258 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 22 - Grace Much More Abounds

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 22 GRACE MUCH MORE ABOUNDS Back to Romans Chapter 6. Romans 6:3 "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ (that was the work of the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 12:13) were baptized into his death?" Remember the Gospel, that Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He arose again from the dead. Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Old Adam has to die, and we have to be sure he's dead, and so as He died, we died in the mind of God. Turn for a moment to the Book of Ephesians. That Christ died for our sins, and that as He died, we have to die, and out of that death we get new eternal life. Now let's look at Ephesians Chapter 2 for a moment. Paul always writes to believers. I'm forever telling you Paul always writes to believers, and to make my point let's flip back to Ephesians Chapter 1. Ephesians 1:1 "PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:" See this is to every believer, and every believer according to Scripture is a saint. Ephesians 2:1 It's a world full of dead people; not physically dead, but spiritually dead. Ephesians 2:2,3 The old nature under the control of Satan. But then we have the flip side in verse 4: Ephesians 2:4 "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us," Now because of God's Grace and His mercy, we are experiencing His love. Old Adam has to die, and we have to be separated from him. Verse 4 again: Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so (in the same manner) we also should walk in newness of life." II Corinthians 5:17,18 "Therefore if any man be in (positional term. That person who has been baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body) Christ, he is a new creature (creation is a better word than creature, because our Salvation is a work of creation, a work of the power of God): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Remember that? Alright, verse 5 ... Romans 6:5 "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death (what he's talking about? The tomb. If we have been in the tomb as He was; if we have been buried because we're dead, and old Adam is now crucified, here's the guarantee), we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:" I Thessalonians 4:13-18) Now verse 6, and here Paul is going to recap. Romans 6:6a It puts to death, it kills. Let's start at verse 20. John 12:20,21 Philip knows Jesus isn't going to see a Gentile so he cops out by taking the problem over to Andrew. John 12:22 "Philip cometh and telleth Andrew (can't you just picture that conversation? So Philip and Andrew pick their way through the crowd and find Jesus.): and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus." John 12:23,24 "And Jesus answered them (Philip, and Andrew), saying (bring them in? Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn (kernel) of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.'" It dies, it rots, but out of that death will come that new green shoot. Now Jesus is using that simple illustration in reference to His own death, burial, and Resurrection. Again Paul is writing to the Gentile believers at Ephesus, and in that area of the world. Ephesians 2:11,12 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands (in other words, the Jew would refer to the Gentiles as uncircumcised); That at that time (when God was dealing with the Circumcision only, the Jew, and the Circumcision had no time for the Gentiles in spiritual things) ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel (that left them out of the Covenant promise of Israel) and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" Every place we look we are reminded of death, burial, and resurrection. Now come back to Romans Chapter 6, and completing verse 6: Romans 6:6 "Knowing this, that our old man (old Adam or sin nature) is crucified with him (that's when our old Adam was crucified, and that was when Christ was. So far as He's concerned, His death, burial and Resurrection was almost contemporary with us), that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." Every believer of all the ages God saw in Christ. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible