ROMANS 6
19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:19-23
ROMANS 6 THE WAGES OF SIN VS. GOD’S GRACE
A poem by ILMA inspired by these verses
When a man continues to go through life in sinfulness
He will struggle and be defeated by evil and wicked ways
But if that man decides to trust and serve the Lord Jesus Christ
He will be blessed with much grace and his life will be sanctified
He now will have the power to overcome his sinful ways
Since the Holy Spirit will transform his life to righteousness.
In this letter, Paul presents to the believers in the Roman church the wages of sin which is death and the reward for believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Eternal life is the free gift that comes with believing in Christ. He explains what happens to their lives once they accept the invitation of God to believe in his own Son. When Jesus died on the cross, he did it in such a way that all can be saved by his one sacrificial offering of his own body and blood on the cross. He opened the gateway towards reconciliation with God and a clean slate to start a relationship with our heavenly Father.
In verse 20, he explains the process that a man undergoes from sinfulness to righteousness. Before Jesus died for us, we could not enter into a relationship with God, but he paved the way for us to be forgiven of our sins and be purified. Since God is a holy God, he requires for our sanctification so we can have a right relationship with him.
REFLECTION
- Can a person just decide to believe in Christ on his own? Why or why not?
