LIBERATING GRACE

Romans 6:1-14
 ROMANS 6:1-4

• (1) What shall we say then? Are we to continue in

sin that grace may abound? (2) By no means! How
can we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Do you
not know that all of us who have been baptized
into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4)
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.
 ROMANS 6:5-7

• (5) 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. (6) 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. (7) For one who has died
has been set free from sin.
 ROMANS 6:8-11

• (8) Now if we have died with Christ, we believe

that we will also live with him. (9) We know that
Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die
again; death no longer has dominion over him.
(10) For the death he died he died to sin, once for
all, but the life he lives he lives to God. (11) So
you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and
alive to God in Christ Jesus.
 ROMANS 6:12-14

• (12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal

body, to make you obey its passions. (13) 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. (14) For sin will have no dominion
over you, since you are not under law but under
grace.
1. THE POWER OF LIBERATING
GRACE

Romans 6:1-4
 ROMANS 6:1-4

• (1) What shall we say then? Are we to continue in

sin that grace may abound? (2) By no means! How
can we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Do you
not know that all of us who have been baptized
into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4)
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.
 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

• (17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new

creation. The old has passed away; behold, the
new has come.
 EPHESIANS 2:1-3

• (1) And you were dead in trespasses and sins, (2)

in which you once walked, following the course of
this world, following the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit that is not at work in the sons of
disobedience – (3) among whom we all once lived
in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the
desires of the body and the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind,
 EPHESIANS 2:4-6A

• (4) But God being rich in mercy, because of the

great love with which he loved us, (5) even when
we were dead in trespasses made us alive together
with Christ – by grace you have been saved – (6)
and raised us up with him . . .
 EZEKIEL 36:25-27

• (25) I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you

shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from
all your idols I will cleanse you. (26) And I will give
you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within
you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) And I will
put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
my statues and be careful to obey my rules.
2. THE PURPOSE OF LIBERATING
GRACE

Romans 6:5-11
 ROMANS 6:5-7

• (5) 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. (6) 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. (7) For one who has
died has been set free from sin.
 ROMANS 6:8-11

• (8) Now if we have died with Christ, we believe

that we will also live with him. (9) We know that
Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die
again; death no longer has dominion over him.
(10) For the death he died he died to sin, once for
all, but the life he lives he lives to God. (11) So
you also must consider yourselves dead to sin
and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
 1 JOHN 3:8

• (8) Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the

devil, for the devil has been sinning from the
beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared
was to destroy the works of the devil.
3. THE PRACTICE OF LIBERATING
GRACE

Romans 6:12-13
 ROMANS 6:12-13

• (12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal

body, to make you obey its passions. (13) 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.
 PHILIPPIANS 2:12-13

• (12) Therefore, my beloved, as you have always

obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but
much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling, (13) for it is God
who works in you, both to will and to work for his
good pleasure.
 2 PETER 1:3-4

• (3) His divine power has granted to us all things

that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him who called us to his own glory
and excellence, (4) by which he has granted to us
his precious and very great promises, so that
through them you may become partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped from the corruption
that is in the world because of sinful desire.
 2 PETER 1:5-7

• (5) For this very reason, make every effort to

supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue
with knowledge, (6) and knowledge with self-
control, and self-control with steadfastness, and
steadfastness with godliness, (7) and godliness
with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection
with love.
 PHILIPPIANS 4:9

• (9) What you have learned and received and heard

and seen in me – practice these things, and the
God of peace will be with you.
THE PROMISE OF LIBERATING
GRACE

Romans 6:14
 ROMANS 6:14

• (14) For sin will have no dominion over you,

since you are not under law but under grace.
 PHILIPPIANS 1:6

• (6) And I am sure of this, that he who began a good

work in you will bring it to completion at the day
of Jesus Christ.
 HEBREWS 7:25

• (25) Consequently, he is able to save to the

uttermost those who draw near to God through
him, since he always lives to make intercession for
them.
 1 JOHN 3:9

• (9) No one born of God makes a practice of

sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he
cannot keep on sinning because he has been born
of God.”
• “It is a mighty manifestation of his grace indeed, when it can live,
and act, and conquer in such hearts as ours; when, in defiance of an
evil nature and an evil world, and all the force and subtilty of Satan, a
weak worm is still upheld, and enabled not only to climb, but to thresh
the mountains; when a small spark is preserved through storms and
floods. In these circumstances, the work of grace is to be estimated,
not merely from its imperfect appearance, but from the difficulties it
has to struggle and overcome; and therefore our holiness does not
consist in great attainments, but in spiritual desires, in hungerings, in
thirstings, in mournings; in humiliation of heart, in poverty of spirit,
submission, meekness, in cordial admiring thoughts of Jesus, and
dependence upon him alone for all we want.” (John Newton)
 ROMANS 7:21-25

• (21) So I find it to be a law that when I want to do

right, evil lies close at hand. (22) For I delight in
the law of God, in my inner being, (23) but I see in
my members another law waging war against the
law of my mind and making me a captive to the
law of sin that dwells in my members. (24)
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me
from this body of death? (25) Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself
serve the law of God with my mind, but with my
flesh I serve the law of sin
 1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-57

• (54) When the perishable puts on the

imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality,
then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.” (55) “ O
death, where is your victory? O death, where is
your sting?” (56) The sting of death is sin, and the
power of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to
God, who gives us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
 CONCLUSION

• “Humbled I ought to be, to find that I am so totally

depraved; but not discouraged, since Jesus is
appointed to me of God, wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption; and since I find that,
in the midst of all this darkness and deadness, he
keeps alive the principle of grace which he has
implanted in my heart.”
• (John Newton)