June 25, 2011

This sermon is for June 25, 2011
Jazz Service

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So, what do you do?

(June 25th was the date of our first Jazz Service.  Hopefully soon we will have our photos up at our Photo Page and maybe even have the video of it on YouTube)

In every instance of small talk with strangers sooner or later you get to the "do-be-do" question ("So...what do you do?")  We aren't asking what you do for a living, we are actually asking who you are.  Beware, sometimes the answer to that question can surprise you...

Romans 6:12-23
6:12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
6:13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 6:17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 6:18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 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 greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.  6:20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 6:21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.  6:22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.  6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.