Problem: How can I gain control over a sin nature that no longer has any right over me, yet continues to try?

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Problem How can I gain control over a sin
nature that no longer has any right over me, yet
continues to try?
Answer Holiness is not something I do or
attain rather it is something I am therefore
live.
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Chapters 4-5 free from the penalty of sin
Chapters 6-8 free from the power of sin
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Antinomianism

• nomos law

• anti instead of

Merriam-Webster 10th ed.
1 one who holds that under the gospel
dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use
or obligation because faith alone is necessary to
salvation.
2 one who rejects a socially established
morality
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RECOGNIZE THE DATA (vv. 3-10)
RECKON THE DEATH (vv. 11-12)
REMIT OUR DEVICES (vv. 13-23)
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Recognize the Data (vv. 3-10)
1st fact we are identified into Jesus death
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United sumphutos

• sun with

• phuteuo to plant

• Grafted draws its life from the host

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Recognize the Data (vv. 3-10)
1st fact we are identified into Jesus death
2nd fact This identification allows me to be
"grafted" into Him
3rd fact This engrafting is past tense
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Done away with katargeo

• kata according to

• argos (TDNT) means inactive or
  inoperative. It is used in the sense of
  indolent, unemployed, useless,
  unserviceable

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Recognize the Data (vv. 3-10)
1st fact we are identified into Jesus death
2nd fact This identification allows me to be
"grafted" into Him
3rd fact This engrafting is past tense
4th fact This past tense death renders my "old
man" "inactive"
5th fact My inactive old man is free from sin
6th fact My identification with Jesus brings me
life
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Chap. 5 dia (through Christ, by faith, etc.)
Chap. 6 en (in Christ)
Reckon logizomai "logical"

• Add up the facts of vv. 3-10

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Feeling Faith and Fact Three men were walking on
a wall, Feeling, Faith, and Fact, When Feeling
got an awful fall, And Faith was taken back. So
close was Faith to Feeling, He stumbled and fell
too, But Fact remained, And pulled faith
back, And Faith brought Feeling to.
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