(Part 2 of 2)
““Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of
your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to
God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of
righteousness. For sin shall not be your master because you are not under law,
but under grace.”
Romans
6:12-14
The Apostle
Paul contends that although Christ died to set you free from the power of sin,
if you do not “bury” the old life and give yourself fully to the “new” life He
secured for you…How can we say we’ve been born again? John, the Apostle, says
it even stronger in 1 John 3:6-9:
“No one who lives in him keeps on
sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear
children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is
righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the
devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the
Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God
will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on
sinning, because they have been born of God.”
The new life
that we have in Christ is characterized by righteousness, not sin. Sin has no
place in the life of a believer. Sin belongs to the old life! 2
Corinthians 5:17 states:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.!”
The old is
gone! That means that when we come to Christ, we are done with sin. We are no
longer slaves to it. We are not to offer ourselves to impurity and
ever-increasing wickedness. Rather we are to offer ourselves whole heartedly to
God for His purposes:
“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? 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. You have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to righteousness.”
Romans
6:16-18
It is time
that those who call themselves believers stop making excuses for their
sinfulness. Instead we need to bury, once and for all, those things that are
keeping us from wholeheartedly following the word and will of God. God set us
free so that we can live for Him, not so we could continue to gratify our old
sin nature.
Pastor Scott
Burr
http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com/
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