Our online only worship service for May 17, 2020. Join us for music led by Tyler Ellison and teaching by Lead Pastor Todd Malone. Fellowship Online is a community of people all over the 🌏 experiencing God and connecting with one another like never before in history. You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you ❤️—just as you are. Message Notes 💡 Romans 7:1-6 Introduction Paul shows in Romans 6 that we are no longer under sin’s control because of WHO we are (6:1-14) and WHOSE we are (6:15-23). But what happens to us as we continue to sin? Does God just turn around and condemn us again? Paul reassures us in Romans 7:1-6 that we are free from what used to condemn us. Romans Review Key Verses: Romans 1:16-17 The Structure of Romans What Romans has Said about You 1. Death Frees from the Law [7:1-3] 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? 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. 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. 2. Freed for Fruitfulness [7:4-6] 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. For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 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. The Point: You are free from the condemning power of performance. Implication: Stop condemning yourself and others. Speak Truth: Acknowledge that you are living under the Law and not as someone united with Christ. Hear Truth: Hear truth from God's Word and from someone who knows you well. Internalize Truth: Ask the Holy Spirit to drive those truths deep inside you. Responses I will rewrite Romans 7:1-6 in my own words. I will ask the Holy Spirit to release me from the fear of condemnation. I will identify how I am putting others under condemnation. Conversation Starters Why is it so easy to slip back into thinking God accepts or rejects us based on our performance? How have you experienced “life under the Law” in churches? Broader culture? The Spirit leads us into obedience. The behavior of someone living under the Law and someone living in the new way of the Spirit might look identical from the outside. How are they different? Next Week's Passage: Romans 7:7-25

Pastor Slade Rinehart preaching the next sermon in our series going through Romans! Message Notes 💡 Romans 6:15-23 Introduction In today’s passage, the Scripture addresses those who would use God’s grace as a license to sin. The apostle Paul answers the question, “Is it OK to sin, because we aren’t under the law but under grace?” 1. The Antinomian ________ [6:15] 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 2. First answer: Your status has ________. [6:16-19] 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 3. Second answer: Consider the ________. [6:20-23] 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The Point: You are slaves of God - don't live like slaves of sin! Responses I will rewrite Romans 6:15-23 in my own words. I will praise God for delivering me from slavery to sin. I will think of one way I could present myself as a slave of righteousness this week and do it. Conversation Starters Can you think of any examples of antinomian teaching that you've encountered? What would be included in the "standard of teaching" mentioned in v. 17? See 1 Corinthians 15, Matthew 28:20, and 2 Timothy 1:13. Think about some ways that you regularly present yourself as a slave of righteousness. Next Week's Passage: Romans 7:1-6

Fellowship Bible Church in Longview, Texas Service for 4/26/2020 Romans 5:12-21 Live by Faith | Overturning Adam Sermon by Todd Malone

Join us as we continue to walk through the Book of Romans Service 4/19/2020

Worship for Palm Sunday, 2020

This Sunday we continue our study through the Book of Romans. Josh Anderson, an Elder from our church leads us through a Communion Devotional and we sing songs of praise together.

Todd Malone teaching Trapped

Todd Malone teaching Grading on a Curve? (There were technical difficulties with the recording.)

Todd Malone teaching Cultural Religion

Todd Malone teaching A Disastrous Exchange

Todd Malone teaching Introduction to Romans