Loren Larson - Free From the Sin Nature (Romans 6:1-3)

Don't you know? Hasn't anybody ever told you? Aren't you aware? Are you lacking information? Know you not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death. Water baptism is a type of what's referred to, but not what is inferred.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. There's a purpose for everything that the Holy Spirit puts in Scripture. A divine distinct purpose. And as we study the Word of God, it's our responsibility to search it out. To locate it and to embrace it. Paul is not teaching on justification here.

He has spent the time to do that in chapters 3, verse 20, all the way through chapter 5 and verse 12. He's taught justification, this status that God gives the believing sinner, justified by faith. He establishes that and then moves on to the what justification lays the foundation for, and that is progressive sanctification. Now I'm going to say progressive sanctification because we need to understand that is what is being dealt with.

At the end of chapter five and six, seven, and eight in Romans, it's progressive sanctification. The believer is immediately sanctified the moment that they're born again. In that sense, they are set apart for God. You're not your own. You're bought with a price. So every single believer is instantly set apart for God. You are no longer your own. You are bought with a price. And in that sense, every believer instantly is sanctified, set apart for God.

But the process of removing us and the effects of removing us, I shall say it rather this way, removing us from the effects of the fall will take the rest of our earthly lives. It is not something that can be done in an instant or in an event. It is an ongoing, never-ending issue for every single one of us. From the newest Christian to the most experienced From the one struggling with sin to the most holy among us whomsoever that may be, it is a lifetime endeavor.

There is no graduating clock class of progressive sanctification. Philippians one and six says, He that hath begun a good work He that hath begun a good work. He that hath begun a good work Will perform it until the day. He who has begun the work is the Holy Spirit, and he will continue to perform that in you until the day of Jesus Christ, which is the day of the rapture. So to say that I have arrived or that I'm living in sinless perfection is foolishness and error.

Amen, brother Larson. Preach on, brother Larson. Teach it, brother. We're all learning, and in some form of sanctification process, we are arriving and moving from glory to glory.

From station to station, here a little, there a little. Oh I wish it were all at once, but it's just not the case. And God makes sure that this progression Is something that can only be encountered when the believer understands how God arranged this progression, how it became available to us, and that we continuously, day by day, minute by minute, hour by hour, keep our faith in the provision Granted by the Lord in his death. And Romans six then begins a study on the The sin nature.

Now it's interesting, and I'm gonna stop my introduction and pray here in just a moment, but it's interesting that Paul opens up the subject of progressive sanctification.

by describing to us the sin nature and the effect that Calvary had on it. If, as some teach, the sin nature was eradicated at your born-again experience, then he just wasted seventeen references to it in chapter sixteen and really it's sixteen and inferences to the sin nature Only one deals with acts of sin. We'll talk about that in a moment. So it's vital to understand the subject of the sin nature if you're going to approach the process of progressive sanctification.

In fact, it's an impossibility to experience ongoing, continued, progressive sanctification unless you understand why Paul wrote what he wrote in Romans chapter 6. It's not, oh, I might be able to. You will not be able to. You'll find a door that won't open. You'll find a hedge you can't get around or through. And in Romans chapter 6, Paul gives us the mechanics and the results. of our initial listen of our initial salvation experience.

When we want to study progressive sanctification, he doesn't take us to the baptism with the Holy Spirit. He takes us to the initial. Salvation experience. He doesn't take us to a process or a routine outside of salvation. He takes us back to the understanding of what was done for us and to us. In the initial salvation experience. And he does all this for a reason. So that you and I, who are called upon to enter this process by faith, listen now, know where to place our faith.

The Romans six teaches us why And where we should place our faith in Christ and in his cross. Not in what we do. Not in who we are, not in what fellowship we belong to. But these verses. Forever describe and are designed by the Holy Spirit to teach you the proper object of faith. And that statement is found in some writings of scholars around the world, but not very often. And I declare to you today, if you want to live free from the sin nature,

You're going to have to know what to place your faith in and why you're placing it there. It's a decision you're going to have to make every single day.

Every single day for the rest of your life. You'll never be free from this process, and you'll never be free from the responsibility of placing your faith in Christ and the cross. On a daily basis. And I want to minister this morning, probably more teaching than preaching, but with me you just never know. A subject freedom from the sin nature. Freedom from the sin nature. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning.

cognizant of the need in the body of Christ to know this subject, the import of it, and the impact of it, and so we stand before you asking for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Let the preacher come, Lord. Let the teacher come. The one who makes teaching and preaching easy. And Father, open up the heart. Take the veil from off the minds of those who have not yet seen your wondrous truth. We ask it in Jesus' name, and all said Amen.

And amen. I'd like to open up to a passage outside of Romans first, if I may, and since it's my service, I get to go where I want. Genesis chapter twenty-five, I'll just make reference to this. We won't stay here long, but there's an old testament symbolic, and I call it symbolic, because I think it may very well represent the subject of the sin nature.

The topic is surrounding the time frame when Isaac's wife, Rebecca, is about to give birth. They prayed and cried, Isaac and Rebecca, for children. They existed for some twenty years before uh the and and didn't have any. And so once again they Ask God, bless us with children. And God answered that prayer. And they knew that he had answered that prayer. Barren for so long, and finally there came that point in time where God answered. And they knew it was a blessing from the Lord.

But as the children began to grow on the inside of her womb, and I know today they they don't have sonograms and Instagram and I mean, you know, my m m going through Joseph and Mary there, they just had their third and Grace is on the brink now. If m my wife runs out of the service, she's probably going to the hospital because Grace is already. But they can see everything about the child. You can see the picture, you can s of the inside. But then they couldn't do that. Then they felt.

And they knew what was normal and they knew what was not. And Rebecca, sensing the two children literally struggling inside of her, asked this question. In Genesis 25, 22, she says, if it be so, If this that I'm experiencing is the promise of God. It's the blessing of God. It's the favor of God. Then why am I thus? Why am I so? And it is the question that every one of us has asked ourselves. We were saved, born again, things changed.

Our our hearts changed, our minds changed, our directions changed, but as we started to walk somewhere along the line, the initial salvation experience Where God just kind of carries us. I I don't know how long it will last for different people, different times. It may be six months, a year, two years, three years. I don't know. But it's just glory, glory. It's just.

Hallelujah. Everybody else may be struggling, but not me, baby. I'm on easy road. I'm with Jesus. If you had it like I had it, you all knew what you were like when you first got saved. And you were right, because you had the blessing of the Lord, you had the promise of the Lord in you. He had transformed you. He had changed you. You weren't what you were before. Things had dropped off, but all of a sudden, somewhere down the line in your Christian experience, something surfaced.

Amen, brother Larson. Preach it, brother Larson. Teach on, brother. Something surfeth. Somebody stepped on your life and your response was not what you expected. You found a little bit of the old language and you found a little bit of attitude that you used to live by. Come on, somebody. And you asked the same question that Rebecca asked, if I am saved, if I have the promise of God, then what's going on?

On the inside of me, why am I thus? And the Lord answered her, and again we need to be careful because typology breaks down, but The Lord answered her and said, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels. And we know that the two nations were Israel and Edom, that which would come from Jacob and that which would be the progenitory of Esau. We know that these two would always fight each other and struggle against one another.

But I tell you today after looking at the type that I didn't come this morning to tell you that you were in an eternal struggle. I came to look more intently at the last two aspects of this verse. And the one people Shall be stronger Then the other people The one people shall be stronger than the other people. There's a battle going on on the inside of the believer. But one is greater and stronger.

I'm not gonna define myself by the battle this morning. I'm gonna define myself by the victory awarded me in Christ Jesus. I've got to be aware of the conflict. I have to know where it comes from and what it is, but I want you to know on the inside of every believer bar, none, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. And the promise to these this family was that the elder Shall sir.

Be in bondage to, be subservient to the younger. When you were born, you were born with a sin nature. But when you were born again, God gave you. I said when you were born again, things changed. God gave you a divine nature, a new nature. And while you will forever until the rapture. Have two natures on the inside of you. I've come to tell you that the elder is not to be the dominant nature, the divine nature, which is the younger in the plan of God, is sad.

to be the Lord's strong entity in your heart and in your life. You haven't been designed to lose, you've been designed to win. I said you've not been designed to lose. You've been designed to win. But you gotta understand the battle, you gotta understand the issues, you gotta understand.

So we go to Romans six, travel there with me. When we talk about nature's I I need to say this to you. We're we're not talking about a spirit or a different entity. We're talking about a characteristic of the person.

Oh me. Oh me. Gl Gus, I heard you got a raise. Yeah, but it's not very big. Hey, I heard you got blessed. Yeah, but I had to give it Yeah, gloomy Gus. It's his nature to be gloomy. Believing Benny, frightened Fred, solid Sally. What am I talking about? This is the nature of human beings. It's our nature to be something, and whatever our nature is. It affects our character and our constitution. It even affects our moral integrity because it is our nature. We're bent towards happy hairy or

Gloom gus or solid sally were just bent that way. That's a nature. It's a nature, it's an inherent characteristic. But that nature of a person affects his mind, affects his soul, affects his spirit, affects all that he is. That's his nature. It helps define him. When man fell in the garden The Bible says that he became, that he died. Let me go there. He died. God said in the day that you will eat of the knowledge of the tree of

Good and evil, you shall surely die. And we look at the story and we say, aha, well, Adam didn't die. You need to understand what the term dead indicates. It indicates a separation Not an extinction. A separation. The moment they disobeyed God, they who were perfect. Died to God and became alive to sin. They did die. They died spiritually. They were separated from God. And sin entered the world through their action, through their failure to hold to what God said was right, they sinned.

And sin became their nature.

A bent not towards God because now the couple was dead to God. They were not operating with God as they had before. They used to walk with him in the garden and talk with him in the garden and commit and listen to everything that he said and walk with him always. But now they're dead to God. This relationship. Of God training them.

into what he wanted to them to become. They were created in the image of God. God desired his creation to learn from him. That's why they didn't need to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were to get that information from him. He would forever, always be teaching this. This new creation that had the capacity to always learn and forever in his presence learn from him and glean from him. Never become him, but learn from him. Created in the image of God. A moral man.

Knowing right and wrong because God would tell us what right and wrong is. And God said, you don't need to go independent. You don't need to eat of the tree and try to figure it out for yourself. And they said, no, we'll eat of the tree. And Eve, of course, was deceived. You know the story? She thought that if she would eat of the tree, it would actually please God, because now she would be like God, and that's what the whole idea was of creation. Create a

uh someone in his image and transform us into his highest creation. In his image our moral fiber, our understanding, our mind would be Imprinted by God Himself. He would become our God and we would be His people and we would know Him and He would teach us forever of His magnificence and sense. His magnificence never ended, then the teaching would never end, and we would forever be with him and worship him and love him and adore him. But sin Separated us from God.

And we died. And the nature that we encounter now is one that is bent away from the teachings of God. Ungodliness began to sweep into the human heart. Selfishness. Sin nature can be described By calling it a bent towards ungodliness and sinfulness. And this became our nature. And our nature affects our mind and our heart and our inner being, and we become corrupted and deaf. speeds up its process as man becomes corrupt.

and more corrupt. And in fact, you see in the book of Genesis how f quickly, how quickly men all of a sudden drop from living a thousand years. Listen, God never intended for his highest creation to die. As I said, he would train them forever, teach them forever, walk with them forever. Every morning, learning from God, my what an existence. But now man has to provide for himself and man thinks about himself.

And all that is evil begins to roll through man's mind. And the focus of myself is me. Me, I'm the focus. Me, I'm the one that's most important. Me. Me, me, me, me. I'm the one that you need to really bless. I'm the one that I need to take care of. Well, if nobody will take care of me, then I'll take care of myself. And we have this in our nature.

And all the good qualities that you may have been born with are tainted by. This ungodliness that comes as a result of having our nature. And by uh the time Genesis six comes around some Sixteen hundred years after the fall, the Bible says that men have been so inundated by the entrance of sin and the sin nature that them their minds and their thoughts are on only evil continuously. Because of the fall.

And we're not just impacted by our sin nature, we're impacted by the society that has been produced. Cain was the father of society. One who separated himself out from the presence of God and said, I'm leaving, I'm not gonna stay in relationship with God. And from him came the actual forerunners of music. Farming and ranching? And even artificial or works of metal.

So industry and ranching and entertainment all were birthed in a people dominated by a sin nature who did what they did for themselves.

And that's the world system. And we grow up in that. Now we have a sin nature and we have an impact by the world that tells us how to live and what to live and they Try to train us by their movies and by their music and by their opportunity to get ahead and to live greater than the Joneses and you've gotta have a three-car garage and that's not Good enough for you in our life becomes driven by everything but God. And that's our life. We're trained.

By sin, we're trained by sin. Every thought is sinful. You gotta understand that life without God is the greatest act of sin. You might be sweet mama who lives across the street and bakes apple pie for everybody at Thanksgiving, and we've never heard a curse word uh come out of your mouth, and you you always pay your taxes. Oh, it's that time, isn't it? And then You've raised a good family. But you're still dead in trespasses and sins because of the fall. No hope. No way out.

Dominated by the sin nature, it trains us in all that we do, our flesh, me, the self that I am. My heart thinks a certain way, acts a certain way, does certain things brother swaggered says it this way we're all squirreled up but in the fullness of time.

God sent his son. Born of a woman, made under the law to redeem us. That he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, whosoever believeth in him, whosoever believeth in him. should not perish, but have everlasting life. And when we accept him, the Bible says we're justified just as if we had never sinned. God looks at us and affords us a position of not guilty of all charges by faith and by faith alone.

And ladies and gentlemen, I don't have time for this this morning, so I'm going to skim by it, but you need to hear this. Justification is not the reason why we can remain in our sin. Justification is the the platform of the believer that God has established that we may rise again when we fail in sin. Not to stay in it, but to get back up.

And say that's not me anymore. That's not where I'm headed. That's not why I'm justified. I'm justified. Not so that I can live in sin. But so that I can get back up when I stumble. Not if. Sanctimonious self righteous fool, not if when you're gonna stumble. Well I'll have you know I'm not well see, you're lying. And I'm spitting all over my So we're born again.

When we have faith, we're justified. And Paul then comes to our text and he says, What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Now I've got to stop you here. And I want to teach for just a minute. You need to get this.

There's a reason why the Holy Spirit put the word sin here. But the primary problem is that when we come to progressive sanctification after salvation, we don't read this the way that Paul wrote it. The word sin here is a noun, and a noun is a Person, place or thing. It's not an action. It's Hamartia in the Greek. It's a noun, in fact it's a singular noun. So it's not many things, it's one thing, singular down.

And in 14 of the 16 times that we find the idea granted in Romans 6, it has a definite article. Which just accentuates the fact that it's a noun. So you can actually and I want you to do this, you've got your Bible there, your iPad, your iPhone, whatever it is, other than and mark this one. Chapter six and verse fifteen, where the Bible plainly says this, what then shall we sin?

You see that? In chapter six, that's the only time sin is used in a verb form. It's the only time that he's talking about a sin action. So when we come to the idea of a noun, a single noun, with or without a definite article, we're coming to a subject. That is not the act of sin, but the sin nature, the principle of sin.

And so when you read Romans 6, the first thing that you have to discover that you and let me tell you this, if you've never been trained in what I'm about to tell you, you've never been properly decided. You don't know how to live for God. If you can't say what if you don't understand with full knowledge what I'm telling you this morning, you have never as a Christian, I don't care how long you've lived for God, you've never been properly trained as to how to live for God.

You've never been discipled as to how to walk in progressive sanctification. I don't doubt your love for God. I don't doubt your zealousness. You love God, that's why you're here. But we're trying to answer in these days, why am I thus? And if we don't understand the scripture, then we can't interpret the answer. And we can't interpret the solution. Now watch.

Go with me with chapter 6 and install the term sin nature wherever you read the word sin, with the exception of Romans 6 and 15, where it's actually in an adverbial form. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in the sin nature? that grace may abound. God forbid, how shall we that are dead to the sin nature live any longer therein? So the subject of Romans six is not acts of sin. Getting awful quiet. The subject in Romans 6 is the sin nature. Sixteen times it's the sin nature.

Sixteen times in 23 verses, the subject is the sin nature. If you add the transition verses, 19 and 20, out of five, you have it twice more. So you have 19 times in 25 verses that the term sin, primarily the idea of sin nature, is used.

When Paul introduces the process of progressive sanctification to the Church of Rome. So what's the subject of progressive sanctification? The sin nature. Oh, well we don't have a sin nature. Well, Paul wasted a lot of space and the Holy Spirit was wrong in having him write it then. So after being born again, because progressive sanctification is impossible for the lost man, it's only available to the saved man. Are are you following me? Then Paul deals with the subject that's in nature.

And it's vital that we comprehend it and understand it and know what it is that he's talking about. This nature that I was born with. Then as a believer, I have to understand that it still exists within me. And I gotta jump fast here. I don't have time to prove everything I'm saying. Stick with us. The truth is that the sin nature will be in you until the rapture of the church. And at that time corruption, Mr. Perfect.

Corruption will put on the So right now there's a sense in which a part of this even new creation man is living with Corruption. You're still dying. That's a result of the fall. And it is evidence that the sin nature is still. If the sin nature was gone, if it was eradicated, you'd stop growing old the minute you got saved. I don't know about you, but the older I get, the more things I'm losing I want to keep, and all the all the things I'm keeping I'd like to lose.

But notice what he says. Shall we continue in the sin nature? Now what that means is, and I gotta hurry here, and I'm gonna. Shall we continue in the same relationship with the sin nature that we had previous to our salvation? Because if we stay in the same relationship with the sin nature, Then I guarantee you that acts of sin are going to continue just like they continued before. This nature that bent us, that taught us to sin, this propensity towards selfishness and others.

Shall here's progressive sanctification. Here's the question. Shall we continue in the same relationship with the sin nature? Kind of kills the idea you don't have one, doesn't it? So you have a sin nature. What is a fella to do?

Paul said, shall we continue in the same relationship that grace may abound? Shall we just put up with the sin nature that's in every believer? This corruptness and just let God's grace cover everything. And God Paul's answer to that is God forbid. May it never be so. Away with the thought. And then he says this. He says this. He says, How shall we? That are read the word Dead to the sin nature. How shall we that are dead to the sin that well who's he writing to? Who's he writing to?

Is he writing to believers? Or a non-believer. So to every believer in Rome he says How shall you and I, we, the whole body of Christ, whoever's been saved, how shall we that are Dead to the sin. Now remember, dead does not mean extinction or eradication. Dead means Separation. So there has to have been Before this moment, because it's in the aorist tense, it refers to something already done in the past.

How shall we that have already been separated from the sin nature continue to live in the same relationship with the sin nature that we had before? How shall we? That means that it's potential. You could. Because Paul doesn't say, oh, there's no way that you can be living in the same relationship with the sin nature because you're dead to the sin nature. He says, is it where we ought to be?

Is it where we ought to be? Is that where we ought to live? See, your problem, ladies and gentlemen, no matter how you define it. It's sin. Your bad attitude. Your depression, sin, your anxiety, sin. You're living without God's help. That's sin. I'm not demeaning your sin. Sorrow. I'm not making fun because I'm there too. I keep learning like you're learning, but I don't ignore what I am and I don't let psychology diagnose me. and pump drugs into my system to fix me.

There's times when a chemical imbalance needs to be sorted out by drugs and by proper application of them. Granted. But we've gone drug crazy because we don't know how to handle sin.

Sin is what destroys the fabric of the creation that God brought into the world. And if I stay in the same relationship with the sin nature, it will ruin this creation that God has just recreated. And he says that I began, listen now, he says that I began this creation life, this new life as a Christian, dead. To the sin nature. Well, if I'm like Rebecca and I'm saying, why am I thus? There's a question. If I'm dead to the sin nature, why am I thus? Okay, let me talk over here. If I'm dead

I know you're listening. I got you. If I'm dead to the sin nature, why am I this way? Why am I experiencing what I'm experiencing? Verse three. Don't you know? Don't you know? Agnaeo. Are you lacking information? Don't you know? And there's another edge of that double-edged sword, the word Agnaeo, even though it may not be intended here, but it's this. A disinclination to receive information.

So I ask you, when you heard the message of the cross, was it something that you had never heard before, something you never been told before a lack of information or when you heard the message of the cross in your heart and your mind said, Oh, I'm not going there. I don't need that. That's not how we're sanctified. Those folk down at swaggerts, they're just coming up with a whole new gospel. I got news for you, church.

I love Brother Jimmy Swaggard as if he was my own father, but this is not a swaggard gospel. This is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I will defend it until I die. I will not change. I will not alter. I will not sit down. I will not shut up. And I don't care who I make uncomfortable. I'm not trying to make enemies. God knows I like to be like just like you. But I will not. Compromise the truth because your soul hangs in the balance.

He doesn't mind if I call him jumpin' Joe. He jumps for joy. He's from Colorado. When Jesus saved him a few years ago, he was a methadone addict. Yeah. He ain't a methadone addict no more. I said he's not what he used to be. And that's why he jumps. Hallelujah! All right. Joe is gonna be Jesus. Young man, I need you. Come on, you're gonna be our believing sinner. Here's our believing sinner. He looks like a believing. Don't he look like a believing sinner? All right.

That's not a sinner, that's a believing sinner. And we're going to show you the difference. Stand right over here, the two of you, for a minute. In the mind of God and in reality at salvation, certain things happen. When I as a believer come to Christ. I place my faith in Jesus. I don't know anything. I may know that I know he died for my sin. He he paid the penalty for my sin.

He did. He I could never pay it myself, and I see myself as a sinner. If you don't see yourself as a sinner, you don't have the revelation you need to get saved. That's why we got to preach. Sinners need to get saved. Not just offer them Starbucks and running tracks in our churches. Sinners need to get saved. You're a sinner. We come under conviction and we say, Jesus, save me.

Jesus, save me. Jesus, save me. We don't know anything else, but the Holy Spirit has done his work and drawn us to Christ. And there we are. And in the mind of God, No, you're not, that we were baptized into Christ the very third Oh, I forgot. I need the Holy Ghost. Brother, I got your son. Give me the Holy Ghost. Father, son, nevermind.

All right. Now this is this brother here is the Holy Ghost. And he's going to take that believing center. Come here, believing center. I'm going to put you right in the center, Joe. Okay. All right. And the Holy Spirit, when we're talking about baptism here, we're not talking baptism into water. First Corinthians twelve, thirteen.

For as many as have accepted, we've all been baptized into one body, meaning we've all been baptized into Christ. So at the moment the believing sinner accepts Christ, go place him right in front of Job. Go play sir. The believing sinner is baptized into Christ. There you go. I want you good. I want you right there. Now, back away, Holy Spirit. In the mind of God. In the mind of God at this moment, this union.

is the most important thing to the salvation process that we need to understand. You as a believer are planted in Christ. You are in him. And listen, it is a position, but it's also a reality. Jesus said, There's coming a day when you'll know that I'm in you. You're in me and I'm in the Father. position in Christ, but it's a reality. I'm in him and he's in me. I know it looks like I'm at 8919 World Ministry Avenue this morning, but I'm not. I'm seated also in heavenly places.

It's not just a position. It's a reality. I'm in Christ. The Holy Spirit immersed me into Christ. And so his present is my presence. In his future stay there. In his future, Jesus will rule and reign. And because I'm in him and I stay in him by faith, I will rule and reign with him. So my presence Is a res is is with him and my future is with him. But don't you know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ, were baptized into His death.

So it's not just the present and future, but it also includes the past, Christ, as my representative by yourself, Joe, move to the left. Christ as my representative man traveled to Calvary and died for all men, as all men, for all men everywhere. But in the mind of God, me as a believing sinner In the mind of God, when I say yes to Jesus, I now gain the benefit of what he did back then.

And here I am dominated by the sin nature, and I need something to happen. Paul said, Don't you know that as many of you as were placed into Christ were also baptized into his death. So come on, believing sinner, when you said yes to Jesus, In the mind of God, you were crucified with You were crucified with Christ. You were crucif I am crucified with Christ. Not just in the mind. There's something, not just a position.

Because at this moment, God, who knows there's needing to be something done in me here and now. Allows the Holy Spirit, come on, Holy Spirit, he comes along, turn around, do an operation on your son. He circumcises me with a circumcision made without hands. He gives me a new heart. He gives me a new spirit. Why? Because the man that I was has been crucified, and all that I used to be has been buried, and God's not bringing the old man back from the dead.

I'm gonna raise up. I said I'm gonna raise up. I said I'm gonna raise up. I'm gonna up.

Because you accepted him, then God, the Holy Ghost, had the right. Not just to place you in Christ a position, but to literally change you on the inside. And he separated you from the power of the sin nature. The cross right there, the cross, right there, the cross, right there, the cross right there is where you get separated. From sin. Oh, and I need another semester. You're going to have to come to college to get it.

But this is where the world is crucified to you and you to the world. This is where the flesh with its affections and lusts has already been. This is where you died to the supernatural power of the devil. This is how you through the body of Christ became dead to the law as a means of righteousness. So you have a struggle. When you see something in you that you don't want. I don't have time to tell you why. There's a lot of reasons. We're all squirreled up, but I got the answer.

I don't have to be dominated by the sin nature. I don't have to be dominated by the law. I don't have to be dominated by the world because of what Christ did. For me at the cross.

That's why we point you to the cross. It's a finished work. It's a finished work. It's a finished work. It's a finished work.

The Holy Ghost is free. He's free. He's free to work on me. He's free to work on me. I'm going to see some things. But when I say, why am I thus? I'm not running to the methodologies of man. I'm not running to faith himself. I'm running to faith in my crucifixion, which is his crucifixion. And I will place my faith in the cross and the spirit of life. in Christ Jesus will make me free. Thank you, gentlemen. Give them a hand.

It's the cross, the cross, the cross, the cross for the world, the s flesh and the devil. Holy Ghost lost his glasses. I want you to be able to see while you're working on me, brother. Why would I preach anything else? Listen, listen, listen. I gotta hurry. I'm over my time, but listen. Knowing this, Romans 6:6, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not. Observe the sin nature ever again. Romans six and seven.

He that is dead is freed from sin. Romans six and eleven. Reckon yourself to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive to God. Romans 6 14 Sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under law. But under grace, Romans 6, 17 and 18, you were the servants of sin, being then made free from sin.

I know, stand with me all over this place. I know there's struggles going on, but your struggle will not be resolved by you placing your faith in anything other than Christ. And him crucified. I remember standing.