It is tough for the world to grasp this, but we are all slaves to someone. Note the following verse from our section of reading today.
Romans 6:16 - "Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?"
Paul tells us we are either slaves to sin or we are slaves to righteousness. The world is clamoring to be free. They want to be free to do what they want, when they want. The problem with their desire is that freedom is not available. Freedom was lost at the fall of man in Genesis 3. Adam had freedom and squadered it for all mankind (Romans 3-5). Now, we can argue with that concept all we want but the truth of the matter is man proves it every day that he is a slave to sin; he can't stop it. It is only through Christ that our slavery to sin is broken - to enslave us to Christ. We are like a ship whose Captain is Sin and we are tasks master under his rule. We do what he says when he says it. We row when Sin says row. We do what Sin says to do. But, along come Christ and He conquers Sin and takes control of the ship. Now, we row because we are willing saliors on the Christ's ship. He is not a tasks master but enables us to to live for Him. He takes command of our ship and we are His slaves. He is not a taskmaster but a Captain who gives us blessings and cares for us. We are going to be on A ship and we are going to be someone's slave. Slaves of sin or slaves of Christ.
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