Adopted & Never Sold Again
The redeemed are never for sale in any slave market again. They belong to the Lord Jesus forever. But, as each of us learns by going through life, there is one slight problem: our will to choose.
We have been chosen, we have all of God, but He asks us to now have all of us.
Remember the great truth at the end of I Cor. 6:20, where Paul says that: because we were bought (redeemed) at such a great price we should “glorify God”? That is the purpose that drives the redeemed. We want to offer every moment of life to the Lord, and bring them under the gracious Lordship of Christ. Whether we eat or drink, whatever we do: we want to do it all for the glory of God.
The plan to make our lives lived out for God’s glory is presented in Romans. Turn back to Romans 6 with me. As we turn to Romans 6, the flow of the chapters in Romans is so instructive:
• Chapter 3 reminds us we all are sinners.
• Chapter 4 declares that faith is the key to life in Christ.
• Chapter 5 describes the greatest doctrine of salvation: justification.
Then we get to chapter 6:6, and Paul picks right up where Christ Jesus left off. Paul said that we who are redeemed by Christ’s blood must no longer allow ourselves to go back to slavery to sin.
Romans 6:6 (NKJV) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.