1. #6
Romans 6:1-14
The Promise Realized

2. The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
- Genesis 3:4

3. Satan’s First Lie:
God lied
God is selfish

4. ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
- Isaiah 14:14

5. - Ezekiel 28:17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I put you before kings,
That they may see you.
- Ezekiel 28:17

6. God’s Promise → Seed of Woman

7. Jewish Nation → Carried Forward Promise

8. The resurrection of Jesus signaled Satan’s ultimate failure.

9. Satan’s Aggression Towards the Church:
Apostles’ arrest – Acts 4-5
Killing of Stephen – Acts 7
Jewish Persecution of the Church – Acts 9
Paul’s Arrest – Acts 21-27
Roman Persecution of the Church – II Timothy 4:6

10. 2.4 billion Christians
33% of world population
245 million Christians live under threat of persecution

11. “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’
- Genesis 3:1b

12. SATAN’S WORK Ahab’s Prophets Prophets of Baal → → Bar-Jesus
I Kings 22:10-12
Jeremiah 2:8
Acts 13:6-12

13. PROMISE CHURCH SALVATION
WORD
PROMISE
CHURCH
SALVATION

14. Gnostic Teachers – Gentiles
Two Attacks
Judaizers – Jews
Gnostic Teachers – Gentiles

15. Judaizers = Circumcision = Salvation Gnostics = Secret Knowledge = Salvation

16. “If God’s grace ever expands to cover sin at every level of gravity, why not sin more in order to cause more of God’s grace to be manifested?”

17. 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
- Romans 6:1-3

18. 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- Romans 6:4-5

19. 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
- Romans 6:6-7

20. Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 2:38

21. Baptism = Real Results

22. = Moral Debt

25. Faith Expressed in Baptism
NOT IN
Circumcision
Perfection
Knowledge
Asceticism

26. FORGIVENESS
HOLY SPIRIT
SALVATION

27. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
- Romans 6:8-10

28. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
- Romans 6:11-12

29. 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
- Romans 6:13-14

30. UNDER LAW
Judged by Law
Not changed by Law
Ultimately condemned by Law

31. UNDER LAW UNDER GRACE Judged by Law Not changed by Law
Ultimately condemned by Law
Forgiven by Grace
Changed by Grace
Empowered by Grace

32. Grace Enables Christians to:
Live in a new way
Break free from sin
Draw near to God
Offer ourselves to God
Live in freedom

33. Satan’s 3 Lies
God is a liar

34. Satan’s 3 Lies
God is a liar
Satan is God

35. Satan’s 3 Lies
God is a liar
Satan is God
Jesus is not God

36. Satan’s Goal:
Deny Jesus His rightful position
Discredit the promise to man

37. DESTROY THE MESSAGE
DESTROY THE CHURCH =