March 8, 2015
Passage:  Romans 6:15-23
Speaker:  Bill Knepper
Main Point:  No longer slaves of futile dreams, we serve the God of grace.

I. We can be slaves of the ideas that seize us.  (15-16)
            A. To understand grace we must understand ourselves.
            B. Slavish devotion is still slavish.

II. The new center of our heart is the gospel.  (17-19)
            A. We have a new internal compass.
            B. We respond as if we were slaves.

III. We replace worthless ideas with the gift of eternal life.  (20-23)
            A. We did not even think about God before
            B. The fruit of our devotion was not lasting.
            C. By the grace of God we are gifted life.