The Sunday School Lesson A Matter Of Life And Death by David McGee
Jan 29, 2017
A Matter Of Life And Death (31:19)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 5; Romans 6:1-23
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It isn't difficult to conclude that sin is rampant all around our world. Every day there are reports of murders, terrorist acts or threats, abuse in homes or schools, and an assortment of other evils. Although these reports draw our attention to the sin in our world, most people are not murderers, terrorists, or perpetrators of other terrible acts. As a result, one might conclude that human beings are inherently good and that our minor indiscretions are not really all that bad - especially when compared with what a few "bad" people do.
In this lesson we will see that the degree of sin is not as important to God as the reality of sin. All sin must be repented of and forgiven. It is a matter of life and death.
The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Romans 5
1) Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2) through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3) Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
4) and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
5) and hope doesn‘t disappoint us, because God‘s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
6) For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7) For one will hardly die for a righteous man. For perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8) But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God‘s wrath through him.
10) For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11) Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12) Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
13) For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren‘t like Adam‘s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15) But the free gift isn‘t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16) The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
17) For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18) So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19) For as through the one man‘s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
20) The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
21) that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:1-23
1) What will we say then? Will we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2) Certainly not! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3) Or don‘t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4) We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5) For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7) For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8) But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
9) knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
10) For the death that he died, he died to sin once; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11) Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12) Therefore don‘t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13) Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14) For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15) What then? Will we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
16) Don‘t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17) But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
18) Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
19) I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20) For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21) What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22) But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
23) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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