ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
home. We want you to come and go as you will. Make this your home." After that I had the liberty to go all over the house, into bedrooms, attic, or cellar. Before he gave me the keys. I was in his home, but shut out of a great part of it.' I could now dwell there with great freedom. That is the way with our risen Christ. There are Chris~ tians who have departments of their lives, as it were. into which they do not want Christ to enter. They will not sur~ render every interest to Him. But when the child of God comes to the place of yielding and obeying, then every part of his life comes under His supervision. When He takes an in~ ventory and says, "Let this go; let that go," He also gives the power to perform His will. In verse 14 Paul speaks with the voice of authority: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." Here he puts before us the fact that we are not placed under the Mosaic Law as a rule of life, with no power to keep it. Grace provides the sufficiency in all things. Grace provides the power to do what God wants us to do. If we were under law, we should hear the demand to righteousness, but we should have no power to fulfil that de~ mand. Grace gives the power! "WHOM YE ... OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE" As soon as Paul sets fbrth the doctrine of grace, the objector rears his head, saying: "Since I am under grace, it would follow that it does not matter how I behave. Therefore, I can do as I please." Or, to express it in the words of verse It5 "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?" Paul answers this objector in no un~ certain terms, "God forbid." Then he utters a grave warning to mere professors, pointing out that the regenerated man does not want liberty to sin. On the contrary, if a man habitually yields. he is still sin's servant. And the end is death. By his deliberate acts he evidences the fact that he does not know the Lord. that he has never been crucified. buried. raised with Page 104]
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