Judgement

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Judgement

• Romans 6. 1-14

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Starting again after judgment?
I am happier and more fulfilled than ever I was
in the heyday of being in the spotlight of
Cabinet power and vaulting ambition. So there is
life after a libel catastrophe and it can be a
good life.
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After judgment

• There is no one righteous, not even
  one    there is no one who understands    ther
  e is no one who seeks God.
• All have turned away, they have together become
  worthless there is no one who does
  good,    not even one.    
  Romans 3.10-12
• There is no fear of God before their eyes.
  3.17
• There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,
  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God. 3.23

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray..
You! Me!
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The merciful king
But now God has shown us a way to be made right
with him.. We are made right with God by placing
our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for
everyone who believes, no matter who we
are. Romans 3.21-22 NLT
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When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at
just the right time and died for us sinners. Now,
most people would not be willing to die for an
upright person, though someone might perhaps be
willing to die for a person who is especially
good. But God showed his great love for us by
sending Christ to die for us while we were still
sinners. (Romans 5. 6-8, NLT)
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Good News!

• Not

• But

• we know there is a God who makes sense of the
  universe, and loves his creation.
• we know he cares, and reaches out to us
• we know he is our loving Father, who came to us
  in Christ
• we know God will forgive us because Jesus died in
  our place, and that we have only to trust him.

• The Atheist says there is no God
• The Buddhist says God is unreachable
• The Hindu says God contains everything creation
  and destruction, male and female, good and evil,
• The Muslim says acceptance by God hinges on
  obedience, but still nothing is certain

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• What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning
  so that grace may increase? By no means! We are
  those who have died to sin how can we live in it
  any longer? Or dont you know that all of us who
  were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised
  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.

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• For if we have been united with him in a death
  like his, we will certainly also be united with
  him in a resurrection like his. For we know that
  our old self was crucified with him so that the
  body ruled by sin might be done away with, that
  we should no longer be slaves to sin because
  anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

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• Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
  will also live with him. For we know that since
  Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die
  again death no longer has mastery over him. The
  death he died, he died to sin once for all but
  the life he lives, he lives to God.

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• 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 any part of
  yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,
  but rather offer yourselves to God as those who
  have been brought from death to life and offer
  every part of yourself to him as an instrument of
  righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your
  master, because you are not under the law, but
  under grace.

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Living a new life?

• For we know that our old self was crucified with
  him (6 v.6)
• Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
  will also live with him. (6v.8)
• If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation
  the old has gone, the new has come (2
  Corinthians 5.17)

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New person
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The practical response (1)
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.
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The practical response (2)
Do not let sin control the way you live do not
give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of
your body become an instrument of evil to serve
sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God,
for you were dead, but now you have new life.
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The practical response (3)
Offer every part of yourself to him as an
instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no
longer be your master, because you are not under
the law, but under grace. (6.v 13 - 14)
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The practical response (3)

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