To Be Least

¹⁶ Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? (Romans 6)

     I was thinking after I wrote my previous post about the concept of being a slave to either sin or obedience. I realized that is one or the other. You either are a slave to sin, or a slave to obedience.

²⁰ If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

²¹ It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. (2 Peter 2)

     Some people believe that this passage is talking about a person that was not genuinely saved. However, I noticed that "they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ." Like I said before, you are either a slave to sin or to obedience and righteousness. There is no middle ground. This passage states that they escaped. The only way to escape the corruption of the world is through Jesus as this passage states. He is the only way. So if this person had not truly been saved, he could not have escaped the corruption of this world. You are either saved or your not saved, period.
     If they have not saved, they have not genuinely escaped the world. Because of this it is impossible to be "again entangled in it and overcome" if they were already entangled in it all along. You can not be entangled in something again that you have always been entangled in.
     The only way someone can escape the corruption of this world is through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If you have not truly accepted him as your Lord and Savior and committed your life to him, then you are not going to heaven and sin is still your master. Let me close with this verse from Matthew 6:24.

"No-one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other."