Rom 6:15-23 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. (16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (17) But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. (18) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. (19) I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. (21) What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. (22) But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The christian is saved by grace, and lives under the grace of God, and is free from the curse of the law through grace. But this is no reason to sin, instead it is because of grace that we live unto righteousness. We have been given a new heart and a new desire for God’s word and His righteousness, a desire to live a holy sanctified life before Him, and a desire that He be glorified. If you claim to be saved and then you say that you can continue in sin because you have the grace of God, the you better double check your salvation, the christian is freed from sin to become a slave to God.
In these verses we see that even a born again saint may sometimes sin (verse 10). Sometimes we obey sin unto death or sometimes we obey righteousness unto life. Peter had this same problem when in the book of Matthew 16 Christ began to teach that he must suffer and be killed, Peter rebuked Christ and said “this shall not be” but Christ had to say to Peter, “get behind me, Satan”. There will be times in our daily walk that we will yield to sin and server Satan. There will always be sin in this flesh. When sin crops up, we are to turn away from it and repent and turn back to righteousness; sin does not honor God nor what He had done for us.
There was a time when all you could do was sin; you were a slave to it, and even the good you thought you were doing was evil in God’s eyes (there’s none good, no not one: Rom 3:10). But thanks be to God, now being made free from sin, and slaves unto God, we have fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life. So the christian is no longer to yield unto uncleanness and iniquity but instead yield to righteousness unto holiness seeing that the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Presented by Pastor David Dawson