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Adam and Eve before the Fall on earth – Able not to sin – Able to sin All people after the Fall on earth – Not able not to sin – Able to sin Justified Believers after the Fall on earth – Able not to sin – Able to sin Glorified Believers in Heaven – Able not to sin – Not able to sin

5:20b but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 6:2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

MAIN PRINCIPLE People that God justifies by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ… He always sanctifies by grace through the power of the Holy spirit. 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Justification: saved from sin’s penalty – Impute Christ’s righteousness – Expiate the believer’s sins – Once for all declared “as righteous as Christ” Sanctification: being saved from sin’s power – A process on earth done by the Holy Spirit to infuse the character of Christ into a person – God always sanctifies those He justifies Glorification: will be saved from sin’s presence – In the presence of Christ His character is completely infused into the believer

CHRISTIAN LIFE BY GOD’S GRACE Chosen by God before creation Born again by the Holy Spirit Internally called by the Holy Spirit Godly sorrow over their sin Confession of their sin Repentance from their sin Faith/Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Justified by the Father Baptized to publically identify with Jesus Christ Sanctified by the Holy Spirit Glorified by God

3 ABERRATIONS ON JUSTIFICATION Moralism (Social Gospel) – Ethics without Justification Legalism (Christian Pharisee) – Rules without Justification Antinomianism (Cheap Grace) – Knowledge without Justification “Dynamics of Spiritual Life” – Richard Lovelace

6:1 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.

6:5 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. 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.

CHRIST IN YOU – YOU IN CHRIST 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 1 Corinthians 1:30

2:1 And you were dead in the 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 now 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 2:1-3

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:4-9

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

6:11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 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.

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 1 Peter 1:9-12

CHRISTIAN LIFE BY GOD’S GRACE Chosen by God before creation Born again by the Holy Spirit Internally called by the Holy Spirit Godly sorrow over their sin Confession of their sin Repentance from their sin Faith/Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Justified by the Father Baptized to publically identify with Jesus Christ Sanctified by the Holy Spirit Glorified by God

PRINCIPLES All believers should be baptized to publically identify with the Lord Jesus Christ. People that God justifies by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ… He always sanctifies by grace through the power of the Holy spirit. 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. Philippians 1:6

APPLICATIONS By God’s grace have you had godly sorrow over your sin; confessed your sin; repented of your sin, and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation? What evidence is there in your life that God is sanctifying you by His Holy Spirit? What does God want to change in your life to make you more like Christ? Will you pray daily that God will make the change in you?