The Normal Christian Life

The Path of Progress

Romans 5,6,7,8 basically deal with three areas
of the Christian Life.
Chapter 5 deals with justification
Chapter 6,7 deal with sanctification
Chapter 8 deals with glorification
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• We use terms like righteousness (right
standing), justification ( just as if I never) and
even salvation. We realize that the penalty for
sin and death (which is the end of sin) has
been paid for them once and for all. We start
living our life with the understanding that
Jesus paid the price for your sin and that you
are absolved from them on that basis by the
blood of Jesus. This is all appropriated by
“faith”
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• Our sin and our death were inherent because
we are all linked to Adam by way of birthright.
• It is in our very nature to sin or in our very
nature to be moral, in either case there was a
need to judge man’s inability to please God by
sin or by morality.
• According to Romans 5 you can’t judge sin
without a standard or a law to judge it right or
wrong.
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• The antitype of the blood being shed by an
innocent covered the wrath of God until the
coming of Jesus.
• From Adam until the death of Jesus, blood was
shed on a continual basis to cover a continual
sinner.
• The Law was given to us to show us the heart of
God, on who he wants us to be and how he wants
us to live. Judgment came and brought
condemnation because of man’s inability to live
God’s law or His word.
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• Paradise and the doctrine thereof was closed during
one of the three days that Jesus was gone after the
crucifixion. Paradise was the holding place for all the
saints who were continually covered by the blood
sacrifices which only pointed to the True Sacrificial
Lamb, Jesus Himself. They couldn’t gain access to
heaven, because they needed to be in right standing
with God. There sins were covered but they were never
changed by birthright.
• Jesus went and preached Jesus and took captivity,
captive.
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• Two Major Schools of Theology in the United
States… Dallas Theological Seminary and
Fullerton Theological Seminary there are two
major themes in christianity, eternal security, and
predestination. This book deals with the effect of
christianity on people who live inside of realizing
the price for the penalty of sin has been paid but
that the power of sin still prevails. Subsequently
in many ways we are just like those in the Old
Testament before the coming of Jesus, counting
now on His blood to just keep cleansing and
cleansing with out cooperation on our part.
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• We use terms in church life like, grace, freedom, the
law, failing to realize that the life of Jesus pertains to
nature and origin, not to nurture and history.
• Grace does pertain to penalty but more to the divine
enablement of God through the Holy Ghost ,to impart
the person of Jesus Christ in our lives by way of
revelation. We now are part of the royal family of God.
The church will rule and reign with Him a thousand
years in a righteous reign, you are being taught the
principles and application of that life right now in
preparation for that reign. You are the government of
that millennial reign, how can you administer a
government not knowing or believing The King.
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• This was the issue in the early church of Rome, they
were continually failing and needed to know if it was
normal to just keep sinning now that they were in
grace. That is the question posed in Romans 6.1 “What
shall we say them? Shall we continue in sin that grace
may abound?
• The answer was no, your not making progress in this
transformation process called sanctification or a setting
apart. God doesn’t want us to live in defeat in our
christian lives, he wants us to experience victory by
overcoming and yielding to His Spirit.
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• There must have been a second question ask
to Paul, in chapter 6 of Romans from the
church there. The first question was answered
as it relates to Adam and his nature. The
answer was no, because it is not in you to sin,
you are listening to the devil and responding
from the nurturing of that sin, and frankly
your old habits. You have a new nature and
the nature of a thing always produces fruit
after its own kind.
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• We see failure in their voices again, let’s look at
verse 15 of Romans 6, “ What then? Shall we sin,
because we are not under the law, but under
grace? God forbid.”
• This is what some people that use the term
freedom have embraced. They count grace as
having negated the law of God. So they become a
law unto themselves, misrepresenting God by
their actions and conduct. Where there is no law
there is no condemnation. They think they are
free.
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• This path is one of frustration and failure over and over
again. We must understand the reason we don’t sin or
attain righteousness by conduct is that the old adam
can’t do that. The second Adam’s nature will not
produce sin or self righteousness. It only produces the
mind of Christ by the Holy Spirit to the believer.
• It is not in you to sin, and when you do it is only
because your not catching it in time to cast it down,
your acting out of accusation and old history.
• Remember sin isn’t dead , it is alive and well, it is us
who are dead to sin, disconnected from it by the Cross
of Jesus Christ.