Living Between the Extremes - Lesson 2 - re-Introduction

We are free to do what is right, no what we want.

Romans 6:12-18, ‘Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts 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 ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye 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.’

Galatians 3:24-25, ‘Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.’

Galatians 5:1, ‘Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.’

Galatians 5:13, ‘For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.’


Pure heart

Romans 14:22, ‘Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.’

Titus 1:15, ‘Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.’


If you are saved you will be used by God one way or another.

II Timothy 2:20-21, ‘But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.’
‘If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.’


8 questions to establish biblical boundaries (as taken from Discipleship I)

1 – Am I being brought under the power of something that should not be controlling my life?
2 – Am I edifying myself or others?
3 – Can I ask God to bless it with a clear conscience?
4 – If the Lord returned at this moment would I be ashamed?
5 – Would it cause a brother to stumble?
6 – Would it be cause for a lost person to reject the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior?
7 – Does my conscience condemn me for it?
8 – What is good or right about this that I would allow it in my life?

We can only achieve this balance through the power of the Holy Spirit as we walk with Him.

II Corinthians 3:6,17, ‘Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life... Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.’

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