Good news Number 4

Good news: I’m set apart for God!

Romans 6 1-7 : 25

Good news:

Two main ideas in this section:

1. I’m free (6:1-7:6) - no need to go on sinning

a) I’m dead to sin: I belong to God (6:1-14)

i) continuing to sin is incompatible with my new life (1,

ii) Baptism illustrates the point (4)

iii) Applied in verses 5-14

- dead to sin (6,7,11,12,13)

- alive to Christ (8,11,14)

b) I’m freed from sin: I can serve God (6:15-23)

i) I was a slave to sin (16, 17, 19)

- and I reaped death (21,23)

ii) I am a slave to God (16b, 18b, 19b, 22)

- and I received eternal life (22b, 23b)

c) The illustration of marriage (7:1-6)

i) If a partner dies the other is free to marry again

ii) We were married to the law

iii) We’ve died to law and now can belong to God (4)

2. It’s a fight from now on (7:2-25)

That was Paul’s experience - both before and after conversion

a) We struggle with right and wrong

i) God’s law helps us recognise evil (7-12)

ii) God’s law helps us recognise the sinfulness of evil (13)

iii) The struggle with my sinful nature keeps going on (14-16)

b) The victory comes through Jesus Christ (25)

(Phil. 3:20, 21; 1 John 3:2, 3; Romans 8:29)