SLAVES TO RIGHTEOUSNESS - Romans 6 : 14-18.

“Being then made free from sin, you have becomes slaves to righteousness.” - Romans 6 : 18

This verse out of context can be completely misread. The response can be “ If I am declared free in Christ, I don’t want to go back to being a slave. I don’t want to exchange one set of slavery for another set of slavery!” No, you don’t! But you have to see that is wonderful being a slave to righteousness! Because righteousness has now become your new master and not sin. So for all time and eternity, you are in Christ and in righteousness. You are therefore not in Adam, in sin, and under the law but you are in Christ and in grace.

“For sin shall have no dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” - Romans 6:14

This declares that the consequences of sin and the judgment of sin no longer has dominion over you. Why? Because you are now in Christ and you are no longer in Adam. Therefore you are not under the dominion of sin anymore, you are under the dominion of righteousness. 

Once we have understood this amazing revelation, it becomes imperative that we do not put Christians back under a performance mindset. The truth of Christ is that when you are in the position with Christ in righteousness, even if you do keep sinning, big or little, that sin has no dominion over you. There would be no condemnation, no judgment, no separation from God, no withholding of blessings of God. Why? Because you are in Christ and therefore you have inherited all of Christ or to put it another way, you now live in the grace of God.

God's nature is in you, you have been transferred from living in Adam to living in Christ. Your spirit was made righteous and you were given a new nature, the God nature, his desire and encouragement to you is that you now walk in this nature and this nature becomes your daily experience. Your new spirit in Christ is empowered by a new position in Christ and it would be alien and strange to go back to that old place under the law where you were under the dominion of sin. 

It is the desire of God that you renew your mind to this amazing reality that you have died to your old inherited sin nature in Adam and have become a new creation in Christ in your new nature from God. To take every thought captive and live now from your new creation spirit man.