Sermons About Slave
An Illustration: Hagar and Sarah
Paul resumes his argument from the Old Testament to show that the Galatians are being wrongly enslaved by the false teachers. He points out that Abraham had more than one son, but only one was the heir, according to the promise. Hagar and Sarah represent the Old and New Covenants, Law and Gospel, slavery and free sons.
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Hitting the Road to Financial Peace
Hickory Flat kicks off the Momentum program by Dave Ramsey. This 13 week course is for families that need to get out of debt so they are no longer slave to the lender.
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Please Sir, I Want Some More...
The man who wanted more. Starting line of faith. Stepping up to grace and peace.
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Thanksgiving Lessons from an Unfaithful Servant
What are you thankful for? How do you know? Are you sure you are discerning between gratitude and mere gladness? True thankfulness is revealed in faithfulness, and rooted in a proper view of our master, Jesus Christ. Learn more about this, as well as four areas we often hold a deficient view of the master, and what the truth is.
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Who Will You Serve? (Romans 6:20-23)
Paul continues his argument that there are only two types of people -- those for whom sin is master and those for whom God is master. You will be a slave to one or the other. On the one hand, slavery to sin may yield temporary pleasure, but its fruit is full of shame and ultimately produces only death. On the other hand, slavery to God produces the fruit of the Spirit, sanctification, and ultimately eternal life. This is ours, as a free gift from God, and we who have received life are fools to return to the old master, sin, who can give us only shame and death.
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Slaves to a New Master (Romans 6:15-19)
Obedience is not required in order to be saved, but the law teaches us how to live as those who are saved. Formerly we were slaves to sin, and now we have been made slaves to righteousness. We have a new master -- and our responsibility involves putting off sin, resisting the temptation to return to our former master; and gladly serving our new master. The freedom that we have in Christ is not freedom from having a master, but it is freedom from sin's mastery over us. Christ is now our Lord and master, and it is good to belong to him.
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Dead to Sin, Alive to God (Romans 6:5-11)
In this passage, Paul continues to answer the question raised in Romans 6:1 - "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?" Paul continues to provide reasons for why this should never be. In this passage, we discover the benefit in being united to Christ - both in His death and resurrection. Because we have been united to Christ in His death (which was a substitute for the punishment our sin required), sin's dominion over us, its former slaves, has been broken. In Christ, the dominion of death is also crushed. For all who place saving faith in Christ, the sting of death has been removed. Instead, we look forward to a day when we will be given glorified bodies in our resurrection from the dead. In that day, it will no longer be possible for us to sin. Yet, for this life, we are called to live as best we can like we will on that day - to live for Christ, in obedience to the commands of God. There is a life yet to come for the Christian, but may we not lose sight of the grace that is ours today to live for God as those in Christ!
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Galatians 4.1-7: sonship
Are you a slave or a son? How do you see God? Do you see Him as your Father or as a hard task master? I pray today as we continue in the letter to the Galatians that we would see God as a loving Father who wants us to fully embrace son-ship.
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Freedom
God defines freedom as no longer being under the condemnation of the law but under the Spirit of His Grace. We are freed from sin and pardoned from His Justice and therefore able to live as we were created to live, in union with Him and in community with one another. (Romans 8:1-5). We are not only freed from something we are freed to something!
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