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.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
We talked about some of this yesterday- the fact that we have to YIELD ourselves to become instruments of unrighteousness to sin. We also have to YIELD ourselves to God, to be instruments of righteousness.
There are two choices.
We yield, there is NO neutral ground, there is NO non-yielding. We will yield either to one or the other- to God or to Satan, to Righteousness or to Sin.
When we are NOT yielding to Christ, we are yielding to Satan- we choose.
Sin will NOT have dominion over us, why? Because we are no longer under the law- and what does that mean? We are under grace. To be under the law alone means to have no hope.
You see-- it's like this--
The law says we are guilty of sinning.
The law says the punishment for our sinning is death.
Only grace can save us from that death.
If we do not put ourselves under grace, then we have no hope at all.
Sin will NOT have dominion over us because we aren't lost in a well of hopelessness having only our death to look forward to. We have to live with the hope that is found in Christ, who alone has the power to save us. Christ saves us - we do NOT save ourselves! We yield our lives to Christ. We make the conscious choice to yield, it must be conscious, it must be on purpose.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Right away we are told that knowing we are not under the law does not mean we should sin! We can't hold up the law, the ten moral commandments and yell, see, we no longer have to follow these, because it is a lie.
Sin is the transgression of the law.
1Jn_3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
If you yield yourself to be a servant of sin, then you are yielding yourself to transgressing the law.
If you yield yourself to be a servant of righteousness, then you are yielding yourself to keeping the law by the grace of Christ.
Yielding ourselves SERVANTS to obey.
We have two masters to choose from, only two.
We choose.
The choices we make have consequences.
Sinning isn't something that is done without our knowledge.
We know we will face CONSTANT temptations to sin, to pretend otherwise is to fool ourselves. We also know what sins we are vulnerable towards. Satan will do all he can to entice us. He'll stop at NOTHING to make us believe that our sins are not sins at all.
You read that right.
Satan disguises our sins as not being sins so that we feel no need to repent, no need to ask for forgiveness. Once Satan has done this and we've allowed ourselves to be deceived then there is little hope for us because not recognizing our need to seek forgiveness leaves us vulnerable.
We HAVE to pray that our eyes are open, that our spiritual eyes are wide open and able to recognize all the sin that affects us. By the grace of God we will NOT be blind to our own sins. By the grace of God we will submit ourselves, our lives to Christ and allow Him to work in us, to use us as His instruments for His righteousness.
Maybe I'm going on and on a bit about all this but it's truth and I fear we don't want to confront the sin in our lives, we'd much rather sugar coat it, paint it in a false covering of unrighteousness. We want to be deceived so we don't have to carry any sort of cross, or deny ourselves anything.
We can't imagine living a life as we truly believe our Savior would have us live, can we? Yet we must never give up! Never stop HOPING in HIM.
Please Lord, help us! Please Lord, save us! We do believe, help our unbelief! Be the LORD of our lives! In this sad, sin sick, dying world filled with Satan's evil everywhere we turn, please, be the LORD of our lives, be our all in all! Please!
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
We talked about some of this yesterday- the fact that we have to YIELD ourselves to become instruments of unrighteousness to sin. We also have to YIELD ourselves to God, to be instruments of righteousness.
There are two choices.
We yield, there is NO neutral ground, there is NO non-yielding. We will yield either to one or the other- to God or to Satan, to Righteousness or to Sin.
When we are NOT yielding to Christ, we are yielding to Satan- we choose.
Sin will NOT have dominion over us, why? Because we are no longer under the law- and what does that mean? We are under grace. To be under the law alone means to have no hope.
You see-- it's like this--
The law says we are guilty of sinning.
The law says the punishment for our sinning is death.
Only grace can save us from that death.
If we do not put ourselves under grace, then we have no hope at all.
Sin will NOT have dominion over us because we aren't lost in a well of hopelessness having only our death to look forward to. We have to live with the hope that is found in Christ, who alone has the power to save us. Christ saves us - we do NOT save ourselves! We yield our lives to Christ. We make the conscious choice to yield, it must be conscious, it must be on purpose.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Right away we are told that knowing we are not under the law does not mean we should sin! We can't hold up the law, the ten moral commandments and yell, see, we no longer have to follow these, because it is a lie.
Sin is the transgression of the law.
1Jn_3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
If you yield yourself to be a servant of sin, then you are yielding yourself to transgressing the law.
If you yield yourself to be a servant of righteousness, then you are yielding yourself to keeping the law by the grace of Christ.
Yielding ourselves SERVANTS to obey.
We have two masters to choose from, only two.
We choose.
The choices we make have consequences.
Sinning isn't something that is done without our knowledge.
We know we will face CONSTANT temptations to sin, to pretend otherwise is to fool ourselves. We also know what sins we are vulnerable towards. Satan will do all he can to entice us. He'll stop at NOTHING to make us believe that our sins are not sins at all.
You read that right.
Satan disguises our sins as not being sins so that we feel no need to repent, no need to ask for forgiveness. Once Satan has done this and we've allowed ourselves to be deceived then there is little hope for us because not recognizing our need to seek forgiveness leaves us vulnerable.
We HAVE to pray that our eyes are open, that our spiritual eyes are wide open and able to recognize all the sin that affects us. By the grace of God we will NOT be blind to our own sins. By the grace of God we will submit ourselves, our lives to Christ and allow Him to work in us, to use us as His instruments for His righteousness.
Maybe I'm going on and on a bit about all this but it's truth and I fear we don't want to confront the sin in our lives, we'd much rather sugar coat it, paint it in a false covering of unrighteousness. We want to be deceived so we don't have to carry any sort of cross, or deny ourselves anything.
We can't imagine living a life as we truly believe our Savior would have us live, can we? Yet we must never give up! Never stop HOPING in HIM.
Please Lord, help us! Please Lord, save us! We do believe, help our unbelief! Be the LORD of our lives! In this sad, sin sick, dying world filled with Satan's evil everywhere we turn, please, be the LORD of our lives, be our all in all! Please!
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