Sin will pay you what you deserve, or God will give you what you don't

1.  Rival Powers

2. Opposing Outcomes

3.  Contrasting Natures

4. The Fork in the Road

We pursue righteousness because it is a result that leads to a better outcome.

1.  Serving sin leads to compounding trouble that ends to disaster.

2.  Serving God leads to increasing good that ends in life.

1.  Slavery provides a good but imperfect picture of human existence.

2. Our new, gracious slavery severs our old commitment to disobedience.

3. Our new, gracious slavery commits us to pursuing growth in holiness.

Grace doesn't foster more sin because by it God transfers our spiritual allegiance from that master to another.

1. Freedom from sin was a gift of God's gracious initiative.

2. Freedom from sin begins with conversion.

3. Freedom from sin...

God gives freedom from sin but not absolute freedom.

1.  We desperately need grace to free us from sin.

2.  Grace frees us to be slaves of another, superior Master.

Sin doesn't reign over us because we are under grace not law.1. God's provision comes in the person of Christ.2. God's provision comes through the power of Christ.
-3. God's provision comes by the promises of Christ.
-4. God's...

God has provided everything we need for spiritual growth and lasting change.

1. God's provision comes in the person of Christ. 



2. God's provision comes through the power of Christ. 





3. God's provision comes by the promises of...

We must be what we are becoming by refusing to succumb to sin's power.1. Do not let sin exercise control.

2. Do not give your members to sin.

3. Give yourselves to God and your members to Him for righteousness.

We must always keep our new relationship to sin and death in mind.

1. This command rests on the prior truths he's been presenting.  

2. This command is not optional.

3. This command is to count as true what is already true.

4. This command is...

We have confidence that we will enjoy eternal life with Christ because of what his death & resurrection mean for him, and then for us.

1. We have confidence in eternal life because Jesus' resurrection was a decisive and permanent victory...