22)9. We earned death, God’s grace gave us eternal life (v23)B. The New Relationship: Freedom from the Law that Controlled 7:1-251. The Believer and the Law of the Husband 7:1-6a. The law is only binding as long as you live (v1)b. A married woman is bound to her husband while he is alive (v2)c. Only by his death was a wife freed from marriage contract (v3)d. What was true for the wife under the Law is now true for us (v4)e. Another purpose of the law was to produce sinful passions (v5)f. We are released from the law, just as the wife was released (v6)2. Sin and the Law 7:7-13a. The purpose of the law was to show what sin is (v. 7)b. It was to make one sin more (vv. 8-11)c. It was to reveal that no one could ever keep the law well enoughd. It was to drive one to faith