Obedient Disciple or Sinful Slave

True Conversion Leads to True Freedom (31-32)

Benefits of “abiding” in God’s Word

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Benefits of the truth

Abiding is to make Christ’s word the rule of one’s life

Assurance of salvation

Personal knowledge of truth (Christ’s work/Gospel)

The truth is we need to be set free spiritually

False Conversion Leads to Foolish Hope (33)

They saw themselves as religiously free

Foolish claim of never being enslaved ()

Their foolish hope was in their ancestry (, )

Foolish challenge of the God-man

No knowledge of needing to be set free spiritually

**SIMILARITIES WITH AMERICA/AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM**

Sin is a harsh taskmaster

“Everyone”- no distinction b/w Jew/Greek

“Practices”- lives in or rule of one’s life

Enslaved to sin by nature ()

Law & Gospel (34, , )

Condemnation under the law

We serve either...

Harsh taskmaster of sin

New desire to obey

Gracious deliverer in Christ

New desire and freedom to obey/positively keep the Law

No condemnation under grace