Redeemer Modesto Sermon Audio

Redeemer Modesto | Jim Applegate | Romans 6:15-7:6 Once you had no choice, but now, because of Jesus, you have a choice. And your choices dictate your freedom (not your acceptance). Paul tells us that we were once slaves to sin, but now we are slaves to righteousness. Our hearts are created like vacuums, needed to be filled – we have no choice but to look at everything around us and search for something to fill us. Before we knew Jesus, the things that we were trying to fill our hearts with only left us in a greater state of emptiness. But, we still had no choice…we were slaves to these things, trying to fill ourselves. As we look at society today and consider that the world is now trying to justify our bad choices by our DNA and upbringing, they are not far from what Paul is saying…they are ‘slaves to sin’…always needing to fill the vacuum that seems to get larger with every poor choice. However, because we have been reconciled through Christ (Romans 5:1) and have peace with God, the vacuum has not d