ENSLAVED: Romans 6:14-23

Study 3 focused on the provision that God has made for us in Christ to deliver us from the experience of bondage to sin. Paul is describing what is true of those who have been justified in Christ in as much as justification places us "in Christ" (8:1) with consequential changes in our very being as a result of this regeneration. But the provision being placed "in Christ" brings responsibility with it. This section focuses on the responsibility we have by virtue of being in Christ.

1. Looking at the entire chapter 6 make a list of things which are true of who you were in Adam and who you now are in Christ. Remember these are changes which reach the deepest part of your being.

ADAM                 CHRIST

I was dead         I am alive

2. Can a Christian become re-enslaved to sin? How?

1. How can we become free from enslavement to sin?
2. What is our responsibility in order to remain free from sin?

3. It seems that man must always be enslaved. But we have a choice of which master we will serve. What are the two masters we have to choose from?

4. What are the consequences of each? (See also II Cor. 5:14,15; and Gal 5:13).

Have you truly become enslaved to God? What is the evidence?