Powerpoint for service preached out Church of the Good Shepherd, Sunday 29th May 2011. http://cogs.org.uk/cogs-talk-29th-may-2011

1. Who Is My Master Romans 6:15-23 15 What then? Shall we sin because weare not under the law but under grace?By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someoneas obedient slaves, you are slaves ofthe one you obey—whether you are slavesto sin, which leads to death, or to obedience,which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks beto God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. Sin Noun: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law: [mass noun] : an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offence, or omission:

3. ForgivenRomans 5:19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

4. Continue To Sin?Romans6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! (NIV) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. (KJV)

5. SlavesRomans 6:16 Do you not know thatif you present yourselvesto anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

6. Which Master? Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other….”

7. FruitRomans 6:21-22 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

8. Poor FruitRomans 1:29-31 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

9. Good FruitGalatians 5:22-23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.

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11. The Big Idea Its Not About Us Our Life Must Reflect Our Master

12. AdmitJames 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

13. Repent1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

14. ModifyRomans 12 1-2 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

15. A.R.M Admit Repent Modify