Romans – The Play Part 2

Hated – the corpse didn’t know it.  Beaten – the corpse didn’t know it.  Despised and cursed – the corpse didn’t know it.

Madame Maintenon don’t live here no more. Death had severed her from all of those things.

So here we are now – dead to sin.

Now that’s sin’s view. Sin cannot find you to enslave you. But from yet another view: you’re walking down the road, being pulled by sin, and you look up and see a cross. And something radically changes. And you turn around and you see a grave, and the grave says:

“Here lies sin and its power.” You are freed from sin. And you look up and you see the One who died on the cross—and you yield to Him.

From sin’s viewpoint, you’re dead. You’re in the grave. Sin cannot locate you. It looks everywhere—and you are gone. You have died. Sin cannot find you.

And from your viewpoint, sin has gone into the grave and died. And you have risen into a new realm. And there is a new master: Christ.

Once you had yielded these hands to sin. Once you had yielded these eyes to sin.

Yield them again to a new master. Yield them again to a new master.

Up until this point—I tell you, this is all that is required of that one who, like Abraham, has believed on that which he cannot see and cannot even fully understand, except he believed that his seed would live. Though he was dead, he believed he would live. Now will you just believe that you are dead, and that you will live, and that you have risen from the dead, just as Abraham’s body rose from the dead and a seed was in it?

Now believe, and all that you do now is you do the same thing you used to do—just yield to a different person. How could you, who are one with Christ, dare to even consider being again a slave to sin?

And dear brother and sister, I am 55 years old, and I am telling you. I have watched believers. And I’m talking about believers who believe. Believers who love. Believers who love Him. I have seen them leave the church. I have seen them leave this and that and the other. But I want you to know: most of those that I have run around with in my lifetime have never returned to being a slave to sin.