Main Point: True freedom of the will was lost in Adam’s fall and can only be restored through God’s grace in Christ, since apart from regeneration all human actions (even seemingly good ones) remain enslaved to sin and incapable of pleasing God.

Outline:

1. Mankind’s Will Before the Fall – Able to Sin, Able Not to Sin

2. Mankind’s Will After the Fall (Apart from Christ) – Not Able Not to Sin

3. Mankind’s Will After the Fall (In Christ) – Able Not to Sin

4. Mankind’s Will in Glory – Not Able to Sin

Main Point: The law unmasks sin’s power in us, preparing us to understand the battle within.

Outline:

1. The Law Exposes (7:7a)

2. Sin Exploits (7:7b-11)

3. Sin Executes (7:13)

Main Point: Christians are released from the penalties that God’s Law attaches to sin.

Outline:

1. Released from the Law’s Bondage (v. 1-3, 5)

2. Rejoicing in the Freedom of Grace (v. 4, 6a)

3. Renewed for Fruitful Obedience (v. 4b, 6b)

Main Point: Every human being is a slave – either a slave of sin, or a slave of Christ. Slaves of sin receive their wages: more sin and death. Slaves of Christ receive the gift Christ gives: life and righteousness.

Outline:

1. Slavery as a Voluntary Way of Life

2. Slavery to Sin and its wages

3. Slavery to God and his gift

Main Point: Jesus has ended our waiting. Salvation is no longer coming, it is here. And we must respond.

Outline:

Main Point: The manger reveals a King whose worth is unshaken by his humility and whose glory is magnified in being worshiped by the lowly.

Outline:

1. A King with a King

2. A King with a Crib

3. A King with Worshipers

Main Point: The believer’s union with Christ calls for a fundamental reordering of our relationship to every thought, desire, and action that is contrary to God’s law.

Outline:

1. How to Think of Yourself (6:11)

2. How to Control Yourself (6:12)

3. How to Present Yourself (6:13)

4. Who Governs Your Self (6:14)

Main Point: The Christian is given a new identity in Jesus Christ – one that has been freed from sin and is now set against a life of sin and death.

Outline:

1. Sin Has Been Broken

2. Sin is Contrary to Christ

3. Sin Contradicts our New Life