We are Debtors Toward Something (TMF:1721)

Monday, October 18, 2021
Peace to Live By: We are Debtors Toward Something (TMF:1721) - Daniel Litton
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       “So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:12-13, ESV). What Paul has just told us in is the we are debtors to something. We have something to work towards. Remember? Back in chapter 6, he would say we are either slaves of sin or slaves of God. And if we recall in Romans chapter 7, we learned that we are to abide in Jesus, as Christians. Abiding in Jesus is the only way that we will truly bear fruit for God. If we live following our own fleshly efforts, our own ways (for clarification, that is, following what we think God is saying without the the Holy Spirit’s input), if we follow God that way we cannot bear fruit for God. Oh, we may think we are bearing fruit for him, but we really aren’t. So, the only way we find ourselves in peace and righteousness, then, is living according to the Spirit, by putting to death the deeds of our flesh. That’s how we live a peaceful life, one that is fret-free, one that abides in Jesus.