Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“KNOWING OUR FREEDOM FROM SIN”

Being free from sin’s bondage and authority is not merely an intellectual freedom; No, it is a reality, but this reality requires action with correct choices. The word of God reveals a fundamental truth, that if missed, we are destined to make sinful choices that will lead to our enslavement to sin once again. This is not “losing our salvation,” but rather, it is us willingly coming under the bondage associated with sinful choices.

Paul teaches us that it is an impossibility to serve both God and sin at the same time. To serve sin as a believer is to walk away from our freedom in Christ and freedom from sin to engage once again in sin. To serve God is to choose righteousness and make righteous choices instead of choosing sinful choices and patterns of living. This one thing is true when considering these two scenarios; You CANNOT serve both at the same time!

Whichever way we choose to live our lives will be directly linked with either the Lord and righteousness, or sin and death. There is no in-between! For too long and by too many Christians, the attempt to serve God with one leg and serve sin with the other has been tried. It does not work, and it never will! Just as Joshua said: “choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15.)  

Sin always leads to death and destruction, and obedience to the Lord and His word always leads to righteousness and life. Death and life are always on opposite ends from one another, likewise, Sin and righteousness are too. We must KNOW that we can only serve one master at a time. May we choose our Lord and Savior every time.

Romans 6:16—” ¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”