We are saved by grace through faith.

We are saved by grace through faith.

Real faith.

Faith that receives Jesus not just as a truth, but as a treasure.

Why is justification by faith? treasure.

Why is justification by faith essential to our growth in holiness?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 6, 20 to 22, to explore how our freedom

from sin leads to the fruit of sanctification. His sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 10, 2000.

The big

purpose of Roman six is that the reality of

is that the reality of justification by faith does not produce Christians who are cavalier about sin.

That's Roman 6. Say it again. The reality of justification by faith does not produce Christians who are cavalier about the reality of sin in their own lives.

Or, put it another way, Paul writes this chapter to show why believing in the righteousness of Christ as the ground of our acceptance with God does not produce indifference

in us

dead set against sinning in our own lives.

Now three things. sinning in our own lives.

Now three things become increasingly clear as we get toward the end of the chapter.

Number one, all of us are by nature and slave to sin.

We don't rule sin, sin rules us.

Number two, God alone is the decisive deliverer from this slavery and our part which is real and crucial is

dependent on his part.

Third, without this deliverance from the rule and the slavery of sin without this new direction, not perfection, you will not inherit

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