Freedom To Freelance?

“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” - Romans 6:16Have you ever had a conversation with someone that made you think, “What? How do they not get this?” as you bang your head on the table. I wonder if Paul was like that as he said for the second time in Romans 6, “By no means!” The reason why was because some Christians in Rome seemed to have been suggesting that if the law is no longer the master, then the law shouldn’t be a big deal.And, apparently, they didn’t get it; which is why God inspired Paul to write this to them (and to us) – because we don’t always get it either. The point of Romans 6 is to help us to understand the problem of sin and why the law helps us to gain that understanding. It’s not just God’s intent that we just disagree with sin; God wants us to understand that sin messes up who we are and how we connect with God and each other. He also wants us to recognize that if nothing is done, sin will increasingly separate us from God.On the other hand, the enemy wants us to ignore that fact and to let sin destroy us. This is why we must take sin seriously and why we need to decide what/who will be our master. Of course, Paul points us in the best direction:“But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.”Grace & Peace, Pastor Aaron