It is true that there are only two masters in life. One master is sin and the other is Jesus Christ. Who is ruling your life? Sin? Or the Lord Jesus Christ? We are all servants of one of these two. Are you a servant of – sin or Christ?

Romans 6 speaks about these two masters. Sin is a cruel master. It seeks to destroy us, to kill us, and make us suffer in hell. When we are ruled by the old nature – before we believe in Jesus Christ – all of us live under the rule of this evil master, sin (vv. 6, 7, 23).

Sin imprisons us, takes over our lives, and makes us become its servants. The evil tyrant sin wants to rule over us until we die and suffer in hell forever (vv. 6, 19).

If you are a man or woman who lives a life of sin, such as getting drunk, smoking marijuana, beating your wife, committing adultery, watching pornography, stealing, murdering, being angry, fighting, raping, being greedy, fraudulent, swearing, slandering, gossiping and many other sins, then you must listen to this. Sin is like a man that puts a chain around your neck and forces you to do what he wants you to do. “You do this, do that, do this. Ha ha ha ha.” Sin imprisons you and Satan laughs and enjoys seeing you become a servant of his. If you are a servant of sin, you are a servant of Satan and he is an evil master.

Romans 6:12 says, “So don’t let sin rule your body, which is going to die. Don’t obey its evil desires” (NIrV).

The desires of our bodies are not good desires. Our bodies love committing sin. Therefore, we can’t give our bodies to sin because sin will very quickly imprison our bodies and use our desires against us in order to destroy us (vv. 12-13, 19-20).

This word, “reign,” means, “rule,” or “master.” It is like we have a throne in our bodies, which must have a master or king sitting on it. The question that we need to ask ourselves is this: Who is sitting on the throne of your body and ruling over your life? Jesus or sin?

Romans 6:12 tells us that we can’t let sin sit down on this throne because if we do, it will rule over our body and direct our bodies to unrighteousness. It will direct your hand, leg, mouth, ear, brain, even your private parts. Your whole body will be under its rule and it will use every part of your body like slaves for more and more wickedness.

I’m sorry to say this, but I must be honest and say that sin is already the master of many people. Many people are slaves to sin and on the road to hell.

But brother and sister, I want to talk to you about the other master, the good one, the Lord Jesus Christ. God loves us so much that he sent His Son Jesus Christ to rescue this world, this world that is busy serving their evil master, sin (John 3:16).