Happy New Year! :Happy New Year! A Time for Newness or Refreshing


2008 – Rise Up In Christ :2008 – Rise Up In Christ Vision for this year! Increased ministry by the students. Full WASC accreditation. Improved resources for students and staff.


Romans Chapter 6 :Romans Chapter 6 Context: A Book of Christian Doctrine Chapters 1-3: God is Righteous Man is sinful Chapters 3-5: God’s righteousness for Justification is available by faith.


Context for Romans 6 :Context for Romans 6 Chapter 6 begins a discussion on God’s righteousness. Biblical Worldview involves two areas: God – His righteousness Mankind – availability to identify with Christ. Purpose – God’s will for you!


Common Complaint :Common Complaint Too often we hear that our school is … My response: You can either be part of the solution or … You can be a part of the problem.


Romans 6 :Romans 6 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?


Chapter 6 Verses 4-5 :Chapter 6 Verses 4-5 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 6:6-8 :Romans 6:6-8 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.  8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,


Romans 6:9-11 :Romans 6:9-11 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.  11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.


Romans 6:12-14 :Romans 6:12-14 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,  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 6:15-17 :Romans 6:15-17 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!  16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?   17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,


Romans 6:18-20 :Romans 6:18-20 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.  19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.  20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.


Romans 6:21-23 :Romans 6:21-23 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.  22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.  23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?  Baptized - Immersed as in the dyeing of a fabric…


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 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.   Walk - Living for Christ in total honesty, by faith, and in doing the good works that are commanded by living obedient to the Word.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 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,   Resurrection - Standing up in Him by living for Him.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,  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.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts Put off the old and put on the new in Christ that leads to righteousness.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.   Law - External standards that we can’t keep apart from the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  Grace - God’s empowerment and favor that, through the Holy Spirit, allows us to be obedient to the law of God.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?    Truth or Consequences - Your choices will lead to your consequences – either blessings or punishment.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,    Worldviews - Conflict of worldviews.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.   Members - Consider your eyes, ears, and mouth.


Key Words/Concepts :Key Words/Concepts 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. Sanctification - Separation from the sinful desires to God’s will for your life. Following Christ leads you in the process of sanctification in your life.


Applications :Applications Choose to be baptized in Christ’s death (soak yourself in Him) Understand the penalty of your sins has been paid for (I John 4:10) You can say no to the old habits, attitudes, and choices.


Applications :Applications Rise up in the resurrection of a new life in Christ (stand up for Jesus) Avoid gossip by speaking words that edify (Ephesians 4:29)


Applications :Applications Participate in the prophetic ministry of the school (I Corinthians 14:3) Edify others – find ways to build one another up Exhort – urge them on to greater accomplishments Console or comfort others – help them with their burdens (that doesn’t mean cheat on the test or homework!)