Here Paul confronts us with the assertion that we as human beings are all enslaved — either to sin or to God. The freedom that is ours through faith in Jesus, does not liberate us to live however we want but rather ushers us into a new kind of slavery, a slavery to God. Radically different that our former slave-master, God loves us and desires that we become who he created us to be — His image bearers reflecting his likeness in the world and walking in intimate fellowship with Him. Submission to God — obedience — is, in fact, true freedom.
