"Who is Your Master?"
Paul says that as Christians we can choose how we live; sinfully or righteously. Our choice sets a pattern of behavior and each subsequent choice reinforces the last. If we change choices, we change direction. Our cumulative choices result in slavery, either to sinful behavior or to right living.
Remember that Paul is fighting the accusation that he is teaching antinominism. He is reminding us that the freedom we have in Christ can easily be surrendered if we use that freedom to sin.
One of the saddest things I have ever read is about drug addicts who will go through "cold turkey" to free themselves from a drug addiction, only to take drugs as soon as they leave the facility where they have gotten their systems free of the drugs. After all of the physical sufferings of drug withdrawal, they give themselves back over to the drug.
Some Christians are like that. After being set free from their slavery and addiction to sin through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ on the cross, they return to sin-slavery through the choices they make.
The choice is ours!
Make good choices. Flee all forms of sin and unrighteousness.
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