Daily Word

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. Romans 6:18-19.Christians have been set free from the law as a system of salvation. Being justified by Christ, you are no under God’s law, but under His grace. You have been set free from sin’s dominion. You have been supernaturally regenerated and made alive to god through union with Christ in His death and risen life. The illustration of slavery is an inadequate representation of the Christian life, especially in Roman context, because it could convey harsh connotations of human slavery and inadequately express the truth that the yoke of Christ is made easy. Nevertheless, Paul retains the metaphor, probably believing that the greater danger is of failing to fulfill personal moral responsibility to the Lord. Sinfulness does not stand still but grows worse.