April 14,2023
Slaves to Sin!
We have often heard the words slave and sin but rarely used in the same conversation or attached to one another. However, slavery is part of our unpleasant history that was settled many, many years ago and the slaves were all set free. Or were they?
When the slaves were set free there was a very, very serious problem that took place because when families have been slaves for generations it is not that easy to become free. And there were many, many issues as to what freedom meant and what the slaves were going to do to make a living, acquire property and even buy food and farms. And there was also the issue that many slave children were biracial as the slave owners often had sexual relations with young slave girls and many, many of them became pregnant. It was a mess!
I compare it to today as people are and always have been slaves to sin. Jesus came into the world to set all of us to be free from sin. But once that happens people do not know how to live free from sin and so the church popped up as we know it today and it became its job to teach and build character in the lives of the new believes. They brought Jesus into a greater daily walk in the lives of the new believer. However, too many churches today have become a social arm of society and not the spiritual arm of society and have not taught new believers what Christianity is and how one is to live a Christian life. Perhaps we should become slaves to righteousness?
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. -Romans 6:6-14
