Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Servants of righteousness, or servants of sin.

Servants of righteousness.

We choose our master, our master isn't chosen for us. Who you serve, who you choose to obey that's on you, that's on us. We can't blame anyone for choosing to serve Satan over God.

I know we've talked about it plenty of times before, you know, how you choose one or the other- there is NO in-between, there is no third choice.  A lot of people do think there is a third choice, they think they are that third choice. They think if they simply believe in themselves and nothing else- neither God, nor Satan, that they are 'safe' from and bad outcome. If they don't believe in God or Satan then they answer to no one but themselves. They believe that there is no life after death, that this miserable world with its few bright spots is all there is. If there is something more and they are wrong, they choose not to care about that, they'll take their chances. Some may believe that even if they don't choose God that if He's really loving He will take them even if they don't believe in Him, you know just in case He really is real.

The truth is, we are servants and there are two masters to choose from and we get to choose who we serve. There is no third choice. We are not masters. We are often given the delusion that we are masters but the one who gives us that delusion is Satan. Satan encourages us to put ourselves first and he'll even seemingly fade out of the picture as long as we aren't inclined to seek God.

Who we yield ourselves as servants to obey- that's whose servant we are.

We can choose sin, or we can choose obedience to righteousness- it is our choice. Don't make the mistake of thinking if you don't choose that all is well, it's not. Don't make the mistake of not believing, because that choice is wrong too. Believe in God, believe in obedience to righteousness. Be a servant of God, obeying from the heart, be made free from sin, a servant of righteousness. Choose to yield ourselves wholly to God, knowing that He would have us love Him, and love others in all our actions- leaving the loving of ourselves to His amazing love. There truly is a wage for sinning and that wage is death. The gift of God is eternal life all through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Eternal life or death, make no mistake, you choose which. By God's grace and mercy, may we choose HIM, always HIM!

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? 
Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 
Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 
Rom 6:19  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 
Rom 6:20  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 
Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 
Rom 6:22  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 
Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 


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