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Introduction Have you ever heard of a laughing heir? I’m not talking about laughing gas, I’m talking about when someone gets a call from a lawyer saying, “your rich uncle passed away and left you all his money!” It’s when you didn’t realize you would inherit something, but suddenly someone tells you…

There is a certain challenge when working as carefully and as intimately through Scripture as we do here in Christian Life Hour, in that such an examination can at times be in danger of missing the general theme or context of the larger passage. For indeed, many have failed to see the line of Scripture,…

Introduction Me You Romans 6:15-23 15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to…

Kids illustration dying to Sin I want to illustrate something for the church this morning and I think one of you could help me. I need someone who can hold there breath I need someone who can stay stiff like a board when I tilt them like I was baptizing them I need someone who can make a motion to indicate…

Listening to Your Conscience Romans 14:5-9 , 22-23 Introduction Ask for prayers Review of the book 4 reasons you should listen to YOUR conscience 1) Your conscience is a gift from God, so appreciate it ( Rom 1-13 ) Explanation The conscience speaks to us It is part of the image of God, which reflects…

Today we are continuing our study in Romans, picking up with the latter part of Romans 6 , verses 15-21. The Holy Spirit has been guiding Paul in writing this letter to clearly show that the gospel, the good news of God that changes lives by God’s power, is to be received by faith. It is not something…

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly…

Intro 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. 21 From…

Intro Last week we spoke about , Hope, Peace,Joy and Love The same topics that we preach during Advent - leading up to Christmas Paul now moves from Justification ( our standing with God) to Sanctification Growing and being more like Jesus. This Chapter really deals with “Freedom”. Lets read it and talk…

15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 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? 17 But thanks…

Living the Testimony Made for Living 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Restart Through Forgiveness 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 For with…

Our master determines our end, our master determines our benefit or fruit, our master determines our eternity.

We have been emancipated from being set down into the realm and rule of sin, we are no longer appointed and constituted as sinners! Sin truly no longer controls us, it is no longer authorized and empowered to mandate how weI think, and what we do!

Paul began his discussion concerning the law back in 6:15- Question : If we are no longer under law but under grace does that mean we can sin? 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Answer : You are slaves to whatever you obey. Christians have been set…

Far from being truly free and able to do as we liked without any care in the world, we were enslaved to Sin, and excluded from true righteousness. The only true thing that it produced within us was shame and death; both physical death and spiritual death.

This concept of slavery has permeated Paul’s answer to the question presented in verse 15, asking “Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?” And yet, this concept of being a “slave to righteousness” is not popular in today’s Christian thinking. But is it right?

Paul is telling us that how we ought to behave is a result of who and what we are. So a proper understanding of what it means to be a Christian in the biblical sense is essential to how we ought to live our lives.

Paul is providing us the principle which will help us understand why it is that the idea of us sinning because we are not under law but under grace is so very abhorrent.

The most immediate idea we come to in reading this passage, is that the master determines the service. Paul is not simply writing theoretically, but his desire is that our Christianity be real, that our belief in Christ Jesus be lived out in our lives!

Introduction I started something last week and I hope to continue this pattern as we move forward. The passage mentioned that we stand for the Word of God, so I ask you once again as we read God’s Word. Please stand I am reading Romans 6 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace…

Paul wanted his opponents in Rome to understand that it is impossible for those who are under grace to continue in habitual sin. Friend, if you are positionally under grace it will be impossible for you continue in habitual sin. You will still struggle with sin as long as your person is corrupted by…

Paul wanted his opponents in Rome to understand that it is impossible for those who are under grace to continue in habitual sin. Friend, if you are positionally under grace it will be impossible for you continue in habitual sin. You will still struggle with sin as long as your person is corrupted by…

Who we were and Who we are. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”…

Imagine you are walking a narrow path between two pitfalls. One the one side is steep ravine with a raging river at the bottom, and on the other side a steep drop filled with jagged rocks. Your task is to safely navigate between the two dangers. There are two dangerous paths that God wants believers…

Summary The letter of Jude is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Its content, however, is dense, offering a variety of fascinating topics for study. In this episode we embark on a series book study of the epistle of Jude. Introduction This is going to be our standard introductory episode. For those…