The Resurrection in You
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· 9 viewsWe are all creatures of habit. Some habits are good and some habits are bad. At some point in our lives we try and break the bad habits and become better people, but what if you could die to it? What if you could get to the place that these habits and sins didn't have a hold on you any longer? Wouldn't it be nice to be set free? You can be through the resurrection.
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Introduction:
We have all gathered here this morning to celebrate Jesus, the Christ. the Son of the Living God who was put to death through crucifixion and raised from the dead three days later.
As many of you know I’m a movie buff. I love being captivated by stories of places I’ve never been. Going on adventures that I might never get to experience, and I can do all that through a good movie.
How many of you have seen an old movie now call “Shawshank Redemption?”
(place the movie pic on the screen.)
We have all gathered here this morning to celebrate the Jesus the Christ the Son of the Living God who was put to death through crucifixion and raised from the dead three days later.
But what if I told you there was a greater miracle than this one. What if I told you this miracle was just the seed or the start to many miracles to come.
Let’s think about this together.
Jesus is God come in the flesh (Immanuel)
Jesus, as God and Man, lived a sinless life for 33 years on the Earth
He healed the sick, caused the lame to walk, the blind to see, and even raised Lazarus from the dead.
How did He do that? Well, Jesus is God
He was placed on a sinner cross to die in our place.
His body lay three days in the grave with his soul in paradise.
And Jesus rose again the third day by the power of the Father to live forever more.
How did He do that? Well, Jesus is God
We get excited about the miracle that Jesus after being dead for three days rose from the grave. But what does Jesus get excited about. Jesus gets excited when one of us is resurrected from the dead.
Can’t you just see Jesus and the Father in heaven watch all us dead souls walking through life and then all of a sudden there is light where there was only darkness. There is now life where death once reined in your heart.
I believe Jesus gets excited when someone passes from death to life. It’s like that moment in the hospital when you watch a new life takes its first breath. It’s intense and excited and breathtaking. All the family is out in the hall cheering and crying to welcome the new born into a new world.
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
The scripture I have chosen this morning is not your typical Easter passage. If you have your bibles turn with me to . This morning I want you to understand what it means to have “New Life” in Christ. I want to give you some practical steps of how to walk with God in this new life. So the passage starts with a rhetorical question.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Now before we go any farther we must review the beginning to understand the message Paul has taught already.
So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Paul was so excited from the Romans to hear the good news of Christ. The gospel message of passing from death to life and how to walk in this New Life. And I am just as excited for to preach to you this morning. The good news message is a timeless message and is just as applicable today as it was back then.
First he explains in chapter 1 the why we all need salvation.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
romans
The wrath of God is coming upon the ungodly of this world. You don’t have to like it, but you do need to know it’s true.
In Chapter 2 - 3 he shows us that we are all guilty of sin and worth of punishment.
as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
Romans 3:10
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Then in Chapter 4 & 5 he explains how salvation from our sin comes through faith in God and not the works that we do.
Romans 5;
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because Christ was willing to die in our place we can be saved from the wrath to come.
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
So now in , Paul is talking to people who have recieved the love and grace from Jesus and experienced the new birth.
You can’t have a new life until you have a new birth. You must be born again!
Can you imagine a baby trying to start new life in the womb. It can’t happen you have to first be born then you begin to walk in the new life. I see so many today that want the new life that comes with salvation but yet they have never received Christ as their Lord and Savior.
So how is a person born again. It’s not by coming to church, it’s not by listening to Christian music on the radio, and it’s not be doing good deeds in the community.
To be born you die first.
Romans 6:3
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
This is the resurrection that we celebrate this morning. Not only that Jesus died and rose again but that you died with Christ, was buried with him, and you too have risen with Christ to walk in this new life.
Let’s take a second and break this down. Cause this is a big deal. We are talking about the fact that when you come to Christ you experience a death before you experience a New Life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Romans 6:5-
There are to many people today trying to put the new life on top of the old life of sin. No the old self has to die to sin first, then the new life can be born. So of you are trying to live two lives. A born again believer in Christ has to die first so that the new life can begin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
God is ready to give you a new life, a resurrected life, but you have to be willing to die to sin first so that you can life with him.
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:9
You death burial and resurrection only happens once. When you die to sin it has no dominion over you.
You are free!! You are free!!
Sin no longer controls you. You are a slave to it no more. Jesus is now in control and begins to live through you.
You are now “dead to sin and alive to God.”
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
You know why so many people are powerless over their sin?
You know why so many people are slaves to their sin?
It’s because they have never died to sin, been buried with Christ, and resurrected to walk in a New Life. They have never been born again.
There are some of you here this morning that need what I needed. You need to be born again.
You believe in God. That’s a great start.
You believe that Jesus is the son of God. Your almost there.
I you willing to die to your old self with him on the cross and let Jesus resurrect you into a new life.
This is what is means to be born again. This is what it means to experience salvation.
This is why Christians walk around in obedience to Christ because he has set me free from sin and death and given me a new life with Him. And he is ready to do the same for you today.
But you have to be willing to die before you can be resurrected.
Let’s all bow our heads in prayer to God.
In a moment I’m going to pray and some of you could be resurrected the next time you open your eyes. It could be the first time that you really see.
Are you ready for that old self to die?
Are you ready to be resurrected with Christ?
Are you ready for a new life?
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans
I die and was buried with Christ on July 4, 1976. I asked Jesus to take away my sin and be the Lord of my life and I got up from that prayer a new person, a child of God.
Today, April 16, 2017, could be your resurrection day.
I’m going to pray the same prayer that I prayed all those many years ago that started my new life with God. If you are ready to be resurrected today I want you to pray this prayer with me.
(Prayer)