Parkway Baptist Church

What will you do with this inconvenient truth from unlikely eyewitnesses?

The Law plus sinful me will never equal acceptable obedience to God.

God's good Law becomes an instrument of death because sin is sinful and people are people.

Sin commandeers the Law and wields it for deadly purposes.

1. God's commands are holy. 2. God's commands are righteous. 3. God's commands are good.

We are freed from the law and its fruit through Jesus. 1.  Bondage to the law leads to more sin and death. 2.  To gain freedom, we must die to the Law through Jesus.

Only death can break our bondage to God's law.  1. We are bound to God's law from birth. 2. We need a death to free us from it.

Sin will pay you what you deserve, or God will give you what you don't 1.  Rival Powers 2. Opposing Outcomes 3.  Contrasting Natures 4. The Fork in the Road

We pursue righteousness because it is a result that leads to a better outcome. 1.  Serving sin leads to compounding trouble that ends to disaster. 2.  Serving God leads to increasing good that ends in life.

1.  Slavery provides a good but imperfect picture of human existence. 2. Our new, gracious slavery severs our old commitment to disobedience. 3. Our new, gracious slavery commits us to pursuing growth in holiness.

Grace doesn't foster more sin because by it God transfers our spiritual allegiance from that master to another. 1. Freedom from sin was a gift of God's gracious initiative. 2. Freedom from sin begins with conversion. 3. Freedom from sin...

God gives freedom from sin but not absolute freedom. 1.  We desperately need grace to free us from sin. 2.  Grace frees us to be slaves of another, superior Master.

Sin doesn't reign over us because we are under grace not law.1. God's provision comes in the person of Christ.2. God's provision comes through the power of Christ.
-3. God's provision comes by the promises of Christ.
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God has provided everything we need for spiritual growth and lasting change. 1. God's provision comes in the person of Christ. 

 2. God's provision comes through the power of Christ. 

 

3. God's provision comes by the promises of...

We must be what we are becoming by refusing to succumb to sin's power.1. Do not let sin exercise control. 2. Do not give your members to sin. 3. Give yourselves to God and your members to Him for righteousness.

We must always keep our new relationship to sin and death in mind. 1. This command rests on the prior truths he's been presenting.   2. This command is not optional. 3. This command is to count as true what is already true. 4. This command is...

We have confidence that we will enjoy eternal life with Christ because of what his death & resurrection mean for him, and then for us. 1. We have confidence in eternal life because Jesus' resurrection was a decisive and permanent victory...

If you have union with Christ, then you must also have freedom from sin.  1. Our union with Christ leaves our old man dead. 2. Our union with Christ breaks our slavery to sin.

We don't continue in sin but live a new life because we are united with Christ. 1. We are united with Christ in a death like his.  2. We shall be united with Christ in a resurrection like his.3. Therefore, our union with Christ leads away from...

Abounding grace cannot yield habitual sin. 1. We died to sin because Jesus died to sin and we died with him.  2. We died to sin in that the reign of sin is decisively broken. 3. We died to sin so we can't live in it.

Believer, rejoice in hope because grace is greater. 1. Grace is greater than the law. 2. Grace is greater than sin.

Jesus' act of obedience is our only hope. 1. The bad news is that God deals with all humans in Adam.  2. The good news is that God deals with all believers in Jesus.

We will escape Adam's disaster by God's grace through Jesus! 1. Jesus is superior because His act is greater in kind. 2. Jesus is superior because His act is greater in consequence.

Adam's sin broke us and we can't fix ourselves.  1. These truths must shape our view of humanity. 2. These truths must shape our approach to parenting.  3. These truths must shape our evangelism.

Seek to please the Lord so that others will too. 1. Seek to please the Lord in your heart. 2. Seek to please the Lord in your intentions.  3. Seek to please the Lord in your love for others.

We erupt with triumphant joy in God because we are confident of what he will do based on what he has already done. 1. Believer, remember what God has done for you already. 2. Believer, consider what God will do.  3. Believer, rejoice in God!

Our joyful, confident expectation rests on God's undeniable love for us. 1. God's love is undeserved.  2. God's love is unmatched.  3. God's love is unquestionable.

Our hope grows stronger because of the ongoing effect of what God has done in us.1. God has given the Holy Spirit to us.  2. Through the Spirit, God has poured His love into our hearts.  3. Therefore, our hope grows stronger.

We have a joyful, triumphant confidence even in sufferings. 1. We have a joyful, triumphant confidence in sufferings because of what we know. 2. We have a joyful, triumphant confidence in sufferings because they produce perseverance.  3. We have a...

We rejoice today because we know what is coming.  1. When we stand on justification, we can see the glory of God coming. 2. As we wait for God's glory, we have hope. 3. Because of our hope, we have joyful confidence.

We must work for and serve the Lord in the workplace. 1. Jesus' lordship changes the way we approach our work 2 Jesus' lordship changes the way we use authority at work

Because we have a right standing before God, we live in peace and grace.  1.We have peace with God. 2. We have access into the realm of grace.

Abraham's story points to faith in Jesus.Part 1: The Gospel & God's Righteousness A. Man's Need - 1:18-3:20B. God's Work to Justify Sinners - 3:21-26C. Man's Response of Faith - 3:27-4:25 1. Like Abraham, our faith in God...

Saving faith follows in the footsteps of Abraham's faith. 1. The object of saving faith: God and His character. 2. The character of saving faith: hopeful, strong, and growing. 3. The result of saving faith: righteousness before God.

The Lordship of Christ changes the way we relate to each other at home.  1. We must seek to please the Lord in the marriage relationship. 2. We must seek to please the Lord in the parent-child relationship.

God's promise to save can only be received by faith. 1. Abraham's story shows that the promise has always been received by faith and not law. 2. The law proves that it is incapable of securing the promise. 3. The role of grace from...

Abraham is the spiritual father to all who come to God by faith.  1. Religious rituals cannot make us right with God. 2. Salvation by faith alone is good news for all nations.

The only way for us to receive a favorable verdict before God is as a grace-gift from Him by faith.  1. Adding works to our faith nullifies grace. 2. Only a faith without works results in salvation. 3. Our works only separate us from God, so we...

Justification by faith alone has always been the solution for us.  1. Like Abraham, we must respond to God in faith.  2. Like Abraham, God must give us a right standing before Him.

Introduction - God's Gospel - 1:1-17Part 1 - The Gospel and God's Righteousness 1:18-4:25Part 2 - The Gospel and God's Grace - 5:1-8:39Part 3 - The Gospel and Pod's Plan - 9:1-11:36Part 4 - The Gospel and God's Will -...

Salvation through Jesus vindicates the character of God.  1. Jesus' death displayed God's righteous character in the face of accusation against it because of his forbearance toward sins in the past. 2. Jesus' death displayed...

The Thessalonian church is a model of flourishing faith shown in two characteristics. 1. A church is flourishing when its members live transformed lives. 2. A church is flourishing when its members spread the gospel everywhere.

1. The Evidence of their salvation 2. The Effect of their salvation

God saves us through the work of Jesus.  1. God justifies. 2. Jesus redeems.  3. Jesus propitiates.

We have a problem we can't solve on our own. 1. Our problem is universal. 2. Our problem expresses itself externally and objectively.  3. Our problem is primarily internal and foundational.

God's salvation has come in Jesus. 1. In Jesus, God brought about a great reversal.   2. In Jesus, God brought his plan to light.  3. In Jesus, God brings salvation to all who trust in Him.

Self-denial is a key to effective gospel proclamation. 1. Effective gospel proclamation requires sacrifice.   2. Effective gospel proclamation requires servanthood.  3. Effective gospel proclamation requires self-control.