Raised To A New YouGreetings and welcome to all present and online, in America and abroad. Today, as we continue our study in Paul’s letter to the Romans. Pastor Landis Fisher teaches from the sixth chapter about the outcome of the Gospel in the lives of the ones who believe it. Since the Gospel is a free gift from God not based on any personal merit, most people who hear it wrongly conclude that it is a message of lawlessness, although nothing could be further from the truth. Listen now as our teacher presents a message he calls: “Raised To A New You”
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 1:4 – 10 (NASB)
Jer 1:4 Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,
Jer 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Jer 1:6 Then I said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth.”
Jer 1:7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.
Jer 1:8 “Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Jer 1:9 Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
Jer 1:10 “See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant.”
New Testament Scripture Reading: Romans 6:1 – 7 (NASB)
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?
Rom 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection,
Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin;
Rom 6:7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) One of the main reasons for God saving us is to make us holy so that through the extreme renewal that we present to the world in the new way we are living becomes a great testimony of the love and grace of God, thus drawing others to Him.
#2) Since the ‘old you’ is still in tact, such conclusions as the thought of continuing in more and more sin are natural fallen conclusions to and endless amount of grace, however, God the Holy Spirit will never allow us to be content with the fallen behavior of the previous life.#3) Being baptized by God the Holy Spirit, that is, immersed into the death of Jesus makes the old life void in God’s sight, and brings into the ‘new you’ a new desire to obey the truth and produces a state of discontentment against living in sin; this transaction makes us a “new you”.
