ROMANS (11)
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WHAT KIND OF SLAVE AM I?
WHAT KIND OF SLAVE AM I?
What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
The verb tense = occasional sin
shall we sin? NO!
You are not able to be sinless but you can sin less.
under grace do we care about sin?
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 righteousness?
Indentured Servant (can’t pay the price on their own)
“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
When you choose to serve ME I will take care of you but you have to choose.
I don’t want to be a slave, but you already are.
Who is are Master?
But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over,
Being a slave to sin a thing of the past!
“that pattern” = a mold for metal
“handed over” = sin don’t have a chose.
and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
“been set free from sin” HA!
BUT it doesn’t stop there, “you became enslaved to righteousness”
You don’t say what you do and don’t do.
Even when you don’t like it.
Nicole going to Amazon River without me.
“Set free from sin” We don’t have to sin.
What I’m not saying is that we are sinless.
If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
What I’m saying is that if you are free from sin you have to choose to visit sin.
I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.
Show up to work for your new boss not you old boss.
You must change your ways.
“greater and greater lawlessness” (gateway drug)
“So NOW offer”
When is the best time to turn to the LORD? NOW
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
this is how it was but shouldn’t be now.
So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
The thing that we are ashamed of in our life, Did they come from Righteousness or Sin?
What does that tell us?
“The outcome of those things is death”.
You ever see something you know is going to end badly but they won’t listen?
cousin on rollerblades story
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life!
What an outcome
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
when you show up for work for sin you earn death.
Though GOD’s gift we can have eternal life.
I’m so glad for the gift of GOD!
Who our you going to be a slave to?