Dead Man Walking

Dead man walking Dead to sin walking alive in Christ By Russ Kujawski 1/22/22 Dead to Sin, Alive to God Romans 6:1-14 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. 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. 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. The title of this is Dead Man Walking, you might think of that show The Walking dead. Although I never watched the show I believe it’s about zombies. I’m not talking about zombies.. I’m talking about our death to sin a life style of sin. We walk in the death of sin and are alive in the grace that is received thru your death to sin. Time to dig into Romans 6:1-14 Romans 6:1-2 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? V1 What shall we say then, So then, therefore. In the verse prior to this(Romans 5:20-21) it speaks of the law the Torah came in and sin increased and grace increased . As sin reigned in death, grace reigned in righteousness leading to eternal life with Christ. Verse 1 sounds kind of cool if I continue to live the life style of sin even though we have supposedly committed to Christ I’ll just get more grace I’m all good. But the thing is IF you continue to live the life style of sin then you are not dead to sin . What’s verse 2 say about continuing to sin.? “2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” No you cannot continue to live the lifestyle of sin. Let me clarify why I use the term “life style” as Christians we will have a slip of the tongue , a slip of thought ,we will slip. That’s why we have an advocate 1Jo 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. If Christians didn’t slip or sin then there would be no need for an advocate. Yet as we continue to grow into the image and knowledge of our creator (Christ) as Colossians 3:10 tells us and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Those slips should become less frequent . So no we do not continue in a lifestyle of sin. Verse 3-4 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? I like how the Complete Jewish Bible {CJB} phrase’s this verse. Instead of baptized it uses immersed and instead of Christ Jesus it uses Messiah Yeshua. 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism [immersion] into death, in order that, just as Christ {Yeshua} was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Buried with Christ . Baptism by immersion a complete covering and then raised to walk in a new life that was started when you first became a Christian or commonly called born again. You have died to self and have been born anew in Christ.. Baptism Also Identifies our fellow ship with Christ: of Christian baptism; a rite of immersion in water as commanded by Christ, by which one after confessing his sins and professing his faith in Christ, having been born again by the Holy Spirit unto a new life, identifies publicly with the fellowship of Christ and the church. Foot Note; notice it’s after confession and profession. Baptism with out confession and profession is just getting wet You have the right to be immersed (baptized) because of your confession of faith in Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ) being completely buried and resurrected unto a new life. In Rom 6 Paul states we are "baptized unto death" meaning that we are not only dead to our former ways, but they are buried. To return to them is as unthinkable for a Christian as for one to dig up a dead corpse! To continue to live in sin is like being a zombie. Your old life is dead but you continue to live in it. Verse 5-6 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 ( Old Nature) 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. CJB 6b so that the entire body of our sinful propensities {nature} might be destroyed , and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. Old self or old man or old nature is in reference to the two fold nature of man, the corrupt and the truly Christian man, conformed to the one nature of God( Adonai), our creator Jesus ( Yeshua ) When we come to a saving knowledge of Christ (born again ) we crucify our old self that is our old nature. It is put to death it is destroyed so that we are no longer enslaved to sin. And resurrected anew in a Christ like nature being transformed daily into his knowledge and image {Colo 3:9-10}. We no longer desire to live in sin as the old nature would have us live. No longer live the life style of sin. Immersion (baptism ) is a representation of our old nature being buried and our new nature being resurrected . Verse 8-9 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. If If If I’m not sure how I feel about the word “If” it has a 2 fold purpose. If we have died with Christ then we will live with Christ our old nature old self was crucified with Christ and then we are resurrected. With sin not having authority over us. We walk anew in Christ . Dead to sin yet alive in Christ. Death has no authority over us. I think this verse has a 2 fold meaning spiritually we have died and then resurrected . In a physical sense when we die we will go straight to be with the Lord ALIVE 2Co 5:8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Jesus the Christ { Yahshua the Messiah } died to sin although he himself did not sin he bore our sin. 1Pe 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree {that is the Cross}, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. Jesus died for our sins in our stead once and for all he said “It is finished “ meaning our penalty for our sin has been paid in full. It is done. As it say’s in Romans 6:6 we have crucified our old self(sin nature ) and have been buried and resurrected anew that sin has no authority over us it is done away with. 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. With the old man dead having been put off and a new man put on with Christ paying the penalty for our sin we walk as a dead man yet we are alive in Christ. Verse 12-14 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. The one thing that isn’t redeemed as of yet when we become a follower of Christ is our body it is sinful flesh and perishable and will remain so until the time of our physical resurrection. Galatians 5 :16 -17 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 1 John 2:15-17 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. Romans7: For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. These verses make it pretty clear that to live in the flesh and not the spirit we can not please God for the flesh leads to death but the Spirit leads to life. If we live in the flesh we are bound by the law, if we live in the Spirit we are not under the law we are freed from legalism . 1 Cor 15: 42-49 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I think this is pretty clear our body a buried imperfect and raised perfect. Be a dead man walking having the old man (old nature) crucified buried and resurrected a new man (new nature) that is being made into the knowledge and image of our creator Yeshua the messiah. By all accounts we are a dead man walking. Amen