Evergreen Beaverton: Sermons and Lessons

Main Point: Because God has condemned our sin in Christ and given us the Spirit of life, we are truly set free from sin’s dominion so that, as beloved children, we can now live to please the Father and fulfill the righteous requirement of his law. Outline: 1. The Spirit of Life (v. 2) 2. Freedom by Condemnation (v. 3) 3. Liberated to Be Righteous (v. 4)

Main Point We desperately need God's Word; without it, God's people cannot function as God's people. God, in His faithfulness, has broken the silence. He has graciously given what only He can give: His Word through His prophet. The Sovereignty of Silence - God is working The Weight of the Word - God is in control The Reach of Revelation - God's Word will reach His people

Main Point: Because Jesus has borne the condemnation we deserve, everyone who is in Christ is truly and forever free from God’s condemning verdict, so we can live without fear about our past, our present, or our future. Outline: 1. The Condemnation We Deserve 2. The Grace that We Receive 3. The Life We Live Without Fear a. Our Past is Past b. Our Present is Peace c. Our Future is Secure

Main Point: Sin remains within the heart of a believer in this life, producing inner conflict between the God that he loves and the sin that he is still tempted by. Outline: 1. The Believer’s Delight in the Law (7:14, 16, 18, 21-22) 2. The Believer’s Actions of Lawlessness (7:14b-20) 3. The Believer’s Inner Conflict (7:21-24) a. We must know our sin b. Fill your mind with God and his majesty and h...

Main Point: True freedom of the will was lost in Adam’s fall and can only be restored through God’s grace in Christ, since apart from regeneration all human actions (even seemingly good ones) remain enslaved to sin and incapable of pleasing God. Outline: 1. Mankind’s Will Before the Fall – Able to Sin, Able Not to Sin 2. Mankind’s Will After the Fall (Apart from Christ) – Not Able Not to Sin 3. Ma...

Main Point: The law unmasks sin’s power in us, preparing us to understand the battle within. Outline: 1. The Law Exposes (7:7a) 2. Sin Exploits (7:7b-11) 3. Sin Executes (7:13)

Main Point: Christians are released from the penalties that God’s Law attaches to sin. Outline: 1. Released from the Law’s Bondage (v. 1-3, 5) 2. Rejoicing in the Freedom of Grace (v. 4, 6a) 3. Renewed for Fruitful Obedience (v. 4b, 6b)

Main Point: Every human being is a slave – either a slave of sin, or a slave of Christ. Slaves of sin receive their wages: more sin and death. Slaves of Christ receive the gift Christ gives: life and righteousness. Outline: 1. Slavery as a Voluntary Way of Life 2. Slavery to Sin and its wages 3. Slavery to God and his gift

Main Point: Jesus has ended our waiting. Salvation is no longer coming, it is here. And we must respond. Outline: Jesus Fulfills the Covenant Jesus Redeems His Servants Jesus Reveals Our Hearts

Main Point: The manger reveals a King whose worth is unshaken by his humility and whose glory is magnified in being worshiped by the lowly. Outline: 1. A King with a King 2. A King with a Crib 3. A King with Worshipers

Main Point: The annunciation reveals that the incarnation is wholly God’s work— by His grace, through His Son, by His Spirit, and in His power—for the salvation of the world. Outline: 1. Grace Comes to Mary (v. 28) 2. The Savior Comes to Mankind (v. 32, 35, 37

Main Point: The believer’s union with Christ calls for a fundamental reordering of our relationship to every thought, desire, and action that is contrary to God’s law. Outline: 1. How to Think of Yourself (6:11) 2. How to Control Yourself (6:12) 3. How to Present Yourself (6:13) 4. Who Governs Your Self (6:14)

Main Point: The Christian is given a new identity in Jesus Christ – one that has been freed from sin and is now set against a life of sin and death. Outline: 1. Sin Has Been Broken 2. Sin is Contrary to Christ 3. Sin Contradicts our New Life

Rom. 5:12 ¶ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— Rom. 5:13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Rom. 5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the...