GraceinChrist

The creation of the universe, the formation of man, salvation and suffering are all for the glory of God, for all are effected by His power! The same is true in sanctification, in living for God as a Christian! This too is for His Glory and thus the Christian life must be lived by His power, not by dependence upon the flesh following laws, rules, routines and rituals but by the power of the Spirit of God. It is only once lived out by the Spirit that we are able to produce fruit for God. Systematic teaching from Romans. 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie 

New Cumnock.

The battle with the flesh, the triumph of living for Christ in the power of the Spirit of God in Romans chapters 7 and 8. The type of Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis chapter 32 at Peniel is considered. What is the role of the law in the life of the Christian? Can we please God by keeping the law and rules and regulations? We consider the 3 fold response of the flesh to the law, the moral response, the legal response and the religious response.

Dr J Stewart Gillespie

Romans chapter 6 verse 23, the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel message found here in Romans chapter 6 and in Luke chapter 23 as we consider the man on the middle cross we find where the gift of eternal life is given, why eternal life is by grace through faith, and how we receive God's free salvation in Jesus Christ.

Dr J Stewart Gillespie

Romans chapter 6 verse 19, how God takes ordinary Christians and turns them into great servants of God! God pours in His grace into the life of service, knowing that man is but dust, in the infirmity and weakness of our frail human flesh. God is no stranger to grace! It was grace God poured into the life of His discouraged Elijah in the wilderness with the touch of an angel and it was grace God poured into the life of doubting Thomas revealing His nail pierced hands and spear pierced side. Beware of measuring your service in the scales of disappointment! In Romans chapter 6 verse 19 we have the 4 rules for Christian service: One Word of Grace at a time One Master at a time One decision at a time One step at a time.

In this bible teaching message, part of a systematic, evangelical and reformed expository series on the book of Romans, we find the heart beat of Christian service. This is not simply ticking the boxes of service but serving from the heart! Not only does Romans chapter 6 give us the challenge of service but encourages us in our service and above all provides us with the power to serve God through Jesus Christ. Bible teaching from Paul's letter to the Romans give by Dr J Stewart Gillespie.

The cross of the Lord Jesus divides between death and life! Presented to the sinner the cross holds the key to destiny and our response to the cross of Jesus determines heaven or hell. God is not interested in making us a better sinner, or making life a little better, feeding us on more of the same. By the power of the cross there is radical transformation, metamorphosis. Jesus carried dead men to the cross but emerges from the cross the head of a new creation, the last Adam bringing living men from the cross! Through His people Jesus is now glorified in them as we live for God by Him. Here is a life of absolute surrender for the glory of God.

Romans chapter 6 unpacks Paul's teaching on sanctification. Now that I am saved, now I am a Christian, how should I live? Can I live as a please? Can I as a Christian do whatever I want? Does God have a purpose for my life? Can I continue in sin that grace may much more abound? Romans teaches that a life which receives salvation is a life changed by Christ. Salvation comes by relationship and that with a living Saviour! Our water baptism demonstrates this truth. In baptism by immersion we are dead, buried and raised again in Jesus! The Christian life is lived out in the sanctuary of Romans chapter 8, like that of David, at the altar of Romans chapter 12 like that of Abraham and in the congregation of Romans chapters 14 to 16 like that of Moses. Like the lepers of old, God takes our broken and dead lives and transforms them and changes them not for our glory but for His! He brings Miriam's flesh alive from the dead, Naaman the leper through the waters of baptism and the leper of Luke chapter 17 to the pinnacle of glorifying Jesus.

Romans chapter 6, sanctification and salvation in the life of the Christian, illustrated from Leviticus chapter 14 and the cleansing of the leper. Three men, David, Abraham and Moses, 3 deaths, Christ, self and the Old Man, the doctrine of propitiation and expiation and justification by faith and living life in the light of the sanctuary, Romans 8, the altar Romans 12 and the congregation in Romans chapters 13 to 16. 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie

Romans chapter 6 lies as a valley of decision between the two mountains of the death of Jesus in Romans chapter 3 for our sin and the new life of Jesus to be lived by the Christian in Romans chapters 6 to 8 and chapter 12 till the end. Up until Romans 6 we have been impacted by the death of 3 men: Death of Jesus for sin in Romans chapter 3 Death of Self to sin in Romans 6 Death of the old man in Romans 6 The challenge now is to be what we are and not to fall between the gaps of what God has made us in Christ and how we live for Christ. Do not fall between the gaps of deliverance and destiny, like the nation of Israel in the wilderness. Romans chapter 8 takes us to the sanctuary experience of the new life in Christ Romans chapter 12 takes us to the altar experience of the new life in Christ. Romans chapters 14 to 16 takes me to the assembly or church experience of the new life in Christ. Here is your new life in Christ, live your best Christian life now.

Christ died once to sin (Romans chapter 6), justifying the demands of sin against us. Having died to sin and having brought an end to the old man, what we were in Adam, we are transferred as Christians to a new Lord, new Master, new Kingdom and a new genealogy in Jesus. This new life before God is a life in the sanctuary like David, at the altar like Abraham and in the congregation like Moses. 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie 

Systematic bible teaching from Romans