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". . . you are that one’s slaves whom you obey .
. ." - Romans 6:16
The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls
and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to
whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere
in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some
point in my life I yielded myself to Him.
If a child gives in to selfishness, he will find it to be the most enslaving
tyranny on earth. There is no power within the human soul itself that is capable
of breaking the bondage of the nature created by yielding. For example, yield
for one second to anything in the nature of lust, and although you may hate
yourself for having yielded, you become enslaved to that thing. (Remember what
lust is— "I must have it now," whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust
of the mind.) No release or escape from it will ever come from any human power,
but only through the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter
humiliation to the only One who can break the dominating power in your life,
namely, the Lord Jesus Christ. ". . . He has anointed Me . . . to proclaim
liberty to the captives . . ." ( Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1 ).
When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has
over you. Even though you say, "Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like,"
you will know you can’t. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you
because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, "He will break every
fetter," while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself.
But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person’s life.
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