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April 5, 1992
Every day, we live in the realm of choices, and the decisions we make directly affect our spiritual growth. Paul addressed professing Christians who persisted in sinful lifestyles under the guise of Christian freedom. Alistair Begg takes a closer look at this incongruity, noting that we cannot serve sin and God simultaneously.
15What then? lAre we to sin mbecause we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves nto anyone as obedient slaves,3 you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But othanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the pstandard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, qhaving been set free from sin, rhave become slaves of righteousness. 19sI am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For tjust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members uas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20vFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21wBut what fruit were you getting at that time from the things xof which you are now ashamed? yFor the end of those things is death. 22But now that you zhave been set free from sin and ahave become slaves of God, bthe fruit you get leads to sanctification and cits end, eternal life. 23dFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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