19 Forgive me for using casual language to compensate for your natural weakness of human understanding. I want to be perfectly clear. In the same way you gave your bodily members away as slaves to corrupt and lawless living and found yourselves deeper in your unruly lives, now devote your members as slaves to right and reconciled lives so you will find yourselves deeper in holy living (Romans 6). The great question is: Who is our master? Who controls the choices we make? Paul shows us our range of options is limited. In fact, there are only two: Righteousness and sin-or to put it another way, God and Satan. The one you choose to obey is your master. If you choose God as your master, you choose life; if you choose Stan as your master, you choose death. If you yield yourselves to sin, you become he slave of sin-and sin is a deadly master. Jesus has purchased you and led you out of the slave market and into the bright sunlight of God’s love and freedom. Hold your head high and walk as a new, liberated person in Christ. Reason to Rejoice-Ray C. Stedman 23 The payoff for a life of sin is death, but God is offering us a free gift—eternal life through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, the Liberating King. The Voice
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