Good morning, everyone. Pleasure to be with you this morning. I appreciate this opportunity to share the Word of God with you, to delight ourselves in God our Savior this morning, who has done great things for us, of which we are glad. If you have a copy of the Word of God, if you would turn to Romans chapter 5. I'm going to read Beginning in verse 20, and read the entirety of chapter 6. Romans 5 verse 20. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lust thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked that you were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when We ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become the servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let's pray. Our gracious Father, we bow before you this morning and thank you for your precious words. We thank you, our Father, for these truths that we have read, these facts that we have read. And we desire, Lord, to embrace the truth this morning, that our minds might be renewed. Lord, we might be renewed in the spirit of our mind, that we might be transformed through an encounter with the living God. Have mercy upon us this morning, dear God. Draw near to your people, we ask for Christ's sake. Give me utterance. We pray for Jesus' sake. Amen. Apollos went to Achaia and it says he helped the saints much. He helped the saints much which had believed through grace. So this morning, I would endeavor to help the saints here at Conway by reminding us of the great things that God has done for the souls of the believer. What great things he has done for us. And as we mull over and think about and see what great things he has done for us. It will impact our lives, energize our lives, and strengthen us in the walk, in the fight, in the life of the believer. You know, there is some profit in looking back on our post-Christian life. You read in Isaiah chapter 51, he's talking to those who are following after righteousness. He says, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. He says, look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from whence ye are digged. When we look back on where God brought us from, the domination that sin once had over us, The power that sin once held over us. The authority with which sin dominated our life. And we see what a wonderful change has been wrought in my life since Jesus came into my heart. We see that God has done great things for my soul. And we go to the Bible and we begin to learn just exactly what the Lord did for me. You know, when we're first born into the kingdom of God, we're not very theologically astute, many of us. And we kind of, once we've been brought into the family of God, once we've been regenerated, once we've been quickened, then we go to the Bible and kind of learn what God did for me. And we say, my, that was awesome. even in spite of our ignorance, in spite of how little we knew of God. And we go to the Word of God and find out what great things He has done for us. You know, the psalmist looked back at the horrible pit that God brought him up out of, put a new song in his heart, and put his feet on a rock and established his goings. In 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 10, Paul says, God has delivered, doth deliver, and shall yet deliver. And so we look back, God has delivered us. And today He is delivering us. And we trust that He shall yet deliver us. For He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and will not forsake the work of His own hands. Our text this morning is the 14th verse says for sin shall not have dominion over you. Sin shall not have dominion over you. First off I would like to use this verse as a self-examination a crowd this large Very likely, not everyone here is Christian. Our Lord Jesus had 12 apostles and one of them will prove to be an apostate. So we would like to examine ourselves under the scrutiny of the Word of God. And in the sight of God, we would like to ask ourselves, am I under the dominion of sin? Does sin dominate my life? When sin calls, Do I yield? Yield. Yield. Remember John says, those who practice sin, he that commiteth sin is of the devil. If you habitually practice sin, you're not a child of God. The Apostle Paul tells us here this morning that sin shall not have dominion. It shall not have the authority. It shall not be the dictator that it once was in your life. If you cannot look back at any point in your life and see that God transformed and is transforming my life, then we're not Christian. We're not a believer because Jesus, His very name, indicates that he will save his people from their sins and that he will break the domination that sin has over you. I'm not saying that Christians don't struggle with sin because we see that in the very next chapter. The chief of the apostle to the Gentiles struggles against sin. But sin does not have the dominion over the child of God. Does your gossiping tongue have dominion over you? Does your envious heart have dominion over you? Does your complaining spirit have dominion over you? Does your covetous greed and grasp for more of this world's goods have dominion over you? If sin has dominion in your life, if sin is the dominating force in your life, if sin is what you really want, You're not a child of God according to the passage before us this morning. For sin shall not have dominion over the child of God. Because we are not under the law but under grace. Why does sin no longer have dominion over the child of God? Well, it held dominion over us before we were Christians because we were dead toward God. When we were under the law, the law says, do this and you shall live. That's what the law says. Obey and you'll have life. Keep all these commands and you'll be given life. But the problem is, man is dead in trespasses and in sins. Man has no ability. Man has no life toward God. Man has no pulse toward God. Man has no heartbeat for God. God can give man a perfect, holy, righteous law, but it's impossible for the law to impart life. So those who are under the law are under sin because of their inability, their moral inability to keep that law. How does being under grace, how is it better? How does the law have no dominion over the child of God who is under grace? Because grace says, live and do. Grace imparts life and then points the way. Grace is totally opposite to the law in that the law says, live. He says to the dead sinner, live. Do and live. Grace says, live and do. Remember chapter 16 of Ezekiel. God passes by that dead polluted infant in its own blood. And he says when he passes by that dead infant in its own blood, he said, I spake unto you when you were in your blood, live. Yea, I spake unto you when you were in your blood, live. Jesus said the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And they that hear shall we and being alive to God being quickened by divine grace. We now are no longer in the cemetery of sin but we've been made alive to God. Thus the power of sin has been broken. Grace has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. He brought life to us so that our minds are renewed to see the emptiness of the sin that we were pursuing. To see the futility of what we were pursuing. To see the awfulness of what we were pursuing. To see the deadliness of what we were pursuing. And our minds are changed. Our minds are transformed. To begin to loathe what we loved and to begin to love what we loathed. So that old things pass away and all things become new to the child of God. Sin does not have dominion over the child of God because we've been freed from the curse of the law. We've been freed from the damnation that the law holds over us. The law says, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in the book of the law to do them. You and I see that we have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We have failed not only in one point, but we have failed in every point and are standing guilty before God. And so, we're under the dominion of sin because the condemnation that's held over us, we say we're guilty already. We might as well continue in sin if we're going to be lost at the last. We might as well continue in sin because there's no point in trying to right in our wrongs now. It's not going to pay for our past crimes. Like what's the use of trying to mend our ways? But as the poem says, to see the law by Christ fulfilled. and hear his pardoning voice changes a slave into a child and duty into a choice. Sin loses its dominion over us when we get a glimpse of Christ who is own self bear our sins in his body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. Seeing what a great substitute, what a great Christ has taken our place and done for us. We are filled with gratitude. We're filled with thanksgiving to live for the one who died for us. It says, free through the blood of Christ I am from sin's tremendous curse and shame. We're free from the condemnation of the law. Paul Washer said man has two problems. He's guilty and he's a slave. He stands guilty before God and he's a slave to his sins. And Christ came to free us from the guilt of our sin by the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he came to liberate us from the tyranny and power and authority of sin. by including us in that death and resurrection. Christ included me in His death and resurrection. Christ had no need to die on the cross. So He died for me. His death on Calvary was in my place. It was substitutionary. He took my place on Calvary and I was included in that death on Calvary. So that my old man, my old self was included in his death on Calvary. So that I died in him. soul that sins dies in Christ through Christ's substitutionary work. I died in him. That's what should happen to a sinner. That's what should happen to the old nature. It's loathsome. It's evil. It's wicked. It's against God. It has no subjection to the law of God. It's an enemy to God. That's what should happen to the old man. It should die. And if you and I are believers this morning, your old man has been put to death. Your old man has been done under. Your old man has been crucified with Christ that the body of sin might be destroyed. If you're a believer this morning, if you've been converted, if you've been brought from death to life, if you've been born again this morning, you're not the same person you used to be. Old things have passed away. You have new eyes, new ears, new desires, new longings, new pursuits. I know there's the path of sanctification. I know there's a growth in grace and the knowledge of Christ. I know there is not all instant perfection. But if you're a child of God, you need to be counting yourself to be different. I heard a story about St. Augustine who had a dark, sinful past. He was going down the street and he heard some lady call out to him. Augustine, it's me. This is after he was saved. He said, yes, but this is not me. He's a new man. Sin calls, sin tempts, sin allures, sin paints up itself and appeals to us. But the inward desire, the inward longing that we once were dominated by, that we once were held captive to has been changed, is being changed. The child of God should grow in their hatred for sin and their love for righteousness. We should grow in the grace, in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. The psalmist tells us, ye that love the Lord, hate evil. Why does he tell lovers of the Lord to hate evil? Because Christians, believers, need to grow in their hatred of evil. Christ, as our pastor preached a month or two ago, out of Hebrews chapter 1, thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Christ's hatred for sin, his hatred for iniquity is perfect. It's right. And we, through union with Christ, have a measure of that hatred of iniquity. But we all need to grow in our hatred of sin and our love for righteousness. To grow in our repulsion of sin. To ask God to renew our minds so that we see the heinousness and the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Those who are under the dominion of sin partly are held under the dominion of sin because law natural response to man is a response of rebellion a response of in subordination. And if you set a law in front of somebody, you are putting a stumbling block in front of them. You are putting an occasion in front of them to sin because they are naturally going to want to step over that line. The first verse we read this morning says, Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. God gave man a holy law, ten commandments. There's nothing wrong with the law. But it was given to show up the sinfulness of fallen men. It was a light that shone in the darkness to expose the depravity and dirtiness and filthiness of men. But rather than that law cleaning up man, rather than that law making man moral and civil and righteous, man used that holy righteous law as an avenue to spit in God's face to rebel against God that much more. Man, in his natural state, uses the very light of the Word of God to run that much further into the darkness without the grace of God intervening. Man uses the truth of God to delve that much more and dive that much deeper into his own error, the own error of his ways. And so, rather than law making men better, The law stirs up the natural perversity and sinfulness of our nature so that we are under the domination of sin under the curse of God. You know if you if you want your kids to do something Tell them not to do it. If you have a box in your room and you say, kids, you can do anything, don't open that box. Don't look in that box. Have something hidden in that box. You are tempting them to do it. I mean, they would have no interest in opening that box unless you told them not to do it. You might have a closet that no one has any interest in your house. You say, don't open that closet door. That's my space. You keep out. They're going to want to peek under. They're going to do something to find out what's in that closet door. And so it is with the perfect holy law of God. God gives it to man. And what does man want to do? God says don't cross that line. Man does everything he does, everything he can. He breaks his neck to get over that line. So man is dead in trespasses and sins. He's sold under sin. He's a slave to sin. But thanks be to God who didn't leave us in that condition. Who didn't leave us alone but pursued us. Even when he set that holy perfect law before us and we rebelled against it. We kicked against it. We sinned against it. Grace abounded and pursued us and tracked us down even in our lostness and rebellion. Sin has domination over the nature of man because of their inward desire for sin. Sin has tyranny over men. Sin has control of men due to our love for sin. So how are we to be made free from sin? How are we to be made free from the dominion of sin? God gives us a new nature, new desires, a new heart, a new way of thinking. Acts 3.26 says, I mean you read that you don't have to turn. Unto you first God having raised up his son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. The health wealth and prosperity people might not call that a blessing but that is the highest blessing a sinner can be given is the grace of God turning them away from their iniquities. That's what we were pursuing. That's what we were in the Broadway going headlong for iniquity. It is the grace of God. that shows us Christ, that shows His payment for sin, that shows us and gives us a new heart to desire Him and turns our eyes, turns our heart away from our iniquities unto Him. We've been given the gift of repentance. We've been given the grace of God to be sorry for our sin and to turn from them. Sin has no dominion over the child of God because we have this new nature with new desires, new longings. Proverbs 15 21 says that folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom. By nature, sins are joy. We come into this world. Sin is what we want. Folly is joy to him that's destitute of wisdom. But to the man who has being influenced and born again and converted. Folly is what he runs from. Sin is what he despises. Sin is what he's ashamed of, as our text says. Our nature has been changed. The new nature cannot relish the pleasures of sin. The child of God cannot enjoy the pleasure of sin. Not even for a season. Because we have a new heart. We have the Spirit of God dwelling in us. The Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us. We've been born again. Born from above. We're heavenly children and cannot any longer wallow in the mire of this world. I thought about David, King David. You ask King David at age 69 or 70, right before he dies, David, you've been through a lot. Tell me, what's the worst time in your life? What's the darkest period in your life? You wrote a lot of Psalms that had a lot of scenarios behind them. Tell me, what was your worst and lowest point as a child of God? Was it maybe when Saul had you in the cave of Adullam? He said, No, it wasn't there. Because there I gathered my men around me and said, Come, all ye that fear God, I'll tell you what things he has done for my soul. Well, King David, was it when the Amalekites took Ziklag and burned it and took all your wives and your possessions and your men talked about killing you? Was that your lowest point? He said, no. He said, because there I encouraged myself and the Lord my God. David, was it when your father and mother forsook you, was that your lowest point, when those who were nearest and dearest to you left you? He said, no, because when my father and mother forsook me, then the Lord took me up. See, David, what was your lowest point? He said it was that point when I should have been out fighting and I stayed at home and took a nap. When I indulged my flesh, when I stopped watching and praying, when I let my guard down and I lived that way for a year or better. He said that was the worst point in my life. That was the absolute worst point in my life. You can read about it in Psalm 32. David says, When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long, for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. You see, David had a new nature. And a child of God with a new nature cannot be content and satisfied and happy living in direct disobedience to a holy God. A child of God cannot be at peace with his father's frown on his life. The child of God cannot be content having communion and fellowship broken with the God he loves. That was David's lowest point. Even if you took into consideration Absalom's rebellion and being temporarily deposed from the throne, at that point he had confessed his sins and he was back on fellowship ground with God. But a child of God is at their lowest and saddest point when they have broken fellowship with their Heavenly Father. Sin has no dominion over the child of God because we have a new nature. Next, I would like to point out that sin is not going to have dominion. It's not going to have the upper hand. It's not going to have control over the child of God because God said it wouldn't. God decreed it. Read the text. It says, For sin shall not have dominion over you. That settles it. Do we need any more arguments? Do we need any more reasons why sin would not dominate the child of God? Because He said it wouldn't. You may be struggling with sin. You may be like the Apostle Paul in the next chapter. Striving and failing. Desiring and not attaining. You might be coming short and it grieves you. But God has promised. God has decreed. And it's settled that sin will not have the last say-so in your life. Sin shall not have dominion over you. Numbers 23, 19 says, God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? And if He says this morning to every child of God here that sin will not have the dominion over you, you can rejoice in the great God, who is a great Savior, who has begun a good work in your life, and He will perform that work until the day of Jesus Christ, because He's working within you that which to will and to do of His good pleasure. And sin will not have dominion over you, because God said it would not. As I said before, when Christ was being named before He was born, His name shall be called Jesus, which is Savior, because He shall save His people. he shall save his people. Not he might, or he could, or he made provision for, but he shall save his people from their sins. Let's turn to Ezekiel chapter 36, talking about the new covenant, talking about the grace of God, talking about being under grace and those under the grace of God, sin no longer has dominion over them. Ezekiel chapter 36, Very familiar passage. Brings great delight over us. It should bring comfort to those who are in battle with sin, who are beleaguered by sin, who are struggling against sin. It should bring great comfort to the child of God who is weary in the fight because God is with you and helping you. in this struggle and warfare. This is terms of the new covenant. Ezekiel 36 verse 25. This includes regeneration and sanctification. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give unto you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh. A heart that's responsive to God. A heart that desires God. A heart that's impressionable by God. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. This is the new covenant. This is grace. God says, I will and they shall. Sin shall not have dominion over the child of God, God says. And He will work that within us. He will work those desires within us. He will perform that which He has promised. He will bring to pass and bring to fruition that which He has started. I will, God says, and they shall. sin shall no longer have dominion over the child of God. You know, the battle against sin is no small thing for a Christian. Peter says, they that have suffered in the flesh have ceased from sin. You see, the bodies that you and I have are not redeemed yet. The bodies that you and I have still desire the flesh. Still desire that which is displeasing and grieving to God. We still have this old nature. This corrupt nature. And the flesh wars against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. It's a warfare. It's a painful warfare. Peter's not joking when he says, they that have suffered in the flesh have ceased from sin. There's a suffering to put to death the deeds of the flesh, to put off the old man, to mortify the flesh. That's a struggle. That's a warfare. And it's an ongoing battle. It's a long battle. As it said of the house of Saul and the house of David, it says there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David waxed stronger and stronger. And the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. With the child of God, it is a long war. A war that we have engaged in. As Paul Washer said, we're born again behind enemy lines. We're fighting against our old nature. We're struggling against the propensity and sinful disposition of our own nature. And this warfare can be discouraging. We can get weary in this fight. We can get tired. of being good. We can get tired of denying the flesh. And so, is there a promise in the Word of God? Is there any consolation in the Word of God? That all this struggle, all this striving through the strength that He gives, is going to have a fruitful outcome. And there is. Our text says sin shall not have dominion over you. We are guaranteed to be more than conquerors through him that loved us. We are guaranteed as God's children this morning to always triumph through Christ. We have the promise set before us as the people of God that sin shall not have dominion over us. I don't know about your circle of acquaintances, but I hear pretty regularly of this professor, or that professor, or this person who claimed to be a Christian, or this person who came from a good Christian home, dropping off, going back to the mire, going back to the wallow, turning away. And you get to wondering, does the grace of God really keep men? Will I persevere? Will I fall off ten years from now? We come back to the promise of God and cling to that promise by faith and draw strength for another day. Strength to be renewed in our struggle that sin will not have dominion in my life. Sin will not have dominion over me. You know, imagine a battle, maybe the Battle of Waterloo, where the English were fighting the French. The English were fighting Napoleon Bonaparte. It's a bitter battle. A lot of bloodshed is going to happen. A lot of weariness. A lot of temptation to break and run. But if those English soldiers had known at the beginning of the battle, seven hours from now, ten hours from now, however many hours from now, the battle will be secured by us and we will have their defeat accomplished. Don't you think that would keep the heads of the English soldiers up? Don't you think that would give them a spring in their step and determination? to keep on pressing on, and not to turn back, not to get weary, would that not animate and give them zeal for the battle, because they had the promise of victory? And so it is for every child of God here this morning, you and I have on the pages of the Word of God that lives and abides forever, and a God that cannot die and will not lie, He says, sin shall not have dominion over you. You're fighting today. You may be under it today. You may be discouraged. You may have given in to sin today. But long term, sin is going to be a defeated foe. Sin is a defeated foe. I love the illustration given to us out of Joshua chapter 10. Joshua is leading the people of Israel into the conquest of Canaan. Fighting battle after battle, five of the kings of the enemy go hide in the cave of Makeda. Joshua says, put a stone against the mouth of the cave. Put guards there so that men don't get out. When they get time, they come back to the cave of Makeda. They bring the enemy kings out. And Joshua says to his generals, he says to his officers, put your feet on the necks of your enemies. Because God says that just like these kings, God's going to defeat all the kings of this land. None of these kings shall stand before you. So it is with the child of God here this morning. Our heavenly Joshua. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us this morning that sin shall not have dominion over you. The grace of God that brings salvation will bring salvation in every area of life and no sin shall conquer you. No sin shall defeat you. No sin shall keep you down. Sin shall not have dominion over you. Oh, we're going to fall, we're going to falter, we're going to stumble. But the grace of God will pursue us and keep us going. Micah chapter 7, it says, Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy. He's talking about his sin, it seems like, from the context. Micah says, When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Micah says, don't rejoice. Enemy, you're defeated. You're not going to keep me under your dominion. Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. Proverbs 24, 16 says that a just man falls seven times, but he rises up again. And so it is with the child of God with a new nature. We fall we stumble we fail things that we want to do we don't do things we do that we don't want to do the struggle. But when we fall we rise up and press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus because we're not what we used to be. I heard a quote. associated with Martin Luther. I don't know if it's accurate or not, but he said something to the effect that I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But by the grace of God, I'm not what I used to be. And so every child of God can say when we are down, grace of God has transform my life. And so when I've fallen into sin, sin is not what I want. It's a distraction from what I want. It's a deviation from what I want. What I really hunger and thirst for is God and his righteousness. That's the heartbeat of my soul. I like that song, Glorious Freedom. I asked Brother Drew, he didn't think that we had it in our book, but it says, once I was bound by sin's galling fetters. Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain. Then I received a glorious freedom when Jesus broke my fetters in twain. As God's people this morning, let us rejoice. that we who were once dead in trespasses and sins have died to sin and been made alive to righteousness. So that sin shall not have dominion over us because we are not under the curse of the law of God. We're not under the law of God that could command but not produce. We're under the grace of God that gives what it asks of us, that produces in us that which it expects of us. We're under the grace of God. How glorious it'll be when we stand in heaven and look back over our past life, the horrible pit from which we were digged, Those awful sins that warred against our souls and threatened to be our perdition. And we look back over the sins that we narrowly escaped. As Job says, I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Those sins that threatened to be our demise. And we look back on all the sins that we overcame. through the grace of God. Just like the Israelites on the opposite shore of the Red Sea, and they see their Egyptian captors and tormentors and persecutors washed up on the seashore, we look back over all those sins that God gave us the grace to conquer. We overcame by the blood of the Lamb, by the power of the Spirit of God. to the praise of the glory of his grace. What a song we'll sing when we're no longer tempted by sin. What victory shouts we shall acclaim, that we shall raise in eternal glory hereafter, when the body of this flesh has been transformed like unto his glorious body, and sin has been completely eradicated, sin has been completely extinguished, when we shall see him as he is, and shall be made like him, and look back and say, my God, What a wonderful thing. Amazing grace. How well we shall sing that song in the by and by when we see just how high and how deep and how wide God's grace has been toward us to save us a people from the dominion and power and authority to God. Now thanks be unto God. who always causes us to triumph through Christ and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. May God help us to live in the blessing of being a free people. Free from sin. You don't have to blow up at your wife. You don't have to hold on to your bitterness. You don't have to love this world because Christ has made us free. And if the Son shall make you free, Jesus said, you shall be free indeed. That was what he accomplished in his earthly ministry. It says he came to preach deliverance to the captives. The setting of liberty to those that are bound. As God's free people, let us rejoice and live as a free people and not allow any sin to get a foothold in our lives. God bless you and thank you.