Set Free to Serve
Romans 6:1b ESV
Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
Romans 6:15b ESV
Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?
Romans 6:2a ESV
By no means!
Romans 6:15c ESV
By no means!
Romans 6:15a ESV
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?
1st Contrast: under law vs under grace
2nd Contrast: slave to sin vs slave to righteousness
3rd Contrast: wages of sin vs gift of God
1st A Christian will seek to avoid sin because they are under grace
Romans 6:15a ESV
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?
Galatians 4:4-5 ESV
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Under Law: keeping rules so you can be righteous in God’s sight
Galatians 5:2-4 ESV
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ,you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5:2 ESV
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 2:21 ESV
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Under Grace: all my righteousness comes as a gift from Christ
Romans 6:15a ESV
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?
Romans 6:14 ESV
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:12a ESV
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies…
Romans 6:14a ESV
For sin will have no dominion over you…
Romans 8:30b-31 ESV
Those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Justification is the act of God whereby He forgives the unsaved person’s sin and credits to them the righteousness of Christ when through faith they believe.
2nd A Christian will seek to avoid sin because they are a slave to righteousness
Romans 6:16 ESV
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:17-18 ESV
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Sanctification is the process whereby the believer becomes more and more like Jesus (holy) as a result of God’s work in them and their obedience to His Word.
Romans 6:19 ESV
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Romans 6:22 ESV
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
