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| Rev. Canon George Sinclair |
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(Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, February 7th, 2016)
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Broadcast Notes:
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Before I begin, I would like to give a shout out, of THANKS, to Shiloh Holiness Church, who have sponsored today's program: (http://shilohholiness.ca, is on Cyrville Road at Meadowbrook in Ottawa.)
Before I begin, I would like to give a shout out, of THANKS, to Shiloh Holiness Church, who have sponsored today's program: (http://shilohholiness.ca, is on Cyrville Road at Meadowbrook in Ottawa.)
The following is a shortened version of a Sermon I preached at Church of the Messiah. It was part of a sermon series on the Book of Romans called "Grace Shaped Life".
‘Being Human, Being Free’
Slaves to Righteousness
15 What
then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to
anyone as obedient slaves,[a] you are slaves of the one whom you
obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to
righteousness? 17 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 and, having been set
free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 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.
20 For
when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 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 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. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Released from the Law
7 Or
do you not know, brothers[b]—for I am speaking to those who know the
law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 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.[c] 3 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 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 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 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.[d]
Footnotes:
1. Romans 6:16
For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos,
see Preface (twice in this verse and verse 19; also once
in verses 17, 20)
2. Romans 7:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 4
3. Romans 7:2 Greek law concerning the husband
4. Romans 7:6 Greek of the letter
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News
Publishers.
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"For I am not
ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who
believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in the gospel the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written,
"The righteous shall live by faith."" Romans 1: 16-17
1. I cannot make myself right with God. The just God makes me right with Himself by His grace alone, in Christ alone, received by faith alone.
2. Human autonomy is an illusion.
3. Human beings "gotta serve somebody" or some thing.
4. When I am redeemed by Jesus, I do not become less human, I begin to become more human.
5. I either serve "I-will-be-like-god" or God Himself.
6. God's gift of grace makes me whole, free and fruitful.
7. Lord, thank You for the gift of this new day. I come to You, ready to work for You under Your direction. I bring the best of who I am and all of who I am. I bring my mind, body, time, money, creativity, sexuality, influence, job and life. I am here to work for You. Please guide, direct and strengthen me to do what you would have me do. Please free me so I work for Your glory and not my own. In Jesus Name. AMEN.
1. I cannot make myself right with God. The just God makes me right with Himself by His grace alone, in Christ alone, received by faith alone.
2. Human autonomy is an illusion.
3. Human beings "gotta serve somebody" or some thing.
4. When I am redeemed by Jesus, I do not become less human, I begin to become more human.
5. I either serve "I-will-be-like-god" or God Himself.
6. God's gift of grace makes me whole, free and fruitful.
7. Lord, thank You for the gift of this new day. I come to You, ready to work for You under Your direction. I bring the best of who I am and all of who I am. I bring my mind, body, time, money, creativity, sexuality, influence, job and life. I am here to work for You. Please guide, direct and strengthen me to do what you would have me do. Please free me so I work for Your glory and not my own. In Jesus Name. AMEN.
Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Church of the Messiah
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