Revival Weekend 2021: The Crucified Life, Part 3

The Crucified Life, Part 3 - Romans 6

The cross is not just God’s power to save us but the power of God to us who are saved. 1 Corinthians 1:18, For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

To follow Jesus demands we take up our cross. 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. Know that as a child of God, your old, sinful nature was crucified with Christ so that it no longer has dominion over you! (See Romans 6:6-7)

Romans 6:6-7, 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.

2)Believe what God says. You appropriate all the promises of God by believing what God says no matter what you see. It does no good to know what God says if you don’t believe it. (See Romans 6:11-12.)

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

3)Submit to what God says. In the heat of temptation, you will either submit to sin or submit to Him. If you’ll submit to Him, you CANNOT submit to sin. (See Romans 6:12-13.)

Romans 6:12-13, Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

You will serve one of two masters—God or Sin. Submit to Him, and you will not submit to sin! James 4:7, Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

You will either be mastered by Jesus or mastered by Sin. When you submit to sin, it leads to captivity and slavery. But when you submit to Jesus it leads to freedom and liberty!

You can’t suppress your sin. In the heat of temptation, submit to Him! Apart from the cross, you are too weak to do God’s will but not weak enough for God to do it through you. The key to victory is NOT DOING BUT DYING!

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.

By dying daily through our co-crucifixion, we begin living in the power of the resurrection!

Luke 9:23-26, 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. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

Jesus’ invitation is to come and die. Only once you die are you fully alive!