2/22/15 Sermon Notes

Last Sunday, we continued in our study of Romans 6.  Pastor spoke about the The matchless grace of God and the power of God to cover our sin with Christ's righteousness.

He also gave a list of things that we usually don't even recognize until we are saved (or until we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior). I don't think I caught all of them, but you'll get the general idea and probably even have some of your own that you could add to the list.

When we are saved we begin to recognize:

•   Our sinfulness & hopelessness because of our sin
•   There is one way, one truth, one life through Christ
•   Christ truly is the Son of God
•   We became a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17)
•   Jesus is Lord, my master, & my God (Like Paul - Damascus Road - Acts 22)
•   Our submission to God by our love for Him
•   We became dead to sin
•   Recognition to where I am in the big scope of eternity
•   Indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God
•   The fullness of the grace of God and His mercy
•   At salvation our sorrow is turned to joy
•   Maturity in Christ enlightens us to the truth in Gods Word

Here are some of the scriptures that Pastor referenced:

Romans 6:1-4  (ESV)
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.

Romans 7:21-25  (ESV)
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.  22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,  23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.  24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?  25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Romans 8:1-5  (ESV)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,  4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.  5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

As I type this, I'm reminded of the words in the song Grace Greater Than Our Sin:

 Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace,
Freely bestowed on all who believe!
You that are longing to see His face,
Will you this moment His grace receive?

Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin!

Have a great week,
Lauri