Now in salvation, your bondage changes.

From being bound to sin, you become bound to righteousness.

From the unceasing andcessant pattern of sin, you are transformed into one who responds to righteousness.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Romans chapter 6 talks about Christians experiencing the death of the old man.

If you're wondering what that means practically in your life, I encourage you to stay with us, as John MacArthur continues the compelling study titled Freedom from Sin on today's Grace To You.

But before the lesson, you know John, this ministry is getting close to celebrating its 54th anniversary.

And I know that studying the Word of God still animates you as much as ever.

So let me just ask you what keeps you so engaged in the work of Bible teaching ministry?

I think first of all, it's the inexhaustibility of Scripture.

Yes, I've studied the Bible pretty intensely for almost 75 years, three quarters of a century.

And it never, ever grows old. It is literally a mind that you just keep digging down and digging down, and it just yields up more and more and more riches.

You know, it's divine character creates this inexhaustible reality of truth.

And no matter how much I study, even the same passage, there's a freshness every time as new truth becomes apparent and obvious to me.

The second thing that energizes me is that the world continues to need to hear the message.

But we're looking at a world today that I would say in my lifetime is in the most desperate condition.

There are more atheists in America than there have ever been. There are more unbelievers in America than they've ever been.

There's more anti-Christianity in America than there's ever been.

That means there are more people who are alienated from the gospel than there have ever been in our culture.

It's out of the public mind.

So, and yet what we're seeing as a result of that is just the total complete collapse of society in a moral free fall.

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