It is impossible to serve both sin and Jesus. How can a man continue to live in sin and yet be saved from sin? Oh, sirs, be not deceived! Your sins and you must part or Jesus will have nothing to do with you. Do you think so badly of my Lord, as to dream that He will pander to your passions by giving you liberty to live in sin and yet go to Heaven? Has Jesus come to play the lackey to your lusts, and let you do the work of Satan and then receive the wages of the godly?
Though you never can attain perfection yet in your desires, you must aim for perfection. You must from your heart, strive against every single sin whatever shape it may be, and however pleasurable or profitable it may appear. Off must come the right hands and out must go the right eyes! It would be better for you to go through life maimed and blind, than that you should perish in your beloved sins.
There must be the full assent of your will to the reigning power of Jesus in your soul, or else He does not reign at all.
What do you say? Are you willing that Jesus should henceforth rule and reign over your entire nature, as your heart's supreme Lord?
Until Jesus is received by you as your sovereign King, then you are still under the reign of self, sin and Satan. Whatever you may think of it the devil is your master! You say you do not like him, but he is your master and lord for all that, since he leads you captive at his will.
Until Jesus truly reigns in your heart, you are also in the utmost danger in danger of damnation and eternal punishment.
Let your breath go the wrong way or let your heart cease beating just for a little and you will be in Hell. My friends, you will be in Hell!
Every man in the world has a master of some kind. Some principle or another has dominion over him. The worst tyrant a man can serve, is himself. Self is the hardest and most contemptible of all despots. Seeing then that you must have a king, can you have a better king than King Jesus, who is incarnate love? Think of His wondrous character, and of the love He has shown to sinners, and then tell me if you could have a better King?
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Romans 6:1-2 ... What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Matthew 6:24 ... No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Revelation 19:16 ... And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords. ❤
