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Jun 18, 2020 · Col. 4:1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven. Eph. 6:5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; Eph. 6:6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing ...
- A. Introduction
- B. Translation of Passage in Net
- C. Full Exegetical Outline
- D. Simple Point Outline
- E. Exposition Proper
- F. Homiletical Idea and Outline
- G. Contribution of Passage to Systematic Theology
- H. Contribution of Passage to Discipleship and Church Mission
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) “fought” for the freedom of enslaved and oppressed peoples for over thirty years and is rightly recognized as one of the world’s great leaders in this regard. He protested racial legislation in South Africa and led civil disobedience campaigns in his native India in order to secure home rule. He was especially noted for h...
6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, either to sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from...
Idea: The reason Christians who are no longer the law, but under grace should not sin is because it leads to slavery to sin and death, whereas slavery to righteousness leads to eternal life. I. Should Christians who are no longer under law, but under grace, continue in sin? Absolutely not! (6:15) II. A person is a slave to the one whom he obeys, wh...
Idea: Sin leads to death, but obedience leads to righteousness and eternal life. I. The Question: Shall Christians who are not under the law, therefore, have freedom to sin? (6:15) II. The Fruit of Sin A. It Leads to Enslavement (6:16, 17) B. It Leads to Death (6:16, 21) C. It Involves Enslavement to Impurity and Lawlessness (6:19) D. It Leads to F...
In 6:14 Paul summarizes 6:1-13 saying that Christians are under grace and are no longer under law. This statement, however, could be misunderstood to mean that Christians are free to be lawless. Paul anticipates such a ludicrous misreading of his gospel, that he surfaces the question and deals with it in 6:15-23. There is always the danger that the...
Idea: Choose you this day whom you will serve…whether sin leading to death or righteousness leading to life! (cf. Joshua 24:15) I. The Question (6:15) II. Choice Number One: To Enjoy the Pleasures of Sin… But… A. It Leads to Enslavement and Death (6:16, 17) B. Is Never Satisfied (6:19) C. It Leads to Shame (6:21) D. It Deceives: It’s Payoff Is Deat...
In Romans 6:1-14 we learned that we should not offer the parts of our bodies as instruments of unrighteousness because it is inconsistent with who we are now as those who have died to sin with Christ and resurrected to new life with him. Here in Romans 6:15-23 Paul gives another reason, namely, sin leads to enslavement and death whereas obedience t...
50 See Richard Bewes, Great Quotations of the Twentieth Century(Great Britain: Christian Focus, 1999), 115-16, 125. 51 Bewes, Great Quotations, 116. 52 As cited in Bewes, Great Quotations, 125. 53 See Dunn, Romans, in loc. 54 In Galatians 5:18the text says that the opposite of being under law is to possess and be led by the Spirit. 55 See Murray, R...
The phrase in hope, which stands in our version, at the end of the preceding verse, should be placed in the beginning of this, and be read in connection with Romans 8:19 being a parenthesis, thus: "the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God, in hope that the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption"; and so it is ...
The Enslavement. The Date. The exact period at which the Hebrews became slaves in Egypt cannot be determined with any degree of accuracy; however, we know that it was after the death of Joseph ( Exodus 1:5-14 ). The death of Joseph was two hundred eighty-six years after Abram's entrance into Canaan. (25 + 60 + 91 + 110 = 286) ( Genesis 12:4 ...
Deuteronomy 23:15-16 – Do not return an escaped slave or oppress him. Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 24:7 – No stealing someone to sell him into slavery. Exodus 20:10 – Slaves were required to keep the Sabbath (and therefore rest) just like everyone else. Colossians 4:1 – Give your bond servants fair wages. Verse by Verse Commentary.
1 “These are the laws you are to set before them: 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
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Let's focus our attention on 1 Corinthians 6:12–14. 12. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. 13. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but ...
