Grace Unveiled: “Baptized Into His Death” | Romans 6:3 | #21 | Jim Hammond
 
Recap
 
Pastor Jim presented the 21st installment to his series on the book of Romans entitled, “Grace Unveiled.” By now, having gone through Romans chapters 1 through 5, we should all have an understanding of what it means to be justified. Once you ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, you receive the gift of righteousness. That means you are able to stand before God the Father without a sense of guilt or inferiority. This is the New Testament covenant we have with God, made possible through Jesus Christ. Now that we have a firm understanding of what it means to be justified through grace, Pastor Jim began to teach on the subject of sanctification.
 
 
Dive Deeper
 
The gift of righteousness gives you the ability to have a relationship with God and your account with Him registers as “not guilty.” You’re justified in His eyes.
 
You did not earn this gift. In fact, you cannot earn it.
 
You get this gift through believing in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You choose to believe in Jesus as your Savior and what He did for you.
 
The problem? A lot of people don’t even know to believe for this. They don’t know that this is part of salvation.
 
Through this gift, we are acceptable to God, yet we still retain a literal genetic sin nature. That is true for every single person. Though we are declared “not guilty” by God, we still have a sin nature that goes all the way back to Adam.
 
If you’ve been born again, God is not done with you. He’s not through with you in regard to what He does about the sin nature in you.
 
So the next question is, “How do we, through our relationship with God, disengage and overcome the sin nature that’s within us? How does that happen?”
 
In looking at salvation, we have three tenses: past, present, and future.
 
Past tense salvation is when you were saved. The first three chapters of Romans tells us we are all sinners. Every single person. All of us are sinners with a sin nature. Salvation is saving us from hell; it separates us from the penalty of sin, which is eternity in hell. Automatically.
 
Present tense salvation is to separate us from the power of that sin. Being established in the New Testament gift of righteousness, believers can take their sin boldly and confidently to God before His throne of Grace. It is there you receive mercy for that sin and you receive grace.
 
Future tense salvation is to separate us from the actual presence of sin. This involves the penalty of sin, hell taken care of, the power of sin, and then the presence of sin… which is all a process. The past tense is when you say the prayer of salvation because you believe in the cross and resurrection and are therefore justified in God’s eyes. Nothing can take that away from you. Nothing!
 
Sanctification
 
Justification is not the same thing as sanctification. Justification comes to you when you get born again.
 
Justification is like a stamp on a passport. You get your passport stamped. It’s your passport to heaven because you were justified.
 
You have been acquitted in the heavenly courtroom and have been declared “not guilty.” That is imputed to you because you believe.
 
But your sin nature is still there. What are we going to do about it? How do we separate from the power of sin, from the presence of sin. This is called sanctification.
 
Sanctification is a process that comes after you’ve been justified. It’s a process.
 
Justification takes you out of hell immediately! And now sanctification is living out the benefit that you have been given to the point where your experience in life is ultimately a process that glorifies God.
 
In Romans 6:3, Paul moves toward talking about sanctification. It’s important to understand that if you don’t understand Romans chapters 1 through 5, the gift of righteousness, you’re not going to understand sanctification. Ultimately, you will not understand the book of Romans.
 
Read About It
 
Romans 6:3–4, “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
 
Discussion Questions
 
What is the difference between justification and sanctification?
 
Can you describe the three “tenses” of salvation?
 
How do we disengage and overcome the sin nature that’s within us?
 
 
 
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