Not yours!
. I have been thinking a lot this week about the simplicity of the gospel and how to explain it to others. The following idea really spoke to me, and so, I want to share it with you. Historically, if you were a slave, you were treated as property to be sold, traded, mortgaged or willed. Children inherited their parents' status as slaves. You had no human rights at all. Most slaves were not even able to earn any money, and so the opportunity to purchase their own freedom was rare. In the beginning, Adam and Eve were created in right-standing with God, free, but they voluntarily sold themselves into slavery when they yielded themselves to Satan. Roman 6:16 says that to whom we yield ourselves to, his servants we are. The Passion Translation puts it like this: Don’t you realise that grace frees you to choose your own master? But choose carefully, for you surrender yourself to become a servant - bound to the one you choose to obey....