STUDIES IN ROMANS
LESSON 26
FREED FROM SIN
Romans
6:15-18 (KJV)
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Romans
6:15-18 (CEB)
15 So what? Should we sin because we aren’t under Law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, that you are slaves of the one whom you obey? That’s true whether you serve as slaves of sin, which leads to death, or as slaves of the kind of obedience that leads to righteousness. 17 But thank God that although you used to be slaves of sin, you gave wholehearted obedience to the teaching that was handed down to you, which provides a pattern. 18 Now that you have been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
1. WHAT THEN? v.15
Ø Should
we sin? If free (and we are) and under grace, why sin?
Ø Apostle
says “God forbid” or (CEB) “Absolutely not!”
2. SERVANTS OF WHOM? V.16-17
Ø Understand
– whomever you serve that is your master
Ø Sin
– satan or righteousness – God
Ø You
WERE the servants of sin, but now serve righteousness
3. NOW! V.18
Ø We
have been set free from sin so serve righteousness as faithfully as you served
sin
SET FREE TO SERVE FREELY!
