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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Dying to Live, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, most of us know more about our failure than
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Speaker 1: our freedom, and sadly, many Christians are trapped in a
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Speaker 1: cycle of guilt and shame, constantly keeping track of their
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Speaker 1: sins while missing the revolutionary gift of grace. But today,
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Speaker 1: on Insight for Living, Juckxwndall explains how we've been liberated
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Speaker 1: from sins' power through Christ's death and resurrection, Even so,
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Speaker 1: we often choose to remain imprisoned in old patterns. In
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Speaker 1: today's study, we'll discover how to replace spiritual defeat with
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Speaker 1: daily victory, and how to trade our exhausting preoccupation with
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Speaker 1: shame for the empowering reality of grace.
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Speaker 2: Roman includes a passage that is unfortunately not known, that
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Speaker 2: will by God's people be for a few moments, I
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Speaker 2: want you to simply listen to the reading of God's
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Speaker 2: word from the first fourteen verses of Romans six. What
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Speaker 2: shall we say, then, are we to continue in sin
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Speaker 2: so that grace may increase? May it never be? How
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Speaker 2: shall we who died to sin still live in it?
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Speaker 2: Or do you not know that all of us who
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Speaker 2: have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into
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Speaker 2: his death Therefore we have been buried with him through
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Speaker 2: baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from
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Speaker 2: the dead through the glory of the Father, so we
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Speaker 2: too might walk in newness of life. Or if we
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Speaker 2: have become united with Him in the likeness of his death,
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Speaker 2: certainly we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection.
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Speaker 2: Knowing this that our old self was crucified with him
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Speaker 2: in order that our body of sin might be done
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Speaker 2: away with, so that we would no longer be slaves
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Speaker 2: to sin. For he who has died is freed from sin. Now,
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Speaker 2: if we have died with Christ, we believe that we
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Speaker 2: shall also live with him, knowing that Christ, having been
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Speaker 2: raised from the dead, is never to die again. Death
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Speaker 2: no longer is master over him. For the death that
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Speaker 2: he died, he died to sin once for all, but
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Speaker 2: the life that he lives, he lives to God. Even so,
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Speaker 2: consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to
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Speaker 2: God in Christ. Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin reign
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Speaker 2: and your mortal body, so that you obey its lusts,
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Speaker 2: and do not go on presenting the members of your
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Speaker 2: body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. But present yourselves
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Speaker 2: to God as those alive from the dead, and your
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Speaker 2: members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall
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Speaker 2: not be master over you. For you are not under
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Speaker 2: law but under grace.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Insight for Living.
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Speaker 1: To dig deeper into the Book of Romans on your own,
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Speaker 1: be sure to purchase our Searching the Scripture's Bible study
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Speaker 1: workbook by going to insight dot org slash offer Chuck
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Speaker 1: title today's message, dying to Live.
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Speaker 2: Chances are good that most of us have never witnessed
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Speaker 2: with our own eyes human slavery, not in raw reality. Oh.
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Speaker 2: I realize we have all read books about it, and
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Speaker 2: perhaps seen live theater where such subjects is that are portrayed,
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Speaker 2: and no doubt watch television docu dramas that presented. But
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Speaker 2: we've never seen a human being standing on a slave block,
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Speaker 2: bidded for by someone purchasing him or her as he
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Speaker 2: would a mule. I can think, not think of anything
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Speaker 2: that is more unjust, brutal or ugly. As an American,
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Speaker 2: I find myself on occasion not just confused, but thinking
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Speaker 2: of that as unconscionable. That our forefathers were brave enough
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Speaker 2: to fight for our liberty from the motherland of England,
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Speaker 2: only to turn around, and most of them have slaves,
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Speaker 2: enslaving others without the slightest hesitation. Apart from the haunting
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Speaker 2: specter of guilt, think of it. Free citizens owning slaves. Frankly,
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Speaker 2: the triangles will never be mentally congruent. It took a
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Speaker 2: bloody war between the States to break the yoke of slavery.
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Speaker 2: It took a president with backbone, clear thinking, courageous at
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Speaker 2: heart to finally acknowledge the truth of it, and by
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Speaker 2: New Year's Day eighteen sixty three, releasing an emancipation Proclamation
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Speaker 2: announcing that it would be made law that slaves be freed,
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Speaker 2: not only willing to declare it, but if necessary, and
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Speaker 2: in fact he did to die for that. Interestingly, it
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Speaker 2: was not until law long after his death December eighteen
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Speaker 2: sixty five, before Congress finally brought it into action, and
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Speaker 2: the word became the bold headlines of newspapers across these
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Speaker 2: United States. Slavery legally abolished. Read the headlines. The news
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Speaker 2: swept across Capitol Hill and down the Shenandoah and over
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Speaker 2: the Appalachians to the back roads of the Carolinas, deep
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Speaker 2: into the plantations of Georgia and Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana,
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Speaker 2: Texas the cotton fields. The word was out slaves are free,
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Speaker 2: But there wasn't a plantation owner that wanted to hear
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Speaker 2: such a thing. They had operated for a long time
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Speaker 2: under the old motto, you keep them ignorant, you keep
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Speaker 2: them in the fields. And so, with the threat of
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Speaker 2: death upon those slaves, the plantation owners held on to
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Speaker 2: them as long as they could heartbreaking stories. But to
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Speaker 2: add tragedy to the scene, many slaves, knowing that they
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Speaker 2: had been freed, chose to remain living in the shacks
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Speaker 2: and squalor of slavery. Admittedly, many of them would die
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Speaker 2: if they attempted to escape. Remarkably, they stayed there till
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Speaker 2: they died, and even their children as well. Isn't it
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Speaker 2: amazing that those who had been freed chose to remain enslaved.
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Speaker 2: If you think that is tragic, I'll tell you something
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Speaker 2: that is equally bad, if not worse. Christians who have
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Speaker 2: been set free choosing to remain enslaved, finding more comfort
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Speaker 2: and security in slavery than delight and joy in the
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Speaker 2: risks of liberty. We remain there. Some of you hearing
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Speaker 2: my voice today, look as though you were free, but
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Speaker 2: you are enslaved. Fact is, you know more about your
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Speaker 2: sin than you do about your righteousness. Your preoccupation is
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Speaker 2: with the things you do wrong, and you anticipate it,
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Speaker 2: and sure enough, the end of your day is filled
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Speaker 2: with going through a list of the things that you
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Speaker 2: have failed at, as you claim by memory. First John
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Speaker 2: one point nine. Most of you know the verse by heart.
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Speaker 2: It's a wonderful verse, it's a marvelous verse. But it's
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Speaker 2: after the fact. How many of you know Romans six
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Speaker 2: thirteen by heart. Neither yield your your members as instruments
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Speaker 2: of unrighteousness, unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as
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Speaker 2: those who are alive from the dead, and your members
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Speaker 2: as instruments of righteousness to God. You're no longer a
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Speaker 2: slave to sin. You are freed from its power. The
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Speaker 2: old plantation owner has nothing on Satan. Satan has been
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Speaker 2: in charge of our lives all through our lost condition,
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Speaker 2: and he will hold on to us as long as
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Speaker 2: he can. He will make you afraid of his demons.
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Speaker 2: He will haunt you with specter of guilt and shame,
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Speaker 2: trying to get you to believe you're still under the
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Speaker 2: old master, when in fact you are not. You have
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Speaker 2: been freed. The great emancipator at Calvary has set you free.
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Speaker 2: You have come out of the grave within. I'm victorious
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Speaker 2: over sin and death. We who have no fear of
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Speaker 2: death often have to admit we still live under the
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Speaker 2: cloud of sin, thinking, well, it's inevitable. I am just
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Speaker 2: committed to it, and so the old things that once
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Speaker 2: bound me will still bind me. There's no escape from it.
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Speaker 2: I just know I'll get to go to heaven someday.
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Speaker 2: That is no way to live your life. When you
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Speaker 2: were converted, you were delivered from the power of sin,
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Speaker 2: placed into Christ. His authority became your authority. His righteousness
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Speaker 2: became your righteousness. And positionally you are as righteous as
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Speaker 2: he in the eyes of God, which means are you
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Speaker 2: ready for a shock? You can literally live days of
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Speaker 2: your life without succumbing to sin. In some circles, that's heretical.
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Speaker 2: You say, well, you don't know me. You could see
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Speaker 2: my track record. You know what you don't know me,
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Speaker 2: It's no better than yours. The difference is information. If
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Speaker 2: you don't know you've been freed, then you'll live like
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Speaker 2: a slave. But once you know you're freed, and you
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Speaker 2: consider it true, and you act upon it by presenting
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Speaker 2: yourself to God, it is remarkable what a difference it
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Speaker 2: will make in your day. Rather than beginning it with
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Speaker 2: the dread that you will fall back into the same
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Speaker 2: old habits of yesteryear. What are you doing there when
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Speaker 2: in fact God's given you a brand new enablement you
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Speaker 2: never had before His son came into your life. And here,
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Speaker 2: since Romans five twenty in the Bible waiting to be cleaned,
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Speaker 2: where sin abounded, grace super abounded. For sin increased, Grace
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Speaker 2: overshadowed it. Where sin won the day, Grace won the victory.
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Speaker 2: For sin had its way, Grace eclipsed its power and authority.
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Speaker 2: And the result is you are able to live above
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Speaker 2: the drag and the drain of sin, if you only
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Speaker 2: knew how to do that. So here we are in
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Speaker 2: Romans chapter six, turning point in the letter. Up till now,
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Speaker 2: it's been all about sin, our depravity, Christ's death for us,
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Speaker 2: our salvation by Grace. Apart from works, lest anyone should boast,
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Speaker 2: we are now freed from sin, We are now freed
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Speaker 2: from his authority. We are now in Christ what does
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Speaker 2: that mean? There were some who read Paul's words in
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Speaker 2: Romans five twenty and thought, yeah, there's Paul Antinomianism that
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Speaker 2: he is believing as he does, that we can just
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Speaker 2: live as we please and let it all ride, just
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Speaker 2: do whatever. That's not grace, that's heresy. If that's your
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Speaker 2: idea of grace, you've not been well taught. In fact,
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Speaker 2: the latter half of Romans chapter six is about that.
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Speaker 2: The first half is just informing us that we are free,
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Speaker 2: urging us to live by that truth. In fact, there
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Speaker 2: are two questions when you get to chapter six that
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Speaker 2: I'd like you to note Verse one and verse fifteen.
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Speaker 2: They look alike, but they are different. Verse one. Are
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Speaker 2: we to continue in sin that grace may increase? Since
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Speaker 2: it says where sin abounded, grace abounds all the more
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Speaker 2: Verse twenty of chapter five. Should I now live under
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Speaker 2: sin and under its authority somehow, hoping that grace will
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Speaker 2: come to my rescue? May it never be? Says the
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Speaker 2: apostle as he begins verse two. May it never be?
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Speaker 2: Verse one of chapter six of Romans is a question
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Speaker 2: that is addressed to those who fail to claim their
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Speaker 2: liberty and go on living like slaves. Chapter six, verse
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Speaker 2: fifteen is another question, shall we sin because we're not
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Speaker 2: under law but under grace. This question is asked to
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Speaker 2: those who take their liberty too far and miss the
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Speaker 2: whole point of grace. Verses one to fourteen are about
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Speaker 2: nullifying grace. Verses fifteen to twenty three are about abusing grace.
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Speaker 2: We'll get there, so give me time. Don't leave today
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Speaker 2: thinking I'm freeing you up to live as you please.
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Speaker 2: The Christian life is never about living as you please.
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Speaker 2: It's about living as Christ pleases. And that's why grace
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Speaker 2: plays such a major role. You couldn't do that without
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Speaker 2: Christ's power. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's mark
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Speaker 2: a few words in Romans chapter six. Your pencil ready
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Speaker 2: and mark the word no in verse three. Do you
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Speaker 2: not know that all of us have been baptized into Christ?
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Speaker 2: Jesus have been baptized into his death. Mark the word no.
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Speaker 2: Verse six, knowing this verse nine, knowing that Christ. There's
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Speaker 2: something we must know before the slave could ever act
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Speaker 2: on the emancipation proclamation. The slave needed to know about
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Speaker 2: the emancipation Before you can ever act on the freedom
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Speaker 2: you have in Christ. You need to know that you've
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Speaker 2: been freed Verses three through ten. Talk about knowing that.
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Speaker 2: Look at verse eleven, even so mark that word. Consider
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Speaker 2: maybe your Bible reads reckon yourselves. Even so, consider yourselves
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Speaker 2: to be dead to sin. So, in order to carry
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Speaker 2: out the victorious Christian life, we must know some things
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Speaker 2: Verses three through ten. Then we must consider them as true.
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Speaker 2: They're no longer theoretical their reality. And then verse thirteen,
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Speaker 2: do not go on presenting the members of your body
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Speaker 2: to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God.
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Speaker 2: The word present is the third. There are some things
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Speaker 2: we're to know, there are some things where to consider,
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Speaker 2: and there are some things we are to present today.
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Speaker 2: If you will gather, if you will capture the truth
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Speaker 2: of what's going to be taught in Romans six one
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Speaker 2: to fourteen, it will revolutionize your walk with Christ. It'll
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Speaker 2: take away the shame, it'll take away the guilt, it'll
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Speaker 2: remove the fear, it'll obliterate the worry, because you will
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Speaker 2: see yourself in Christ and therefore pleasing to God. That
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Speaker 2: will free you like you've never been freed before. First
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Speaker 2: of all, we need to understand that there's been a
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Speaker 2: change in management, a change in management. We're now under
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Speaker 2: new management. It's like the store has been rebuilt. It's
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Speaker 2: like the people inside are new people. It's like a
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Speaker 2: whole new restaurant has opened up in our lives. It's
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Speaker 2: like an entirely different cafeteria, an entirely different choice that
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Speaker 2: is now ours. We're under a new management. We're no
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Speaker 2: longer enslaved. A brand new thing has occurred. In fact,
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Speaker 2: verse two asks a question, how shall we who died
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Speaker 2: to sin still live in it? Meaning still live under
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Speaker 2: its authority? Great question. It raises another question, when did
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Speaker 2: I die to sin? I can just hear some of
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Speaker 2: you saying, if you could read my journal, you wouldn't
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Speaker 2: read the story of a person who's died to sin.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you're a Christian, I
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Speaker 2: would be tragically reading your journal and realizing what you
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Speaker 2: don't know. Just as we were in Adam when Adam
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Speaker 2: sinned and his sinning impacted us, so when Christ died,
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Speaker 2: we were in Christ theoretically positionally, and his death over
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Speaker 2: sin became our death over sin. His resurrection from the
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Speaker 2: power of sin became our resurrection and enablement of power
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Speaker 2: from the sin that once controlled us and enslaved us.
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Speaker 2: Coming to Christ means that we take on the new
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Speaker 2: management of victory. Before we were addicted, before we were
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Speaker 2: swarming and lost and in the swamp of our old nature.
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Speaker 2: Now the old nature within us has a new authority,
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Speaker 2: a new master, and it isn't Satan, even though he
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Speaker 2: wants you to think it is. So we need to
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Speaker 2: know this verse three. Do you not know that all
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Speaker 2: of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus, have
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Speaker 2: been baptized into his death. Therefore we have been buried
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Speaker 2: with him through baptism into death, so that as Christ
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Speaker 2: was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father,
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Speaker 2: so we too might walk in newness of life. Now,
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Speaker 2: as soon as you read baptize, you think of water. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: that is erroneous. And if you think of water baptism
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Speaker 2: as that which is referenced here, you'll miss it. This
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Speaker 2: is a spirit baptism. Some baptisms in the Bible are wet,
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Speaker 2: summer dry. This is a dry one. This is what
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Speaker 2: happens when you are converted. But you need to understand
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Speaker 2: the meaning of the word baptizzo or bapto, which means
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Speaker 2: to dip it was used in the first century of
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Speaker 2: one who worked with fabric, who would dip the fabric
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Speaker 2: in a die. Let's say the fabric was white and
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Speaker 2: it's dipped in a blue dye. He was said to
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Speaker 2: have baptized the garment or the fabric, and when it
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Speaker 2: comes up out of the dye, it has changed its
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Speaker 2: identity from white to blue. When you and I are converted,
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Speaker 2: when we come to Christ understanding he paid the full
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Speaker 2: penalty for our sins, and we are then trusting in
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Speaker 2: Him for eternal life, we are dipped into him and
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Speaker 2: we become identified with him. You see it down in
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Speaker 2: verse five. If we have become united with Him in
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Speaker 2: the likeness of his death, certainly we shall also be
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Speaker 2: in the likeness of his resurrection. Force yourself to think.
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Speaker 2: Force yourself to think. When I came to Christ, things
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Speaker 2: happened that I didn't experience with my feelings. But I
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Speaker 2: now see in the scriptures this has occurred. I have
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Speaker 2: been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I,
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Speaker 2: but Christ lives in me. And the life that I
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Speaker 2: now live I live by the faith of the Son
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Speaker 2: of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Speaker 2: I now live under his power, under his authority. I
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Speaker 2: now have a new master, if you will, I have
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Speaker 2: a new husband. I have a new partner in life,
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Speaker 2: and it's Christ. And now that I have been buried
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Speaker 2: with him, all of that power of sin has been removed.
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Speaker 2: Because it has no power over Christ, it has no
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Speaker 2: power over me. The difference in Christ in me is
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Speaker 2: that I still have an old nature, and I'm prone
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Speaker 2: to sin. I realize that so are you. But we're
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Speaker 2: not obligated to sin. We choose to sin verse six,
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Speaker 2: knowing this that our old self was crucified with him.
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Speaker 2: Why in order that the body of sin might be
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Speaker 2: done away? Our body of sin is like the vehicle
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Speaker 2: carrying the nature, and that nature, that power that once
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Speaker 2: held over us, is no longer operative. Coming to Christ
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Speaker 2: means that power of sin has been rendered inoperative. In fact,
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Speaker 2: that's why he says, so that we would no longer
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Speaker 2: be slaves to sin, for he who has died is
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Speaker 2: freed from sin. Not only did dead men tell no tales,
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Speaker 2: dead men fall to no temptation, dead men have no
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Speaker 2: interest in that. How does this work its way out?
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Speaker 2: I begin my day in this way. Lord, You are
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Speaker 2: my savior and my God. I am your child. I
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Speaker 2: am liberated, and I am dependent upon you. For your
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Speaker 2: power take control of me. I yield to you. I
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Speaker 2: give you the controls of my life. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what the day holds. You know everything that the day
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Speaker 2: will hold. I don't know what temptations will come my way.
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Speaker 2: You give me strength when I come into temptation. You
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Speaker 2: give me the strength to restrain. And I'll remember, Lord,
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Speaker 2: that your power is at work. I will not yield
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Speaker 2: by your power. I'll say no to that. When I'm
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Speaker 2: tempted to say what I shouldn't say, I'll be restrained
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Speaker 2: from saying it. And I trust you to restrain me.
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Speaker 2: When I'm tempted to worry about something that I can't control,
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Speaker 2: I will trust you to take over and handle that
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Speaker 2: which I can't change. I will trust you. I will
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Speaker 2: lean on you. I am dead in Christ, and I
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Speaker 2: have the power of his resurrection. And I claim that
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Speaker 2: today see verse nine. Knowing that Christ has been raised
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Speaker 2: from the dead, is never to die again. Death is
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Speaker 2: no longer master over him. For the death that he died,
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Speaker 2: he died to sin once. For all the life that
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Speaker 2: he lives, he lives to God. That's true of me
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Speaker 2: as well. When Christ died, I died. When Christ was raised,
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Speaker 2: I was raised. So now how does it impact me?
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Speaker 2: Verse eleven. Consider yourselves dead to sin, reckon it as
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Speaker 2: true in your mind, see it as a reality, count
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Speaker 2: on it, Lean on it. Death no longer is master
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Speaker 2: over me, and I tell myself regularly, I am freed
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Speaker 2: from that by the grace of God. And I now
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Speaker 2: calculate this. I take it into account, and my sinful
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Speaker 2: habits have therefore been defeated and disabled and deprived of
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Speaker 2: authority over me. I am under a new master.
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Speaker 1: Well place a bookmark right here in Romans chapter six,
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Speaker 1: because Chuck Swindahl has much more to show us. Chuck
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Speaker 1: title today's message dying to live here at Insight for Living.
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Speaker 1: We can't possibly know what kind of issues you bring
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Speaker 1: concerned about a loved one, perhaps a son, a daughter,
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Speaker 1: or maybe a grandchild who's lost their way. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: carry some personal regrets. Whatever the case, we invite you
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Speaker 1: to double down on your study in Paul's Letter to
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Speaker 1: the Romans, and to draw from the well spring of
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