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is the basis for the admonition in v.12? 2. How does A. Paul characterize the body and it's desires? 3. What picture/visual does A. Paul use in v.13? 4. To whom are we supposed to offer our body? 5. Why do you think does he uses the word instrument? 6. Contrast the purposes of the body. 7. Relate v.9 to v.14. 8. As the believer has a new master, what governs his life v.12. 9. v.15 echoes vv.1,2. What does this suggest of the Apostle's attitude towards these truths? 10. Why is the entity offered personified? v.16 11. How is this seen in our lifestyles? 12. Obedience to different masters bring different results. What are they? 13. v.17 expresses gratitude to God for human obedience. What are the implications of the statement? 14. Who was entrusted to what? v.17 15. What is the believer's new condition according to v.18 Question: Who has set him free? 16. Who has enslaved him to righteousness? 17. Contrast the "benefits" of sin and righteousness. v.20 -22 18. Contrast the "ends" of sin and righteousness. 19. Define "wages." 20. Contrast the principles connected to slavery to sin and slavery to righteousness v.23 21. What then does justification demand of us? Main Lesson: Memory Verse: Romans 6:16 (NIV) 16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? |