Greetings and welcome to all present and online, in America and abroad. Last Lord’s Day, Pastor Landis Fisher Today, as we continue our study in Paul’s letter to the Romans, Pastor Landis Fisher shall continue teaching about the outcome of the Gospel in the lives of the ones who believe it. Listen now as our teacher presents a message he calls: “Yielding To Grace”
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 42:1 – 5 (NASB)
Psa 42:1 (For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.) As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for Thee, O God.
Psa 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psa 42:4 These things I remember, and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Psa 42:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Romans 6:12 – 23 (NASB)
Rom 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts,
Rom 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Rom 6:16 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?
Rom 6:17 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,
Rom 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 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.
Rom 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Rom 6:21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) God has far more grace than we have sin, nevertheless it is the knowledge of His grace that empowers believers to learn to yield to His love and grace rather than to sin.
#2) When we were under Law, there was no mercy, and all were guilty all the time. But since Christ Jesus came to pay our debt and did a perfect job of it, we now must learn to yield to the Holy Spirit and reap the benefits of so great a salvation.
#3) The message of the gospel educates us on how we should live considering all that was done as an act of the free will of the Most High God on our behalf to free us up for true service to Him.
