THE WAGES OF SIN

Thursday March 26^th, 2026

Meditate on Romans 6:23^GWT

« The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord »

¹⁸As a result, God has made you free from the power of sin. You are now like slaves who serve everything that is right and good.

¹⁹It is difficult for you to understand these things, because you are still weak. So I am using a human picture of slaves to help you to understand better. At one time, you agreed to serve bad things as your master. You let your body do wrong and disgusting things. You continued to do more and more bad things. So now, you must use your body to serve what is right and good. Then you will do more and more good things which show that you belong to God.

²⁰When you were slaves to sin, you did not even have to think about what was right and good.

²¹You did things that you are ashamed about now. Nothing good came from them. In the end, the result of those things is death.

²²But now God has made you free from the power of sin. You have become God’s slaves. Many good things come from that, because God is helping you to live in a good way. In the end, the result will be that you will live with him for ever.

²³If you serve sin as your master, it will pay you with death. But if you belong to our Lord Jesus Christ, God gives you a gift! That gift is life with God for ever.

Putting up a show

Understand

Many people are in the miry clay of life.

A miry clay is a situation so terrible, you cannot get out of it by yourself; you need external help to get you out of it.

When the doctor tells someone that they have done their best and there is nothing more they can do to make the person feel better,

the individual knows that at that point, except God comes to their aid, they are finished.

Thankfully, I have a God who specialises in lifting people out of the miry clay and placing their feet on the rock to stand firm, Psalm 40:2.

What do you do for the Almighty God to pull you out of the miry clay?

The first thing is to realise that it is sin that brought you into the miry clay in the first instance.

When the paralysed man was brought to Jesus in Mark 2:1-12,

the first thing the Lord said to him was, ‘Your sins be forgiven you.’

The word of God is clear: the wages of sin is death, Romans 6:23.

Sickness is an agent of death.

You must repent and forsake your sins before you can come out of the miry clay.

The Lord told the man at the pool of Bethesda in John 5:14^ESV

« “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” »

If you don’t get rid of sin in your life, you may never get out of that miry clay.

David said in Psalm 66:18^GNT

« If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me »

How can you be expecting an answer from God when He cannot even hear your prayers at all?

I was invited to Tunisia about 11 years ago to speak at the World Prayer Conference and I said, “Brethren, I have come to submit to you that God answers all prayers”. Some deep theologians called me aside and said that it is not true.

Don’t let anybody deceive you, God answers prayers. He said,

“Call on me and I will answer you” Jeremiah 33:3.

He didn’t say, “I may answer you”.

The only variable there is,

He can only answer the prayers He hears.

If He doesn’t hear, how will there be an answer?

Isaiah 59:1-2 says clearly that it is our sins that prevent God from hearing us.

If you are still obeying God half-heartedly, change your ways.

It is in your best interest to do so.

Application – Sin blocks you from the life of God and gives you death as an inheritance. Stay away from sin.

Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG

Posted by Naomie Joseph