ESV Romans 6:19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Outline
Passage summary: Repentance includes redirecting our lifestyles from sinful to holy living. A faithful slave of Christ will give the same energy towards holiness as he did as a former slave of sin towards lawlessness. He used to put all his energy into sin, which would have resulted in death (hell). But now he puts all his energy into holiness, which will result in eternal life (heaven).
This sermon contains three “Rs” of the believer’s lifestyle of repentance:
- Vs. 19 The Resolution of a Repentant Heart.
- Vs. 20-21 The Reflection of a Repentant Heart.
- Vs. 22-23 The Redirection of a Repentant Heart.