But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

 Results:

 

            Freed from sin:

 

Romans 6:22

22     But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

     

            Before we came to Jesus, we were enslaved to sin. It was our master, and we obeyed it … many times willingly. Now that we have been set free from its enslavement, we have willingly enslaved ourselves to God. In the Old Testament, if a Hebrew slave was about to be set free by his master, and he so loved his master and was so well treated by him that he didn’t want to leave, his master took him to the door post of his house and pierced his ear with an awl. He willingly surrendered himself to his master for life, even though he was free to go. That is what God wants … that we willingly submit ourselves to His Lordship. This enslavement results in sanctification. We are set apart as holy unto Him. This eternal life that the Scripture talks about is not in the sweet bye and bye. It is here in the nasty now and now.

 

If you could hear God speak to you, I believe this is what He would say:

            "You are free, My children. You are no longer slaves to those things to which you were once enslaved. You have been set free … now act like it! Do not go on acting like you once did … as a slave to those things of the world. Trust in Me to provide the way and the desire to obey My Word. Then you will know My cleansing in your life. I washed you and made you whole. Now I want to complete the work in your life by showing you how to walk in My righteousness and true holiness all the rest of the days of your life.”

 

            90. I have been set free from sin and it no longer has dominion over me. This will bring about my sanctification with its result … eternal life!