Romans 6:13 Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God… I. YIELD. Free enlistment to God as our lawful sovereign. No forced service: a willing heart the best sacrifice (2 Corinthians 9:7). Willingness of spirit and weakness of flesh accepted (Mark 14:38). The work done not so much regarded as the will to do it. II. YOURSELVES. Not merely your estate. The whole man (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The Macedonians first gave themselves, then their substance (2 Corinthians 8:5). Self surrender the fruit of love. Love's language is Psalm 116:16. The heart is man's citadel. That surrendered the whole man yields. All our offerings worthless without ourselves (Proverbs 23:26). Ananias gave his goods, not himself. To yield ourselves wholly to God is the conquest of His grace. Christ's people a free will offering in the day of His power (Psalm 110:3). The means of effecting it, the constraining power of His love (2 Corinthians 5:14). III. UNTO GOD. 1. Your rightful sovereign. 2. The best of masters. 3. Your Father through Christ. Not to yield ourselves to God is to yield ourselves to sin. (T. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. |
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