• Position — Rom 6:1-11
  • In Adam
  • In Christ
    • Know it
    • Believe it
• Performance from the Strength of Our Position — Rom 6:12
  • The practical exhortation — Rom 6:12
    • Do not allow sin to rule
    • Do not yield your body to serve sin
  • The practical outworking — Rom 6:13
    • The negative — we must not yield our members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness
      • "Members"
        • The parts of our body
        • The mind part of body because of the brain
        • The will as associated to the brain
        • The emotions as associated to the mind and chemical reactors in the body
      • "Instruments" are tools — servants
      • "Yield" — present
        • Do not present your "members" as "tools" of unrighteousness
        • Do not allow the body to be used in the service of sin
        • Do not allow individual members of the body to be used as a servant of sin
          • Appetites
          • Energies
          • Drives
          • Speech
          • Thoughts
          • Imaginations
          • Emotions
            • Fear
            • Worry
            • Love
            • Hate
            • Bitterness
            • Resentments
    • The positive
      • Present the members of your body unto God
      • As instruments — tools, servants of righteousness
      • As being alive unto God
        • The believer can do this
        • We are responsible to do this
    • The process
      • Initial prayerful presentation — giving, yielding
      • Continuing attitudes of giving
    • The problem
      • Ourselves
      • Introspection
      • Subjective
      • Performance oriented
        • Our struggle
        • Our condition
        • Our feeling
    • The solution
      • "Stand" on our position
      • Present ourselves for service
      • Put ourselves at His disposal
        • We do not come to a clinic for illness
        • We come to the commander-in-chief for service
        • We must consider the military commands of the New Testament
          • Fight the good fight of faith
          • Be equipped as men
          • Put on the whole armor of God
          • Stand in the evil day
          • Endure hardness as a good soldier
        • We must not dwell on ourselves
          • Our failure
          • Our feeling
          • Our condition
          • Our success
        • The chief issue
          • Not "How can I be happy?"
          • But "How can I glorify God?"
    • The purpose — Rom 6:14
      • Freedom from the rule of sin
        • From sin's penalty
        • From sin's authority
      • Freedom from the works system
        • Attempting to justify self
        • The opposite of justification by faith
        • The law does not provide the power
      • Living in grace
        • Gal 5:1 — Freedom
        • Phl 4:4 — Joy
        • Mat 11:28 — Rest
        • 2Pe 1:4 — New nature
        • Eph 1:18-19 — New power

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