Title: Sanctification and Sin/Romans 6
Content: Sanctification and Sin
Romans 6
1. Grounds for Sanctification (1-11)
Paul deals with the issue of justification so far, the issue of sanctification, how those who have already been justified will overcome the sinful world.
① Raising the issue of sanctification
According to the theory of justification, Paul firmly insists that this cannot be the case with the logic that in order for God's grace to be more manifested, we must continue to sin. Often, they use God's grace and mercy to create excuses for sin, and they are firmly entrenched in the attitude of justifying sin.
② The Necessity of Sanctification and the Three Parables
(1) The parable of baptism (3, 4)
When we were baptized, we died with Christ to sin and rose to new life to impartial. Nevertheless, if you still remain in sin, it is as if someone who was baptized and came up from the water is still trapped in the water.
(2) The parable of grafting (5, 6)
We were branches in the trunk of sin. At that time, I was living in sin. But now, by the cross of Christ, our branches attached to sin have been cut and set with the fire of Christ. Therefore, it is necessary to receive nutrients from the stem and live anew with the stem.
⑶ The analogy of criminal proceedings (7-9)
Because Jesus overcame death and triumphed over it, death no longer has dominion over him. This applies equally to us.
③ A new way of life
Two reasons for sinning - the Christian's inability to remain in loving fellowship with Christ, and the legalistic tendency to refuse to admit that he has no power to uphold the law. How, then, can we die to sin in Christ and receive God's recognition as living?
We must be freed from the rejection of secularism and legalism and be governed by the Holy Spirit, and we must dedicate ourselves to God knowing the greatness of God's salvation and the riches of His grace.
2. The practice of sanctification (12-23)
① He died to sin and lived to God. (12-14)
Do not obey for lust
Present your bodies to God as instruments of righteousness
Those who are under grace must live a life of sanctification.
② Warning against anti-law attitudes to defend sin using grace as an excuse (15-23)
We advise you not to be content with just being freed from sin, but to actively obey and bear the noble fruit of the Holy Spirit in your real life.
Efforts for sanctification are not a condition for obtaining salvation, but a natural result of those who are convinced of salvation.