Solomon Lecture Series, lecture 22: A survey of Romans 6-7

The following post contains some highlights from the twenty second lecture in the Solomon Lecture Series, presented by Dr. Phil Jones. The entire lecture series is available, here, at Grace Fellowship International.

-       Every believer has been baptized by the Holy Spirit into Christ upon salvation.

-       Our old self in Adam has been crucified (executed) with Christ at salvation.

-       Our physical body dominated by sin has been rendered inoperative. Sin (noun) is still there in our body, but we are no longer dominated by it.

-       Reckon yourself dead to sin. Count it as true.

-       You can’t live the Christian life solely through determination, yet you can’t do it without it. It must be Holy Spirit empowered. In counseling, the person you counsel must want to be helped. They need brokenness and determination to change. They need total surrender and be willing to appropriate what happened at the cross. Without that, further counseling is just strengthening their flesh. Don’t try to fix them. We are to just wait for them to be ready to commit to change.

-       The carnal man has self as his center (source). He is a “selfer.”

-       The law doesn’t die. But the old man has died and is no longer under the curse of the law. The unsaved are under the curse of the law and the law reveals sin to them and rouses it. An example is “Don’t touch. Wet paint.” You have to touch it!

-       The carnal man is defeated by the law. The law can’t sanctify you, strengthen you, or set you free. Dr. Jones says that “Wretched man” means a soldier who is exhausted and worn out after battle.

-       When I’m abiding in Christ, I can live in victory over the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is still there, like gravity, but just like the law of aerodynamics allows a plan to overcome gravity, so does abiding in Christ allow us to overcome the law of sin and death.