Romans 6:7
7 For [gar] he that is dead [apothnesko] is freed [dikaioo] from [apo] sin [hamartia]. KJV-Interlinear
7 For one who has died has
been set free from sin. ESV
There is an old saying, that when a slave dies, it is
only then in death that he is truly set free. And though the saying applied to
physical death, there is more to this principle than meets the eye.
When we are born physically alive, we are born with
the sin nature already intertwined within our physical body. We are born
physically alive but spiritually dead because of the existence of that sin
nature within us.
Our spiritual death was due to Adams original sin,
which was and is handed down from parent to child, from generation to
generation.
We have already studied the implications of this
situation, regarding eternal condemnation.
A person has to grow up and attain an age or a status
of accountability, before God will hold them accountable for their personal
sins.
No one is condemned because of the sins of someone
else. Each and every person is condemned because of their own committed sins.
So in this life, we have two strikes against us. The
first is Adams original sin, which we were born with, and the second is our own
personal sins, which we commit because of our own decisions.
Without God, or some spiritual resolution, we are
trapped as slaves to sin, and sin becomes our cruel master.
Therefore, in order to be free from that master, we
must die, since that master, which is sin, cannot and will not set us free.
In Gods plan, we symbolically died to sin, as portrayed
in the baptism ritual. The reality of our death to sin, comes through faith,
which secures our salvation, and through which the Holy Spirit descends into
each one of us, and performs the real spiritual baptism, which accomplishes our
release from sin, which is portrayed as death to sin.
But even after salvation, we are still physically
alive in this world, with our physical bodies which still have the sin nature
contained within.
In order to remove all remaining sin, then our
physical bodies have to die to sin, and our physical bodies have to be replaced
with resurrection bodies.
Therefore, in physical death, our physical bodies are
discarded along with the sin that is contained within them, and both body and
sin dissolve and are abolished forever.
Our soul and spirit, neither of which are infected
with sin, leave the body, and go to heaven to be with the Lord.
At some appointed future time, a resurrection will
occur, and we will be reunited, soul and spirit, with a better and
incorruptible body.
In order to free ourselves from the taint of sin, we
must pass through a death, which severs all ties with the slave master of sin.
And that is accomplished through faith and through resurrection.
These studies, are a part of the massive
daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org, that is easily accessible, and are
written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so already, and
therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever.
To
ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily study means you will be incomplete,
unfulfilled and you will lose out, big time.
The
Daily Bible Study is online, making it possible as never before in all of human
history, to advance in ones relationship with God, through Christ, and to
complete yourself beyond your imagination.
But
you have to decide to make that commitment.
No one else can study for you.
You have to do that yourself.
