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ALL ABOUT GOD<\/b><\/h1>\n

(Sermon Series)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0by Rev. Richard Jones<\/b><\/h2>\n

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NOT LAW BUT GRACE<\/u><\/b><\/h1>\n

Romans 6: 15 – 7: 6<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0Introduction<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 6:12-14 (ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

12\u00a0 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13\u00a0 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14\u00a0 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A CHOSEN SLAVERY<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 6:15-19 (ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

15\u00a0 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16\u00a0 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? 17\u00a0 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18\u00a0 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19\u00a0 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 4:17-24 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n17\u00a0 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
\n18\u00a0 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19\u00a0 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
\n20\u00a0 But that is not the way you learned Christ!\u2014 21\u00a0 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22\u00a0 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23\u00a0 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24\u00a0 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.<\/p>\n

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WAGES OR A GIFT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 6:20-23 (ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

20\u00a0 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21\u00a0 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. 22\u00a0 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
\n23\u00a0 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n

Galatians 5:22-25 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n22\u00a0 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23\u00a0 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24\u00a0 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25\u00a0 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n10\u00a0 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.<\/p>\n

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DEAD TO THE LAW<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 7:1-6 (ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\u00a0 Or do you not know, brothers\u2014for I am speaking to those who know the law\u2014that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2\u00a0 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 3\u00a0 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. 4\u00a0 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5\u00a0 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6\u00a0 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.<\/p>\n

Psalm 19:7-11 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8\u00a0 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9\u00a0 the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
\n10\u00a0 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. 11\u00a0 Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.<\/p>\n

Galatians 5:16 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n16\u00a0 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.<\/p>\n

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