Thursday, September 17, 2015

Kris Vallotton - Romans 1-8. Sin, Grace, Death and Sinlessness

Kris Vallotton

Romans 5
If you read Rom. 7 out of context you can hunk sin is normal: "look, the Apostle Paul sinned!"

Romans 1-5 is Paul's argument that one is saved by grace and not by works.


Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned- - Romans 5:12

We are only under the sin of Adam. He knew what was right and chose sin. Whereas, Eve was deceived (she thought she was doing the right thing, but was deceived).

Sin didn't happen after the Bible was published. No, the commands of God are written on your heart.

Main point of Romans 1-5:
 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. - Romans 5:15

Sin is not a mistake
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, - Romans 5:20

You cannot sin on accident. Sin is always an act of the will. Jesus did not die on the cross for your mistakes.

Being a Christian is not being modified, it's being killed: "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." - Romans 6:6 

Old bad saying: "There is a black dog and a white dog, the one you feed is alpha. "No, my black dog is now dead!" 

Why did Paul say the law only has power of peer the living:
Or do you not know, brothers-for I am speaking to those who know the law-that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? - Romans 7:1

Because you are dead - ie.; the law has no power over you!


4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. - Romans 7:4-6

Rom 6-8 has 44 times that says you are dead. Dead people don't sin.

When you were under the law, you were told all the right things to do but no power to change. If you are under the law, sin is your master. Romans 7:15ff is Paul speaking in present tense to help us understand what Pharisees under the law felt!

These verses are not written about you. They were written about the you before you came to faith.

Mt 5:14 - you are a city on a hill, not you are a light in the church.

Kris received a check for $30,000 from a church member named Eli. For the next few months he avoided Eli. Finally, he asked God what's my problem?! He

Intimacy means "into me I see." 

The only way to be complete is to be married or have a supernatural gift. The woman was taken out of the man. There's no way to get in touch with your feminine side. 

Don't siphon off your desires by delaying marriage and satisfying your desires outside of sex. Aren't you glad sex is enjoyable. God could have had us... Lay an egg.

When courting happens and one side begins to see into someone, the fearful one makes a case against the other. Intimacy creates fear if you are broken, good at putting up a fake image. 


And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. - Ezekiel 36:26

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. - 2 Peter 1:4

11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. - Titus 2:11-14

I wonder who God wants me to marry. Well, who do you want to marry since you think like God.


6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"- 
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. - 1 Corinthians 2:6-13

Do demons know your thoughts? No. Spirit of God does. One reason we speak in tongues may be to speak in secret to God!

John 17:22
The glory has been given to you

If you take a slave and put them into a palace. They turn the palace and create a prison.

The Lord gave you a palace - it is called the earth.

If you take a prince and put him in a prison, you will create a palace. (Story of Joseph)

We are taking the next two months to talk about who you are - to change the world.

You were born to reign in life. The goal is to get the kingdom inside you and the kingdom will leak wherever you go!

The best thing you can do for your neighbor is to love you.

If you sneeze and you get boogers on your glasses. Everyone you look at has boogers. The problem isn't the other people, it's your boogers. Everything looks like wood, hay and stubble because you have a log in your eye.

You get revelation when you read the Bible to learn, not to look for reasons why you are right. Don't use the Bible to keep you in prison.


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