Rom 6:13 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.
Let's take a look at this closely-
We are told NOT to YIELD ourselves, our members.
In order NOT to yield something you have to be in possession of something that has the possibility of yielding.
We have the ability to CHOOSE. That ability becomes compromised when we entertain sin. It's like adding oil to a very squeaky clean wheel that without the oil has a lot of resistance, in fact it's almost impossible to move that wheel without oil. You add a little oil and it moves a tiny bit, you add more and more oil and soon that wheel is turning smoothly, easily. In most cases we want the wheels we oil to move, but in this case we want it never to move in the slightest. Choosing to give into a temptation is the oil dripping onto the wheel. Each time we yield to sin oil drips, drips, drips. Soon that sin wheel is turning faster and faster until it seems as if it will never stop and our lives depend upon that wheel turning, that sin being committed.
That ability to yield is ours.
God's word says … neither yield our members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.
Don't allow our bodies to be used to commit anything that is unrighteous that leads to sin. Instruments- things that are used. When you have an instrument it's something that can be used for a purpose. No instrument exist that does not serve a purpose. Why have an instrument that cannot be used? It would be pointless to have an instrument that you couldn't use. So if we allow our members (our hands, feet, anything that we consist of) to be used for unrighteousness we are accountable for that because we have CHOSEN to yield, we make the conscious choice to yield.
Rom 6:13 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.
… but YIELD yourselves to GOD.
As one who is alive from the dead. Imagine that… someone who is as good as dead is alive once more, someone is given a second chance at life, how would it feel to be that person? We all know the stories we've seen on tv, in movies, or read in books- some fiction, some not fiction- that show the incredible new zest for life people have after such an experience. And we are to YIELD ourselves to GOD with that sort of zest for life, because truthfully we have been given a new life in Christ when we accept Him and choose to give our lives to him, our old life being dead and gone and rising to new life in Christ.
Our entire lives- our bodies, our minds, need to be yielded to God. Instruments of righteousness to God, we must choose to use ourselves for God, to allow Him to use us for HIS righteousness. Not to become righteous on our own, we have no righteousness apart from God.
When we sin- we yield.
We all face temptation on a constant basis.
Facing temptation will never end.
We will never reach a day where we can say- today I will not be tempted, today I will not have to face a single temptation, not even a tiny one, today is temptation-to-sin free day.
Sinning is not being tempted, but letting that temptation become lust and that lust is sin.
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Sinning is a process. Sometimes that process happens so fast we barely blink and it's been done. Other times we contemplate sinning for a long time. The temptations vary and are endless.
By Christ alone we can be forgiven when we sin and repent, seeking forgiveness.
By Christ alone can we keep from sinning.
We yield ourselves to Christ.
We recognize that we are Christ's servants.
By the grace of God more on this tomorrow…
All through His love, His righteousness!
Let's take a look at this closely-
We are told NOT to YIELD ourselves, our members.
In order NOT to yield something you have to be in possession of something that has the possibility of yielding.
We have the ability to CHOOSE. That ability becomes compromised when we entertain sin. It's like adding oil to a very squeaky clean wheel that without the oil has a lot of resistance, in fact it's almost impossible to move that wheel without oil. You add a little oil and it moves a tiny bit, you add more and more oil and soon that wheel is turning smoothly, easily. In most cases we want the wheels we oil to move, but in this case we want it never to move in the slightest. Choosing to give into a temptation is the oil dripping onto the wheel. Each time we yield to sin oil drips, drips, drips. Soon that sin wheel is turning faster and faster until it seems as if it will never stop and our lives depend upon that wheel turning, that sin being committed.
That ability to yield is ours.
God's word says … neither yield our members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.
Don't allow our bodies to be used to commit anything that is unrighteous that leads to sin. Instruments- things that are used. When you have an instrument it's something that can be used for a purpose. No instrument exist that does not serve a purpose. Why have an instrument that cannot be used? It would be pointless to have an instrument that you couldn't use. So if we allow our members (our hands, feet, anything that we consist of) to be used for unrighteousness we are accountable for that because we have CHOSEN to yield, we make the conscious choice to yield.
Rom 6:13 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.
… but YIELD yourselves to GOD.
As one who is alive from the dead. Imagine that… someone who is as good as dead is alive once more, someone is given a second chance at life, how would it feel to be that person? We all know the stories we've seen on tv, in movies, or read in books- some fiction, some not fiction- that show the incredible new zest for life people have after such an experience. And we are to YIELD ourselves to GOD with that sort of zest for life, because truthfully we have been given a new life in Christ when we accept Him and choose to give our lives to him, our old life being dead and gone and rising to new life in Christ.
Our entire lives- our bodies, our minds, need to be yielded to God. Instruments of righteousness to God, we must choose to use ourselves for God, to allow Him to use us for HIS righteousness. Not to become righteous on our own, we have no righteousness apart from God.
When we sin- we yield.
We all face temptation on a constant basis.
Facing temptation will never end.
We will never reach a day where we can say- today I will not be tempted, today I will not have to face a single temptation, not even a tiny one, today is temptation-to-sin free day.
Sinning is not being tempted, but letting that temptation become lust and that lust is sin.
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Sinning is a process. Sometimes that process happens so fast we barely blink and it's been done. Other times we contemplate sinning for a long time. The temptations vary and are endless.
By Christ alone we can be forgiven when we sin and repent, seeking forgiveness.
By Christ alone can we keep from sinning.
We yield ourselves to Christ.
We recognize that we are Christ's servants.
By the grace of God more on this tomorrow…
All through His love, His righteousness!
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