More Than Conquerors

Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

All things we are conquerors even when taken to death. For to absent from the body is to be in the presence of the Lord.

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We Are Conquerors

Romans 8:36 As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Paul is Quoting Psalm 44:22

All things we are conquerors even when taken to death.
For to absent from the body is to be in the presence of the Lord.

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Creation Itself Will Also Be Delivered

Romans 8:21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

It's not just people who will be set free and benefit when GOD restores things but all plants an animals. The entire planet is tilted because of sin but someday GOD will restore it back to it’s proper balance.

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Serve in the Newness of the Spirit

Romans 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

now we have been delivered from the law, my spouse named Law died when I introduced him to JESUS, so I married JESUS.

And now I'm no longer married to Law, who no matter how hard I tried, I could not satisfy, I was always falling short, never really feeling loved or desired, just hammered and corrected.

In all honesty Law's death was not a disappointment and I married JESUS on the same day.

It's interesting because my new marriage actually has a greater demand on me then Law every did. But now I serve for loves sake and I enjoy it so much more, I want to please JESUS and I never felt that way about Law.

Now I serve with a newness of Spirit. I don't serve the letter of Law but JESUS through His Spirit placed in my heart. It's such a better relationship.


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Those Who Know the Law

Romans 7:1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

those who know the law Now he's speaking to the Jew. Someone who wants to try and find righteousness by obeying the Old Testement laws.

If you want the law then you keep that law all your life.But within the law there are some cases where something that was illegal becomes legal.

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Product of Our Obedience to God

Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

I’ve been set free from that, I don't have to live that way. I can remove my sinfulness and replace it with Godliness. I can have fruits of holiness that's path is to everlasting life with JESUS. I CAN BE ON A PATH THAT LEADS TO EVERLASTING LIFE.

A fruit that once poisoned can now be a blessing;
the fruit that had no regard for righteousness can now be submerged in righteousness.

Because the fruit is no longer the product of my fleshliness but is the product of my obedience to GOD.

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No Regard To Righteousness

Rom 6:20-21 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

When we lived satisfying the flesh;
Where did it get us?
What kind of lasting joy did it bring?

All it offered was a path to death and a time in my life I regret. A time when I paid no regard to righteousness. A time when my fruit was poison to all who would eat it.

It's the kind of mindset that has no problem transmitting sexual disease’s because after all someone gave it to me. Someone poisoned me so why don't I poison you. NO REGARD TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.



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Whom Do You Obey?

Romans 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

What do you want to rule in your life?

You only get 2 choices. GOD or Not GOD (satan).

1. GOD ruling as we just discussed leads to a life of obedience to righteousness.

2. Not-god ruling leading to a life of obedience unto sin & death.

Seems kind of simple to find the answer, but it's probably the greatest area of attack in your life. Satan wants so badly for you to disobey GOD, no matter what you’re reasoning just become a slave to sin and not to GOD.

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GOD'S Grace Has Set You Free

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

I've been set free from the bondage of sin, by dieing to self and coming alive to GOD. Satan can't use the law against me, I answer to a relationship based on HIS work not mine.

Sin's desire is to rule over you, but your not given over to it, GOD'S grace has set you free.

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Instruments of Righteousness

Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Present yourselves to GOD as instruments of righteousness, because you have followed (Romans 6 verses 8-12)

1st we know that we need to die with JESUS, BUT KNOWING ISN'T ENOUGH

2nd we came to HIM with that that I need to die to, A PRAYER RECOGNIZING MY INABILITY AND HIS ABILITY. My need to die in order to allow HIS ability to work through me.

3rd I reckon myself dead to it and alive to him I TAKE MY FAITH AND PUT IT TO ACTION

4th I see that, SIN can not reign in me when I do this, I don't have to obey it's lust.

5th I present myself unto GOD an instrument not just dead to sin but alive to HIM.

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Rule Over Sin

Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

This does not happen automatically.We must either dethrone sin or obey its evil desires. Either JESUS reigns in our hearts or we do.

In order to allow JESUS to reign and dethrone sin we must die to the lordship of the flesh and come alive to the lordship of JESUS.

Sometimes it will be easy to die to self and come alive to JESUS other times it will be a struggle but should be done or JESUS will be pushed out of our live.

Much like what GOD told Cain,(Genesis 4:7) "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."

WE ALSO SHOULD RULE OVER SIN, AND GOD HAS PROVIDED THE WAY BY COMING ALIVE IN CHRIST.

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Freed From Sin

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

This is something that Satan does not want you to know either. As a justified believer you are no longer a slave to sin, you do not have to give in to sin, that old you that was in bondage to sin, DIED and the new you is freed from sin’s grip.What a victory it is for the believer who knows and experience’s this.

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Walk In Newness of Life

Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life

we also should walk in newness of life. People read Romans chapter 5, and discover that Christ died for their sins, and receive Him into their hearts and all; but fail to take up the words of Romans chapter 6 and discover the life of a justified believer. THEY OFTEN WANT TO STAY IN CH.5 THINKING THEY DON'T HAVE TO MOVE INTO CH.6 AND BE RESPONSIBLE OR ACCOUNTABLE.

They want salvation, but not new life. It is impossible to have salvation without new life.They want resurrection from the dead without dying. The living doesn’t get resurrected only the dead do.

Sometimes people will ask, do I believe in Lordship salvation, I’m not sure what the phrase means but if JESUS is not LORD, which in the Bible HE is, then can a JESUS who is not Lord save?

Having JESUS as Lord is one of the best parts of living the Christian life. I’m not left on my own to figure out how to live my life. I have JESUS as my LORD I simple need to figure out what HE as my LORD wants me to do.

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Babtized Into Christ

Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

I would bet many proclaiming Christians do NOT KNOW that. Satan doesn’t want us to know the whole truth; he only wants us to know bits & pieces. So we’ll miss out on the life JESUS has for us.
Baptized into Christ Jesus or in other places it reads the name of JESUS means being joined together with all that JESUS offers. NOT JUST THE PARTS A PERSON MAY LIKE.

Baptized into His death seems to be a missing link in the gospel of today. But it’s a wonderful part of Christianity. You see, dead to me means I can be alive to HIM; alive to me means I quench or die to HIM.

In Galatians Paul talks more abou this. Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

In the Gospel of Luke, Luke tells us in Luke9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

When we are baptized, symbolically it means the old me that went under died and the new me was born again in JESUS. In order to be born again I have to die to self.

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Grace May Abound

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

As we finished ch.5 we’ve learned that justification is by faith not works and that GOD’S grace abounds above and beyond sin.

The problem with these wonderful truths is that if a person stops in chapter 5 and doesn’t continue to read on, they can come to the wrong conclusion. So ch. 6 tries to avoid drawing and incorrect conclusion.

Romans 6:1 This question is addressed because it might be possible for someone to misunderstand Pauls point by taking a verse out of context.

In this case based on what Paul wrote in 5:20 we need some clarification. (Romans 5:20) Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,


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Replaced With Grace

Romans 5:20-21 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord

The law exposes the sin. Sin means missing the mark. You don’t know how far your missing the mark until you put up the target. (law)

Once we see the law we see how much we missed the mark

Sin reigning in death or grace reigning unto eternal life.

Recap:

v. 17—Death vs. life: Death reigned through Adam, but Christians reign in life through JESUS.
v. 18—Condemnation vs. justification: Adam’s sin ushered the human race into condemnation; JESUS death brings justification with God.
v. 19—Disobedience vs. obedience: Adam disobeyed God, which caused us to be born into sin. JESUS obeyed God, which makes it possible for us to be free from sin.
v. 20—Law vs. grace: God did not give the Law to save mankind, but rather to expose how far we are missing the mark. Once we see that we see it is impossible to hit the mark, so GOD provided a free gift that allows HIS grace to be applied rather then HIS law.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

The new creation, which has received JESUS, no longer has sin reigning, IT HAS PASSED AWAY replaced with grace. Death does not reign, IT HAS PASSED AWAY replaced with life.

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Gift Of Righteousness

Romans 5:17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

Just as Adam's sin brought a reign of death, so did the death and resurrection of JESUS bring a reign of life.

But this does not mean the reign of life is automatic, because it says, we must "receive" the free gift of abundance of grace and righteousness.

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Condemnation or Justification

Romans 5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.

One person offers sin, judgment, condemnation; the other offers a free gift resulting in justification.

The choice comes down to condemnation or justification.

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Gift by Grace

Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

Since the curse affected many because of what one man started, so also the "free gift" of GOD'S grace through JESUS will abound to many.

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Death Reigned From Adam

Romans 5:13-14 For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

Adam only had one law. Don't eat of that tree. When he broke the law he sinned, starting the curse to begin.

The curse “death” still reigned after Adam even before the law. It didn’t stop because of one mans wrong; IT BECAME A CANCER TRYING TO TAKE ANY AND ALL.

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