The Spirit of God provides the Christian with both the accountability and power to fight against sin. Because the death of Christ has freed all those who identify in Him from a slavery to sin, there becomes therefore not only an expectation to battle the enemy of sin but additionally the scriptures also give us God’s strategy.
Observations: Prerequisite understandings:
- #1 – Righteousness – Only the morally righteous will see God
- #2 – Federal Headship – Our source of imputation
- #3 – Death’s Finality – Whoever has died is freed from sin
Conclusions:
- Jesus’ death provides our death to sin
- Know that, the fact of our identity in Christ must become the faith of our freedom in Christ
- Recognize, with conviction onto action, the purpose of the Christian, yet on earth
Application:
- Do not trust your feelings/emotions/temptations – know the truth
- Stop sourcing your strength in yourself – reckon yourself dead to sin through Jesus
- Live for God because you are alive to God
Romans 6:6
“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.”
2 Corinthians 4:11
“For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Philippians 1:21
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Colossians 2:20
“Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules.”
2 Timothy 2:11
“Here is a trustworthy saying: ‘If we died with him, we will also live with him.'”
Colossians 3:3
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
Romans 3:22
“This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.”
Romans 5:19
“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.”
Romans 6:7
“Anyone who has died has been set free from sin.”
Watchman Nee
“If you feel that Christ has died, he has died; if you do not feel that he has died, he has died. If you feel that you have died, you have died; and if you do not feel that you have died, you have nevertheless just as surely died.”
