God Delivers Us from Sin
Romans 6:1-14, 20-23; 7:12-25

1. Deliverance

Romans 6:1-11
1   What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace might increase?  
2   May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3   Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4   Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5   For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6   knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7   for he who has died is freed from sin.
8   Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9   knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
10   For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11   Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

2. Demand

Romans 6:12-14
12   Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13   and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14   For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:20-23
20   For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21   Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
22   But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
23   For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. Difficulty

Romans 7:12-23
12   So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13   Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14   For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.  
15   For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16   But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17   So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18   For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19   For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20   But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21   I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22   For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23   but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

4. Deliverer

Romans 7:24-25
24   Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25   Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.