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<li>Key Verse &#8212; <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,5);">Rom 6:5</a>
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<li><a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,6,7);">Rom 6:6-7</a> present an exposition of the first half of
<a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,5);">Rom 6:5</a></li>
<li>The negative &#8212; Dead with Him</li>
<li><a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,8,9,10);">Rom 6:8-10</a> present an exposition of the last half of
<a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,5);">Rom 6:5</a></li>
<li>The positive &#8212; Alive with Him</li>
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<li>Alive with Christ
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<li>Future resurrection</li>
<li>Present position &#8212; even now we walk in newness of life</li>
<li>The understanding of this truth comes as we learn what happened to Christ in death and resurrection
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<li>Death has no dominion over Him
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<li>The sting of death is sin</li>
<li>He died because He took our sin</li>
<li>He put Himself under the power of death</li>
<li>He destroyed death &#8212; <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Rom',5,21);">Rom 5:21</a></li>
<li>He will never die again</li>
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<li>Christ was raised from the dead
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<li>By the glory of the Father</li>
<li>An announcement that the work of redemption, atonement, justification, reconciliation, and salvation is absolutely completed</li>
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<li>The resurrection is the proof; the guarantee, the point of certainly; our point of authority
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<li>He lives with God
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<li>Exclusively in the realm of God</li>
<li>No longer under sin and death &#8212; <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Phl',2,'5-12');">Phl 2:5-12</a></li>
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<li>He is restored to previous position &#8212; <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Jhn',17,1,2,3);">Jhn 17:1-3</a></li>
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<li>Summary &#8212; <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,'1-11');">Rom 6:1-11</a>
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<li>Look exclusively at the Lord Jesus Christ and our position in Him</li>
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<li>The Turning Point &#8212; <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,11);">Rom 6:11</a>
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<li>The realm of application &#8212;<ul>
<li>Our practice</li>
<li>Our conduct</li>
<li>Our behavior</li>
<li>Our experience</li>
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<li>The reckoning &#8212; realizing the truth about ourselves
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<li>What is true of Christ is true of us &#8212; we are joined to Him</li>
<li>Considering ourselves</li>
<li>A logical conclusion</li>
<li>It is not talking ourselves into something</li>
<li>It is the result of truth</li>
<li>It is accepting God's Word as true</li>
<li>It is counting on that truth</li>
<li>It is putting my life on that truth</li>
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<li>We are to know and count on the fact that we are dead to the rule of sin
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<li>It does not mean that it is my duty to die to sin</li>
<li>It is not a command for me to die to sin</li>
<li>It does not mean that I believe sin to be eradicated</li>
<li>It does not mean that sin is dead</li>
<li>It does not mean "my reckoning" makes me dead to sin</li>
<li>We are to reckon something about ourselves as true because it is a fact through our union with Christ. He is dead to the realm of sin and alive to the realm of God</li>
<li>No longer under the dominion of death &#8212; <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Jhn',11,25,26);">Jhn 11:25-26</a></li>
<li>No longer under the dominion of sin
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<li>Sin can never make us its slave again</li>
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<li>God's way was not to change the old man but to send it to the cross unto death to release us from it</li>
<li>No one who remains in Adam will be saved</li>
<li>We are released from Adam &#8212; New in Christ</li>
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<li>We are to believe we are alive unto God &#8212; in the realm of the operation of the reign of grace
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<li>No longer under the wrath of God &#8212; <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Jhn',3,36);">Jhn 3:36</a></li>
<li>We are now reconciled to God</li>
<li>We are open to all the blessings of God &#8212; <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Rom',5,2);">Rom 5:2</a></li>
<li>We are the special objects of His concern</li>
<li>We are in God's plan and purpose to be holy and without blame before Him in love &#8212; <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Eph',1,4);">Eph 1:4</a></li>
<li>God's purpose is being worked in our life
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<li>Through our union with Christ we have a living, vital, organic attachment to Him
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<li>We receive life from Him &#8212; <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Jhn',15,5);">Jhn 15:5</a></li>
<li>We are His body &#8212; <a id="si_17" onclick="return mV('Eph',4,15);">Eph 4:15</a></li>
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<li>Thru the Spirit of Christ who indwells us</li>
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<li>We Are to Believe Our Position &#8212; We Do Not Experience Our Position
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<li>We have the Word of God
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<li>We must believe it</li>
<li>We must submit to it</li>
<li>We must act upon it</li>
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<li>We believe our position
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<li>We are in grace</li>
<li>God will bring us to perfection</li>
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<li>We know we are not hopeless
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<li>Our relationship to sin is exactly the same as Christ"s</li>
<li>We are in Him</li>
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<li>Our difficulty is in believing
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<li>It is too good</li>
<li>We are still in the body</li>
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<li>By faith alone we reckon the truth</li>
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