Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life.

Join me now as we look together into this section of the Bible.

All right, we're in Roman six. Romans chapter six, and there's one last verse in Romans six,

verse 23, and it is such an important verse that I did not want to jam it in at the end

last time there's enough meat on this bone for just this one verse for us to

look at and if you've ever memorized scripture this is on the short list of

verses that you would memorize will. Yeah, this isn't a want to verse, okay?

So, for the wages of sin is death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ, our Lord.

I mean, I'm sure that you have that memorized or pretty close to being memorized and what this

verse does is it brings to summation this entire chapter that This boils down to the the bottom line summary and this is the outcome

summary and this is the outcome of everything that we've been looking at. And just to remind you, Paul has been

painting quite a contrast between what we once were and what we now are.

And what we once were was a slave of sin.

And we were in the bondage of sin. Our mind, our affections, and yes even our will was in bondage to sin.

And when we were born again, they brought about the extraordinary change in our life,

and we were liberated from our slavery to sin.

But we were introduced then. slavery to the

the sin but we were introduced then immediately into a new slavery to the

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