Freed from sin to serve justice

I want to continue again with this solemn call of the Apostle Paul to the life of holiness. In our last message we saw how Paul calls us to present our bodies and we took time to develop this idea in order to live a holy life.

And I can't stop touching one more verse of this idea to reinforce it in our minds because it can be very enlightening, right? and this call to the life of holiness is so important. In verse 5 of chapter 12 of Romans the apostle Paul says: "While we were in the flesh the sinful passions that were for the law worked in our members bearing fruit to death but now we are free from the law for having died for the one in which we were subject so that we live under the new regime of the Spirit and not under the old regime of the letter. "

You see this idea again. One of the things that is mysterious is to understand that under the Old Testament law what God did was that he established a plan that salvation had to be through the works, the actions of men; men were saved by their good deeds and lost by their bad deeds and there was a very complicated plan of sacrifices and a number of rituals that had to be done to obtain God's justification and evidently it was impossible to achieve that.

So what God did under the old plan of the law was how to trap us in a sense and establish the natural way that men could come into relationship with Him and please Him and teach mankind that in that way it was actually impossible to please Him. Lord and establish as a legal, juridical precedent before then bringing humanity to the true plan that He had always well intentioned which was salvation through Grace, through the Work of Jesus Christ, through the Work of the Spirit Holy in us that by working on our heart, on our mind, our body, the members of our biological being then God could lead us to that life of holiness, that life pleasing to the Lord.

And yet we could never behave perfectly well but we would always have to depend on the Grace that is always through Jesus Christ, sooner or later we would have to go before Jesus so that He would purify us and settle the account so to speak that we could not pay for ourselves.

So that is why he speaks here that before the passions of sin worked by the law because the law made clear the sinfulness of man, no one could be saved through the law then sin as it stood out, because the more men They tried to please God by means of their own works and their rituals and their sacrifices, they became more entangled in their own sin and they realized that they could never please God.

And then Paul says: but now you know what? now you have already died to that is a statement like that forceful, before God you are dead and you must live that way with respect to that way of existing before and now you are under the new regime of the Spirit; that Spirit deals with you, perfects you, works you so that you can become what God wants you to be.

Then in verse 18 of chapter 6 of Romans Paul says: "And being freed from sin you became servants of righteousness." In other words, now as children of God we no longer serve sin, we do not serve injustice, we do not serve our own bodies and our own biology but we are now servants, yes still but servants of justice.

And then it says something very beautiful also in verse 19, it says that: "So now for sanctification present your members to serve justice" Do you see now once again this idea of presenting our physical and mental organs to the Lord so that He take them and sanctify them and can then use them for the glory and honor of His Name?

How beautiful in verse 22 of Romans 6 it also says: "But now that you have been freed from sin and made a servant of God, you have sanctification as a fruit and eternal life as an end." In other words, God has freed us from sin, he has freed us from slavery to the law that could not wash our conscience but on the contrary made us feel more and more sinful because more and more we realized that we could not truly satisfy justice. of God, but God has already freed us from that through Jesus Christ, through the Spirit, through His Grace that has now been released through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross of Calvary.

So before we served sin, now we serve something else, we serve another person. We serve another Kingdom, other principles; they are the principles of justice and holiness. We have been made servants of God and the fruit of that service is sanctification, and do you know what the end of all that is, the end result says? eternal life.

How interesting Paul says here that there are two payments that we can receive from our actions, I continue on he says because when I speak of eternal life as the end of sanctification he says: because there are two things that you can receive as payment, you can receive or the wages of sin that is death or the gift of God in other words the result of serving God that is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

There will always be two results and there will always be two masters whom we can serve. You can either serve the flesh, serve sin, serve the devil, serve hell and receive as a result eternal death and eternal damnation or you can choose to serve God, submit to Him, accept the lordship of Christ in your life and then it can have an outcome which is eternal life.

Which of the two are we going to choose? obviously there is no competition. We have to choose the life of holiness because that is the only one that produces joy, peace, reconciliation with God, knowing that we are right before our God and that we have eternal life as a final result. May God wish that we always choose that behavior, that life of great intimacy with God through sanctification and holiness. May the Lord bless us and we will be continuing our meditation on our next ones. God bless you.