New Life

1. Whoever commits sin is what?

"The servant of sin" John 8:34

"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins" Proverbs 5:22

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Romans 6:16

2. What are the wages for serving sin?

"The wages of sin is death" Romans 6:23

3. What was the mission of Jesus?

"He shall save his people from their sins" Matthew 1:21

4. What does it mean to be saved from our sins?

"Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness" Romans 6:18

5. Can Jesus really free us from sin’s control?

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" John 8:36

"For sin shall not have dominion over you" Romans 6:14

6. Can we serve both God and sin?

"No man can serve two masters" Matthew 6:24

7. So what must we do?

"Choose you this day whom ye will serve" Joshua 24:15

8. When we choose to serve the Lord, what does He cause to happen within us?

"Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" Romans 6:6

9. What may we then reckon ourselves to be?

"Dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God" Romans 6:11

"How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" Romans 6:2

10. We put off the old man, which is what?

"Corrupt according to the deceitful lusts" Ephesians 4:22

11. And we put on the new man, which is what?

"Created in righteousness and true holiness" Ephesians 4:24

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me" Psalm 51:10

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" 2 Corinthians 5:17

12. We receive grace and the gift of what?

"Righteousness" Romans 5:17

"Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" Romans 3:22

13. We are made what?

"Righteous" Romans 5:19

14. How much does this being made righteous cost us?

"Free gift" Romans 5:18

15. Receiving this gift, we become filled with what?

"That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" Ephesians 3:19

16. We are then a partaker of what?

"That by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature" 2 Peter 1:4

17. When this happens, what is our relation to the sinful habits that once enslaved us?

"Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" 2 Peter 1:4

18. How is a person’s life different after being liberated from the servitude of sin?

"That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries" 1 Peter 4:2, 3

19. How does Paul emphasize again the new status of the believer?

"Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness" Romans 6:22

20. How should this new status affect our future plans?

"Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof" Romans 13:14

"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God" Romans 6:12, 13

21. Upon what condition may we continue to partake of the power of Christ?

"If we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end" Hebrews 3:14

"If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" John 8:31

22. If through unbelief a person falls back into his former passions, what has he probably forgotten?

"And hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins" 2 Peter 1:9

23. Of what may we be confident?

"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" Philippians 1:6

24. What is Jesus able to do?

"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy" Jude 24

25. Is that expecting too much of the Lord?

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think" Ephesians 3:20

26. Do we need anything that His divine power has not supplied?

"His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness" 2 Peter 1:3

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32

"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" Philippians 4:19

27. How may we obtain the transforming gift of God’s righteousness?

"Ask, and it shall be given you" Matthew 7:7

28. Then what positive action are we to take?

"Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God" Romans 6:13

"For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness" Romans 6:19

29. What will our testimony then be?

"O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds" Psalm 116:16