Apr. 17, 2022

“ALIVE FROM THE DEAD”

ROMANS 6:3-11

Romans 6:3-4 “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

The Christian life is a resurrected life. It is new life, not confinement and cramping our freedom. The Christian life is not restrictions and frustrations. It is a life of truth, excitement, and genuine fulfillment.

Three Things To Consider About “Being Alive From The Dead”

1.   Dead In Sin

What does it mean to be dead in sin? Paul gives a description in Ephesians 2:1-7.

*Caught In The Lifestyle of This World.

Ephesians 2:1-2

*Without Meaning

Romans 5:12, 3:10,23

*Lacking Spiritual Sense

Ephesians 2:3 “Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.”

To be dead in sin finally means to have spiritual senses that are completely lifeless.

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

Life apart from God will not satisfy. Apart from God, life is aimless and purposeless. Without Christ, man is dead in sin.

2.   Dead To Sin

Romans 6:11 “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What Does It Mean When An Individual Becomes Dead To Sin?

*You Are Free From Sin’s Control

Romans 6:6 “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.”

To be dead to sin first means that a person is no longer controlled by the tyranny of sin. Sin can no longer be the habit and practice of life.

*You Are Free From The World’s Pressures

*You Are Free From The Fear Of Death

Romans 6:9 “Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.”

Hebrew 2:15 “And release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

3.   Alive To God

Romans 6:11 “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What does that mean? Why is it important that we understand what it means to be alive in God?

Being Alive To God Means Three Things:

*A Transformed Life

Romans 12:1-2

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

1 John 3:14 “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.”

In Jesus Christ they became new people. Old things passed away, and everything became new:

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

*A Transferred Purpose

To be alive to God also means that a person is lifted into partnership with the creative purpose of God. 

To be alive to God means that a person has been lifted into partnership with the creative purposes of God.

*A Transcending Triumph

To be alive to God means that a person rises above circumstances to triumph in time of trouble.

Trouble is merely a burden we must learn to bear and it is an opportunity we must learn to use. To be alive to God, means we cannot dodge trouble. We have to treat trouble as an opportunity and rise above it in order to triumph over it.

Salvation is not just that we go through the mechanics of a faith and have our name on a roll and attend church occasionally. That’s not salvation at all.

Salvation comes as we become dead to sin and alive to God. Salvation changes our lives. The experience of salvation links us with the creative purposes of God and causes us to rise above our circumstances to triumph over every experience of life.

Have you experienced this new life personally? Do you have that salvation?