It Is God Who Justifies

Rom 8:33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

What charge can stand against us? NOT ONE since GOD justifies.

Go ahead and let satan do all the slamming he wants, it holds no weight against us.


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He Also Called

Romans 8:30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Glorified meaning you will get a new glorified body so you can live in HIS presence for all eternity.

All these are a work of GOD; our part is simply to believe HIM at HIS word.

Again notice the order. The predestined are; The ones HE called. Has GOD called you? Do you or did you respond to HIS call?
IF so you've been justified. Justified meaning cleansed from your sins so much so that is just as though you never did it.

And since you've been justified you also will be glorified.


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Jesus Did What the Law Could Not

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

The Mosaic Law couldn't make me righteous, because my sinful nature prevented true obedience. The law didn't fail people (flesh) did.

So GOD sent JESUS in the flesh, to condemn sin committed in the flesh. Sin has already been judged or removed.

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We Must Die to the Flesh

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

Oh how wise is the person who comes to this correct conclusion. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells;When a person will recognize they must die to the flesh it can be very hard, but when they understand nothing good will come from the flesh it makes dieing to the flesh easier. We should have no confidence in or flesh; at it's best we'll fail.

I may have a want to do well, but I don't stay with it, my performance has proven this.
Paul is speaking personally here many don’t even have the want.

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Law Brought Death

Romans 7:10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

The law, that I thought, if I obeyed, I could obtain righteousness didn't show me righteousness but instead showed me death.

I thought having Law would be good, and we could have a wonderful relationship, but instead all Law could do was show my failure and inability to find righteousness. Law brought death.

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The Law Is Not the Standard for Righteousness

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Law in itself is not sin, Law simply showed what was sin and what the requirement was. Without law I would of never known I was wrong. The problem was it pointed out my wrong rather then encouraging me towards righteousness.

The law was good in showing us our need for a savior, but law was not and should not be the standard of righteousness. When law is used as a standard of righteousness we'll all be miserable.

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How the Law Works

Romans 7:2-4 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another; to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

Verses 2-4 are an example of how the law works.

7:2 If a woman becomes a wife, she is no longer free as a single woman she is bound by the law to be a wife to that man and only that man.

7:3 As a wife if she married another man she a law-breaker deserving of death. But if her husband died she is no longer a wife and she is free to remarry. Something that would be a horrible sin became OK.

7:4 Just like a woman could remarry according to the law so also a JEW under the law could die to that law and come alive to another, JESUS.

That way they could bear fruit for GOD, because according to the law they are always missing the mark bearing no fruit.They would recognize their marriage or commitment to the law as ended, dead to the law and remarried to JESUS

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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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The Gift From God Is Eternal Life

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The product of living for self (sin) is death;
The product of living for GOD is life everlasting with JESUS in heaven.

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What You Already Know

Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

knowing - this is the 3rd time in 9 verses Paul is saying we know something, also in vs.3 & 6

In Romans 6 vs. 3 we need to know that we died when we where baptized in HIM

In Romans 6 vs. 6 we needed to know that our death brought freedom from sin

now in Romans 6 vs.9 we need to know that JESUS has dominion over death or we might say dominion over the wages of sin.

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New Life That Has Power Over Sin

Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

died being in the Indicative mood causes the "if" to means since or because, The if is not subjunctive which could imply one did or didn't die with Christ.

If you where justified by faith you must of died with Christ. And since you died with Christ you will live with Him.

Remember the question in verse 1 shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? GOD forbid or based on what we know we might say, that would be impossible.

If a death to self hasn’t taken place, GRACE CAN’T ABOUND. But with a death to self not only does grace abound but also sin’s hold is broken.

Not only are my sins washed away, but also I can have victory over them.

GOD DIDN’T JUST CLEAR A BELIEVERS SLATE, BUT HE GAVE THEM A NEW LIFE THAT HAS POWER OVER SINS GRIP.

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New Life In Jesus

Romans 6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

If I died to my flesh at salvation then I ought to be heading towards the likeness of His resurrection. Or New Life in JESUS.

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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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Dead to Sin

Romans 6:2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Verse 2 begins Paul’s answer to this thinking as an answer to Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?.

Certainly not! GOD forbid, NO WAY! That thinking would be completely off base.we who died to sin IF we have died to sin then there is no way that we would continue to live in sin.

This idea of a Born Again Christains being dead to sins is threaded throughout the New Testement.

Galatians 5:24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

New testament Christianity clearly teaches that we die to sin not excuses it because grace will overshadow it.



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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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Taken Care of by Jesus

Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

The wrong that came from one man Adam was taken care of by one man JESUS.


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Jutification of Life

Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

The curse is automatic we are born into it, the free gift differs in that it must be received IT IS NOT AUTOMATIC. Judgment and condemnation or free gift resulting in justification.

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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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