The Price is "Right"
Righteousness of God revealed - Book of Romans • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 42:21
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Life is about choices
Life is about choices
Life is about choices and you must choose, for not choosing is a choice and you live with that choice. Paul addresses, challenges the people to choose.
(Insert Price is Right PowerPoint Here)
Price is right, you get as close to the price as you can and you win something.
Let’s make a deal- you make a deal for something and win something.
Now, the price that Jesus paid on the cross, to justify us (Rom5:1). Jesus demonstrated His love for us (Rom5:6, 8); that sounds like the right price since He gives it to us for free. How does He give it, by faith.
Sin has a price too, it is death (Rom6:23) and we will get there this morning, Lord willing. And are you willing to pay that price?
Let’s make a deal, well you cannot deal with Jesus, you must choose to accept His offer of grace on His terms. We do not get to pick and choose certain things. There is no let’s make a deal when it comes to entrance into the kingdom of God, heaven, of the beloved Son. Jesus is the only choice (Jn14:6) and you must choose Him.
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What is the difference between price is right and let’s make a deal?
What price was paid for you? Paid by who? Where was it paid? Why was it paid?
Can you make a deal with God?
In our passage this morning we will see.
The text (Rom6:15-23)
The question (Rom6:15-16)
Pondering information needed (Rom6:17-18)
Choose wisely; preventing choosing wrong (Rom6:19-23)
Price is right (the text)
Price is right (the text)
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What observations did you make in this passage?
Is Paul teaching, giving history lesson, or admonishing, can it be all of the above?
Teaching about choices
Giving a history lesson for they were dead in sin, but now they are alive in Christ since they chose Christ. And admonishing them, know sin and don’t sin and be enslaved again you have been set free, live in freedom.
Why would Paul say Shall we sin, or continue to sin (v.15)? You may want to think back, look back at earlier verses to get understanding.
We died to sin (Rom6:2)
We are alive to God in Christ (Rom6:11)
The law made us aware of sin, the law convicted us of sin, and because of that, we have faith in Christ who forgave our sin. So we died to sin, and may we not continue to sin.
What does Paul call the people when they obey something (v.16)?
Slaves to whom your present your body to, sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness.
What kind of obedience does God want (v.17)?
Obedience from the heart, that comes from that form of teaching they are committed to.
What is your current state (v.18)?
Freed from Sin, a slave to righteousness now.
Why does Paul speak in human terms (vv.19-20)?
Because of the weakness of flesh. For sin leads to more sin, so present yourself to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
Think carefully what things are we to now be ashamed of (v.21) - this is not clearly stated, but implied.
Sin
What are the benefits from being enslaved to God (v.22)?
Sanctification, eternal life.
What are the choices (v.23)?
Wages of sin, death
Free gift f God, eternal life in Christ Jesus
The question
The question
Have you ever been asked a question that you were not ready to answer? Maybe you needed more information first. Maybe you needed to consider it, pray about it first. I think this is one of those questions, it needs to be pondered first.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Not compatible lifestyle, sin and the Christian.
Paul was convinced and had previously shown that the Christian who is dead to sin cannot continue a lifestyle of sin.
Should we worry about sin? YES, in Rom6:1 it is addressing the occasional sin. But in Rom6:15 this is speaking of continued sin.
Wuest Word Study shows “the verb in verse one is present subjunctive, speaking of habitual continuous action. The verb in verse fifteen is in the aorist subjunctive, referring to a single act.”
What are you a slave to, sin or grace/righteousness?
You are no longer under the law, but grace (Rom3:21-26)
You are justified by the justifier
21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The law can make you its subjects, but cannot make you saints.
The practical aspect is we are dead to sin, no longer slaves to it. It no longer is our master, we have a new master, for we are slaves to the one we obey. One results in righteousness, the other in death.
Freed from under the law does not make us free “to” sin. (2Cor5:17; Rom7:7-14)
For you are a new creation, and are dead to sin
The law makes sin known, and sin brings about death
Are you a slave or a servant?
A slave is a slave 24 hours a day, no pay due
A servant is a servant under the mate for certain time, oftentimes paid for the time. Free to do other things the rest of the time.
If I obey my appetite constantly, I am a slave to it. so we have a choice in our slavery too.
Paul is saying we are slaves to Jesus, to the one we obey. One choice results in righteousness, the other choice leads to death. So chose wisely.
An unknown author said this regarding these verses. “I want to be as good a saint as I was a sinner!”
(Transition) There is the question, but don’t answer yet, there is more information from Paul we need to get first.
The information
The information
17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
What were we (v.17)?
Slaves to sin.
Who are we (v.18)?
Free from slavery to sin.
When did we become who we are (v.17)?
When we obeyed the teaching given.
How did we become who we are (v.17)?
We believed with our whole heart, or with wholeheartedness.
Why can we be who we are now (v.17-18)?
Because we became slaves to righteousness, or righteous living.
Righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith in you, and by you in how you live.
Rom1:17 “17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.””
Righteousness of God has been manifested by the law and prophets previously, now by you.
Rom3:21 “21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,”
How is it by you, glad you asked. Consider these verses
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
So that we may become. . .
And add to that
11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
you are filled with the fruit of righteousness.
(other scriptures used/referenced in this section: 2Cor5:21 and Php1:11).
The choice
The choice
18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. 19 Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. 21 And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.
22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Previously you were slaves to lawlessness
lawlessness begets lawlessness; righteousness begets righteousness.
Previously you were slaves to sin
Free from righteousness; now you are a slave righteousness free from the bondage of sin, new master,new way, new result.
Courson said: “Before you were saved, neither your relationships nor your perspective was right. Therefore Paul said you couldn’t enjoy the righteous kind of living God intended for you.
So, present yourself, your new self, as a slave to righteousness.
As a slave to righteousness we are:
Born again
Our will is swallowed up in the will of God. It is His will that matters not ours
WE are bound to Jesus with bonds that only death can break; but since He overcame death and given us eternal life, those bonds will never be broken! We now willingly choose to serve Jesus to the disregard of our own (selfish) interests.
Those are from Wuest bible words dictionary.
The choice, for the price is right
The wages of sin is death
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Death is what we had coming, death is what we deserved for we all fall short (Rom3:23) we were following the wrong standard, judging ourselves and others by the wrong standard.
The gift of eternal life is at no cost
It is free, it is offered to you, to me, to all who come to Him by faith. Your faith can lead others to come to the saving faith in Christ Jesus through the word of God.
The free gift leads us to endurance (Mt10:22; Mk13:13)
22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Endurance that leads to our final salvation
13 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Just another way of restating what Matthew said, this time by Mark.
The one who accepts the free gift, the Lord adds to the numbers (Act2:47)
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
And we for we close may we be reminded of God’s will.
3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
(Prayer) (Close)