Temple Baptist Church - 6-1-2025
Romans 6:12-13
Introduction:
A. Romans 5-6 swing back and forth between Adam and Christ Jesus, obedience and disobedience, and sin and death, grace and righteousness, and eternal death and eternal life. What is Paul driving home to the believer?
WE HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED; WE HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH CHRIST; WE ARE DEAD TO SIN; WE HAVE BEEN RAISED AGAIN TO NEWNESS OF LIFE! ONE DAY WE WILL BE GLORIFIED! WELL, GLORY!
1. The context flows smoothly throughout chapters 5-7. Look at the wording.
Chapter 5: Therefore, by whom, and, and, and, for, for, but, much more, for, and, wherefore, for nevertheless but, and, for, therefore, for, moreover, that as!
Chapter 6: What, know ye not, therefore, for, knowing, for, now, knowing, for, likewise let not neither for, what then, know ye not, but, being, for, but, for.
Chapter 7: Know ye not!
2. I continue to try to teach our people that context is crucial and cannot be ignored in order to properly understand what the Bible is teaching.
3. Context: Romans 5:12 – “Wherefore” Romans 5:18 – “Therefore”
4. Questions: Romans 6 - Five questions asked, Verses 1-3, and verses 15-16. When God asks you a question, He also gives you the answer so that YOU WON’T GET IT WRONG.
B. Verse 12 speaks of sin in your mortal body. We live in a sinful world and sinful bodies. This is a fact that needs to be reiterated repeatedly.
1. The world will not improve as sin continues to multiply. We are facing many new challenges today due to the internet, social media, the “hooked on the cell phone syndrome,” and rapidly changing moral standards that shape our consciences. Sin has become rampant and is often seen as acceptable.
2. The human body will not improve either. A significant amount of money is spent on ways to enhance our physical appearance and health, but little is invested in addressing our sinful nature. The reason for this is straightforward: improving our sinful nature is a personal responsibility.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Paul finishes his discourse concerning the depravity of his flesh with these words.
Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
C. In verse 13, Paul uses the word “therefore.” It ties the verse to its context.
1. Our salvation expresses union with Christ and identification with His death, burial, and resurrection. Death to sin and saved to a new life in Christ.
2. Our union with Christ transforms our identity (who we are), liberating us from the dominion of sin and empowering us to live a new life (what we should be).
D. In chapters 6 and 7 of Romans, Paul is bringing the preceding chapters to a conclusion. From “all have sinned” to “I have sinned” with personal responsibility in both. If you are lost, get saved; if you are saved, stop sinfulness. The Bible makes both plain.
1. Verse 1-2. The First question is asked and answered in verses one and two.
Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
a. We, as children of God, have NO right to choose sin over righteousness. Chapter five told us that Christ died for sin. Life is full of choices, but for the spiritual child of God, the choice is biblically clear. GOD FORBID!
b. If repentance from sin is godly sorrow, how can we choose a life of sorrow over a life of salvation
c. In verse 2, we find that grace gives no permission to sin; it is a power of transformation. Transformation comes from a renewed and right mind.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
d. Paul and the Holy Ghost reply, “God forbid!” That means that God forbids, and we should have the same attitude towards sin.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
2. Verses 3-7. This section also begins with a question followed by the biblical answer.
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
a. Who biblically taught us that we have a right to choose in the matter of sin? We were saved from and made dead to sin in verses 6-8.
b. The Holy Spirit has immersed us in Jesus Christ, which is union with Jesus Christ, who died for our sins. We are hid with Christ in God! As Christ died and rose again, the believer dies to sin and rises to new life.
Colossians 3:1-3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
c. An old man who had spent many years in prison was finally paroled and became free. He could not live life outside of prison because that was all he knew. He walked into a bank and handed a teller a note which basically said that “This is a holdup” and asked for money. He knew that they would send an alarm to the police station, so he quietly awaited their arrival and his return to incarceration. We both can and should learn to live for the One who died for our sin.
3. Verses 8-11. Reckon yourself dead unto sin and alive unto Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
4. Verses 1-10. Know – 6:1-10 When Christ died, we died with Him; when Christ resurrected, we resurrected with Him. Satan wants us ignorant but God wants us to know.
5. Verses11-12. Reckon – 6:11-12 It is not enough merely to know our new position in Christ; we must, by faith, reckon it to be true in our own individual lives. Reckoning is faith in action, resting on the Word of God despite circumstances or feelings.
6. Verses 12-23. Yield – 6:13-23 This yielding is an act of our own wills, a step of obedience to the Lord. It is not enough to know this wonderful doctrine; we must take this final step of yielding the members of our bodies to Christ. The word means to submit or to give way to. At a Yield Sign, we are to yield the right-a-way to other traffic. The word also means to bow.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
7. We, as God’s children, are to bow—to submit—to give way unto God in our lives. Yielding to God takes submission to His will. f. Surrendering to God’s will:
a. Opens Our Spiritual Eyes - John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
b. Give Us Power in Prayer - 1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
c. Produces Joy - John 15:10-11 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
d. Causes Christ to Manifest Himself To Us - John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
e. Brings the Filling of the Holy Spirit - Ephesians 5:17-18 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. (18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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