| I. Introductory Question and Answer |
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VERSE 6:15 |
| A. The Question: |
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? |
(15a) |
| B. The Answer: |
May it never be! |
(15b) |
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| II. The First Argument |
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VERSES 6:16-23 |
| A. The Rhetorical Question: |
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| 1. The Query: |
Do you not know |
(16a) |
| 2. The General Principle: |
that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, |
(16b) |
| 3. The Specifics: |
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| a. The Negative: |
either of sin resulting in death, |
(16c) |
| b. The Positive: |
or of obedience resulting in righteousness? |
(16d) |
| B. The Praise: |
But thanks be to God that |
(17a) |
| 1. The Old Master: |
though you were slaves of sin, |
(17b) |
| 2. The Obedience: |
you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, |
(17c) |
| 3. The Change in Masters: |
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| a. The Old: |
and having been freed from sin, |
(18a) |
| b. The New: |
you became slaves of righteousness. |
(18b) |
| C. The Exhortation: |
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| 1. Explanatory Note: |
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. |
(19a) |
| 2. The Past: |
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| a. The Actions: |
For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, |
(19b) |
| b. Their Results: |
resulting in further lawlessness, |
(19c) |
| 3. The Present: |
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| a. The Actions: |
so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, |
(19d) |
| b. Their Result: |
resulting in sanctification. |
(19e) |
| D. The Benefits of Our Service: |
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| 1. The Old Service: |
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| a. Our Condition: |
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| (1) Our Slavery: |
For when you were slaves of sin, |
(20a) |
| (2) Our Freedom: |
you were free in regard to righteousness. |
(20b) |
| b. Our Benefits: |
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| (1) The Question: |
Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? |
(21a) |
| (2) The Outcome: |
For the outcome of those things is death. |
(21b) |
| 2. The New Service: |
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| a. Our Condition: |
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| (1) Our Freedom: |
But now having been freed from sin |
(22a) |
| (2) Our Slavery: |
and enslaved to God, |
(22b) |
| b. Our Benefits: |
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| (1) The Immediate: |
you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, |
(22c) |
| (2) The Outcome: |
and the outcome, eternal life. |
(22d) |
| 3. The Summary: |
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| a. The Wages of the Old: |
For the wages of sin is death, |
(23a) |
| b. The Gift of the New: |
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
(23b) |
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| III. The Second Argument |
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VERSES 7:1-6 |
| A. The Principle Stated: |
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| 1. The Query: |
Or do you not know, |
(1a) |
| 2. The Addressees: |
brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), |
(1b) |
| 3. The Principle: |
that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? |
(1c) |
| B. The Principle Illustrated: |
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| 1. The Law Concerning Marriage: |
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| a. Case One: |
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; |
(2a) |
| b. Case Two: |
but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. |
(2b) |
| 2. The Application of the Law: |
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| a. Case One: |
So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; |
(3a) |
| b. Case Two: |
but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. |
(3b) |
| C. The Principle Applied: |
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| 1. The Statement: |
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| a. The Action Taken: |
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, |
(4a) |
| b. Its Purpose: |
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| (1) The Reason: |
so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, |
(4b) |
| (2) The End Result: |
in order that we might bear fruit for God. |
(4c) |
| 2. The Explanation |
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| a. The Old Marriage: |
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| (1) The Service: |
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body |
(5a) |
| (2) The Result |
to bear fruit for death. |
(5b) |
| b. The New Marriage: |
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| (1) Release from the Old: |
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, |
(6a) |
| (2) Service in the New |
so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. |
(6b) |