Reading
SAA Notes
Think about the meaning of the phrase slaves to righteousness. The word slave had a distasteful meaning then as now. Paul used such shock language to force us to see that we are saved by grace unto the righteous/good life. The last is the corollary of the first. You cannot have the first without the last.
SJA Notes
* Dear God, please teach us from Your word today.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Here is a wonderful verse, a coin truth.
On the one side you have the hard reality of being a slave to sin.
The world will tempt us to focus on ourselves, to be the best “me” we can be, to give ourselves to pleasure or corruption or self.
This is a lie dressed up to seem worthy, a lie from the father of lies.
The wages of sin is death.
If we are tempted to think in this way, we can be reminded of what the _end_ of this matter is.
Death.
The other side of the coin is life. A slave to righteousness. Eternal life. Not a wage, not a payment – but a free gift!
Choose life today!
* Father God,
Thank You for the free gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Please put within us a heart for the lost, to tell people about Jesus.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.