<html><head></head><body><div><div><div>Romans 6;15&amp;16<div><br></div><div><b>15. &nbsp;What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? &nbsp;By no means!</b></div><div><b>16. &nbsp;Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?</b></div><div><br></div><div>To willfully&nbsp;continue to sin, expecting no consequences, (because of God’s mercy and grace to us in Christ), is called ‘licentiousness’. &nbsp; Treating the grace of God in&nbsp;Christ as a license to sin,&nbsp; is great wickedness.</div><div><br></div><div><i>“Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for&nbsp;whatever&nbsp;a man&nbsp;sows, that he will also&nbsp;reap. &nbsp;For he who&nbsp;sows to his own&nbsp;flesh&nbsp;will from the flesh reap corruption; but, he who</i><i>&nbsp;sows to the Spirit&nbsp;will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” &nbsp;</i><span>(Galatians 6;7&amp;8)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>In Christ we now are able to yield ourselves to the Spirit of God. &nbsp;We now, by the Holy Spirit,&nbsp;with the Mind of Christ,&nbsp;desire to obey the Father’s will. &nbsp;But, there is an inherit problem in actually carrying out our good, Godly intentions.</span></div><div><span>This inherit problem, Paul addresses in Chapters 7 and 8.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>There is a ‘disconnect’ between ‘wanting to do God’s will’, and ‘actually doing it’. &nbsp;We,&nbsp;by our new born will, united to Christ in baptism, must still learn what it means to,&nbsp;<i>“walk by faith” </i>or “sow to the Spirit.”&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I find understanding Romans 7&amp;8 is the key to the abundant,&nbsp;fruitful Christian life.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, in Christ we have been forgiven,&nbsp;cleansed, and given the Mind of Christ. &nbsp;We now&nbsp;desire&nbsp;to obey Your holy will. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Yet, our sinful, dead, “old self” remains a willing slave to sin, AND, he makes war upon us, demanding us to remain slaves to sin. &nbsp;Deliver us Father from evil, t</span><span>each us now, what it means to </span><i>“walk by the Spirit” </i><span>and grant us grace to actually&nbsp;</span><span>do it. &nbsp;For we now&nbsp;desire to be slaves of righteousness, all&nbsp;to Your glory, and our own partaking of the divine nature.&nbsp;&nbsp; In Jesus we pray, Amen.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Love,</span></div><div><span>Dad/Baba/Eric/ Grandpa Pickle Pastor</span></div><div><span>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we, broken-hearted, contrite, forgiven, believing children, are His.”</span></div><div><br><br><br><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>

Romans 6;15&16
15.  What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?  By no means!16.  Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
To willfully continue to sin, expecting no consequences, (because of God’s mercy and grace to us in Christ), is called ‘licentiousness’.   Treating the grace of God in Christ as a license to sin,  is great wickedness.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.  For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but, he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”  (Galatians 6;7&8)
In Christ we now are able to yield ourselves to the Spirit of God.  We now, by the Holy Spirit, with the Mind of Christ, desire to obey the Father’s will.  But, there is an inherit problem in actually carrying out our good, Godly intentions.This inherit problem, Paul addresses in Chapters 7 and 8.
There is a ‘disconnect’ between ‘wanting to do God’s will’, and ‘actually doing it’.  We, by our new born will, united to Christ in baptism, must still learn what it means to, “walk by faith” or “sow to the Spirit.”   
I find understanding Romans 7&8 is the key to the abundant, fruitful Christian life.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, in Christ we have been forgiven, cleansed, and given the Mind of Christ.  We now desire to obey Your holy will.   Yet, our sinful, dead, “old self” remains a willing slave to sin, AND, he makes war upon us, demanding us to remain slaves to sin.  Deliver us Father from evil, teach us now, what it means to “walk by the Spirit” and grant us grace to actually do it.  For we now desire to be slaves of righteousness, all to Your glory, and our own partaking of the divine nature.   In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/Eric/ Grandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we, broken-hearted, contrite, forgiven, believing children, are His.”




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