Looking to the Benefits of Obedience
Remember that the high toll that sin exacts in our lives should motivate us to pursue obedience with its short-term and long-term rewards.
Set Free to Live Right
But What About Grace?
The grace that makes us right with God by Christ’s work and not ours, does not liberate us to do whatever we want, but constrains us to obey our Lord Jesus Christ.
Confronting the Enemy Within
Though freed from the domain and penalty of sin, God calls us to rigorously deny our sinful impulses by actively pursuing God’s agenda not sin’s enticements.
How the Resurrection Should Transform My Behavior
Because of our alliance with Christ & his resurrection, we can, with his empowerment, experience a foretaste of our sinless & victorious resurrected lives now.
Rethinking Christ's Death & My Temptations
Because of our spiritual alliance and association with Christ’s work on the cross, we should be eager to be holy and repulsed by sin.