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Sunday, October 7, 2012

This is my last post that's linked to the book I've been talking about in the past 2 posts, a book titled Slave, by John MacArthur. Scroll down and read them if you haven't! :)
Honestly I had zero ideas for today's post, thought I'd just do A New Song post again. But as I was finding videos for praise & worship for today's youth service, I came upon this video at Worship House Media that I find so very apt in concluding my recent posts about being slaves of Christ.

After talking about the slack attitude that we have towards God (which comes from thinking we are servants of Christ instead of slaves of Christ), we need to come back to why we are slaves of God in the first place. The Bible quite clearly repeats the idea of (1) how a slave cannot have two masters, and (2) that we who were once slaves to sin have been set free:

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. (Romans 6:15-18, emphasis added)

Anddddd, here's this video I was talking about earlier: (Turn your volume up)

To end off, we have to question ourselves:
1. Who are we slaves to? Our studies, popularity, our relationships, sin, or God?
2. Have you been set free from sin, and gave yourself to God to become His slave?

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Romans 6:22)

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To read/listen to a sermon that John MacArthur gave on this whole concept of Slaves, click here.

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