Revival Weekend 2021: The Crucified Life, Part 2

The Crucified Life, Part 2 - Romans 6

The cross is not just God’s power to save us but the power of God to us who are saved. 

Key concept of the Cross…

The blood is for our forgiveness. The cross is for our deliverance. The blood forgives us of sin’s penalty (Ephesians 1:7). The cross delivers us from sin’s power. (Galatians 2:20, Luke 9:23)

Ephesians 1:7, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”

Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Luke 9:23, Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”

Four steps to the crucified life. 

1)Know what God says. (See Romans 6:6-7) You must know that spiritually you were in Christ when He died. Because you were in Him you also died with Him. Your “old man” or your sin nature was crucified to that sin, and it has lost dominion over you!

Romans 6:1-7 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore 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. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 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. For he who has died has been freed from sin.

You need to know you were crucified with Christ so that sin no longer has dominion in your life. Christ’s finished work on the cross not only forgave you of sin’s penalty but also delivered you from sin’s power!

2) Believe what God says. (See Romans 6:11) It’s not enough to know what God says if you don’t believe what God says. 

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

You appropriate the promises of God by believing what God says no matter what you see. It’s choosing to believe divine facts no matter how you feel.

Whatever you believe you will obey. You will either believe and obey God or believe and obey your flesh. Romans 6:12 “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”