Choosing God’s Grace

It is a question of setting our wills, then yielding-in that order. If we don’t will, then by habit, we will yield to the wrong thing. We must stop presenting our bodies or our members to sin. When we were still unbelievers, we did just that for a long while. But we have to stop and say, “That’s the end of that!” Once we yield our wills to God, we don’t have to yield our members to satan.

“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under Grace” (Romans 6:14) The implications of this statement are far-reaching. Paul said that we are not under the law but under Grace. It is either one or the other, it cannot be both at the same time. If we are under the law, we are not under Grace. If we are under Grace, we are not under the law. Moreover, Paul said that sin shall not have dominion over us, for we are not under the Law.

The truth is that if we are under the law, sin will have dominion over us. That is a shocking statement to many people, but that is what the Bible consistently says. We are not governed by a set of rules. We have become sons of God, and we obey Him because we love Him. From now on, love, not fear is a motivation for our obedience.