BECOME WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING (18 OF 26)
Scripture: Romans 6:6-14
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Become What You Are Becoming (18 of 26)
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 6:6-14
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness (v. 13).
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
What is freedom? Many people think that freedom is being able to do whatever you want to do. But that's not true freedom.
Think about the rich and famous people in this world-people who have the ability to do whatever they want to do. If someone with the ability to do whatever he wants to do, chooses to live that way, he will end up being a miserable person.
We see many rich and famous people turning to alcohol and drugs-which allow them to escape life. Some even end up committing suicide. Why would these people want to escape life-or even end their lives? You'd think they'd be the happiest people on earth. Don't they have the lives we all want? Apparently not.
Freedom should lead to happiness. But doing whatever you want to do doesn't bring happiness. That kind of life, as the author of Ecclesiastes puts it, is ''a chasing after the wind'' (Eccles. 1:14).
So what is freedom? It could be said that a bicycle wheel is free to spin on its axle. It could also be said that a bicycle is free when it becomes separated from the axle and rolls down a hill. I would say that a bicycle wheel is free when it spins in the way it was designed to spin-on its axle. That's true freedom for a bicycle tire.
Jesus declared, ''Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin'' (John 8:34). And then he said, ''If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed'' (v. 36). True freedom-the kind of freedom Jesus was talking about-is freedom to live to live as God intended us to live.
This kind of life is not ''a chasing after the wind.'' It's finding what we're really searching for. It's living life as ...
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 6:6-14
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness (v. 13).
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
What is freedom? Many people think that freedom is being able to do whatever you want to do. But that's not true freedom.
Think about the rich and famous people in this world-people who have the ability to do whatever they want to do. If someone with the ability to do whatever he wants to do, chooses to live that way, he will end up being a miserable person.
We see many rich and famous people turning to alcohol and drugs-which allow them to escape life. Some even end up committing suicide. Why would these people want to escape life-or even end their lives? You'd think they'd be the happiest people on earth. Don't they have the lives we all want? Apparently not.
Freedom should lead to happiness. But doing whatever you want to do doesn't bring happiness. That kind of life, as the author of Ecclesiastes puts it, is ''a chasing after the wind'' (Eccles. 1:14).
So what is freedom? It could be said that a bicycle wheel is free to spin on its axle. It could also be said that a bicycle is free when it becomes separated from the axle and rolls down a hill. I would say that a bicycle wheel is free when it spins in the way it was designed to spin-on its axle. That's true freedom for a bicycle tire.
Jesus declared, ''Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin'' (John 8:34). And then he said, ''If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed'' (v. 36). True freedom-the kind of freedom Jesus was talking about-is freedom to live to live as God intended us to live.
This kind of life is not ''a chasing after the wind.'' It's finding what we're really searching for. It's living life as ...
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