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September 14–17 September 21–24 September 28–October 1 For 109 years, GBS has been marked by its open door to needy students. Many alumni testify to receiving their education on the Hilltop as work students. Today that tradition continues. A number of students receive aid through the student work program, institutional scholarships or other assistance. The annual student phone-a-thon is an effort to raise the money needed to fund these programs. We hope to reach over 10,000 friends during the three weeks of outreach while raising $150,000 for the financial needs of the school. We also wish to thank our donors for their faithful support. This goal can only be accomplished with your help. When a student calls, please consider a donation for this vital program! 2009 Goal — $150,000 GOD’S BIBLE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT 1810 YOUNG STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202 (513) 721-7944 EXT. 1222 • FAX: (513) 763-6649 E-MAIL: ADVANCEMENT@GBS.EDU RATHER THAN WAIT FOR A PHONE CALL, IWOULD LIKE TO PLEDGE MY FINANCIAL SUPPORT NOW! ❒ ENCLOSED IS A ONE-TIME GIFT OF $…………… ❒ BY GOD’S HELP, IWILL SEND $……………PER MONTH FOR………MONTHS (FOR A TOTAL OF $……………) ❒ PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION ABOUT MATCHED GIFTS. ❒ PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION ABOUT TRUSTS AND BEQUESTS. NAME ........................................ TELEPHONE .................................... GOD’S REVIVALIST and BIBLE ADVOC 16 ADDRESS ...................................
✃ the law continues its God-appointed role as a revealer of sin in this New Testament dispensation (Rom. 3:19–20; 5:13, 20; 7:7, 8). Paul means at least two things, therefore, by his statement that believers are “not under law but under grace.” First, the Mosaic law’s claim upon them for the sins they committed while living “in the flesh” (before salvation, Rom. 7:5) is nullified by their union with Christ in His death to sin. The believer is no longer under the condemnation of the law (Rom. 8:1). The law can make no claims upon a dead person. But, being dead to the law does not give the believer the right to violate the law through sin. Instead, the believer is empowered through His union with Christ to walk according to the Spirit and produce spiritual fruit (Rom 8:4; 7:4). Second, believers’ salvation is not based upon law-keeping, as the Judaizers insisted (cf. Rom. 9:31–32), but their salvation is based upon the free grace of God available through faith in Christ. CONCLUSION We have seen that it is our blood-bought privilege to have complete freedom from the controlling power of sin. Through our union with Christ in His death to sin, His burial, and His resurrection, we are set free from the bondage and slavery to sin. We must therefore appropriate by faith what God says is true about us—that we are dead to sin and freed from it—and we must use the members of our body only as instruments of righteousness so that we may produce for God’s glory fruit unto holiness. It is not only God’s will that His children experience freedom from sin, but it is God’s command that we cease from sin. In our next sermon we will seek to answer the question, “Who is the wretched man of Romans 7:14–25” —sermon by DR. ALLAN P. BROWN 4 “COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN PREACHING” FREEDOM FROM SIN Part IV by Dr. Allan P. Brown, Chair, GBS Division of Ministerial Education Text: “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” (Romans 6:22) Scripture Reading: Romans 6:1–23 Romans 6 is Paul’s clarification of his statement in Romans 5:20 about the power of God’s saving grace, “But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” To prevent anyone from misunderstanding his emphasis on God’s forgiving grace (as some already had; see Rom. 3:8), Paul asked the rhetorical question, “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound” (6:1). In the strongest, most emphatic terms possible, Paul denies that God’s grace permits—let alone encourages—further sinning. At the moment of his new birth, the believer is united with Christ in His death to sin, His burial, and His resurrection (Rom. 6:3–5). The person he was before he was saved is crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6) and he is declared to be both “dead to sin” (Rom. 6:2) and freed from its enslaving power (Rom. 6:7). The believer now has full access to Christ’s resurrection power which enables him to please God in every aspect of his life (Rom. 6:4; Eph. 1:19–22; Col. 1:9–10). Subsequent to the new birth, God expects every believer to take two action steps: (1) appropriate experientially this reality by “reckoning ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin” (6:11) and fully yielding ourselves and the members of our body to God as people who are now alive from the dead, and (2) use the members of our body as instruments of righteousness unto God (Rom. 6:13). 1
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