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Wrestling with Sanctification
 
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Introduction:1.
 
Section outline:a.
 
Completed: Justification
 –
how the believer is declared righteous. (3:21-5:21)b.
 
Here
: Sanctification
 –
how the believer is made holy. (6:1-7:25)c.
 
Upcoming
: Preservation
 –
how the believer is kept securely. (8:1-39)2.
 
“Sanctification” does not occur in the NKJV or KJV but is in vss 19, 22
 a.
 
Greek:
ἁ
γιασμ
ό
ς
 b.
 
6:19:i.
 
NKJV: “I
speak in human
terms
because of the weakness of your flesh. For just asyou presented your members
as
slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness
leading
 to
more
lawlessness, so now present your members
as
slaves
of 
righteousness forholiness
”
 ii.
 
ESV: “so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to
sanctification
”
 iii.
 
NASB: “so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in
sanctification
”
 c.
 
6:22:i.
 
NKJV: “
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God,you have your fruit to holiness
 
, and the end, everlasting life
”
 ii.
 
ESV: “
the fruit you get leads to sanctification
”
 iii.
 
NASB: “
resulting in sanctification
”
 3.
 
Review of sanctification:a.
 
Something accomplished on the cross that energizes sanctification: Romans 6:5-
6, “
For if wehave been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be
in thelikeness
of 
His
resurrection,
6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with
Him,
that thebody of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin
”
 b.
 
Spiritual disciplines:i.
 
Know (Romans 6:6, “
knowing this
 
, that our old man was crucified with
Him,
that thebody of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin
”)
 ii.
 
Reckon (Romans 6:
11, “
reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Godin Christ Jesus our Lord
”)
 iii.
 
Purify (Romans 6:12, “
do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obeyit in its lusts
”)
 iv.
 
Present (Romans 6:13, “
do not present your members
as
instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead,and your members
as
instruments of righteousness to God
”)
 c.
 
Gotta serve somebody 
: Romans 6:17-
18, “
though
you were slaves of sin
 
, yet you obeyedfrom the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18
And having been setfree from sin, you became slaves of righteousness
” (No middle ground. No neutrality in this
war!)
 
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d.
 
The Law cannot accomplish sanctificationi.
 
Romans 7:6, “
But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to whatwe were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not
in
theoldness of the letter
”
 ii.
 
Married to another (freed from the law)1.
 
Romans 7:4, “
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to thelaw through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another
—
toHim who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God
”
 2.
 
Note the purpose statement above: “
that we should bear fruit to God
”
 3.
 
What do married people want to do? (1 Corinthians 7:33-
34, “
But he who ismarried cares about the things of the world
—
how he may please
his
wife.
34
 There is
 
a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried womancares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and inspirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world
—
how shemay please
her 
husband.
”)
 4.
 
What question should the Christian ask? “What would please my Savior andLord!”
 Outline:I.
 
Is Paul writing as his experience as a Christian?II.
 
Two conflicting principles within PaulIII.
 
The results of these principlesIV.
 
How long will this warfare continue?Detail:I.
 
Is Paul writing as his experience as a Christian (in Romans 7:14-25)?a.
 
Issue
before
or
after 
conversion?i.
 
Of vital significanceii.
 
Pre-Christian? Then the passage has no bearing on the Christian life. Rather a
lost man’s struggle with sin
 iii.
 
Post conversion?1.
 
Then describes Paul’s struggle with indwelling sin as a saved person
 2.
 
Far reaching implications to the doctrine of sanctification!
 
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b.
 
Expanded:i.
 
Those of the “higher life”, “perfectionist” camp would find it impossible toharmonize their view of sanctification with Paul’s experience if it is a post
-conversion experience!ii.
 
Reformed view is that Paul is speaking of his own personal struggle with sin!And that this is an accurate description
of every saint’s struggle with indwelling
sin!c.
 
Defended: (Note: From Romans, an Interpretive Outline, Steele and Curtis, pp 126-130)i.
 
Use of the present tense: (7:14-22)I am carnal, sold under sin.
15
For what I am doing, I do not understand.For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
16
 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that
it is
good.
17
 But now,
it is
no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18
For Iknow that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will ispresent with me, but
how 
to perform what is good I do not find.
19
Forthe good that I will
to do,
I do not do; but the evil I will not
to do,
that Ipractice.
20
Now if I do what I will not
to do,
it is no longer I who do it,but sin that dwells in me.
21
I find then a law, that evil is present withme, the one who wills to do good.
22
For I delight in the law of Godaccording to the inward man.ii.
 
Paul acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior in this section1.
 
Romans 7:24-25,
“O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from
this body of death?
25
I thank God
—
through Jesus Christ our Lord
!”
 2.
 
Cf I Corinthians 12:3, “no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by theHoly Spirit”
 iii.
 
Paul’s expression of attitudes towards God’s law in
this section1.
 
22, “I delight in the law of God according to the inward man”
 2.
 
25, “with the mind I myself serve the law of God”
 iv.
 
The structure of Paul’s argument in Romans
 
 –
Hodge (
Extra .. not in class
!)
His great object in the first eight chapters, is to show that the whole work of the sinner's salvation, his justification and sanctification, are not of the law,but of grace; that legal obedience can never secure the one, nor legal effortsthe other 
. Accordingly, in the first five chapters, he shows that we are justifiedby faith, without the works of the law; in the sixth, that this doctrine of gratuitous justification, instead of leading to licentiousness, presents the onlycertain and effectual means of sanctification. In the beginning of the seventhchapter, he shows that the believer is really thus free from the law, and is nowunder grace; and that while under the law he brought forth fruit unto sin, butbeing under grace, he now brings forth fruit unto God. The question here arises,Why is the holy, just, and good law thus impotent? Is it because it is evil? Far
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