How the Gospel Deals with Sin

The Gospel Manifesto in the Book of Romans, Pt. 4

How the Gospel Deals with Sin, Romans 6:1-7:5

By Louie Marsh, 5-18-2025

 

1) I’m UNITED with Jesus’ death & resurrection in baptism.

 

²  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? ³  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:2-4 (ESV)

 

· Death = SEPARATION

 

Sin is alive and well, but I’m part of a new Kingdom, therefore it only has power over me when I give it permission.

 

¹²  giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. ¹³  He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴  in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:12-14 (ESV)

 

· Baptism is a SYMBOL – and that’s powerful.

 

· God doesn’t reform our old nature He KILLS IT.

· Then He starts fresh with our NEW NATURE.

 

2) My old nature was crucified with Christ to FREE ME from slavery to sin.

 

⁵  For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶  We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷  For one who has died has been set free from sin. ⁸  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. Romans 6:5-10 (ESV)

 

3) I must realize that in Christ I’m now DEAD to sin.

 

¹¹  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11 (ESV)

 

·  “consider” - Direct middle imperative of logizomai 

 

Think, impute, reckon, count, account, reason, number

From logos to take an inventory, i.e. estimate (literal or figurative) :- conclude, (ac-) count (of), + despise, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on).

4) I show I’m alive to God by letting Him use ALL OF ME.

 

¹²  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ¹³  Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴  For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:12-14 (ESV)

 

5) What I DO shows who my Lord is, not what I SAY.

 

¹⁶  Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸  and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. Romans 6:16-18 (ESV)

 

²⁰  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹  But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²²  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. ²³  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23 (ESV)