Romans

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Romans
The Meaning of Salvation
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May 22, 1984
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Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?
Yes.
On your confession that Jesus is the Son of God,
I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit for the remission of your sins.
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Paul calls them back to their baptisms
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There are radical implications to baptism
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Return to the waters
Return to the waters
Do you remember the day?
Who baptized you?
Can you see the faces of those who witnessed your
transformation?
What words were spoken?
How did that moment change your life?
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The passive language of baptism
Baptism is not something we do,
it is something that
is done to us
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There is no bragging allowed in baptism, because
baptism is a work of God
There is no bragging allowed in baptism, because
baptism is a work of God
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Galakeyo
leave it there
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Do Pauls words about grace point
to its irrelevancy?
Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God
can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?
Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how
can we continue to live in it? Or have your
forgotten that when we were joined with Christ
Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?
For we died and were buried with Christ by
baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we
also may live new lives. (Romans 61-4)
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antinomianism
Anti against
Nomos law
The belief that we have no obligation to obey
Gods law and therefore, no reason not to sin.
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The message of grace tends to make
church people a little
nervous
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What is the relationship between grace and law?
Grace frees us to keep Gods law
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61-11
How grace changes and empowers us
612-14
Command do not allow sin to reign over you
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we died refers to a past event in our lives
What takes place in baptism?
Death and burial
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If death occurs before baptism why didnt Paul
just say, Dont you know that all of us who
believed and repented were united with Christs
death when we believed and repented?
-- Jack Cottrell
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Death in baptism leads to a greater event
resurrection
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Baptism is crucifixion
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The result (radical implication) of baptism
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Do you think God can forgive something as awful
as Im about to do?
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For the Christian to choose to sin is the
spiritual equivalent of digging up a corpse for
fellowship. Robert Mounce
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To teach that we must (or can) impress God with
what we do is heresy
We live by grace
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Grace, she takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
Grace, its the name
for a girl Its also a
thought that changed the world
Grace makes beauty out of ugly things.
Grace finds beauty in
everything. Grace
finds goodness in everything.
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Do you remember your baptism?
What happened in the water marked you forever