2 credithours

• HOW CAN I KEEP GROWING

IN GRACE? 6:1-23

• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I

FALL? 7:1-25

POINT 11.

Positional sanctification is based on

the attitude of reckoning, whereas

progressive sanctification is based

on the attitude of yielding.

POINT 12.

Since the decision was made when you got

saved, then the course of action when

tempted is to

•mentally meditate on Christ and what he

has done for you

•spiritually resort to God in prayer for him

to strengthen you

•physically submit your members to doing

something in ministry that will occupy you

POINT 13.

There is nothing more effective in

changing your state than renewing

your mind.

POINT 14.

Sin is really good at covering-up

your lack of life.

POINT 15.

The near benefit of being a slave

to righteousness is progressive

holiness.

POINT 16.

The wages of sin is death,

even if you are a Christian.

I. REDEMPTION FROM LEGALISM,

ROMANS 6:1-11

1. "Reckon," is the essential of

faith,11

2. "Let not," is the essential of

submission, 12

3. "Yield," is the essential of

consecration, 13

Thesis:

Salvation frees us for

spiritualwarfare between the two

natures in the believer.

Point 1.

If you could not keep the law to get

to heaven, you cannot keep the law

to get to holiness.

SEVEN TYPES OF FLESH

1) The soft substance of the body, not including bones

and blood, Gen 2:21

2) The whole physical body with the breath, Gen 6:17

3) The whole being of man in distinction from the

beasts, Gen 37:27

4) The whole human race, Gen 6:125) The whole

humanity of Christ, Heb 5:7

6) The body of Christ giving life, John 6:51

7) The body you were born in, Rom 7:25; 2 Cor 10:3

Point 2.

Legalism breeds carnality.

Point 3.

The Holy Spirit gives you the

lifenecessary to keep his law.

AXIOM OF TRUE SPIRITUALITY

To say you must sin is to deny the word

of God, to say you cannot sin is to

deceive yourself, but to say you need

not sin is to state God's provision.

Point 3.

The Holy Spirit gives you the

lifenecessary to keep his law.

DEFINITION:

Concupiscenceis unlawful desire for

sexual pleasure, or abnormal desire

for worldly goods.

POINT 4.

God gave the law to convict us

of our carnality by displaying

the demands of his holiness.

POINT 5.

Part of the consequence of carnality

is that we go back into bondage and

cannot get out of what we at first

willingly chose.

POINT 6.

We learn from the law that Jesus was

the only one to fulfill it.

• When I look into my heart and

perceive its infinite wickedness I

think it's a pit deeper than Hell.

—Jonathan Edwards

• I cannot pray, but I sin; I cannot hear, or

preach a sermon, but I sin; I cannot give an

alms, or receive the sacrament, but I sin; no,

I cannot so much as confess my sins, but my

confessions are still aggravations of them. My

repentance needs to be repented of, my tears

need washing, and the very washing of my

tears needs still to be washed over again with

the blood of my Redeemer.

—John Berridge,

English revivalist, 1716-1793

POINT 7.

A Christian may deceive himself for

a time, but he can't end up justifying

himself.

THREE THINGS ABOUT SINNING

1. Paul admits he is accountable for

his own actions (Rom 6)

2. Paul admits he will reap from his

actions (Gal 6)

3. Paul admits he is not really

committing the sins (Rom 7:17)

Point 8.

The most certain proof you are a

Christian is a love for God and a

simultaneous struggle with sin.

Point 9.

Perfection is not possible in this life,

only perfecting warfare is.

Point 10.

Now that the soul has been cut-away

from the flesh, the operation of the

Bible in the life of the believer will

progressively remove it from sight.

Seven Laws in the Book of

Romans

1. The Law of Moses, 10:5

2. The Law as a Principle, 3:21

3. The Law of Faith, 3:27

4. The Law of the Husband, 7:2

5. The Law of Sin, 7:23

6. The Law of the Mind, 7:23

7. The Law of the Spirit, 8:2

THE THREE CROSSES OF

“GETHSEMANE CHRISTIANITY”

1. The cross where Christ was

crucified, Gal 3:1

2. The cross where you were

crucified to the world, Gal 2:20; 5:24

3. The cross where the world was

crucified to you, Gal 6:14