Title: We Freed from Sin
Romans 40
free from sin
Romans 6:6 - 7
Introduction: The Apostle Paul emphasizes the existence of a Christian as a new birth and the value of a new creation in Romans chapter 6. And it repeatedly asserts that union with Christ is real and real.
The reason Paul emphasizes our union with Christ and our new existence in this way is to assert a new guideline for the Christian life: “How shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer in them? In this context, we should learn the words of “the dead are freed from sin.”
1. Two Consequences of the Crucifixion
“We know that our old self was crucified with Jesus… ' is an attempt to refer again on the premise that, as Paul says, we already know this fact that “our old self was crucified with Jesus” through the words we have yet learned.
Therefore, even if we sin, the sin is not mine. When I say that I did not do it here, it refers to me who was born with a new life in Christ. The sin we commit now is a sin within me, and I have only been deceived by that sin and provided a place to sin. Paul testifies of this principle in this way. “I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want to do.
In our body now, the habits of the old people, which should not remain, remain. The sinful nature that can be ruled by sin remains. We must defeat this. This body of sin must be destroyed. Paul is trying to emphasize that we are united with Christ and the old man is dead in order to be freed from the effects of sin. And this is also the process of Christian sanctification.
2. The body of sin that the crowd must destroy
It is easy to mistake the saying that the body of sin is destroyed to mean that our old self must die. Our old man is already dead. It would be a strange expression to say that our old man who died must die again.
(2) Our sins are not in me, but are working in my members. My whole person, who is called me, is a body free from sin and a perfect body that has been declared righteous. Sin cannot act in me. It works only in our mortal body, that is, in the members of our body. This body has nothing to do with our saved body. This body cannot influence salvation or condemnation because it is a member that will die when our body is transformed into a Christlike body of glory. The members of our body are not where our life dwells, but where our old habits dwell.
3. Religious Attitudes When Christians Sinned
(1) You must know that the sins that I have committed are not mine, but the sins that are in my members. However, we must know that the reason why my old self died on the cross is not only to be justified, but to overcome this temptation with sin to rule over us again in our body. Because we died to sin, we must never have anything to do with it again.
(2) Then, what attitude should we have when we sin? Since we are not slaves to sin now, there is absolutely no need to give our members to sin. Since we are servants of righteousness, we owe our members to God. “Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you submit to its lusts, nor present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those raised from the dead, and yourselves present it to God as instruments of righteousness” (Romans 6:12, 13).
How pathetic and grievous is this, since we have not used our bodies for the glory of God, but have once again been offered up to sin as slaves to sin. Repentance with deep contrition for living a life that forsaken the purpose of God who saved me must come. And that is to return to the life of turning into a servant of righteousness.
Conclusion: What the Apostle Paul emphasizes here is that the old man, who was a slave to sin, has already been crucified and died, so why is he still being tempted by sin? Moreover, since we are not only freed from sin, but we are the bearers of justified righteousness, it is a warning that we should never become slaves to sin.