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LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 20
ROMANS 1:16
"The next item that God did on our behalf the moment we believed, is that God reckoned us as crucified with Christ." So as we study these words associated with salvation, remember these are acts of God, no man can touch them. So you and I as believers have been in the mind of God, put to death. So if God's law has determined that every human being is a sinner because we are sons of Adam, then it means that every human being has to die. Well, God has given us a tremendous loophole to His first law, "The soul that sinneth shall surely die." And that loophole was that He died in our place, but we still have to experience the same death that He experienced in the Person of Christ. Now Romans Chapter 6:
Many people don't know what the Scripture is talking about when it calls us the old man. Did you teach them to lie? No! That old Adamic nature. Did you teach them? The old nature. And so we are all born with that old Adamic nature, which sins before we are old enough to know what's what. It has to die. God has demanded it. Reading verse 6 again:
Romans 6:6
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified (it's put to death) with him (Christ), that the body of sin (the controlling factor of old Adam) might be destroyed (or put out of commission, it has to have that power over us totally broken. Only the power of God can break the control of our old Adamic nature. The only way we can be delivered is that Adam has to die), that henceforth we should not serve sin." God in a substitutionary manner died my death, He died your death in your place. Paul makes that plain in Galatians Chapter 2.
"I am crucified with Christ (do you see that? Because old Adam has been put to death, he's crucified, his power over our daily behavior has been broken, and he's dead. Galatians 2:20
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh (day by day, as we endure the things of this world) I live by the faith (or faithfulness) of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
So that when Christ hung on that Cross, and died, who else did God see in Christ? Every believer! I know that's the way God looks at it! Now let's turn to the Book of Ephesians Chapter 2. Ephesians 2:1
Ephesians 2:5
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved;)"
The unmerited favor of God accomplished all these things. Ephesians 2:6
God already sees us as together with Him in the heavenlies. Then verses 8 and 9 are favorites of many believers.
Ephesians 2:8,9
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Amazing Grace! Turn to II Corinthians Chapter 5. II Corinthians 5:14,15
"For the love love of Christ constraineth us (it drives us on); because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." The Gospel plain as day.
II Corinthians 5:16
Paul is referring to Christ's earthly ministry. So Paul says he doesn't even look back at Christ's earthly ministry. Paul and Christ were about the same age. II Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore (because of His work of the Cross) if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
In other words, when old Adam dies, God imparts to us a new divine nature. And that new nature, beloved, cannot sin, because it's divine. It is placed there by an act of God, but we still have the old flesh, the old Adam that is still capable of tripping us up, but so far as the new nature is concerned, "No it can't sin." Verse 18:
II Corinthians 5:18
"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;"
To be reconciled. II corinthians 5:19
"To wit (that is to say), that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
I maintain that when Christ died, He paid the sin debt for every human being that ever lived. No one need wake up in eternal doom, and say, "Well, God didn't supply my needs." A man had committed a murder, and was convicted and sentenced to death. Now reading verse 19 again:
In Chapter 3 we find Paul rehashing the activity of Israel when they rejected the Land of Promise at Kadesh Barnea. God had promised He would send hornets ahead of them to drive out the Canaanites. Hebrews 3:15-19

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