Bible Minute: Freedom from Sin

In Romans 6:7 Paul says that he who is dead is freed from sin. Do you struggle with sin? Most people today try to get victory over sin by self denial and prayer or other programs. Though the motive is right, the method is wrong. Deliverance from sin comes, not through victory over it, but through death to it. It is useless to struggle against sin, or to fight with its practices. Rather we should acknowledge its force and reckon ourselves as dead through it and to it, yet alive in resurrection, where sin has no place. We are justified by Christ’s death on the cross for us, but we are sanctified by our death with him on the cross. So, deliverance comes from seeing that we have been identified with Christ in His death to sin, burial and resurrection, and then reckoning it to be so. Read Romans 6 for God’s way of holiness!