We, at BTPC, are committed to love God and to glorify our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit by building one another up in God’s word, serving one another in love and, being united in praying and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ; working together for the salvation of souls and the edification of Christians through the teaching of God’s word and the preaching of the gospel.

Saved Together In Christ

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." - Luke 19:9-10

Opening Prayer (Johnson Goh)

Song: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

Welcoming Time

Responsive Reading (1st svc): Romans 1:1-6 / Song (2nd svc): O Great God

Confession & Corporate Prayer

Song: All To Jesus I Surrender

Scripture Reading: Romans 6:15-7:6 (1st svc: Celestial / 2nd svc: Angie Ng)

Sermon: We are slaves of God and belonging to Christ so keep being holy (Pastor Andrew Ong)

Discussion/Reflection Time

Song: Living for Jesus A Life That Is True

Financial Giving & Offering

Announcements

Closing Prayer & Benediction

Romans 6:15-7:6 (NIV - New International Version)

6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

7:1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[b] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Footnotes

a. Romans 6:23 Or through

b. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

Romans 6:15-7:6

We are slaves of God and belonging to Christ so keep being holy

Introduction: Why not sin?

Context: What happens without the law?

Keep being holy because:

Already slaves to God by obeying from the heart and allegiance to the gospel message 

so keep offering yourself to God

as you see the benefits of good fruit with our new master

and as we also belong to Jesus Christ and possess the Holy Spirit 

Conclusion

1. You are a slave to God. How will remembering this help you to keep being holy and not sin?
2. You now belong to Christ and have the Holy Spirit. How will remembering this help you to keep being holy and not sin?

• Please join us for some light refreshments at the canteen (basement level).

Morning tea is from 11 am to 11.30 am.

• Do avoid the archery area at the field for safety.