A Few Good Verses!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Dear Fellow Travelers,
And a good Monday morning to each of you! Today, I want to offer you several “interesting” passages of Scripture for your consideration, so hang on for the ride:
1. “ . . . and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness” (Romans 6:18 NASB ).
2. “But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God . . .” (Romans 6:22a NASB).
3. “But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter” (Romans 7:6 NASB).
4. “But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me” (Romans 7:20 NASB).
5. “. . . knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin” (Romans 6:6 NASB).
6. “No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him” (1 John 3:6 NASB).
7. “No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9 NASB).
Now, after having carefully read these passages, would you please write in your own words what you believe is their central truth and how that truth affects your life, and, then, please email your response to me?
Thank you so much!!