Sanctification
and Spiritual Growth
Romans 6:1-15;
22; Galatians 5:22-25
Worldwide Outreach Teaching School
Dr. Meiman Lai Saidi
www.WorldwideOTS.org
Preface:
Sanctification: Sanctification (¨ÏµL¸o¹L) is the work of God's Holy Spirit by which
He gives people pure hearts that He makes people
holy. Wesleyans believe that sanctification includes the two
crises of initial and entire sanctification. Initial
sanctification takes place when a person is born again. They also
believe in entire sanctification, as a second work of grace. Sanctification includes a lifelong process of spiritual growth. (J. Wesley Eby, ed., A Dictionary of the Bible & Christian
Doctrine in Everyday English [Kansas
City: Beacon Hill
Press of Kansas City,
2004], 263).
From our lesson last week, what
happens when a person is born again?
(He or she is forgiven of all past
sins, "Our old self (the old Adam)" must be the
sinful persons we once were, our former pre-Christian selves. and now this person is born again, treated by God as if the sins had never occurred. That is what "justification" means.) «¥Í«á´N±oÄÀ¸o (¤£¦]¸o¦Ó¨ü³d).
Today, we are going to discover that the Christian life is not about
good behavior, but about living according to a new way of life. It is the Holy
Spirit who makes this new way of life possible: Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ, in Step with the Spirit.
A.
Dead to Sin: God saves us from what we don't want to be,
to what we want to be.
Chapter 6
explains that believers are free from sin's control. Read Romans 6:1-10, Ä~Äò¤W¶g ·í¤H«¥Í´Nµo¥Í¤F¦ó¨Æ©O?
- What shall we say,
then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? - By no means! We
died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? - Or don''t you know
that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? - We were therefore
buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. - If we have been
united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
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This section
deals with sanctification - God makes our lives change as we grow in
the faith.
Ro. Vv 1-5: In
the church of Apostle Paul's day, the usual form of baptism-that is new
Christians were completely "buried" in water. This form of baptism is to
symbolize the death and burial of the old way of life. Coming up out
of the water symbolize the resurrection to new life with Christ. If we
think of our old, sinful life as dead and buried, we have a powerful to
treat the desires and temptations of the old nature as if they were dead.
Then we can enjoy our wonderful new life with Jesus. "God had power to
do what He had promised (Ro.4:21). Therefore, -See Colossians
3:12-15:
- Therefore,
as God''s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. - Bear
with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. - And
over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. - Let
the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
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6-10(ù°¨®Ñ): Here Apostle Paul emphasized that we need no
longer live under sin's power. They maybe sometimes still feel like sinning,
the difference is that before we were saved, we were slaves to our sinful
nature, but now we can choose to live for Christ (see Galatians ¥[©Ô¤Ó2:20 - I have been
crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I
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B. Alive In Christ:
Read Romans 6:11-15, 22·í¤H«¥Í´Nµo¥Í¤F¦ó¨Æ©O? 1. Offer
yourself to God, read Romans 6:11-
15
- In the same way,
count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. - Therefore do not let
sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. - Do not offer the parts
of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. - For sin shall not be
your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. - What then? Shall we
sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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(Ro. ù°¨®Ñ6:11) "Count ourselves dead to sin" means
that we should regard our old sinful nature as dead and unresponsive to sin.
Because of our union and identification with Christ, we are no longer
obligated to carry out those old motives, desires, and goals. So let
us consider ourselves to be what God has in fact made us. We have a new
start, and the Holy Spirit will help us become in our daily experience what
Christ has declared us to be. ¦V¸o¦º¦]±z¤w±N¦Û¤vÄmµ¹ ¯«¡D§Ṳ́£¦A±a¦³¦Ñ§Úªº¤ß±ý©M¥Ø¼Ð¤F¡C§Ú̦³·sªº¶}©l, ´NÅý ¸tÆF¤é¤éÀ°§U§Ú̸gÅçC¿qµ¹§Ú̲M·¡ªº¦®¥Ü, Í¢n§ÚÌ·í§@ªº¨Æ¡C
(Ro.6:13a) The ability to
refuse to offer ourselves "to sin as an instrument of wickedness" (Ro.6:13b) By God's
grace and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can be enabled not to sin. It
was Jesus who said, "Everyone who sins is a slave to sin, but if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John¬ù 8:34, 36). ¤Ñ¤÷ªº¨à¤lY¥s§A̦ۥѡB§AÌ´N¯u¦Û¥Ñ¤F¡C
(Ro.6:14-15)
Paul means when we were under the law, sin was
our master-the law does not justify us our help us overcome sin. But now that
we are bound to Christ, he is our Master, and he gives us power to do good
rather than evil. As justified believers, we have
the freedom to choose who will reign in our lives. We can choose our master.
Because of our identity with Christ, we are no longer slaves to sin. And sin no
longer has authority over us. Why? It is
because of God's great grace.
2.
The life of holiness,
read Romans 6:22
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Everybody has a
master ¡V either God or sin. A Christian is no someone who cannot sin, but
someone who is no longer a slave to sin. He (or her) belongs to God.
Paul urges
believers to pursue a life of holiness by a self-abandonment to righteousness.
He writes, "Now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage
you get is sanctification" (v. 22), Sanctification
is the work of God's Holy Spirit by which He makes people holy. We could never
live righteously in our own strength. That is why He has given us the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit empowers believers to live rightly and tell
others about Jesus (Acts 1:8). However, the Holy Spirit also purifies
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C. IN
STEP with the SPIRIT·í¾a¸tÆF¦æ¨Æ: Read
Galatians 5:22-25
- But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, - gentleness and
self-control. Against such things there is no law. - Those who belong to
Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. - Since
we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
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The above are the character of Christ, if we want
the fruit of the Spirit to grow in us, we must join our lives to his.- John 15:
4-5: 4 Jesus says, "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you
remain in me. 5, "I am the
vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear
much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. There are
found in the nature of Christ.
Biblical writers were very intentional about their order of
words. Why do you think Paul lists love first and self-control last? What does
this tell us about the life of holiness? Paul lists the fruit
of the Spirit in contrast to the acts of the flesh (John
5:19-24):
- Jesus gave them this
answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. - For the Father loves
the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. - For just as the
Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. - Moreover, the Father
judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, - that all may honor
the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. - "I tell you the
truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. Eternal life - living forever with God ¡V begins when you accept Jesus Christ as Savior. At that moment, new life begins in you
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D.
CONCLUSIONS: If these qualities that Paul describes are the fruit of the Spirit,
how do we act in co-operation with the Spirit? What is our role in
keeping in step with the Spirit? What three responsibilities in the verses 12-14 and 22 of Romans Paul
say the believer is to fulfill in order to remain "dead to sin" and "alive to
God"?
[1] Resist ¹ï§Üsin's attempt to
reestablish its reign in our life by steadfastly resisting
temptation [Ro.6:12]. ¤£n³Q¸o¸Õ±´.
[2] Consecrate ourselves and the parts of our
body totally to God±NªÏÅé§@¸qªº¾¹ ¨ãÄmµ¹¡@¯« [Ro.6:13-14].¡C
[3] Become God's slave in righteousness
which leads to sanctification [Ro.6:22-, "Now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the
advantage you get is sanctification." Read
bible daily, prayer, fasting, obey God's words and His Works of mercy, included visiting the sick and imprisoned, feeding the hungry, clothing
the naked, etc.
Prayer: May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify
you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless
at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians ©««e5:23). Ä@½ç¥¦wªº¡@¯«¡B¿Ë¦Û¨Ï§AÌ¥þµM¦¨¸t¡D¤SÄ@§A̪ºÆF¡B»P»î¡B»P¨¤l¡B±o»X«O¦u¡B¦b§Ú¥DC¿q°ò·þ°Á{ªº®ÉÔ¡B§¹¥þµL¥i«üºK¡C