• What We Were
  • A slave of sin
    • By birth
      • In Adam — Rom 5:1-21
      • In parents — Psa 51:5
    • By nature
      • Children of wrath — Eph 2:3
      • Dead in sin — Eph 2:1
      • In darkness — Col 1:13
• The Inevitable Question — "What about the good, moral people?"
  • God's declaration — Rom 3:10-23
  • The forms of sin
    • Sins of the flesh
      • Outward and violent
    • Sins of the heart
      • Inward and selfish
  • The ultimate sin
    • Rejection of Christ — Jhn 3:36
• What We Are Now
  • A slave to Christ — Rom 6:18, 22
  • A change has occurred
    • "I was — I am"
  • The agencies of the change
    • "That form of doctrine"
      • Sinful man under wrath of Holy God — Rom 1:18-32
        • Condemned
        • Helpless
        • Hopeless
      • The inability of man to achieve salvation Rom 2; Rom 3
      • God has provided a way — Rom 3:24
      • God's way, in Christ, is received by faith — Rom 4
    • "That form of doctrine delivered you"
      • It delivers us over
      • It fashions, shapes, moulds
    • It is God who uses it — Rom 6:17
      • But God be thanked
      • God has raised us — Eph 2:1
      • God is rich in mercy — Eph 2:4-11
        • The Holy Spirit takes the Word, that form of doctrine, and puts us into it
        • The Spirit and doctrine work upon us to change us
        • "Let Him that glorieth, glory in the Lord" 1Co 1:31
    • It is God who keeps using it — Phl 1:6
  • The evidence of the change — "You have obeyed"
    • The total involvement
      • You have obeyed — the will
      • From the heart — the emotions
      • That doctrine — the mind

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