If a person asks me, “Do we have freedom of choice?” I answer, “Yes, his!” meaning yes, I have freedom of choice because Jesus gives his freedom of choice to me.
I don’t have freedom of choice otherwise because if I did I wouldn’t need Jesus, would I? But God has set [...]
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Slavery, to Paul, isn’t all negative. Slavery to sin is all negative, yes, but not slavery to righteousness. In Paul’s mind, slavery takes on a good meaning when applied to righteousness, but not when it applies to sin. How come?
Because slavery to righteousness frees up eternity to us. When we [...]
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It’s that word “slavery,” or being “slaves to God (Romans 6:22),” that grates in the human mind. We value freedom in this life, not slavery. Slavery conjures up awful pictures of slaves in chains. Slavery restricts. It takes away our freedom.
Whatever freedom we experience in this life though, leads to [...]
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All our lives we are free. To begin with, we’re totally free to sin. We can do whatever we like without any restrictions or intervention from God. He doesn’t force us to obey him, or hit us with lightning if we disobey. He lets us do whatever our hearts desire. The only restrictions [...]
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Human life can be boiled down to a very simple comparison: we’re either “slaves to sin” or “slaves to righteousness.” We’re either one or the other.
What Jesus does is free us from one to the other. He frees us from being slaves to sin to becoming slaves to righteousness (Romans 6:18). [...]
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It’s only when we become Christians that we have true freedom of choice. Before we became Christians, we had no freedom of choice whatsoever because sin rendered us powerless. But now that we’re united with Christ sin is rendered powerless. It has no more mastery over us that it did over Jesus, Romans [...]
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