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Amen. Alright, take your Bible.
Turn to Romans 6. Romans 6. We'll read verses 1-19.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue
in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to
sin, underline that, dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? You can underline that too if
you want to. Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into
death, There it is again, that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also
should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness
of His resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified, underline it again, with Him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Verse
7, for he that is dead, underline it, is freed from sin. Verse
8, now if we be dead with Christ, you get the picture, underline
it again, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Knowing
that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death
hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died
unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ your Lord. Verse 12, let
not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should
obey it in the lust thereof. Verse 13, neither yield your
members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves
unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members
as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under
grace. What then, shall we sin because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid! Know ye not to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey? His servants ye are
to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness. But God be thanked that ye were
the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that
form of sound doctrine which was delivered unto you. Being
then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness."
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh. As you have yielded your members, servants, to uncleanness,
to iniquity, unto iniquity, even so now yield your members, servants,
unto righteousness, unto holiness." Lord, we come before You and
we are so thankful for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank You for dying
for us. Thank You for shedding Your blood
for us. Thank You for being resurrected, breaking death's power. Lord,
I pray that I would yield myself tonight as an instrument of righteousness,
Lord. And I pray, Father, that the
things that are being taught here might be helpful, might
give people victory tonight, Lord. I love You. And I pray,
Father, that You would just meet with us, Lord. God, we don't
want just another service. We don't want just another sermon.
Sermons are dime a dozen, Lord. There's thousands and millions
of them all over the internet. And Father, we could have just
stayed home tonight and watched YouTube like some of the people
that are watching YouTube right now. But Lord, we pray You'd
bless them as well, Father. They can't make it, but Lord,
we've come tonight to meet with you as you've commanded us and
to gather together. Lord, Father, please be with
us now. In Jesus' name, Amen. How a dead
person should live. Dwight L. Moody was an evangelist,
much like Billy Graham, and he lived in a different era. And
he heard a man stand up in a testimony meeting one time, and he said,
I've learned three things after 42 years. And he said, I should
probably pay attention to this. If this took 42 years for this
man to learn it, I need to know what they are. And he said this,
number one, I can do nothing to earn salvation. Number two,
God does not require me to do anything. Number three, Jesus
has done it all. Now that's a good thing to learn,
but it doesn't take 42 years to learn that. But one thing
that illustrates it is we are saved by the grace of God. Salvation
is a free gift. And it has its roots not in the
merit of man, but in the mercy of God. It's not something that
man does, but it's the grace of God. So, people say that if
it's all the grace of God, then does it matter how we live? I
mean, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? It's grace
anyway, the Lord paid for it. Also, should we just keep doing
what we're doing because Jesus paid for it, we're on our way
to heaven, and we're safe? Well, look what Paul says in
verse 1. God forbid, what shall we say
then? Shall we continue in sin that
grace may abound? He says, God forbid. How shall
we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? In other
words, a Christian who is saved by grace and continues to live
in sin is a disgrace to grace. We're saved by the grace of God,
but after we're saved, we need to learn how to live in victory.
Now, how do we do that? He says in verse 6, knowing this,
that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed. Verse 7, for he that is dead
is freed from sin. Now as a Christian, you're supposed
to be dead. Look at verses 3. Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore, we are buried with
him by baptism into death, like as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of Father. Even so, we also should walk
in newness of life. R.G. Lee was a preacher years
ago, and for the first time he went to the Holy Land, and he
went and toured the tomb where Jesus Christ was said to have
buried. And the tour guide said this
to him, he said, how many of you have been here before? And
he raised his hand. And he said, you've been here
before, when were you here before? And he said, two thousand years
ago, I was here. You see, when Jesus Christ died,
he died for us. That death was credited to us,
and He did it 2,000 years ago on our behalf. When Jesus came
to this earth, He suffered, bled, and died. We suffered, bled,
and died because Jesus died for us. And the Bible says that. He says in verse 6, knowing this,
that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Galatians
2.20 says this, And this is a marvelous verse, and hopefully you have
it memorized, but Galatians 2.20, it says, I am crucified with
Christ. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave
Himself for me." And if you read Paul's writings, Galatians, Ephesians,
Colossians, you know what you will find over and over in those
epistles that he wrote? You and I are dead. If you're
saved, you know what you have? You have a dead body and you
have a living spirit. But if you are lost, You have
a dead spirit and a living body. There's a different thing that
you're operating and you're getting your instructions from a different
place. My mother-in-law bought my children three remote-controlled
cars at the gas station or somewhere. They're beautiful remote-controlled
cars that I think they cost like $1.50 each, right? And when they
got them, they got all these cars together, and they were
so excited, and they put all these batteries in, right? And
they're like, then they, they're like, look at my car go this
way, and it's going this way, then it goes the other way. And
they couldn't figure out what was going on. They said, the
remotes are broken, right? But they all had the same frequency,
so they never knew where they were getting their instructions
from. And you know, a lot of times, we as Christians, we don't
understand where our instructions are coming from. And they should
come from the Lord. And if you're saved, it shouldn't
come from your flesh because it's dead. It should come from
the Holy Spirit. He that is joined to the Lord
is one Spirit. But a lot of people are confused
and they're taking instructions from the wrong remote control. If you are dead, then your old master, sin, no
longer has dominion over you. There was a man in Moss Point,
Mississippi, and he got in trouble and they issued a warrant for
his arrest because his daughter was going to have a baby and
it turned out to be his. Not a good thing. And so he went
out into the ocean and there was a dinghy there. And you know
what he did is he left a note there with the social security
guard and it said, I'm sorry. And he left a handgun there tied
to a rope and it said, I'm sorry. But it turned out that he tried
to fake his own death and he was actually still alive. And
you know why he tried to fake his own death? Because when you're
dead, the law has no more dominion over you. Right? You can't prosecute
a dead person. You can't hold a dead person
accountable. The law has no more dominion
over them. And you know, Jesus died for
me, and He credited that to my account, and He said, I was buried
with Him by death. And you know, the law doesn't
have dominion over me any longer. I'm dead. I can't be prosecuted
anymore. I'm dead. And I was sentenced
to death and I received the death penalty in Jesus Christ. What
more? Absolute final, right? And that's what the Bible says.
Listen, you know a person that owned slaves back in the day?
They couldn't tell a slave what to do if they were dead. They
could yell at him all they wanted. That person was dead, and he
no longer received instruction from the old master. And you
know what the Bible says? Sin doesn't have any more dominion
over you. Why? Because you're dead. It
says you're free. You know what death does? It
frees you from contracts. In Romans chapter 7, it even
frees a person from their marriage vows when death occurs. Our death
in Jesus Christ voided the contract we have with sin. It's dead. It's gone. Augustine, for whom
the city of St. Augustine is named, he was a
profligate. A prodigal. He was rebellious. He was a sinful young man. And he lived a very wicked life,
but he had a mother that was praying for him, and her name
was Monica. And one day Augustine got saved,
and he was walking down the street, and he saw a prostitute, and
he ducked his head and he went over on the other side, And she
recognized him and it was somebody that he consorted with in his
old life. She recognized him and he ducked
his head and she came up and she said, Augustine, Augustine,
it is I. He said, yes, but it is no longer
I. Not me anymore. You know what,
if you're born again and you're saved, the Bible says you're
dead. And so if you're dead, you ought
to know how a dead man ought to live, right? So I'd say, number
one, there ought to be a difference in your reasoning. There ought
to be a difference in your reasoning. So what are you talking about?
Look at Romans 6 and verse 11. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. And you should underline that
word, you should circle that word, because that word is one
of the keys to victorious Christian living. That's the key. There ought to be a difference
in your reasoning. You know what reckon means? Believe
it to be so. Believe it to be true. You know
what a reckoning is? It's an accounting term. Okay? When you reckon the books, it's
a bookkeeping. It means you count on it. Not
because you feel it. Not because you guess it. Not
because you desire it. Not because you imagine it. You
reckon on it because it is true. To calculate it. To calculate
up on it and reckon it, and you know what it is. Reckoning is
not just closing your eyes and pretending something to be true.
It's acting on faith on what you know to be true. If you have
some money in the bank and you get your bank statement and it
says you have this much money, it doesn't matter what you feel,
or it doesn't matter what you think, it matters what is reckoned
there in the reckoning in the statement. That's how much money
you have. And doesn't the Bible say there
in Romans 6 in verse 11, Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin? Believe it. Reckon it. Count on it. Calculate it. I'm dead to sin. You see, we
don't reason like we did before we were saved. Before we were
saved, we said, oh, that's too tempting. I can't pass that up.
There's no way I can get away from that. And as a saved person,
we say, well, I'm dead to that. I am crucified to the world and
the world unto me. I reckon it to be so. I believe
it to be so. You say, well, I don't feel dead.
Your feelings are the most shallow part of your nature. And salvation
happens in the deepest part of you, not the shallowest part
of you. It's the deepest work that God does in your soul and
in your spirit, not in your feelings. There was this woman, and she
went to sleep one night, and she was really tired. And as
soon as she laid her head on the pillow, the alarm clock went
off, and it said 6 o'clock. And she said, there's no way.
I don't feel like I've slept at all. Do you ever feel like
that? There's no way that it could
be 6 a.m. I just laid my head down. She looks at the alarm clock,
and it says six. She reaches over and looks at
her phone, and she says six. She turns on the television,
and the six o'clock news is on. She looks out the window and
opens the blind, and the sun is coming up. And you know what
she knows? It doesn't matter how she feels,
it is six o'clock. And it doesn't matter how you
feel. The Bible says that you are dead to sin. And it doesn't
have any more dominion over you. And you died with Christ 2,000
years ago on the cross of Calvary. And it doesn't matter how you
feel. It's just something that you
have to reckon on. There ought to be a difference
in your reasoning. You know, I've noticed... I remember the
first dead person I ever saw. We went and moved into a little
Amish community. And there was a man there, an
Amish man. He owned the schoolhouse where
we went to school. His name was Joe J. Miller. And
he got cancer and he passed away. And all the Amish people came
together for a funeral and they built a plywood box and they
painted it black. And then these Amish preachers
got up and They are the most boring preachers on earth. And if you guys are listening,
I'm sorry. They're probably not watching YouTube, amen? But they
are boring. And so we sat through two hours
of the most boring. Oh, it's terrible. And all I
could think about is like, I came here to see the dead man. That's
all I want to do. I've never seen a dead person,
I just want to see him. And so I remember this long line,
these 200 Amish people line up, and if you're not family, you're
last in the line. So we go, and I remember going
up, I can see the shirt, and I can see his face and the way
he looked. And you know what? He looked
different than anyone I've ever seen. The color was gone and
it was just different. There was nothing the same about
him. And you know what I saw? That
dead people don't put up a fight with the person in charge. They
put this awful shirt on him and he didn't say nothing about it.
He just laid there. Now listen, and if you're dead,
you ought not to put fight up with the people in charge. And
the Lord ought to be in charge. When I die, I want to be cremated,
and I want my wife or my kids to take my ashes and hollow out
a Bible, and put them in there, and glue the Bible shut. Then
when my wife dies, I want them to take that Bible, and put it
in the coffin, and don't tell the funeral director what's going
on. And I want them to be buried
with my wife's corpse. I don't know if that's a good
way to say it, right? And then we can get two for the price
of one. I mean, really. Listen, don't
say anything to the funeral director. Don't ask him if it's okay. Just
say, my mom wants to be buried with this Bible. That's what
I want to happen, right? But when I'm gone, if they don't
want to do that, guess what? I'm not going to argue with them.
I'm not going to care. You know what they'll do? I'm
dying. And I say, I want you to do this. Yeah, don't worry
about it, Dad. We'll do it. Yeah, we're not going to do that.
Mom taught us not to break the rules, and we're not going to
do it. This will come back to bite us. And you know what's
going to happen? I'm not going to say anything.
The funeral director is going to get more of their inheritance,
and that's your fault. I don't know what to tell you.
I tried to give you a way out. But listen, dead people, they
don't fight with the person in charge. They just go along with
whatever is told to them. And do you fight and argue with
the Lord? And do you agree with Him that
you're dead to sin? Or do you argue with Him and
say, no, I want this, and I have power over this, and I'm not
dead to this. What if God called your husband
to be a missionary where there was no Walmart? That's an awful
thing. It doesn't seem like an awful
thing in America, but when you go somewhere where there's no
Walmart, it is an awful thing. It's terrible. And are you going
to put your foot down and say, I won't go? Or are you going
to reckon yourself to be dead? You see, when you're dead, there's
a difference in your reasoning, and it's no longer what I want,
but it's what God wants. Dead people don't get embarrassed.
You know, I don't understand. I've preached at a lot of funerals,
and one thing I don't understand is why people go and kiss a dead
person. I do not get it. It's weird to
me. If you do that, I'm not judging
you, okay? I won't watch. But I've preached
a funeral before, and there's this dude laying in the coffin,
and his aunt comes up with all this lipstick on, And she starts
kissing him. I'm like, man, it is a good thing
he is dead. Because that would embarrass
me. I couldn't put up with that,
right? You know what Christians do? Listen, the Lord tells you
to speak for Him, and He tells you to witness for Him, and do
things for Him, and you say, I'm not going to do it. I'm embarrassed.
Listen, there ought to be a difference in your reasoning. It ought to
be different. They don't get mad at the preacher.
Their families do. But they don't. Dead men don't
own anything. Right? Listen, is it yours? Or is it all the Lord's? The
Bible says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. You
know, a lot of times we say that this is mine and I earned it. Listen, God owns 100%. And we
give Him back 10% but He asked for it, but He owns all 100%.
Everything that we have is a gift from the Lord, and we don't own
anything. The flesh says, how dare he talk
to me like that? But if you're dead, they don't
get offended. The Bible says, great peace have
they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Number two,
there ought to be a difference in your deeds. Look at chapter
6-7. It says this, "...knowing this,
that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed
from sin." There was an old man, He was a cemetery director, and
he was driving with some people and showing them the cemetery.
He said, we do not bury anybody that smokes in this cemetery.
And the person was the very idea. This is so offensive. Why would
you not do that? He said, dead people, they don't
smoke. Now there's a lot of people here
that are dead because they did, but we don't bury people here
that smoke. And you know what? When the Bible says that we're
dead to sin, it says that it doesn't have the power over us
that it used to. And it says that we have the
ability through the Lord Jesus Christ and Him freeing us from
sin to do what the Bible says and no longer have that sin have
power over us. And you know what people tell
me all the time? I can't help it. No, you choose not to help it.
Doesn't the Bible say this, that there hath no temptation taken
you? But such is common to man, but God is faithful and He'll
make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. I do
not believe for a minute in sinless perfection. Right? But I do believe
that every time I sin, it is my fault, and I need to take
accountability for that. Because you know what there ought
to be when you're saved and you're dead? To sin is there ought to
be a difference in our deeds. He gave us the power to overcome
it. And it changes the way that we
act. And so, there was this... I'll never forget the first time
I preached a funeral, there was this man As far as I heard, he
didn't live a very clean life, and he was wicked, and mucho problema, as they say. And the process of time came,
he died, and his son asked me to preach the funeral. And I
didn't know what to do, I'd never preached a funeral before, A
rough crowd. So I did the only thing I knew
to do, and I called Pastor Ryman. And I said, brother, I've never
preached a funeral before. What do I do? He said, well,
tell me about the guy. He said, well, he died of a drug overdose,
and all this stuff was going on, and he said, brother, you
can't be a chicken, man. He said, you have to go in there,
And you have to tell them how sorry that guy was, and the reason
he died, and you have to just tell them that if they're messing
around with sin, they're going to die the same way. They're
probably going to die before the day is over. And he said,
preach hell so hot that they can smell the smoke. And he said,
don't worry about nothing, you just do this and call me and
let me know what happened. And I didn't know he was sending
me just for a story or something. And so, I got up and I preached,
and I preached that, and I gave an invitation, and seven people
got saved. But while I was preaching, people
stood up and told me to sit down and shut up. People cussed me
out. They flipped me off when I was
preaching. And we went out to the cemetery out there, the girlfriend
comes by and puts a rose on the coffin, and then the wife comes
by and puts a rose on the coffin, and the one guy grabs the rose,
I don't know, the rose and throws it down and smashes it, and they're
fighting over the coffin, and it almost falls in the ground. And somebody said, and I don't
remember the guy's name, but they said, if so-and-so was here,
he wouldn't put up with this. But you know what he did? He didn't do a thing. Because
he was dead, and there was a difference in his deeds. He wasn't stressed
out. He wasn't worried about his wife
and his girlfriend fighting. And you know what? The Bible says, whosoever committeth
sin is the servant of sin. And the dead men, they don't
lust after people, they don't struggle with pornography, dead
men don't serve the god of the high or the booze, dead people. You know what is crazy? If you
allow your flesh to rule, you're going to give account for the
deeds that are done in the body. Because the flesh can't be punished
for it because it's dead. It can't. You think about this. So many people, they serve their
whole life, they feed the flesh, they do what the flesh wants,
right? But guess who's going to be standing
before God? You are. And your flesh isn't going to
be there. So you are serving something, and you are giving
something to something that all it can do is rob and steal and
destroy, and you're going to be left holding the bag. And
you know what the Lord did? He died to set you free from
this. It said in verse 12, "...let
not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, that you should
obey it to the lust thereof." Let me ask you this, who is reigning
in your life? Is it sin or Jesus? You know,
sin is a ruler and it wants to take over. And the Bible says
this in verse 6, knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin. Verse 7, he that is dead is freed
from sin. Verse 10, and that he died, he
died unto sin once, but he liveth, he liveth unto God. Verse 11,
reckon yourselves also to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Verse 12, let not sin
reign in your mortal bodies that you should obey it in the lust
thereof. Verse 13, neither yield your
members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. Verse 14, death shall
not have dominion over you. Verse 16, that whom you yield
yourselves servants to obey, His servants you are whom you
obey, whether of sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness.
God be thanked that you were the servants of sin. Were. Verse 18, being made free from
sin, you became the servants of righteousness. Verse 20, when
you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
Verse 22, but now being made free from sin, and become servants
of God, you have your fruit unto holiness and everlasting life."
You know what the Lord did? He set you free, and He killed
the old slave master, and now you can serve the Lord Jesus
Christ. You ought to put on the new man,
which is created after Him in righteousness and true holiness.
The third thing that I want to say and will be done is this,
is there ought to be a difference in your walk. Look at Romans chapter 6 and
verse 4. Therefore we are buried with
him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life." When a person dies, they pass over,
and they go to heaven, and they're walking in newness of life, right?
There's something that changes. And it says when salvation occurs,
and we've been buried into death in Jesus Christ and raised up
from the dead, we should walk, it's a choice, you have to do
it, in newness of life. There ought to be a difference
in your walk. I remember I had a friend, and his name was Jeff
Johnson, and I went to school with him. And he was born deaf,
and his parents didn't know it. And then they found out by the
time he was four years old that there was something wrong. And
they went, and they got his tubes removed from his ears. And he
said, I remember walking out of the doctor's office, and I
walked outside, and as soon as I got outside, I heard this incredible
roar. And he said, I looked up and
overhead there was a plane passing by. And he said, I grew and I
learned so much in such a short period of time and my life was
forever changed. It changed everything about me. Because for the first time from
that day, I was different than when I'd been born and it changed
everything. And if you've been born again,
you can look back over your life and say, I'm a whole lot different
than I was than the day I got saved. How have you changed? Are you walking in newness of
life? What has changed since you've been born again? Has your
lifestyle changed? Has your thought pattern changed?
Has anything changed? You know, I used to only do right
when someone was watching me. And if I could get away with
it, I would do it. We gave the kids, we have them
write these journals sometimes, right? What I would do if I was
invisible. And these kids grew up in a Christian
home, they're saved, and they're still horrible criminals. But
before I was saved, the things that we would do... Listen, if
you got saved, there ought to be a difference in the way that
you walk. You know, I don't understand. I don't want to spend my life
trying to make people do right that don't want to do right.
I don't have time for that. Listen, if you're saved and you
want to walk in newness of life and you want to serve the Lord,
then praise the Lord. Let's go and let's do something
for the Lord together. But if you're still stuck in
that old life and you want to keep going after that, I'm not
going to keep beating you over the head. I don't have time for
that. I want to go, and I want to walk, and I want to serve
the Lord, and if you want to come, let's go." I heard about
the old preacher, and he used to go out. Every day there was
a railroad track by his house, and he'd take his lawn chair
out there every time the train would go, and he'd just sit there
and watch it. And they said, preacher, why are you going out
there and watching the train? He said, Oh, I just like to see
something go that doesn't need to be pushed. Amen? And the Lord
saved you, and He wants to see you walk in newness of life,
and you shouldn't have to be pushed into it. Ephesians 2,
verse 2 says this, Where in time past you walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh unto
children of disobedience. And it says, we all had our conversation
and timed fast in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desire
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children
of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy
for His great love wherein He loved us, even when we were dead
in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace are you
saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might
shew the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness towards
us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves is the gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them." It's a different walk. We walked
according to the course of this world, and now we walk in the
good works that the Lord ordained that we should walk. Look at
2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. In the Old Testament, there was
a man named Jacob. met with God. He met with the
angel. And he spent a night with him.
And he wouldn't let him go until he blessed him. And the angel
touched the hollow of his thigh, and it says, as he passed over
Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
After he met with God, he walked differently. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17, Therefore,
if any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature. Old things
are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new." I used to have this sticker on my refrigerator, and I loved
this picture. My old preacher drew it. And
it had a man walking in the desert, and he was just downcast. the picture's cut in half as
he's walking into the newness of life, and everything's green,
and he's all refreshed. Let me ask you this. As you look
at life the way you're walking in life, does it look more like
that old picture, or does it look like the new picture? Because
God wants you to walk in newness of life. He wants to change the
way you walk. There ought to be a difference
in your walk. And it should be noticeable. You know, without Jesus Christ,
every change is regressive and it's temporary. So how do we
do this? Look at verse 19. Look at verse
13 and then verse 19. Romans 6, 13 and 19.
Neither yield yourselves, members, as instruments of unrighteousness, unto sin, but yield yourselves
unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members
as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under
grace." See, not only did you die with Christ and were buried
with Christ, but you also rose with the Lord in newness of life. Right? And so, what do you do? It says you, verse 19, as you
yielded your members, servants, to uncleanness and to iniquity,
even now yield your members, servants, unto righteousness
and to holiness. So you wake up in the morning
and you say, praise the Lord, thank you for giving yourself
to save me. Right? Thank you. Praise the
Lord. And then you say, and thank You
not only for giving Yourself to save me, but thanking You
for giving Yourself for me. Right? I want to walk with You
today. I want to spend time with You
today. I want to walk in newness of life. And then you raise your
hands like somebody that has a gun to your head and say, Lord,
now I submit to Your will and I submit my instruments to what
You want. And I'm dead. and you are alive
in me, and I want you to live your life through me. Lord, what
do you want to do today? And live your life through me.
And you yield your members instruments of righteousness to do what God
wants you to do, just like you yielded it to the sin, now you
yield it to the Lord Jesus Christ. am now dead, and my life is hid
with Christ in God." And Galatians 2.20 said, I am crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me
and gave Himself for me. And that's how you do it. That's
how a dead person ought to live. All right, if I can have the
piano player come forward and we will stand.
How A Dead Man Should Live
| Sermon ID | 43192327243493 |
| Duration | 43:32 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | Romans 6:1-19 |
| Language | English |
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