Which King are you serving?

When you look at this from which kingdom are you a slave too, it really puts things in perspective. Jesus is the King of the Kingdom of Righteousness as it is written in Psalm 45:6-7 and Hebrews 1:8 But to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. ⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.” But when you look at the Kingdom of Darkness, satan is the father of that Kingdom as it is written John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

So lets look at what the word says about slave to sin and a slave to Righteousness. This is found in Romans 6. We will look at this in detail so you will get the information and you can understand what the word is saying. Seventeen times the word sin is mentioned in this chapter.

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? ² Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? So you see that you are not to live in sin. ³ Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? When you were born into this world, you were born in sin but when you are born again, you are born into the Kingdom of God. ⁴ Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. Baptism is a form of death to your old way of life. ⁷ For he who has died has been freed from sin. Does the church that you go to proclaim that you are free from sin or do they say that you will always be a sinner? ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, What do you believe? ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. Does sin still have dominion over you? ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. So are you dead to sin and alive to God or are you dead to God and alive to sin? You can’t be both.

¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. So are you led by the Spirit or are you led by the flesh? ¹³ And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.You see that the law exposes your sin but Grace removes it. That’s why the law came through Moses but Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ.

From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! ¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, Hence the reason you need to know who is your king so you can present yourself too whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? Interesting that Jesus learned obedience even to death ¹⁷ But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. So you needed to be set free from sin to become a slave of Righteousness ¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. Interesting that Paul mentions in Romans chapter 12 that we are to present our bodies holy acceptable to God for that is your reasonable service.

²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7 continues to talk about those who are under the law. Romans 8 starts with the word therefore. That word is there to explain to what Paul spoke in Romans 7. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Those who are still in this world and under the sway of the wicked on, you have been walking in darkness but now there has come a great light. People have free will to choose the light or the darkness, hot water or cold water, salt water or fresh water, righteousness or sin and life or death. You get choose but for me and my house we will serve the Lord Joshua 24:15

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches spoken to all the 7 churches in the Book of Revelation