 You're welcome to class everyone. Welcome to the class on Romans. We are now studying Romans chapter 6. We began studying Romans chapter 6 on Monday, a very powerful chapter, a chapter that is so fully, powerfully loaded with such powerful truths of our spiritual identification with Christ. And so even as we continue studying this chapter, receiving more revelations from what the Holy Spirit revealed to the Apostle Paul, we'll just pause for a word of prayer. Can John Paul lead us in prayer, please? Let's pray. Lord, we want to thank you for this time. We pray and ask for your presence to be with us today. God, as we continue to learn from your word, we ask that you would lead us, you would guide us and let your presence be with us for God. And we ask that, oh Lord Jesus, your word would come in power and you would teach us and help us to understand your word, comprehend your word, God. We thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So in chapter 6, Paul is basically addressing the main issue of the problem of sin. And he does this by posing two main questions. The first question is in verse 1. Shall we continue to sin that grace may abound? And the second main question is in verse 15 where he says, shall we sin because we're not under the law but under grace. Now to answer these two main questions, he has some follow-up questions. So the first question in verse 1 is follow-up questions in verse 2 and verse 3. And for verse 15, it's the main question that he asked as follow-up questions in verse 16 and verse 21, which we will study. So in verse 1, he says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? So he's asking a rhetorical question here. That means the answer is quite evident. It's quite obvious. The answer is an absolute no. He says, why shall we not be able to continue in sin? He's saying because we are dead to sin and that people do not sin and that people just cannot sin because they are dead. The second thing he says that we are baptized into Christ's death. And here he's not talking about what a vaccine but he's talking about a spiritual baptism where he's saying that we have been baptized into the death of Jesus Christ. So by saying that, he's saying that when we come into Christ, when we are born again, we are now identified with Christ's death, which means we are baptized into His death. And this is a powerful expression or a powerful proclamation of the spiritual truth of our identification with Christ's death. His burial, His resurrection, His ascension and the seeding of Christ Jesus at the right hand of God. So all this is something that happened 2000 years back. But Paul says, even today we can experience the effects of what happened 2000 years back. Just like what Adam and Eve did 6000 years back is still under the effects of the sin that Adam and Eve came under. And under sin, under judgment, under condemnation, being slaves to sin, being slaves to Satan and being slaves to death. Even as we have inherited that 6000 years back because of the disobedience of one man, how much more the obedience of one man and what he did on the cross 2000 years, we receive the benefits of that. What he did on the cross becomes effective in your life and in my life today. So he's basically talking about this powerful expression or this powerful proclamation, the spiritual truth of our identification with Christ's death, His burial, His resurrection, ascension and seeding at the right hand of God the Father. Of course, in this chapter in chapter 6, Paul mentions how we identify with Christ's death, His burial, His ascension. But we also see he mentions about the spiritual truth of our identification of how we have been raised up together with Christ. In Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6, that we are seated with Him, together with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So in those chapters, Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 and 2 talks about how we are made alive even though we are dead in our trespasses in our sins. And in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6, he talks about how we are raised up together, made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So in that verse, we see how we are also united with Him in His ascension and Him being seated at the right hand of God the Father. So we studied in detail verses 1 to verse 5. Now we move on to chapter, sorry, verses 6 and verse 7. Can something please read verses 6 and verse 7 please. Romans chapter 6 verses 6 and 7, can somebody read that? Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with that, we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Amen. Thank you so much. So here we see that Paul is saying, you know, beginning this sentence by saying that, you know, knowing this. So many believers don't know the truth. And this is something that we need to know. Without knowing or having revelation or spiritual understanding of the truth, we will not be able to walk in it. And he talks about the old man versus the new man, which I already explained last week. But we will move on to verse 6. Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with that, we should no longer be slaves of sin. Now the body of sin basically represents the sum totality of sin. The sum totality of sin. Now in the New Testament, the word body is spoken in different ways. It can in some places refer to the physical body. In some places it can refer to the body of Christ that represents all the believers that are part of the church of the body of Christ. Or like in this instance here in Romans chapter 6 verse 6, it talks of the sum totality of something or the full measure of something. So that is the way it is used here. So the body of sin might be done away with means the sum totality of sin was done away with. Or the full measure of sin was done away with was gotten rid of. So Paul is saying that, hey, it is gotten rid of, it is done away with, hence we are no longer slaves of sin. So verse 6 is so powerful this truth. But as believers, we are no longer slaves of sin because why the old man was crucified and the totality of sin was taken out of our life. When you and I died with Christ on the cross, this is what happened. The old man was crucified and the totality of sin was taken out of our lives. So as believers, we are no longer a slave of sin because the sum totality of sin was done away with. Amen to that. And celebrate that. And so he says in verse 7, for he who has died has been freed from sin. He who has died has been freed from sin. So what Paul is saying, hey, is you've basically been dead to sin. And because you're dead to sin, you're free from sin. Now if you think of this in the natural way, say for example, you know, a drunkard who dies, a man who's been drinking all his life and he's dead. Now, once he's dead, he is free from the sin of alcohol, free from the addiction of alcohol and from drinking. So around his coffin, if you keep the most expensive alcohol, full bottles around his body, he's around his coffin, he's not going to get up and drink even a little bit. He can't because he is, he's dead. Okay, he's dead to sin. And that is what Paul is basically saying in verses 6 and 7, that the old man is dead. And the sum totality of that sin that is controlling us, that is, has made us slaves that has had such a great addiction or a controller. And we have been released from that. We are free from sin and saying, this is what has happened or this is what took place on the cross. When Christ died on the cross, you know, we died with him. Our old man was crucified and the power of sin over our life was broken, was nullified, was done away with totally forever. And so today we can live a life free from sin. Okay, so this is what happened 2000 years back. But today Paul is saying, since you and I identify with this last Adam, we identify with the second man, you know, we identify with him spiritually to identify with what happened with him 2000 years back. Okay, so the truth that we are dead to sin in Christ, we are crucified in Christ, and the power of sin over our life is broken, is a truth. It's reality, it is real. And it comes to us spiritually. So this is a spiritual truth that you and I must walk in that spiritual truth today. So you and I can say that, hey, my old man is crucified in Christ, the body of sin was destroyed, the power of sin was destroyed, and that I'm no longer a slave of sin and dead to sin and free from sin. And we can say this because spiritually this is ours in Christ Jesus. Now the devil may want us to think that we are still subject to these things. The devil does not want us to know this truth, to live this truth, to walk in these truths. But these are things we are seeing here and these are powerful truths that the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Apostle Paul. And if we know this truth, we can resist what the devil is telling us or putting on us as believers that, hey, it's okay for us to sin. Because why is it okay for us to sin? Because the grace of God is freely available. The grace of God is lavished upon us. God has lavished his love upon us. So, hey, come on, he's not going to cast you in hell or he is not going to curse you. Remember, there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Hey, you're going to learn that in Romans chapter 8. So these are some of the lies of the enemy, but we need to know this truth. Okay, that is what he says in verse 6, knowing this truth, not just knowing it, but believing it, accepting this truth and living in this truth, walking in this truth and keeping in step with this truth. And then he goes on to talk about how we were dead and now we are alive once for all in verses 8 to 10. So we would read verses 8 to 10 and then we would see what we can learn from verses 8 to 10. Before that, anyone has any questions, any doubts? Verses 1 to 7? No. Okay, we will move on to verses 8 to 10. So can somebody please read verses 8 to 10 please. Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Knowing that Christ having been raised from the dead dies no more. Death no longer has a dominion over Him, for the dead that He died, He died to sin once for all. But the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise, you also recall yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus alone. Amen. Thank you, Subashis. So in verse 8 Paul is saying that Christ died and rose again. So the story does not just end with Christ's crucifixion and Him dying on the cross. So if we believe that we are united together or we are made one with Christ with Him in His death, you know, as He's already revealed to us or spoken to us or written to us in verses 4 and 5, He's saying, so we also need to believe that we have been united together with Him in His burial. And so we also believe that we have also been united together with Him in His resurrection. So He's saying, hey, we're not just identifying or we don't just virtually identify with Christ's death on the cross, but we also, you know, are united with Him. We identify with Him in His burial and His resurrection. So, and He says that now, since we have been dead with Christ, we have been buried with Him. We've also been resurrected. We identify with Him spiritually in this. We are united together with Him and spiritually with Him in this. So Paul says, the rest of this is also true. Not only did we die with Him, but the rest is also true that we also live with Him. So when Christ was raised up from the dead, you know, death had no more control over Him. In the same way, these things of the past, you know, that had a control over our lives, sin, death, Satan, all of that has no longer any control over our lives. So He's saying that when Christ was raised up from the dead, death had no more control over Him. In the same way, these past things, you know, we have put behind have no more control over us. So what does Paul really mean? In verse 4, he says, we know that this is Christ was raised back to life by the glory of the Father. We also walk in newness of life. So says that, hey, once we are united with Christ, we identify with Christ spiritually, not only His death, but also in His burial and His resurrection. It means that when we are resurrected with Christ or we are united with Christ in His resurrection, or we identify with Him spiritually in His resurrection, we are raised to walk in newness of life. So when he says, when Christ was buried, we also was buried. What does he mean? It means that, you know, that there is an end to the old life. There is a full stop to the old life, which means the old has no more claims on that person because the person is dead. Okay. There's no more claims on that person. Now, let me give you an example from a present world. For example, if a man has a huge debt, okay, and he dies. Okay. And the person who he has borrowed from or the company that he has borrowed from has put a, you know, file them in a lawsuit. Okay. Put a case against him. Now, this person has a huge debt and he is, he dies and he's buried. Now, the world has no more claims on his, on him. Right. No one can come to come and tell him, hey, wake up, repay me, you know, of my money, give my money and then you'll get sleep forever. Amen. And the court case also that is against him. No one can come and say, hey, wake up. It's time for your phone hearing. You know, today's your court hearing the court case because his body signifies signifies that he has completely transitioned from the old to the next, you know, whatever. Okay. There's a release from the old. He's completely free, set free, broken off, cut off, severed from the old life. And the old life has no more claims on that man. Okay. In the same way Paul is saying that when Christ was buried, we were buried with him. That means the old life has no more claims over us. Okay. Addiction has no more claim over us. Addiction has no more claim over us. That has no more claim over us and Satan and being slaves to Satan has no more claims over our lives. Amen. Okay. So the old life has no more claims over us. And then he says we were raised from the dead just like Christ so we can walk in newness of life. So resurrection means what? You know, it means newness of life. So when Christ was crucified, we were also crucified. So how do we identify with it? It means the end of the old man, the breaking of the power of sin over our lives. The power of sin over our lives is totally broken. Now what does, how do we identify with Christ's burial? Okay. It means the end of the old life. The old life has no more claims over us. Okay. Or we have no more claims over the old life. So sin has no more claim over us. Law has no more claim over us. We are no longer under any condemnation. Okay. And resurrection means that we are given a brand new life. We are now living the eternal life. Living the eternal life here and now. Okay. We'll come to talking about eternal life in just a little bit. How do we identify with Christ's ascension? He says, hey, we are no longer under the influence of the systems of the evil and rebellion that is there in this world. Like I explained last class on Monday. And how do we identify spiritually with being seated with Christ? And the right hand of God is that, you know, we operate out of a place of authority and dominion on this earth. Okay. So when he says that this is how we identify spiritually, this is what it really means. So when he says that, you know, when we are resurrected with Christ says we are living the eternal life here and now. So eternal life is not something that will start the moment we die and we enter into heaven. It's not something that is an eschatological quote, which means it's not just something that is way into the future. It's way into the future, but it's also something that is a realized eschatology. That means, yes, it's something that is going to have happened fully. There's a complete sense of it, the full sense of it that we will see that we will experience in totality when we get to heaven. Here now in the present, we also receive a taste of that eternal life. Okay. Because all this is applied to us in the instant, the right now moment when we accepted Jesus Christ as a Lord and Savior. We already start living. We always start working in the eternal life here and now and also the life of God, the nature of God begins to be operated in and through our lives here now in the present. Yes, we know that some part of it is not fully complete or some part of it started true in our bodies that our bodies are mortal and we are going to the grave. But in our spirit, we have the eternal life. It's already there and we know it will get better because we will receive glorified bodies. We will no longer have this mortal bodies, but mortality will be changing in mortality. You know, we will receive glorified bodies and we will be with God in heaven. But eternal life is already something that we realize now. It's already started now inside us. We are walking in the newness of life. We have the nature of God in our spirit man because we spiritually identify with Christ's resurrection. Okay, so this is what he means in verse eight, verse nine. Knowing that Christ having been raised from the dead dies no more. That no longer has dominion over him. Okay, in verse 10, for the death that he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life that he lives, he lives through God. So, verses nine and 10, what did Christ die for? You know, what Christ died for, he died for once for all. The work is complete. It's a full sufficient, perfect sacrifice. The work is complete. That no longer has dominion over him and it will always remain under him. Okay, so this is what he talks about how we identify our spiritual truth of our identification or, you know, a spiritual truth of our identification with Christ that his burial and his resurrection. And then he moves on to five actions that we need to take to live our life free from sin in verses 11 onwards. So before we move on to verse 11, anyone has any questions, any doubts, anything you'd like to share? Okay, there are no questions and we will move on to see the five actions to live free from sin. Can somebody please read verses 11 to 14 please. Likewise, you also recognize yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore, do not let sin rain in your mortal body that you should obey in its loss. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sins a lot have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Amen. Thank you, Subhashish. So was then, you know, Paul is pointing to Jesus. He says, you know, look to Jesus. He died, you know, to sin once for all. And he lives, you know, and the life that he lives, he's alive and he lives to God. And then he begins verse 11, he says likewise. So there is a connection of what he's saying in verse 10. And what he's going to tell us now, he says likewise means in the same manner in the same way, just as Jesus died once for all to sin and he is alive once for all to God, which means he's fully consecrated and dedicated to the Father. He says, hence in the same way, we also live in the same way. We also need to consider ourselves once for all dead to sin, completely dead to sin. And now we are completely alive to God, which means we're completely consecrated. We are completely dedicated to the Father. And then he presents five actions that we must take to live free from sin. Or he says the truth of identification is lived out like this. So he's presented the truth of our identification in chapter five, in chapter six, how we identify with Adam, how we identify with the last Adam, how we identify with the natural man, the first man, how we identify with the spiritual man, the second man. Now he goes on to say about how we must... And then he also talks about us, the spiritual truth of our identification when he talks about how we identify with him spiritually through his death, his burial, his resurrection, his ascension, and his hymn singing to the right hand of the Father. He says, based on the truth of our identification, how do we live our lives? So verse 11, he says, reckon yourself. And verse 12, he says, don't let sin rain. Verse 13, he says, do not present your members as instruments of righteousness. Verse 13, he says, present yourselves to God. And verse 13, he also says at this point, present your members as instruments of righteousness. So what does he mean when he says in verse 11, reckon yourself. Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead in need to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus God Lord. So reckon yourself means consider yourselves. In the Greek, it's an accounting word. It's a word that is used in the context of accounts, you know, accounting. So I'll give you an example. Sometimes I'd say a man has 10 notes. And each of those 10 notes are worth 10 rupees. Okay. However, he counts these 10 notes in any which ways he counts these 10 notes, it will amount to the same thing. It will amount to rupees 100. Okay, because 10 notes worth 10 rupees. So it will amount to the same thing rupees 100. It cannot be disputed. It cannot be questioned in any way. So he's saying the same way you reckon yourself. That means reckon yourself means count it as a fact. Consider yourself as someone who's dead to sin. Consider yourself as counted as a fact that you are alive to God. Likewise, he died to sin once for all. But the life that he lives, he lives to God. So likewise, a believer must say, hey, I'm dead to sin once for all. And I'm alive to God once for all. Okay. So it means that once and for all, I embrace it. I accept it. I vacuum it. I consider it. I take it as a fact that I'm dead to sin. I'm alive to God, which means I have nothing to do with sin. I have everything to do with God. So how do I do this? First, I reckon to sin. I'm done with sin because I'm dead to sin and alive to God. So as believers, we need to come to this place where we have understood our identification with Christ that I am dead to sin or I'm done away with sin. I reckon myself dead to sin. But the problem is that many of us believers, we have never considered this truth or consider this fact that we are ourselves dead to sin. But we need to reckon ourselves that we are dead to sin and alive to God. The second thing he says is do not let sin rain. What's 12? Do not let sin rain in your mortal bodies that you should obey it in its lust. So what I'm saying, just because you have done away with sin, because you're dead to sin and alive to God, therefore do not let sin rain in your mortal bodies. That means refuse to give sin any place in your body. Why? Because you're dead to sin and alive to God. So sin has absolutely no place in your life. And hence the believer becomes intolerant to sin. And then he says present your members as instruments of righteousness. The third action point that we need to take is we need to present our members as instruments of right. Do not present your members, sorry, as instruments of unrighteousness. So he's saying here by the act of our will or willingly or making our choice that your body is not going to be a weapon of sin and unrighteousness. Instrument basically means weapon. So your body is not going to be a weapon of sin and unrighteousness. The fourth action point in verse 13, he says present yourselves to God. Present your members as instruments of righteousness. But present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. So again he's saying this is the act of your will. This is something you need to make a choice that your body is not going to be a weapon of sin and unrighteousness. But we can say God, you know, I present myself 100% to you and my body as a weapon of righteousness, which means that God, my body is going to advance righteousness. My body is going to yield to righteousness, walk in righteousness, live in righteousness. And the fifth action point here is present your members as instruments of righteousness. He says yield every member of your body to God so that every member serves as an instrument, which means as a weapon of righteousness. And then in verse 14 he says for sin shall no longer have dominion over you for you're not under the law but under risk. Before we move on to verse 14, anyone has any questions about these five action points? No? Okay, verse 14 Paul says for sin shall not have dominion over you. So Paul says sin has no right, no dominion over a believer. Then he says you are not under the law but under grace. So he's basically drawing a contrast being under the law and being under grace. Now he's already told us that the law, what was the law given? The law was given because it told us what was the right thing to do. The law was given so that we can know that hey, we have missed the mark, we have sinned, we have transgressed. And also the law told us what is the right thing to do and what is not the right thing to do. But the law did not empower us to do the right thing. It only told us what is right and wrong but the law did not empower us to do the right thing. But grace tells us what is the right thing to do but also grace empowers us to do the right thing. So grace is the one that empowers us to do the right thing. And also we need to know that the standard under grace is much greater, is much higher than the standard under the law. We know that in the Old Testament, God says do not murder. But in the New Testament, what does Jesus say? If anyone hates your brother, you've already committed murder. So if you hate someone, you are a murderer. So the standards of grace is much more higher. The law says in the Old Testament do not commit adultery. But grace says that even if you look lustfully at a woman, you've already committed adultery in your heart. Hence we see that the standards under grace is much greater or higher than the standards of the law. And now Paul expands about law and grace further in chapter 7. But we will move on to verse 15 where Paul asked the second main question, shall we sin? Because we are not under the law but under grace verse 15. So we look at that and then he also presents two questions to counter that or to answer that in verses 16 and 17. So can somebody please read verses 15 to verse 18 please. What then shall we sin? What then shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not. Do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey? You are that one's slaves whom you obey? Whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God, we thank that though you are slaves to slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that forms of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. Amen. Thank you, Subashish. So here in verse 15 he has the second main question, shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? And then to explain that he has two more questions. He says verse 16, do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey? You are that one's slave whom you obey? Whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? What fruits did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? That is in verse 21, the second counter question. But verse 15, again he asked this question which is a rhetorical question which he himself asked and he himself answers. Or the rhetorical question basically means the answer is very implicit. It's just obvious. It's just right there. He says what then shall we sin because we are under the law, not under the law but under grace? And he says certainly not. So he gives the answer. Why? Because he says, you know, I already told you to present yourselves to God. So he's saying when you're presenting yourselves or you're submitting yourselves, you are already becoming a slave of who you're submitting or you are presenting yourselves to. So he says when you are under the law, you are a slave of sin. But under the grace, you are now the slave of righteousness. Okay, to say when you were under the law, you were a slave of sin. But when you are under grace, now you are a slave of righteousness. When you were under the law, you were a slave of sin because law made it very evident that we could not keep the law. You know, made it very evident that we broke the law at various points. We just had no power, no strength in us to overcome sin to, you know, not sin, but we ended up always yielding to sin and we ended up being slaves of sin. But under grace, we are slaves of God and we are slaves of righteousness. And he says, why are we slaves? Because he says we have willingly presented ourselves to God. Okay, he was 16. He says, do we not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey? You are that one slave whom you obey, whether a sin leading to death or obedience leading to righteousness. Now the Greek word for slave here is bulos, meaning born servant. And this is the same word that Paul refers to himself in Romans chapter one was one where he says, you know, that he's a born servant of Christ. That means a born servant who willingly voluntarily chose to submit himself to become a slave or completely surrendered himself to the master for life to do what the master wants him to do. Okay. And so he says that under the law, you are slave to sin, slave to uncleannliness and lawlessness, but under grace, you're a slave of God and slave to righteousness. Okay. So in both these cases, you are a slave, but only the difference is the master is different. Okay. And it was 13. He said, present yourselves to God means having presented ourselves to God, we now become slaves of God, we obey God and we are slaves of righteousness. Okay. We are born servants of righteousness. It means that we have basically no option but to live a righteous life because we have made a willing choice to present ourselves to God. And while he says this, he says, you know, give thanks to God. Okay. And was 17 and was 18 possessed, but God, we thank that though you were slaves of sin, where to obey from the heart that form of doctrine to which we are deliver and having been set free from sin, you became a slave of righteousness. So here he's making a contrast against slave of sin, slave of righteousness. So he's saying, Hey, it was slaves of sin. Set free from sin. Now you become slaves of righteousness. So how are you no longer slaves of sin? And now how are you slave of righteousness? What made that difference? He said, what made the difference is because you obeyed from the heart. You obeyed from the heart, the form of doctrine or teaching that was delivered to you. So they were given teaching. And what is that teaching? The same teaching that we are studying now that we are going through, you know, that we are looking at, we are studying, examining ourselves. This teaching took them from being slaves of sin to being set free from sin and becoming slaves of righteousness. And how did it happen? Because they obeyed from their heart. They wholeheartedly obeyed and they wholeheartedly gave themselves to this teaching. Now this word form, form of doctrine, which you were delivered to. The word form here basically means mold or a cast. Okay. So factories where they want to make something, they basically make a mold and pour the liquid, whether it is plastic or copper or gold or silver, they pour it into the mold. So here they're saying this teaching or doctrine that has brought to you or that has been given to you is like a mold. So he's saying, hey, this teaching, this doctrine, which I'm presenting to you, which I'm giving to you now, you know, it is like a mold. And, you know, when you have obedient heart, your obedient heart is like a liquid that has been poured into that mold. Okay. So you're obeying or giving yourself and you've been poured out into this mold, you've been poured out into this teaching and this doctrine. And when it solidifies, it comes out as something different. So he's telling the Jews, hey, you're going to keep on teaching the law, sticking on to the law, holding the law. Then you are giving yourself, you're giving your heart to that mold or to that form or the doctrine of teaching. And what is the end result? What is going to come out? You're going to be slaves of sin, slaves of the law, slaves of uncleanniness and lawlessness. But he's saying, if you obey and listen to this teaching and you give your heart to this teaching, this doctrine that I'm presenting you with here, you give it, you give your heart, hold heartedly to it. It's like your heart being poured out into this mold, this teaching and doctrine. And what is going to come out is different. You're going to be slaves of God. You know, you're going to live a life that is pleasing, holy, acceptable to God and also walking in righteousness and holiness all the days of your life. Okay. So he's saying they are slaves of sin, but they have been set free from sin. Why have they been set free from sin? Because they wholeheartedly accepted the teaching. The teaching was the mold that was cast into being set free from being slaves of sin and becoming slaves of righteousness. And he's saying this is why this truth needs to be communicated to the believers, to the churches, to the believers because this teaching is the mold. The teaching, the doctrine is the mold and when people wholeheartedly pour their hearts out, you know, the result is different. So when the church receives this truth wholeheartedly, what will happen? The word of God will produce the same results for them as it happened to the people back then in Paul's time. Okay. And then Paul goes on to sum up what he is saying in verses 19 to 23. We look at it on Monday. We'll stop here. Anyone has any questions? So even as we leave, you know, remember that you are dead to sin. You know, count it as a fact that you're dead to sin, alive to God. Don't let sin drain in your mortal bodies. Present your members as instruments of righteousness and not unrighteousness and present yourselves to God. Amen. Okay. Thank you for joining this class. Have a blessed weekend or refreshing and a restful weekend and see you all on Monday. Thank you, everyone.