Someone once sceptically asked me if becoming a sinner never required me believing in Adam, why should becoming righteous require me believing in Jesus? If everyone was automatically born into sin by what Adam did, why shouldnt everyone be automatically made righteous through what Jesus did? When the Americans began to carry Africans away as slaves, the blacks who were sold into slavery by their parents or village monarch could do virtually nothing about the transaction. They were mercilessly and helplessly sold into slavery, condemned forever to be under the fierce mastery of a fellow human, used as no better than dogs and fed as no nobler than swine. And all these they could do nothing about. But along came the Slave Trade Act Of 1794 in the United States. It explicitly stated that none shall be under anyones enforced slavery ever again. Violators would be punished with imprisonments and severe fines. And gone were the days wherein black boys and girls, men and women, would be table-crumb hopefuls of tyrannical imposers. Or so we would think. Some of these enslaved people, however, did not receive this movement. They simply carried on being slaves. They were used to the meagre meals they got from their masters. They were comfortable with the labour they were put through. They were good with the status quo. Although they were free, they received not this freedom, but chose to continue in their slavery. One woman I read of, a servant in an inn in the Southern States, continued in slavery for two years, not being aware of how free she had been made. She asked a visitor bes I free or not? Her master had told her she wasnt free. And although she was told she was free by some other, yet she received not this freedom. How pathetic! Isnt this as similar to the Adam-Jesus scenario as it gets? Humanity is condemned to eternal slavery under sin through what Adam did. But in Jesus Christ, we can have freedom. However, although the commandment which effects our freedom has been passed, we must needs receive this provision. It was never imposed on any slave to rescind their slavery, only on the master was it enforced. God has enforced sin to lose its grip on us, but He will not enforce us to lose our grip on it. We have to choose this ourselves. We had nothing to do with our first birth, but we can choose to be born-again. We were born sinners, but we can choose to die righteous. We were born dead, but we can choose to die alive. We were born slaves, but we can choose to die free. I dont know about you, but for me, that is the best bargain ever! Twitter: @MuzikalJaydon © 2014
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:10:55 +0000
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