Sermons of Redeeming Life Church - Servants of the King (Romans 6:15-23)

On October 30th, Pastor Josiah Walker preached Romans 6:15-23. In his sermon, “Servants of the King”, he spoke about how we serve one of two masters: our fleshly/worldly desires or God the King. He pointed to the fruit that’s produced by serving sin as well as the fruit that comes from serving and submitting to God. Eternal life is found in making Christ the King of our lives. We all must answer the question: “Who do I serve?”

Duration: 19m
Broadcast on: 31 Oct 2022
Audio Format: other

You're listening to a sermon preached at Redeeming Life Church. Good morning, faith family. I love family worship Sunday. Not just because we get to eat fruit snacks while we listen to the preach word, but because we get to gather together as a faith family, young and old, and everything in between. Because it's family worship Sunday, I've actually modeled my message this morning after our Bible studies sheet that our kids fill out. Our elementary kids fill this out every Sunday in their class. And so as the kids came and gathered these today, I'm hoping that the older kids will help the younger kids and the younger kids will help the adults and we'll get through all this together. All right, the first thing on our Bible study sheet, as all our kids know, is to pray. It says that we should ask the Lord for help and get to know Him more as we read and study His Word. So I'd like to pray for us one more time this morning. Dear Lord, I thank You for this opportunity that we have to gather together, to model for our children what it means to sit under the preach word. Lord, I pray that I would be faithful to the text that we see here in Romans this morning. Lord, I just take everything that I've used and I've studied this week and just help it to flow out of me today. And I just pray that You would open our minds and ears to hear Your voice this morning and that we would leave here changed because of what we heard from Your Word. It's a near holy and precious name, I pray. Amen. All right. And then the second thing on our sheet says Bible reading. So today we're going to be looking at Romans 6 starting in the 15th verse. If you're using one of those red pew Bibles nearby you, we're going to be on page 1001. You can also find everything in the U version Bible app. Just go to that app, open that up on your electronic device, go under more and find today's event. All the scriptures are on there and other stuff as well. All right, Romans 6 starting in the 15th verse says what then? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Absolutely not. Don't you know that if you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves, you're slaves of that one that you obey, either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness. Thank God that although you used to be slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over. And having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. I'm using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness which results in sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. So what fruit was produced then from the things that you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death. But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit which results in sanctification and the outcome is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our

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