DISCOVER DELIVERANCE

Significant Spiritual Life #3

Can you think of examples of deliverance through the Scriptures?

Col. 1:12 ¶ Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Is deliverance from sin in our daily lives a real possibility? Where does spiritual understanding come from?

Remember, the basis of spiritual life is salvation - security in Christ! We have security in Christ because we’ve been accepted, Rom. 15:7, Eph. 1:6, by grace, Eph. 2:4-9. “Grace once bestowed is not withdrawn” Newell

Col. 2:6 tells us to walk the same way we received Christ. How was He received? By faith! II Cor. 5:7

Receiving spiritual deliverance is founded upon the truth of the Word. “We will never come into the knowledge of our spiritual possessions through a superficial understanding of the Word.” Stanford

Discover Deliverance in Roman 6

1. Should we sin to get more grace?

This question is based on Rom. 5:20 and the statement that grace super-abounds where sin abounds.

God’s answer to sin is grace rather than law! That needs to be understood as the fact that we are under the dispensation of grace and not law so that affects the spiritual life! We are to live according to grace and not law. This passage gives us the mechanics as to how that is practiced.

2. We are dead to sin!

It is an accomplished fact for every believer. This is not something to ask for or that we accomplish, it is an accomplishment of God for us in Christ!

3. We’ve been baptized into Christ and His death.

Every believer was baptized into Christ by the Spirit, I Cor. 12:13. There’s not even a hint of water here! This refers to being inseparably linked to Christ! It means we are identified with Him in His death, burial and resurrection. This was accomplished for us at the cross, just like salvation!

4. We experienced death and resurrection with Christ to walk (live) new life.

Our power to live “new” is the same power that raised Christ - (Glory of the Father). This is not reforming the old, it is merely letting the new life live out itself!

5. Death and Resurrection are ours.

6. Co-crucifixion renders the body useless.

We are so united with Him that we have no other identity. We are something new. Nee said that We cannot progress in our spiritual life without realizing that we “died in His death”.

7. Dead have been Freed from sin.

8-10. Dead to sin is final (once); Life to God is eternal.

This gives us the example of Christ’s life… and we’re to be conformed to Him, Rom. 8:29.

11. We are to follow Christ’s pattern and reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God.

Reckon is an accounting term that means to add up what’s really there! The only life I have is the one made alive with Christ!

Reckon is essentially faith - we‘re to walk by faith. It rests on the reality of what we have in Christ!

The Christian life isn’t what I am doing for God, but what God has done for me in Christ.

Douty:

“…grace must do it.”

Regarding the believer, Newell: “He has been accepted in Christ… he is not on probation.” Yet most believers think and live as if they were on probation!

Regarding grace, Newell: “To preach devotion first, and blessing second is to reverse God’s order and preach law, not grace.”

Deliverance from the power of sin has been accomplished on the cross! “Our part is not production, but reception of our life in Christ.” Stanford

It’s ridiculous to think that the cross that eternally saved us from the penalty of sin is powerless to deliver us from daily sin!

Read on in Romans 6 and see the faith response of presenting (yield) ourselves to God, based on the facts of these first 11 verses!

Phil. 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Grace to you!