Dealing with a Troubling Truth

*disclaimer* "click link to listen to sermons to get full and accurate context"

I usually post about what has gone on with me during week the this post shifts towards a topic that is dealing with Christian Doctrine.

The past two Sundays we have had very "gettin down to business sermons" We as a congregation are being lead in a book study of Romans last week was Romans five. God has really dealing me some heavy blows to my heart to get me back on track to where I need to be. The sermons are Dealing with some of the most difficult passages in all of scripture. Yesterday we studied Romans 6 which begins.


What should we say then? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may multiply?Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin's dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin's claims. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies. Death no longer rules over Him. For in that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to God. So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

Paul is saying here that anyone who is in Christ has died to sin so if one is dead to sin how can one continue to habitually do it. Paul also says anyone who has died with Christ and continues to to sin is going against his nature and is walking in dangerous territory.

Please click on the link either below or click on the title of the post and listen to the sermons from 5/21/05 and 5/28/05 cause I can't even hope to write this how our pastor preached it.

http://www.fbconcord.org/templates/cusfbconcord2/details.asp?id=28863&PID=193103

Feel Free to comment on this....I would love to get a good discussion going on these doctrines found in Romans 4-6