Thoughts on the Epistle to the Romans (115) - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness; so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
Romans 6:19

Thoughts on the Epistle to the Romans (115)
A believer is united with Christ and partakes of His life. However, he still has in him the "flesh", his old, sinful nature from Adam. The flesh is weak and incapable of doing God's will. Jesus Christ Himself said, "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" in connection with the admonition, "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation" (Matthew 26, 41). Because the flesh cannot do the will of God, and the lusts of the flesh still tempt the believer to sin, Paul uses this human language to speak not only of slaves of sin, but also of "slaves of righteousness". Now the service of righteousness is not a compulsory imposition, but the voluntary, joyful service of a heart that is truly free. It stands for conduct in agreement with the relationship to God, into which the believer has been brought through grace.

In the state of unbelief uncleanness and lawlessness had increased. Now, however, the service of righteousness should lead to growth in practical holiness. The believer should therefore place his entire life fundamentally and consciously in this service once for all time.

He will then be kept from the erroneous assumption that Christian freedom is a passport or an excuse for sin.

(to be continued next Sunday)