Freed from dead works

This sermon is the third in a 3 part series on God's Lavish Grace. All 3 sermons can be found here : tvirgo.me/HTTsNC

1. What are dead works?

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? - Heb 9:14

2. Why do Christians get involved in dead works?

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? - Heb 9:14

3. 'No' and still righteous

⁴ Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. ⁵ But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness - Rom 4:4-5

4. God glorifying work and rewards

¹⁴ who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.- Titus 2:14

¹² “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. - Rev 22:12

5. What does it look like to serve God

²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. - Mark 16:20

¹² Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.- Phil 3:12

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Freed from sin's power

This sermon is the second in a 3 part series on God's Lavish Grace. All 3 sermons can be found here : tvirgo.me/HTTsNC

1. Know the truth

³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. - Rom 6:3-4

2. Consider the truth

¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. - Rom 6:11

3. Do not let sin reign in your body

¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. - Rom 6:12-14

4. Our new identity - 'saints' not 'sinners'

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light - Eph 5:8

5. If I sin..

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9

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Freed from sin's condemnation

This sermon is the first in a 3 part series on God's Lavish Grace. All 3 sermons can be found here : tvirgo.me/HTTsNC

1. 'Reigning in life'

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! - Rom 5:17

2. Our relationship to the law

¹ Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. - Rom 7:1-4

3. How does Jesus transform you?

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.- Rom 7:4

²¹ Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. - Gal 3:21

4. How do you reign in life?

¹ Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. - Rom 7:1-4

¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! - Rom 5:17

5. Jesus is your righteousness

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. - Eph 1:3

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