FREE PEOPLE AND SLAVES

Christians are not slaves by anybody or anything. They are free people who choose those things that would only glorify God while worldly people, unknown to them, are slaves by their own passions that would eventually lead them into destruction. They are claiming they are free people but in reality, they only want to get out of their own passions that enslave them.

A man who is a habitual drinker for example claims he is free to drink as long as he wants, yet when all alone by himself, he really wants to get out of the vice because it enslaves him but he does not know how. On the other hand, Christians do only what God wants them to do not because God wants to make them slaves but because they are happy to do what God pleases. They are free people because they are no longer slaves by their own passions. Worldly people think Christians are slaves because they do not do what the world expects but only what God wants. On the contrary, they are the one who are slaves because they do not do what they want but only what the world wants because they are afraid to be branded as “corny” or “conservative” or the like; they follow the systems of the world. 

Now, who do you think are really free people and slaves? Unknown to them they are slaves of the world.

Now if you think you are a Christian and yet you are a slave of your own passions, think again. Christians should not be slaves of their own passions because God had already set them free from the slavery of sin through Jesus Christ when they have accepted Him as their Lord and Savior and have served Him. The supreme sacrifice of Jesus at the cross had already freed them from the penalty of sin which is death.

8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:8-23).

Therefore, Christians must rejoice for they were already free by the blood of Jesus Christ that freed them from the slavery of sin.