QuickThoughts: Freed From Sin

📘 for he who has died has been justified from sin.

Romans 6:7 LSB

Who is the one who died here that has been justified (or freed) from sin?

It is us ~ Those whom God has called to repentance and faith, brought from death unto life!

Just as Christ Himself died to sin and was raised to life, never to die again, so have we!

📘 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

Romans 6:8-10 LSB

Sin and death are no longer our master either. It is a done deal.

📘 … How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 6:2 LSB

We no longer live in sin, are no longer slaves to its will, no longer shackled by the bounds of death. Just as Jesus was raised, we too have already been made alive again in Him and will never taste death again.

📘 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:11

Do YOU “consider yourself” in this manner? Do you reflect on this marvelous truth? You are free from the guilt, free from the penalty, free from the condemnation that is brought by sin!

Do not return to your sins of the past as a dog returning to its own vomit. Why would a slave return to visit his cruel master after he has been freed?

You have been raised with Christ, now abide with Him!

📘 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:12-13 LSB

While our spirits have been freed, our flesh still remains. Do not let it rule over you. Bring your physical body in line with the spiritual truth of freedom in Christ!

📘 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:14 LSB

So, my brethren, make a conscious effort today to consider yourself freed from sin. Present yourself, spiritually and physically, to God in obedience, adoration, and thanksgiving!

📘 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were given over, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:17-18 LSB

Beyond this freedom, though, what is the benefit of being enslaved to God? Is there more to it than just a life lived unto God in obedience to His Word?

Yes! In fact, our benefit in Christ far outweighs any perceived joy and happiness we may have once found in our sins:

📘 Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Romans 6:21-22

We have eternal life, brethren! Never to die, but to pass on and be with our Savior forever!

This is a gift we could never earn, will never deserve, and will never lose!

And if this is not yet a reality in your life, I urge you to repent of your sins, call upon the name of Jesus Christ, and you too will be freed from the death you deserve and raised to newness of life in Him!

📘 For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23 LSB