"Set Free!" Romans 6:20-23
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Living a life "free from righteousness," leads to a life as slave to sin. In Luke 15. We experience the prodigal son, and his desire to a live a life free from righteousness. He wanted no part in his father's belief, his way of life, his relationship with God. In fact, the son hated the things of the father, not only did he want to take the father's processions, but to take them to a "far country." Why a far a country? Because there no one knew him, but more importantly, no one knew his father.
12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
"Choosing a life "free from righteousness," has its end result in spiritual death,(Roman 6:21)
Romans 1:18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. What fruit did the son have? Romans 2:8 " but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
"He had a soul in anguish." No peace, no fruit of the Father's Spirit.
Gal. 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
"But now!" Present tense, set free washed in the blood of the lamb! Set free from what ? Over sins power to make you its slave.
How? by becoming slaves of God. Still a slave, always a slave, but now upon your confession of faith in Christ, now translated from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of His beloved Son! Slaves of His Righteousness working in you!
Why? in order for his children to bear the fruit of true "holiness" vessels who God Himself will make His appeal, "be reconciled to Me."
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(2 Cor.5).
"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.' (Col.1:13).
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. (Rom. 1:16,17)
glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.(Rom.2:10)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sin slavery always gives birth to spiritual death, the saint no longer experiences the Holy Sprit's garden of fruit, which comes down from the Father lights. The love of the world has replaced the love of the father in him, which can no longer be in him, because the love of the world has taken up all the real estate of the soul. This saint is no longer concerned about the lost. No longer concerned about the suffering church. No longer concerned about rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Ultimately, he is no longer concerned about the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth.
"Victory In Jesus Christ"
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Living a life "free from righteousness," leads to a life as slave to sin. In Luke 15. We experience the prodigal son, and his desire to a live a life free from righteousness. He wanted no part in his father's belief, his way of life, his relationship with God. In fact, the son hated the things of the father, not only did he want to take the father's processions, but to take them to a "far country." Why a far a country? Because there no one knew him, but more importantly, no one knew his father.
12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
"Choosing a life "free from righteousness," has its end result in spiritual death,(Roman 6:21)
Romans 1:18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
Walking in the Spirit Gal. 5
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
(Romans7) 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
Hebrews 5:14 Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like;
of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
"He had a soul in anguish." No peace, no fruit of the Father's Spirit.
Gal. 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
"But now!" Present tense, set free washed in the blood of the lamb! Set free from what ? Over sins power to make you its slave.
How? by becoming slaves of God. Still a slave, always a slave, but now upon your confession of faith in Christ, now translated from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of His beloved Son! Slaves of His Righteousness working in you!
Why? in order for his children to bear the fruit of true "holiness" vessels who God Himself will make His appeal, "be reconciled to Me."
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(2 Cor.5).
"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.' (Col.1:13).
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. (Rom. 1:16,17)
glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.(Rom.2:10)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sin slavery always gives birth to spiritual death, the saint no longer experiences the Holy Sprit's garden of fruit, which comes down from the Father lights. The love of the world has replaced the love of the father in him, which can no longer be in him, because the love of the world has taken up all the real estate of the soul. This saint is no longer concerned about the lost. No longer concerned about the suffering church. No longer concerned about rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Ultimately, he is no longer concerned about the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth.
"Victory In Jesus Christ"
Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.(Rom.5:18-20)
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.(Rom.7:19-23)
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