Whose slave are you?
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title: Whose slave are you?----------------------------- Date: 04/06/2000
Keywords:
"faith" "sin" "slave" "righteousness"
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to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual
temptation.
Passage: Romans 6:17-23*
17. But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin,
you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
18. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to
righteousness.
19. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural
selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to
ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to
holiness.
20. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of
righteousness.
21. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are
now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Questions
1. If you are a Christian, are you, in fact, a slave to sin? ... a
slave to porn? (Note: the question is not whether you have been living as a slave to sin,
but whether you actually are one.)
2. What benefits have you reaped from your involvement with porn?
(v. 21)
3. What benefits do you think you might reap from living as a slave
to God? (v. 22)
Practical help
If you have placed your faith in Jesus Christ as your savior, but
see yourself as a slave to sin, you have believed a lie. Believe and embrace the truth of
this passage: God has broken the shackles that held you captive to sin. Get up and walk
away from them. That in itself is not going to be enough, though. You'll need to walk
toward righteousness and offer yourself as a willing slave to God. What is that going to
look like in your life?
- Will it mean walking away from the computer - logging on when you
need to for legitimate purposes, printing out any info you need (like this Bible study)
and then walking away instead of lingering?
- Will it mean putting the computer in a less private area of your
home?
- Seeking a trusted friend to hold you accountable?
- Offering your body in a tangible way in water baptism as a powerful
symbol of your new life in Christ? If you've already been baptized, it might help to spend
some time reminiscing about that symbolic cleansing and the drowning death of your old
life as a slave to sin.
- Kneeling in prayer as a tangible way of presenting yourself as a
slave to God?
- Searching your Bible or old Bible studies on this website for
statements of truth to counter the lie that you are a slave to sin? ... and then printing
or writing out those statements so you can post them where you'll see them when you need
them most?
If you have never placed your faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior,
you may actually be a slave to sin. To learn more about the freedom we're talking about
and how to have the gift of eternal life promised above, click
here.)
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*Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973,
1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.