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Excerpted from: Psalm 51 (Part Four): Psalm 51:13-19Let us go to Romans chapter 6, verses 1 and 2 and then we will skip down to verse 10. David Grabbe wrote an article not too long ago about these people in the world as Christians who sing the tune of Romans and Galatians, various other places, and they hum when they get to certain verses because it does not go with what they think, what they believe. And these are some of those scriptures that they tend to hum, at least the implications of some of them.
Oh, no. But Christ does it all for you. You do not have to worry about that law anymore that defines what righteousness is, right? Yes, you do, God says. God wants to see those who have died with Christ live in Christ's righteousness. That is why He gave them grace, so that they could live in His grace and do what is right.
We have done the same thing through baptism. He has gone all through chapter 6 here using the metaphor of baptism to show that we have died to sin and once we are raised out of the watery grave, our lives are dedicated to doing, to living like Christ. So we died, like Christ, from sin. We were raised to life in righteousness.
And when you are under grace, that means you are living righteously. Right? That is what Paul is talking about, because you are living the life of Christ.
As we have learned, when the great Master calls us out of sin to this world or calls us out of slavery to this world or slavery to sin, He makes us His slaves and we are slaves then to His way of life, which is a way of righteousness. We are still servants. We are still bond slaves. We have just changed masters, and we are still obligated to live the life of the Master and to serve Him in every way. And that is what he is saying here. Once you have changed teams from Team World, Team Satan, Team Sin, and come to team Jesus Christ and the way of the Kingdom of God, you are expected to live like Christ. He is our Owner and Master.
You changed. You made a conscious choice to join the right side—the good side, the godly side. You decided that you were going to obey Jesus Christ. You were going to obey God and His commands.
So we have been given a chance here, we have been given an opportunity to live like God lives and those past sins have been forgiven, taken away, totally removed. We are no longer to go back to lawlessness or uncleanness. But we have to present our members, we have to present our bodies, all our functions, all our faculties now as slaves of right doing so that we can be cleaned up, made pure, sanctified, so we are like Jesus Christ.
Now that you have become a slave of God, and sin is, I will not say not a problem, but it is conquerable through Jesus Christ, then we can see that it produces good things. Yes, it will produce sanctification. It will produce holiness in our life. We will live righteously. And the end, it is so good—everlasting life. We have that hope of everlasting life because we have, through God, made ourselves slaves of Him and His righteousness. We have cooperated that far and if we just keep on going we can see that glorious end and have the hope of the resurrection and all the good things that come with it.
That is so much better than death. I mean, the rewards for being a slave of righteousness are so much better than being a slave of sin. I mean, that is comparing everything with nothing, right? What do you have in death? Nothing, zilch. (I sound like my dad.) But otherwise, if we are slaves of righteousness, then we have the Kingdom of God to look forward to.
So, Paul is very clear here. God is there to forgive sin by His grace. But He wants us to live righteously. He is looking for growth. He is eager for it. Eager to see the fruits of the bread of life in our conduct, as I mentioned last week. He wants to see that we are breaking old sinful habits and creating new godly ones based on the example of Jesus Christ. He is testing us. He is judging us. He is working with us to see if the mind of Christ is developing in us by His … . . .
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