[Sermon Note] What Does “Dead To Sin, Alive To God” mean?

Pastor Stephanie

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Mind without Christ is enemy

Spiritman we are developing the heart and not the mind

As the spiritman grows, the mind is renewed

We all see in good or bad. God sees dead or alive

There is a lot of difference between good and bad and dead and alive.

God sees the spirit of the person

We see in the soul realm.

We have been born again. We have become alive.

Our spirit has become alive in Christ.

God sees whether a person is alive or dead.

When we began to see, develop our spiritman, we see dead or alive

God says all our righteousness is like filthy rag

We unconsciously try our best to be good.

The elder son sees as good and bad.

The father still see the elder and youngest sons as champions.

The father said to the elder son “What i have is yours”

In his heart, both are champions and apple of his eyes

Deserving favour, u earn from it

The world system is building leaders

The soul area is built up

You don’t want to be unequally yoke with unbelievers. It is not a good person with bad person. Is either dead or alive.

When Adam sins, he died.

We can live a new life

ROMANS 5:20-21 MSG

All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers.

But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace.

When it’s sin versus grace, GRACE WINS HANDS DOWN.

All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it.

Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into LIFE —a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.

There is power in His forgiveness

You don’t see sin as big sin or small sin

If we do that we will be self righteous.

God is not saying you keep on sinning

ROMANS 6:1-3 MSG

So what do we do?

Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving?

I should hope not!

If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there?

Or didn’t you realize we packed up and left there for good?

That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind;

when we came up out of the water, we entered into the NEW COUNTRY of GRACE —a NEW LIFE in a NEW LAND!

When we go under water in baptism

When we come out of water we enter into new country of grace

We are already alive but we are like a corpse when we don’t see grace.

We get new life not new set of rules

Each of us is raised into a light filled world by our Father

ROMANS 6:6-11 MSG

Could it be any clearer?

Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin’s every beck and call!

The way of life, the works of flesh

ROMANS 6:6-11 MSG

What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end.

Never again will death have the last word.

When JESUS DIED, he took sin down with him, but ALIVE he brings God down to us.

From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word.

You are DEAD TO SIN and ALIVE TO GOD.

That’s what JESUS DID.

U cannot have fellowship with a set of rules

Life is natural. It is like what we call, mother tongue.

How we think of God is how we think towards others

Dead to sin and alive to God

A dead person cannot react.

We are useless to the devil when we are dead in Christ

Our New Nature In Christ

1 JOHN 3:9 TPT

Everyone who is truly God’s child will refuse to keep sinning because GOD’S SEED remains within him, and he is UNABLE to continue sinning because he has been FATHERED by GOD HIMSELF.

Grace so much more powerful than sin

Sinning means action of sins

1 JOHN 3:9 AMPC

No one BORN (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for GOD'S NATURE abides in him [His principle of LIFE, the DIVINE SPERM, REMAINS PERMANENTLY within him]; and he cannot practice sinning BECAUSE he is BORN (begotten) of GOD.

Are you saying Adam is more powerful than Jesus?

We are born again. We are not changed over by a set of rules

It is not possible to continue sinning

The life of God is righteousness remains in him permanently

GENESIS 3:14 NKJV

So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.

GENESIS 3:15 NKJV

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and HER SEED; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

Jesus took the blame

The devil head has been bruised.

ROMANS 16:20 TPT

And the God of peace will swiftly pound Satan to a pulp under your feet!

And the wonderful favor of our Lord Jesus will surround you.

GALATIANS 4:4 TPT

But when that era came to an end and the time of fulfillment had come, God sent his SON, BORN of a WOMAN, born under the written law.

GALATIANS 4:5 TPT

Yet all of this was so that he would redeem and set free all those held hostage to the written law so that we would receive our FREEDOM and a full LEGAL adoption as his CHILDREN.

Sin has no more power over you. You have been legally discharged through Christ

GALATIANS 4:6 TPT

And so that we would know for sure that we are his true children, God released the SPIRIT of SONSHIP into our hearts—moving us to cry out intimately, “My Father!

You’re our true Father!”

GALATIANS 4:7 TPT

Now we’re no longer living like slaves under the law, but we enjoy being God’s very own sons and daughters! And because we’re his, we can access everything our Father has—for we are heirs of God through Jesus, the Messiah!

We are heir of God through Jesus

1 JOHN 3:10 AMPC

By this it is made clear who take their NATURE from God and are HIS CHILDREN and who take their NATURE from the devil and are his children:

no one who does not practice righteousness [who does not conform to God's will in purpose, thought, and action] is of God; neither is anyone who does not love his brother (his fellow believer in Christ).

We are born with the nature of God

We can never love the way God loves unless He put inside us

The one who is God’s child will do what is right.

Your nature is to tell the truth and love

God is the source of love

We are born from Him

1 JOHN 3:10 TPT

Here is how God’s children can be clearly distinguished from the children of the Evil One.

Anyone who does not demonstrate righteousness and show love to fellow believers is not living with GOD as his SOURCE.

JOHN 8:44 AMPC

You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father.

He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is NATURAL to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.

Nature of devil is lies

You don’t know when the person is telling truth or lies

There is no way other than the way of Christ

Jesus is our wisdom. Not the world.

The only thing that can be from above is to be born again

ROMANS 5:5 NKJV

Now hope does not disappoint, because the LOVE of GOD has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Enjoy the love and the love will come out from you

Our hearts was created to contain love

It was made originally to contain love

2 PETER 1:1-2 MSG

I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ.

I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.

2 PETER 1:3-4 MSG

Everything that goes into a LIFE of PLEASING GOD HAS BEEN MIRACULOUSLY GIVEN to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God.

The best invitation we ever received!

We were also given absolutely terrific PROMISES to pass on to you—your TICKETS to PARTICIPATION in the LIFE of GOD after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

In this world is all about fighting for the top

God don’t talk to your mind. He talks to your spirit

2 PETER 1:4 NKJV

as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

by which have been GIVEN to us EXCEEDINGLY GREAT and PRECIOUS PROMISES, that THROUGH THESE you may be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

You receive everything that is from Him

U will continue to partake of divine nature

Let the divine nature flows.

2 PETER 1:3 TPT

Everything we could ever need for life and godliness has already been DEPOSITED in US by HIS DIVINE POWER.

For all this was lavished upon us through the rich experience of knowing him who has called us by name and invited us to come to him through a glorious manifestation of his GOODNESS.

Lavish is a lot!

God knows us by names

That is the most important part

2 PETER 1:4 TPT

As a result of this, he has given you MAGNIFICENT PROMISES that are beyond all price, so that THROUGH the POWER of these TREMENDOUS PROMISES you can EXPERIENCE partnership with the DIVINE NATURE, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world.

Anything in life go to your father

The word of God has spoken and holy spirit comes

2 PETER 1:5-6 TPT

So devote yourselves to lavishly supplementing your faith with goodness, and to goodness add understanding, and to understanding add the strength of self-control, and to self-control add patient endurance, and to patient endurance add godliness,

2 PETER 1:7-8 TPT

and to godliness add mercy toward your brothers and sisters, and to mercy toward others add unending love. Since these virtues are already planted deep within, and you possess them in abundant supply, they will keep you from being inactive or fruitless in your pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ more intimately.

God’s love He gives us freely

2 PETER 1:9 TPT

But if anyone lacks these things, he is blind, constantly closing his eyes to the mysteries of our faith, and forgetting his innocence—for his past sins have been washed away.

Understand our past sins have been washed away

2 PETER 1:5, 9 MSG

So don’t lose a minute in BUILDING ON WHAT YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN,

Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that YOUR OLD SINFUL LIFE HAS BEEN WIPED OFF THE BOOKS.

You workout your salvation

ROMANS 6:14 NLT

Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law.

Instead, you live under the FREEDOM of GOD’S GRACE.

Holy Spirit reminds you you are living under the freedom of God’s grace

ROMANS 6:15 TPT

WHAT ARE WE TO DO, THEN ?

Should we sin to our hearts’ content since there’s no law to condemn us anymore?

What a terrible thought!

ROMANS 6:16 TPT

Don’t you realize that GRACE FREES you to CHOOSE your OWN MASTER ?

But choose carefully, for you surrender yourself to become a servant—bound to the one you choose to obey.

If you choose to love sin, it will become your master, and it will own you and reward you with death.

But if you choose to love and obey God, he will lead you into perfect righteousness.

GALATIANS 4:31 TPT

It’s now so obvious!

We’re not the children of the slave woman;

we’re the SUPERNATURAL SONS of the FREEWOMAN —SONS of GRACE!

We are supernatural sons of the freewoman. The champion loves by Jesus. Not because we earn it, but because He gives to us.

What Jesus did for us is so incredible

He still gives us that freedom

We can live the amazing life, the undeserved favour. This is real freedom.

The safety net is Christ.

We can choose to love Him because of grace.

Adam did not understand what is grace.

God did not demand us to be good anymore.

Go and experience the undeserved favour. The champion the apple of His eyes !

Dead to sin and alive to God!

Supernatural sons for the freewoman.

A plant life grows naturally.

We will grow day to day as we eat.