You Are a Slave, Motivation to be Free
From Romans 6:15-23
Who and what you will have over all of .
1. What it means to be a slave to Sin:
A. A slave to sin leads to .
📖 Romans 6:20-21 (ESV) For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
B. A slave of sin leads to .
📖 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?
C. A slave of sin leads to .
📖 John 12:48 (ESV) The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
2. What it means to be a slave to Righteousness:
A slave to righteousness leads to .
📖 Romans 12:9-10 (NLT) Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
B. A slave to righteousness leads to .
📖 Romans 5:21 (ESV) So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
C. A slave to righteousness leads to .
📖 Romans 8:2 (ESV) 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
3. What it means to be set Free:
A. You are free to live a life that .
📖 Romans 12:1-2 (ESV) I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
B. You are free to !
📖 Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
C. You are Free from the , , and of sin.
📖 Romans 8:1-2 (ESV) 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Sermon in a Sentence:
You are either a to which leads to , and or you are a slave to which leads to , and .
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