6:13
What do we offer ourselves to? As Bob Dylan famously said, everybody has to serve somebody. The question is what are we going to do with our bodies? Are we going to ourselves to sin? For that is what we do when we choose to sin, and we will become an instrument of wickedness. Is that what we want to be? Or are we going to offer ourselves to God? For we have been brought from death to life, why continue to live in death? If we ourselves to God we will be instruments of righteousness. So there is a choice set before us and the choice should be obvious.
6:14
When we sin, sin is our master. Do we want to be under slavery? We were set free, we were saved so that we could be free, not so that we could continue to be slaves. When we were under Law we had no choice, we were by nature slaves. But we are now under grace, not under the Law, and far from giving an excuse to sin, it is the reason, the motivation and the enabling for us to live a life for God.
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