• Review
  • The fact of justification by faith
  • The guarantee of sanctification
• The Anticipated Question: "Shall We Sin?"
  • The grace system
    • We should hate sin more and more
    • We should have new confidence because of our position and resources
    • We should live out of appreciation for God's grace to us
  • Shall we "sin"? — Rom 6:1
    • Deliberate and persistent sin
    • Continuance in a state of sin
    • Sin as a habit
    • Sin in control
    • We cannot set ourselves free from sin
  • Under law
    • Our salvation does not depend upon our keeping the law
    • We are not striving to justify ourselves
  • "God forbid" — Rom 6:2
    • It is unthinkable
    • It can never be
  • True teaching of grace always raises questions by legalists and moralists
• The Appeal to Common Sense — Rom 6:16
  • Paul's reasoning, persuading, apologetic approach
  • The terms
    • Know ye not — a favorite expression
    • Yield, present, hand yourself over
    • Servants — slaves
      • Servant — voluntary
      • Slave — not voluntary
      • We are a slave to sin or a slave to grace
    • Sin versus obedience — not faith
      • Sin unto death
      • Obedience unto righteousness, not unto life
    • Not being under law is not being lawless, it is being under obedience
  • The propositions
    • If we present ourselves as slaves to any power, we become the slaves of that power
    • There are only two ultimate powers
      • One is sin — in Adam
      • The other is obedience to God — in Christ
    • These two powers, sin and obedience, are entirely different and absolutely opposed to each other
      • Sin, Satan, Hell, Rebellion, Death
      • Obedience, God, Heaven, Holiness, Righteousness
    • It is impossible to be slaves to both masters at the same time, they oppose each other — Mat 6:24
    • We proclaim what our position is and who our master is by what we do — Mat 7:15-23
      • Profession is not authoritative
        • If a man continues in sin he is not under grace
        • Whoever continues in sin — is the slave of sin
      • Obedience is authoritative
        • To be a Christian is not merely saying so
        • It means we are born again
          • We are in Christ
          • We have a new nature
          • The new nature expresses itself
            • In obedience
            • In righteousness
            • In holy living
          • The slave owner insists upon a certain type of conduct; therefore if you look at a man's conduct you can tell who is his master
      • The Scripture is authoritative — Jhn 8:32-45, 1Jo 1:6, 1Jo 2:4
      • The test — what is being produced through our life
        • Slavery to sin produces sin
        • Slavery to obedience produces righteousness
          • The person who has been justified by faith through the grace of God has a power in him that produces good fruit. It is inside — in the man
• The Thankful Spirit — Rom 6:17
  • God be thanked — by grace through faith
  • You have changed positions and behavior
    • You were
    • You have
      • You have obeyed — the will
      • From the heart — emotions
      • That doctrine — the mind
  • A total change of the total person
• The Change of Ownership
  • The fact
    • What you were
    • What you have
  • The result
    • Freedom from sin
    • Servants of righteousness

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