Did You Noticed the Word

That is a word we use quite frequently, but have you ever really thought about what it means? Webster gives the definition as - That is a word used as a definitive adjective, pointing to a certain person or thing before mentioned, or supposed to be understood. "Here is that book we have been seeking this hour." "Here goes that man we were talking of."

A word that is used to point out something before mentioned. With that in mind let’s look at

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, (We know) that our old man (that the person we used to be) is crucified with him, (Jesus) that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  (Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin)

Did you notice the word “THAT” was used three times in that verse? The first time it is prefixed with “Knowing this,” So what are we to know? That our old man is crucified with Him, Why? That from now on we should not serve sin. That, from this time forward we are no longer slaves to sin. Webster says the word slave means a person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one, who has no will of his own, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Does that mean that a person who is wholly subject to another has no will of their own? We want to stop doing whatever we are doing, drinking, drugs, lust, anger………...  but we can’t. We have tried many times but we have yet to succeed in becoming free. Listen!  So there must be a change. We can’t do this on our own I have tried to do it on my own just like you and have failed just like you. Until!!!!! I quit trying and started TRUSTING. For something to be old there has to be something NEW! The problem you are having is the same one I was having I didn’t know Christ and I had never asked Him to forgive me of my sin and come into my heart. Guess what, you haven’t either. 

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

So knowing the truth does more than set you free, it makes you free. That is much better than set free. So here we are maybe for the first time or the thirty-first time it makes no different, for it is the truth that will make you and I free.  You want that which is giving you a problem to be old? It can be for there are many that have been made free and they now know Jesus and now they are no longer a servant to the drugs, alcohol, lust, anger. Well to put it in short form, you can have as much as you want or as little as you are satisfied with. The problem, many are satisfied with too little. I am like the man who says I want it all. How about you?