我们的顺服在何处呢？ Where does our allegiance lie?

罗马书 6:15-19 Romans 6:15-19

这却怎么样呢？ 我们在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪么？ 断乎不可！ 岂不晓得你们献上自己作奴仆，顺从谁，就作谁的奴仆吗？ 或作罪的奴仆，以致於死；或作顺命的奴仆，以致成义。感谢神！ 因为你们从前虽然作罪的奴仆，现今却从心里顺服了所传给你们道理的模范。你们既从罪里得了释放，就作了义的奴仆。我因你们肉体的软弱，就照人的常话对你们说。你们从前怎样将肢体献给不洁不法作奴仆，以至於不法；现今也要照样将肢体献给义作奴仆，以至於成圣。

Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

即使我们在恩典之下已经脱离了律法的管制，这不致於说我们是无法的。神的恩典没有给我们犯罪的权利。实在的， 我们将我们的顺服置在何处，就等于我们成为那里的奴仆了。 若我们选择不洁、不法与罪恶，我们就成为罪的奴仆，后果是死亡。若我们选择正义、洁白与圣洁的生活，全心全意地顺服耶和华与他的话语，我们就会经历他更新的生命，力量过着正义的生活和神的圣洁。 Although grace has set us free from the law, it doesn’t mean that we could become lawless. God’s grace doesn’t give us the license to sin. In reality, where we choose to put our allegiance determines we become a “slave” to that place. If we choose lawlessness, impurity and sin, then we become a slave of sin that leads to death. If we choose righteousness, purity and holiness, when we wholeheartedly obey God and his word, we have the freedom to experience renewed life, power for righteous living and the holiness of God.