Obedient From The Heart
So
you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore,
do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their
passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness,
but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to
life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin
will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What
then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death,
or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be
to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the
heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having
been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 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 greater and greater iniquity, so now
present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
When
you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what
advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The
end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and
enslaved to God, the advantage you get is
sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin
is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:11-23
Satan
has a secret in his past that he does not want people to learn about. His
secret is that he no longer has the power to separate us from God. Our enemy
doesn’t want anyone to know this truth because he desires to keep nonbelievers
controlled by sin and believers entangled in it.
It is
true that because of sin we were separated from God. But when Jesus died on the
cross, He bore all our sins and took on Himself our punishment of death. God
then raised Jesus from the dead, and now He reigns in heaven.
When
we trust in what Jesus has done for us, a relationship with God begins and sin
no longer has control over us. We are no longer separated from God. We are set
free from bondage.
God always stands between the Christian and the enemy.
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