No longer slaves

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. – Romans 6.5-7

It was a terrible state before Christ. Everyone could be ‘good’ to varying degrees, but we were all still captive to sin. Sin was our master and we were its slaves. Sin would always win out. Some may have been seen as worse than others, but sin was in control.

That’s why the world is the way it is today. It has always been this way, or course, and in some ways even worse, but today we see every sordid detail of evil and violence and wickedness. Paul wrote of this in Ephesians where he speak of how we all walked in a way that proved that we were dead in trespasses and sin.

We are no longer slaves to sin because we have been redeemed and bought back by God. Our sin divided us from God. Sin became our owner and all we could do was sin. But when Jesus shed His blood for us he bought us out of slave market. Though He made us He still paid the price to set us free from the chains.

Our old man is dead as surely as Jesus died on the cross. The power of sin was done away with. We are no longer slave. We have a new Master – let us serve Him.