Sermon Notes
Date: 10/29/2023
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Romans
Key Text: Romans 8:12-17
Description:
Movie Trailer Voice-Over Guy: In a world brimming with obligations and expectations, what if our truest debt wasn’t to society or self… but to Spirit?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Romans in which as contemplate this debt, we discover the profound transition from obligation to liberation… and from fear to sonship.
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Questions:
The following are questions to help you think about the sermon, as well as offer a set of discussion questions for family worship, or gathering together in other settings. My prayer is that these questions will allow you to dwell longer, and meditate more, upon God’s holy Word and will be fodder for sanctifying conversations. — M.S.
- How can believers live for God in their mortal bodies, which still bear the remnants of their old sinful nature? (13-14)
- What does the Spirit of God do for us in our struggle against sin? (13-16)
- What is our relationship to God now that we are Christians? (14)
- How can we be assured that we are God’s children? (15-16)
- One way in which the Spirit testifies of our sonship involves our newfound love, how do we see that in the text? (15)
- A second way that the Spirit testifies of our sonship involves a new hatred, how do we see that in the text? (13)
- A third way that the Spirit testifies of our sonship involves our u________ with C________, how do we see that in this passage? (17)
- Can you confirm salvation in someone (including yourself) who says they love Christ but doesn’t feel the need to battle against sin? Explain.
- Is verse 13 teaching a works-based gospel?
- What role does the Word (Bible) play in our battle against sin?
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