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<li>Position &#8212; <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,'1-11');">Rom 6:1-11</a>
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<li>In Adam</li>
<li>In Christ
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<li>Know it</li>
<li>Believe it</li>
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<li>Performance from the Strength of Our Position &#8212; <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,12);">Rom 6:12</a>
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<li>The practical exhortation &#8212; <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,12);">Rom 6:12</a>
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<li>Do not allow sin to rule</li>
<li>Do not yield your body to serve sin</li>
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<li>The practical outworking &#8212; <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,13);">Rom 6:13</a>
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<li>The negative &#8212; we must not yield our members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness
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<li>"Members"
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<li>The parts of our body</li>
<li>The mind part of body because of the brain</li>
<li>The will as associated to the brain</li>
<li>The emotions as associated to the mind and chemical reactors in the body</li>
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<li>"Instruments" are tools &#8212; servants</li>
<li>"Yield" &#8212; present
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<li>Do not present your "members" as "tools" of unrighteousness</li>
<li>Do not allow the body to be used in the service of sin</li>
<li>Do not allow individual members of the body to be used as a servant of sin
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<li>Appetites</li>
<li>Energies</li>
<li>Drives</li>
<li>Speech</li>
<li>Thoughts</li>
<li>Imaginations</li>
<li>Emotions
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<li>Fear</li>
<li>Worry</li>
<li>Love</li>
<li>Hate</li>
<li>Bitterness</li>
<li>Resentments</li>
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<li>The positive
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<li>Present the members of your body unto God</li>
<li>As instruments &#8212; tools, servants of righteousness</li>
<li>As being alive unto God
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<li>The believer can do this</li>
<li>We are responsible to do this</li>
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<li>The process
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<li>Initial prayerful presentation &#8212; giving, yielding</li>
<li>Continuing attitudes of giving</li>
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<li>The problem
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<li>Ourselves</li>
<li>Introspection</li>
<li>Subjective</li>
<li>Performance oriented
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<li>Our struggle</li>
<li>Our condition</li>
<li>Our feeling</li>
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<li>The solution
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<li>"Stand" on our position</li>
<li>Present ourselves for service</li>
<li>Put ourselves at His disposal
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<li>We do not come to a clinic for illness</li>
<li>We come to the commander-in-chief for service</li>
<li>We must consider the military commands of the New Testament
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<li>Fight the good fight of faith</li>
<li>Be equipped as men</li>
<li>Put on the whole armor of God</li>
<li>Stand in the evil day</li>
<li>Endure hardness as a good soldier</li>
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<li>We must not dwell on ourselves
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<li>Our failure</li>
<li>Our feeling</li>
<li>Our condition</li>
<li>Our success</li>
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<li>The chief issue
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<li>Not "How can I be happy?"</li>
<li>But "How can I glorify God?"</li>
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<li>The purpose &#8212; <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Rom',6,14);">Rom 6:14</a>
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<li>Freedom from the rule of sin
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<li>From sin's penalty</li>
<li>From sin's authority</li>
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<li>Freedom from the works system
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<li>Attempting to justify self</li>
<li>The opposite of justification by faith</li>
<li>The law does not provide the power</li>
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<li>Living in grace
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<li><a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Gal',5,1);">Gal 5:1</a> &#8212; Freedom</li>
<li><a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Phl',4,4);">Phl 4:4</a> &#8212; Joy</li>
<li><a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Mat',11,28);">Mat 11:28</a> &#8212; Rest</li>
<li><a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('2Pe',1,4);">2Pe 1:4</a> &#8212; New nature</li>
<li><a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Eph',1,18,19);">Eph 1:18-19</a> &#8212; New power</li>
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