Romans 6

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? vv.15-16

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Who's your master?  Everyone has a master whether they choose to admit it or not.  Someone or something that has the ability or power to use or control or dispose of something is our master.  
Seemed like at the time of believers understanding grace verses the law that people started having the mindset that it was okay to sin so that grace could do more work.  Yet Paul responds "Certainly NOT."  For what we choose to obey that we choose to be our master.  We were once slave to sin, but when we have become believers in Christ we become His slave.  Being Christ's slave doesn't mean this horrible bondage, rather it means freedom!  Freedom to what we thought was freedom by doing whatever we wanted and giving in to the flesh that ultimately trapped us.  The saying is true: First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, than the drink takes the man.  There is not fruit or benefit of sin, for "What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.  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" (Romans 6:21-22).
Often we are deceived by the devil believing we can never defeat a sin in our lives so we give up trying.  We think we can never have consistent victory so we stop the fight for it. Having this mindset we're already defeated for what we believe determines how we live.  Our efforts on our own cant defeat sin, but Christ's already finished work can.  Let us follow our master Christ who brings us into righteousness and eternal life and not return the bondage of our old master Satan who only brings defeat and death.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss says, "One single hour lived in truth can become a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime.  Christ has conquered.  Live in His victory" (The Quiet Place, July 29th).  What sin do you feel most defeated by?  How can you choose to live today as Christ as your master?