By Charles H. Spurgeon
THE LORD’S FREE MEN
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are
not under the law, but under grace" Romans 6:14
Sin will reign if it can: it cannot be satisfied with any
place below the throne of the heart. We sometimes fear that it will conquer us,
and then we cry unto the Lord, "Let not any iniquity have dominion over
me. This is His comforting Answer,"sin shall not have dominion over you.
It may assail you, and even wound you; but it shall never establish sovereignty
over you.
If we were under the law, our sin would gather strength and
hold us under its power; for it is the punishment of sin that a man comes under
the power of sin. As we are under the covenant of grace, we are secured against
departing from the living God by the sure declaration of the covenant. Grace is
promised to us, by which we are restored from our wanderings, cleansed from our
impurities, and set free from the chains of habit.
We might lie down in despair and be "content to serve
the Egyptians" if we were still as slaves working for eternal life; but
since we are the Lord’s free men, we take courage to fight with our corruptions
and temptations, being assured that sin shall never bring us under its sway
again. God Himself giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom
be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Thought’s for the Quiet Hour
And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in
the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the
potter to make it. Jeremiah 18:4 (R.V.)
God’s fairest, highest place of service in the land that
lies beyond will be filled by the men and women who have been broken upon the
wheel on earth.
G. Campbell Morgan
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