1. THE SIDE EFFECTS OF FREEDOM

2. Romans 6:15-18 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

3. Romans 6:19-20 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

4. Romans 6:21-23 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

5. I. The Side Effects of Medicine

6. A. Medicine has been labeled as controlled poison. I. The Side Effects of Medicine

7. A. Medicine has been labeled as controlled poison. B. A medical doctor’s job is to balance the treatment. I. The Side Effects of Medicine

8. A. Medicine has been labeled as controlled poison. B. A medical doctor’s job is to balance the treatment. C. An example of a side effect. I. The Side Effects of Medicine

9. I. The Side Effects of Medicine I. The Side Effects of Medicine II. The Side Effects of Freedom

10. A. The land of freedom is America. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

11. A. The land of freedom is America. 1. The problem with our freedom: II. The Side Effects of Freedom

12. A. The land of freedom is America. 1. The problem with our freedom: a. Shift from a Christian to a humanistic base. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

13. A. The land of freedom is America. 1. The problem with our freedom: a. Shift from a Christian to a humanistic base. b. Moral taboos eroding. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

14. A. The land of freedom is America. 1. The problem with our freedom: 2. The philosophy is “do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t hurt someone else”. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

15. A. The land of freedom is America. 1. The problem with our freedom: 2. The philosophy is “do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t hurt someone else”. There are no more absolute standards! II. The Side Effects of Freedom

16. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? II. The Side Effects of Freedom

17. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? 1. Of sexual immorality. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

18. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? 1. Of sexual immorality. 2. Of alcohol. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

19. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? 1. Of sexual immorality. 2. Of alcohol. 3. Of tobacco. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

20. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? 1. Of sexual immorality. 2. Of alcohol. 3. Of tobacco. 4. Of street drugs. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

21. B. What are the side effects of certain freedoms? 1. Of sexual immorality. 2. Of alcohol. 3. Of tobacco. 4. Of street drugs. 5. Of divorce. II. The Side Effects of Freedom

22. I. The Side Effects of Medicine I. The Side Effects of Medicine II. The Side Effects of Freedom III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

23. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

24. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? 1. Before the cross. III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

25. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? 1. Before the cross. 2. After the cross. III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

26. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? 1. Before the cross. 2. After the cross. 3. So - the question: Romans 6:15 - Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

27. The Answer! Obedience to the Law as the Lord of your life was replaced with obedience to Lord Jesus as the Lord of your life! III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

28. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? B. What are the side effects of grace? III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

29. A. What is Spiritual Freedom? B. What are the side effects of grace? 1. It’s a matter of selling yourself into slavery. Romans 6:16 - Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey? III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

30. 1. It’s a matter of selling yourself into slavery. a. What is slavery to sin? Romans 6:19 -... you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness... III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

31. 1. It’s a matter of selling yourself into slavery. a. What is slavery to sin? b. What is slavery to righteous- ness? Romans 6:17 - But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

32. B. What are the side effects of grace? 1. It’s a matter of selling yourself into slavery. 2. What are the eternal conse- quences (side effects!)? III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

33. 2. What are the eternal conse- quences (side effects!)? a. The side effects of the sinful life are death, eternity in hell apart from the presence of God. III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

34. 2. What are the eternal conse- quences (side effects!)? b. The side effects of obedience are righteousness, eternity in heaven in the presence of God. III. The Side Effects of Spiritual Freedom

35. Simply because the Lord saved you doesn’t give you the license to sin. Instead It gives you the privilege of surrender!