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“I like committing crimes.
God likes forgiving them.
Really the world is admirably arranged.”
—W.H. Auden
“Christians are by no means immune from the temptation to slip from a celebration of grace to an abuse of grace.”
—Douglas Moo
Are you guilty of abusing God’s grace, of using God’s abounding grace as an excuse to sin?
This is what the Apostle Paul wants to get across to the Romans.
How did we get to this point in the argument?
Romans 1-4: Paul’s theology of justification- by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Rom 5: What are the benefits of justification?
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (v. 1)
We have access to a new realm of grace by faith (v.
2a)
We have the future hope of sharing in the glory of God (v.
2b)
We have great cause for rejoicing both in the future blessings of our salvation and even in our present sufferings (vv.
2b-5)
We have the love of God poured out abundantly in our hearts (v.
5-8)
Then we get to the primary concern for Paul that will occupy his time for the rest of chapter 5 all the way to chapter 8.
Because we have now been justified (Our sins have been forgiven and we have been counted righteous)
by means of the blood of Jesus Christ !
HOW MUCH MORE (God has already done the hard part- He justified the ungodly!
If God has already done that, how much more certain is it that God will do a much less difficult task?
What is the less difficult task?)
We shall be saved from the wrath of God
by means of him (Jesus Christ)
Your justification makes absolutely certain your glorification.
This is the great theme that Paul will be dealing with from chapters 6-8.
How do we know that we shall be saved one day by his life?
The first answer Paul gives us to this question is because of your union with Christ! (vv.
12-19)
Our union with Christ is one of the assurances that we will one day experience final salvation!
Because we are united to Christ, this new position that we have enables God to cause his grace to abound to us!
Now as Paul ends chapter 5 and begins chapter 6 he is going to deal with a common misunderstanding and misuses of the grace of God that is ours because of our union with Christ.
Paul wants us to understand something about our union with Christ so that we do not abuse the grace of God, but instead celebrate it.
Paul wanted the Roman believers to understand the realities of their union with Christ so that they would not continue living in sin.
Comprehending your union with Christ is essential for you to stop living in sin.
What must we understand concerning our union with Christ so that we can stop living in sin?
Several truths about our union with Christ.
The first truth we need to understand so that we might stop living in sin is:
I. Our union with Christ transferred us from the realm of sin to the realm of grace
(v.
20) Where sin increased (even increased considerably),
grace abounded all the more (grace increased to an extraordinarily greater degree)
(v.
21) For those who are united with Christ you have an entirely new position.
You have been transferred out of the realm or the reign of sin.
You are no longer under the dominion of death.
What dominion are you in now?
The dominion of righteousness!
And what realm or reign do you belong to now?
The realm or the reign of grace!
For those in the realm of grace it will ultimately lead them to eternal life!
How? Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
It is by means of our union with Christ that we are transferred into a new realm- the realm of grace.
In this realm of grace no matter how great our sin- God’s grace increases to an to an extraordinarily greater degree!
Friend, if you are Christian, if you have been justified, if you have been united with Christ, then you must realize something this morning.
Because of your union with Christ you have been transferred out of the realm of sin and into the realm of grace.
You are right now part of a new kingdom, a kingdom characterized by grace and righteousness.
Live like it!
Comprehending this truth is vital for you to stop living in sin.
No longer live like you used to when you were a citizen of the realm of sin and death.
Live like a citizen who is in the realm of grace and righteousness.
And stop taking advantage of God’s grace by continuing to sin.
Don’t abuse God’s grace, but rather celebrate it by living godly righteous lives.
The second truth we need to understand so that we might stop living in sin is:
II.
Our union with Christ caused us to share in the benefits of his death, burial, and resurrection
Some people say chapter 6 and 7 are parenthetical.
That is, Paul begins talking about how justification leads to glorification (or final salvation) in chapter 5, then he sets that topic aside for a while in chapters 6-7 and returns to it in chapter 8.
I think it better to understand chapters 6 and 7 as part of the argument.
How so?
Paul makes this wonderful, beautiful theological argument in chapter 5
How so Paul?
How does our justification guarantee our glorification?
Because of your justification you have been united with Christ, you are in Christ, and because you are in Christ you have been transferred to a new realm- the realm of grace!
How does being in the realm of grace guarantee our final salvation?
Romans 5:20 (ESV)
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
Once you are united to Christ, and transferred to the realm of grace, wherever sin increases (even if it increases significantly), grace abounds all the more (grace increases to an extraordinarily greater degree).
Do you understand the argument?
Do you see how Paul is proving that justification absolutely guarantees your future glorification?
It is a beautiful wonderful thing!
Illustration: In the forward of the book Evangelism For the Fainthearted by Floyd Schneider, a man named Luis Palau tells of a 3 hour long conversation he once had in Ecuador with a woman named Maria.
Turns out Maria was the secretary of the Communist Party in Ecuador.
For three hours she yelled insults at Luis, she proudly proclaimed that she was an atheist and didn’t believe in God.
She also told him her life story including all the sins she had committed.
Listen to the end of their conversation:
“Listen, Palau,” Maria said.
“Supposing there is a God – and I’m not saying there is, because I don’t believe in the Bible, and I don’t believe there’s a God – but just supposing there is.
Just for the sake of chatting about it, if there is a God, which there isn’t, do you think He would receive a woman like me?”
The Lord gave me Hebrews 10:17, one of my favorite Bible verses because it is so short and says so much: “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
I said, “Look, Maria, don’t worry about what I think; look at what God thinks.”
I opened to the verse and turned the Bible so she could see it.
“But I don’t believe in the Bi-”
“You’ve already told me that,” I said.
“But we’re just supposing there’s a God, right?
Let’s just suppose this is His Word.
He says, ‘Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’”
She waited, as if there had to be more.
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