I. Man's Need
(Needs God)

(USING: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION)

Romans 6:16,17
16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom 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 wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

John 8:34
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity - for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.