Romans 6:1-14 Response

I was driving Asher Ostrowski home from middle school Bible study and we had the following conversation reflecting on the sermon.

Asher: Hey!  Sin is like the tractor beam in Star Wars.

Me: And we need someone is turn it off like Ben Kenobi.

Asher: And He died doing it too [just like Jesus].

Asher again: And we have friends like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to fight to help us get away.  And hyperspace drive too! [perhaps the Holy Spirit?]

Thanks to the Holy Spirit and contributing members like Asher’s dad Matt and that Star Wars-loving gorgeous hunk of Christian man, Brian Gordon, Asher got it right in so many ways.  We’re dead to sin.  The tractor beam has been turned off.  We are free, and it is Wookie whooping awesome and glorious.  Jesus did it!  We’ve won!

At this point in the Star Wars movie, the Millenium Falcon did not turn around to do it all over again because it was so sensational.  Neither should we.  We’re new men and women.  Recon with that.  Make plans with that reality in mind.  This is a war.  Put yourself on a wartime economy.  Put yourself on wartime schedule.  Read God’s Word as a battle manual.  Fight!  Take whatever steps necessary to stay free and free others.

Or, as Romans 6:13 exhorts: “Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness”  (Remember Derek said “instrument” should be translated “weapon”).

How are we nursing sin back to health by providing a “room” for it in our lives?

Do you notice other brothers and sisters in Christ stuck in sin and suffering as a result?  Will you remove the plank in your eye so that you can help them with their speck?

In episode three of Band of Brothers, Blithe loses his sight because of intense fear.  What does Lt Speirs tell him that helps him return to the battle?

~Randy VanDyke