Romans 6:18 - Forerunner Commentary

Romans 6:18

16 Do you not know that ^ato whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart ^athat form of doctrine to which you were¹ delivered.

18 And ^ahaving been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness¹ for holiness.

20 For when you were ^aslaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21 ^aWhat fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For ^bthe end of those things is death.

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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.

Excerpted from Psalm 51 (Part Four): Psalm 51:13-19

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The word yielding or submitting indicates that we have choices to make. The liberty that we have is the liberty to make the right choices because before conversion, we were not really free to do that. That's what being free in Christ does. It liberates us to face up to what we are and make the choices for the best reason that we possibly could. It takes strenuous effort to live according to God's way, but we have made ourselves slaves to Him through this calling.

Excerpted from Four Views of Christ (Part 7)

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