Bondmen Bondservants Conscious Death Desire Either Leads Obedience Obedient Obey Present Result Resulting Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Someone Surrender Whether Yield Yourselves
6:16 Know ye not? This is utterly impossible, as they will see if they will remember one principle.
His servants ye are to whom ye obey. If we obey sin, we are sin's servants, under his reign, and will receive, not grace, but sin's wages, which is death; or, on the other hand, if we obey Christ, we are his servants, and enjoy his righteousness. None enjoy this blessedness, but those who turn from sin and obey Christ.
6:16-20 Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it be the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which lead to death, or the new and spiritual obedience implanted by regeneration. The apostle rejoiced now they obeyed from the heart the gospel, into which they were delivered as into a mould. As the same metal becomes a new vessel, when melted and recast in another mould, so the believer has become a new creature. And there is great difference in the liberty of mind and spirit, so opposite to the state of slavery, which the true Christian has in the service of his rightful Lord, whom he is enabled to consider as his Father, and himself as his son and heir, by the adoption of grace. The dominion of sin consists in being willingly slaves thereto, not in being harassed by it as a hated power, struggling for victory. Those who now are the servants of God, once were the slaves of sin.
Bondmen Bondservants Conscious Death Desire Either End Leads Obedience Obedient Obey Offer Present Result Resulting Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Someone Surrender Whether Yield Yourselves
Bondmen Bondservants Conscious Death Desire Either End Leads Obedience Obedient Obey Offer Present Result Resulting Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Someone Surrender Whether Yield Yourselves
