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Intro
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“What then?
Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
May it never be!
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.
For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification” ().
-Every person in the world is a slave.
-Every person in the world is a slave.
-This slavery is not a political or economic slavery.
This slavery is a spiritual bondage, either to sin or to Jesus Christ.
No one is free to live however they choose to live.
All live in slavery to one of two masters, either to sin or to the Savior.
-Whose slave are you?
SLAVE AND SERVANT MEANING
-The key word in is “slave,” which is found five times in these five verses.
It is found twice in verse 16, once in verse 17, once in verse 18, and once in verse 19.
Everything in this section revolves around this word “slave.”
It is translated from the Greek word doulos, which means ‘one who gives himself up completely to a master.’
This word for slave is different from the word for servant.
A slave is much lower than a servant.
A servant was someone who still had some freedom.
He could choose to accept a job or not to accept it.
He still could own property, receive wages, and go home at the end of the day.
-The word for “servant” (diakonia) is the word from which we get “deacon.”
It was used for a waiter at a wedding feast or an attendant who would care for the needs of someone else, but this person still had his own life and freedom.
He could do his own thing, go his own way.
He could return the next day, if he chose, or he could let someone else be hired to work in his place.
-But this word for “slave” (doulos) is totally different.
It represented someone who had no personal freedom to do as he pleased.
His entire life was to be given in servitude to his master, who had paid a price to purchase him from another owner.
A servant is hired, a slave is owned.
A slave had no independence and no personal rights.
In fact, a slave was a piece of property that was owned by someone else.
When a person was owned as a slave, it meant that he was a possession of his master, bound to obey him.
To be a slave meant complete submission and total obedience to a master.
-A slave has a master, who has the power of life and death over him.
The master has bought the slave at a price, and the slave now belongs to him.
In order to understand this passage, we must grasp the reality of this historical background.
A slave has a master, who has the power of life and death over him.
The master has bought the slave at a price, and the slave now belongs to him.
In order to understand this passage, we must grasp the reality of this historical background.
PAUL: A SALVE OF CHRIST
Paul devoted himself completely to the Lord Jesus Christ and submitted himself entirely to His divine will.
Paul’s will has been given up to the sovereign lordship of Jesus Christ.
The same is true for every follower of Christ.
The issue for the believer is not “What do I want to do?,” but “What does Jesus Christ want me to do?”
The believer’s entire existence on this earth is lived in compliance, submission, surrender, and obedience to the supreme authority of Jesus Christ.
That is true for everyone for whom Jesus died upon the cross, purchasing their salvation.
As believers, we recognize that we have been redeemed and ransomed by Jesus Christ.
The Lord entered the slave market of sin and bought us with the silver and gold of His own blood.
We now are the purchased possession of Jesus Christ.
We have been released from our former slavery to sin, and we have been brought into a different slavery to Jesus.
-Paul began the book of Romans by identifying himself as a doulos, as a slave.
Paul understood completely who he was and what he was.
He was bought with a price by the Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus now owns him.
-Paul devoted himself completely to the Lord Jesus Christ and submitted himself entirely to His divine will.
The same is true for every follower of Christ.
There is no one in this world who is not a slave.
You are either a slave to sin, or a slave to the Savior.
There is not a third category.
There is no other option.
We need to understand this as we come into this section in Romans, where the key word is “slave.”
I have titled this message “Whose Slave Are You?” because that is the thrust of these verses.
That is the question we need to ask of ourselves.
Tell me whose slave you are, and I will tell you who you will obey and how you will live.
-The issue for the believer is not “What do I want to do?,” but “What does Jesus Christ want me to do?”
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The False Assumption (6:15a)
In the first half of , Paul establishes his fundamental argument.
He does so because he anticipates the argument that will be raised against his teaching, that salvation is apart from any works.
Their thought is, “If salvation is apart from works, then I have no obligation as a Christian to do any good works.
If I am saved without obeying the Law, simply by faith alone in Jesus Christ, then I have no obligation to obey the Law now that I am a Christian.
I can simply live however I want.”
Paul is a brilliant teacher who is always ahead of what people are thinking.
He now addresses what he knows is in the mind of many.
-That is true for everyone for whom Jesus died upon the cross, purchasing their salvation.
This is a very important argument.
He says, “What then?
Shall we sin” (verse 15).
“We” is an important word.
With this plural pronoun, Paul is referring to believers, not unbelievers.
The verb “sin” means to continue to live in sin as a lifestyle.
The reference is to a habitual pattern of sin.
He is asking, “Shall we continue to practice sin as the main thrust of our life?”
Before we were born again, we lived in sin, we lived for sin, and we loved our sin.
Can a believer continue to live as he once did?
-As believers, we recognize that we have been redeemed and ransomed by Jesus Christ.
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“We Are Not Under Law”
-The Lord entered the slave market of sin and bought us with the silver and gold of His own blood.
He continues, “Shall we sin because we are not under law” (verse 15).
That is a false presupposition that Paul knows is being raised by many.
The answer is no.
We are not under law in the sense that we have to obey it in order to earn our salvation.
But, as believers, we are under the law of God to obey it in our sanctification.
The Ten Commandments are still on the books and are quoted in the New Testament as binding upon our lives.
His presupposition is that people are thinking, “Shall we continue to live as we have always lived, if it has nothing to do with giving us acceptance with God?”
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