NEW TESTAMENT 5
Lecture 19
Romans 6: 1 – 6:23
Three Instructions 
for Gaining 
Victory over Sin
Romans 5 – 8
•	Describe the Christian life after ______________ by ______________. Chapters 6 & 7 show the negative side of the new life while chapter 8 shows the positive side. Chapter 6 is mostly about freedom from sin while chapter 7 is about freedom from the law. Chapter 8 covers the positive side of the Christian life that is controlled by and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
6:1 –
•	Paul has just said that “where ______________ abounded, ______________ did much more abound.” You can almost here someone say, “If to multiply sin is to multiply God’s grace, then let us go on sinning. It will give God His great chance.” 
Antinomianism
•	Is the name of this thinking and Paul has dealt with it briefly in 3:8. Its basic idea is that the man who is “______________” can morally do pretty much whatever he desires to do. 
Paul’s Answer
•	Is like a hammer! Continue in sin! ______________!  How can we who have died to sin go on living in it? You must have misunderstood your conversion and baptism. Paul describes the believer’s dying with Christ to his old life and the rising with him into a new way of life. 
Paul says,
•	Any one who has truly understood the meaning of his/her ______________—a clean and final break with the old way of life—would never come up with such a conclusion!
Paul’s Point
•	Our baptism was a real sharing in Christ’s death and resurrection, so that we are now living in a new ______________ of life (3-5, 8-9). 
•	Since Christ’s death was dying our from under sins power, we who died with him have (in principle) won clear of sin’s dominion 10, 6-7).
•	Therefore, we are called to live out what we really are—men dead to sin and alive for God and righteousness (11-14).
•	Know (6:1-10)
•	The repetition of the word “______________” in verses 3, 6 and 9 indicates that Paul wanted us to understand a basic doctrine. Christian living depends on Christian learning; ______________ is always founded on ______________. If Satan can keep a Christian ignorant, he can keep him defeated.
The Greek word
•	 used in this verse is used 41 times in the NT and 19 times in Romans. It appears in Romans 4 where it is translated as “______________, ______________, or ______________”. It means “to take into account, to calculate, to estimate”.  The word {impute) –to put to one’s account—is perhaps the best translation.
To reckon 
•	simply means to ______________ that God says what is true to His Word and that this is really true for your life.
Paul didn’t tell
•	 his readers to “______________” as if they were dead to sin, or even to understand it fully; but to act upon God’s Word and claim it for themselves.  It is like endorsing a check. If we really believe there is money in the account, we will sign our name and collect the money. 
2. Reckoning
•	is not claiming a promise, but acting upon a promise.  God does not demand us to become ______________ to sin, but commands us to act upon it. Even if we do not act upon it, the facts are still true.
RECKON:
•	Paul’s first instruction centered on the MIND!. This second instruction centers on the ______________ (Reckon, believe, trust God’s Word).  His third instruction centers on the ______________.
3. The word yield
•	 is found five times in this section (v 13, 16, and 19).  It means to “place at one’s disposal, to present, to offer as a sacrifice”.  According to Romans 12:1, the  believer’s body should be presented to the Lord as a “______________ ______________” for His glory.  
The OT sacrifices
•	 were dead sacrifices. The Lord may ask some of us to ______________ for Him, but He asks all of us to ______________ for Him.
This is an act
•	 of the will based on the knowledge we have of what ______________ has ______________ for us. It is an intellectual act—not an impulsive decision of the moment based on some emotional stirring. It is important to notice the tenses of the verbs in these verses. 
A literal translation is
•	” Do not constantly allow sin to reign in your moral body so that you are constantly obeying its lusts. Neither constantly yield your members of your body as weapons (or ______________) or unrighteousness to sin; but once for all yield yourselves to God.” That once for all surrender is described in Romans 12:1.
Three words summarize
•	 the reasons for our yielding the bodies to Christ: ______________, ______________ and ______________.
It is because 
•	of God’s ______________ that we yield ourselves to him. Paul has proved that we are not saved by the Law and that we do not live under the Law. The fact that we are saved by grace does not give us an excuse for sinning. 
But it does
 give us reason to obey. Sin and Law go together. “The sting of ______________ is ______________; and the strength of sin is the law (1 Cor 15:56). Since we are not under Law, but under grace, sin is robbed of its strength.
The illustration
•	 of the ______________ and ______________ is obvious. Whatever you ______________ to becomes your ______________.  Before you were saved, you were the slave of sin. Now that you belong to Christ, you are freed from that old slavery and made the servant of Christ. 
•	This illustration has some problems which we will look at next:
Paul is Attacking Antinomianism
•	Even in these verses (6:15-23). The very suggestion that freedom from the law means freedom to sin is absurd for Paul. You should see your ______________ as a ______________ of ______________. It is a law of governing all service that the slave must yield to his master: exclusive obedience!
The Issue at Hand
•	Is whether the Christian will serve ______________ or ______________? One service leads to death and the other to life. As Christians, we have made up our minds. We have left the master of sin and serve righteousness now. It is possible for a man to change his mater/service, but he cannot change the fact he will serve!
•	If you are free from serving sin, you will serve righteousness…if you are free from serving righteousness…you will serve sin.
The Application
•	If Christians are as exclusively bound in our ______________ service as we were in our ______________, then our actions must correspond. We now devote ourselves to doing good and not evil.  What we used to get in our old way of service should cause us to blush today as we grow in holiness.    
Verse 19
•	 suggests that the Christian ought to be as enthusiastic in yielding to the Lord as he was as in yielding to sin. A man once said, “ I want to be as good a ______________ as I was a good ______________!”  Paul knew this feeling as he often referred to himself as the chief of sinners.
The unsaved person
•	 is free—______________ from ______________ (v. 20). But his bondage to sin only leads him deeper into slavery so that it becomes harder and harder to do what is right. 
The Prodigal Son
•	 is an example of this (Lk 15:11-24).  When he was at home, he decided he wanted his freedom, so he left home to find himself and to enjoy himself. But his rebellion only led him deeper into slavery. He was the slave to wrong desires, then the slave to wrong deeds, and finally the literal slave taking care of pigs. Trying to find himself, he lost himself. It was only when he was yielded and returned ______________ to his father that he found ______________ ______________.
If you serve a master, 
•	you can expect to receive wages. ______________ pays ______________—______________!  God also pays wages—holiness and everlasting life. In this old life we produce fruit that made us ashamed. In the new life in Christ, we produce fruit that glorifies God and brings joy to our lives.  
We usually apply
•	 verse 23 to the lost, but it also has a warning to Christians. “There is a ______________ unto ______________ (1 Jn 3:17; 1 Cor 11:30).  Samson, for example, would not yield himself to God, but preferred to yield to the lusts of the flesh and the end result was the death (Judges 16).  
If the believer refuses
•	 to surrender his body to the Lord, but uses it for sinful purposes, then he is in ______________ of being ______________ by the Father, and this could mean ______________. (See Hebrews 12:5-11 and note the end of verse 9 in particular). 
Servants –
•	The Greek word is “______________”. Ancient ______________ was more than an exclusive relationship with an employer of today. Today we can sit by the bosses desk during the day and then fiddle in another’s orchestra by night. This was not so in the ancient world.