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Run Toward God
Pastor Scott
Thursday, April 29, 2004
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"Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."
(Romans 6:13)
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof" (Rom. 6:11-12). What is sin? The simplest definition of sin is "to miss the mark." What is the mark? It's godliness, life in Christ, total dependence upon God. Sin, then, would be any choice that leads me away to independence--all that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil supplies.
"Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God..." (6:13). Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16). Yield your members as instruments unto God. How do you get free from the lusts of the flesh and the sin that's in your members? Yield your members as instruments to God's righteousness. Yield your members unto God.
Maybe there's a question in your mind about something you should or should not be doing. What do you need to do before you can make a determination on whether something is acceptable or unacceptable, lawful or unlawful? What should you do when you're in the throes of such a decision? Underline this phrase in your Bible: "yield yourselves unto God." If there's ever a question, run toward God. If there's ever a question, run toward righteousness. If there's ever a question, run from the amoral to the holy. None of us question the immoral; we battle with the amoral. The problem with the amoral is participating with an independent spirit. Everything we do, we are to do by the Lord and for the Lord, unto His glory. We can't be independent.
Holiness is how dependent you can become upon God, because the term "holy" means "separate." Holiness is living separate; not separate from amoral or immoral, but separate to. The question we ask ourselves, then, is: "Am I separated to God?" We should start every day separating ourselves to God: "Every decision today is going to be made by You and for You. Everything I do is to be done as unto the Lord. Everything I do, I'm going to do with all my might, to Your glory." We begin to live our lives in the spirit, serving others, edifying the Body of Christ, seeking others' riches and not our own. This is the indication, then, that we're walking in the spirit and not fulfilling the lust of the flesh.