Romans 6:16-18 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death… Come to Him. "I do not know what it is to come," says one. Well, coming to Christ is simply the trusting Him. You are guilty, trust Him to save you. "But if I do that," says one, "may I then go on and live as I did before?" No, that you cannot. If a ship at sea needed to be brought into harbour, and they took a pilot on board, he would say to the captain, "Captain, if you trust me I will get you into the harbour all right; let that sail be taken down." But they do not reef it. "Here," says he, "attend to the tiller and steer as I bid you." But they did not attend. "Well," says the pilot, "I thought you said you trusted me." "Yes," says the captain, "and you said that if we trusted you you would get into port and we are not into port." "No, but I understood if you trusted me you would do as I bade you. It cannot be a true trust that is disobedient to my command." If then you trust Christ you must do as He bid you, take up His cross and follow Him, and then that trust of yours shall surely have its reward. You shall be saved now, and saved forever. Parallel Verses KJV: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? |
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