Free From Sin and Servants to God Romans 6:22

Paul the apostle asked the people in Rome, “What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed?”, and he added, “for the end of those things is death.” In chapter six and twenty-two of Romans, Paul told his readers the benefits of, “now being made from sin, and become servants of God” where we read:

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God,

you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

The verse begins, “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ...” Paul began with the words, “but now” which means “moreover and at this very moment” “being made free” which means “set at liberty and delivered” “from sin” or “away and departed from missing the mark, erring and being mistaken”, “and become servants” which means “are brought into bondage and as a slave” “to God” or “toward the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”. Paul shared how he, his companions and his readers were made “bondmen” to God Almighty since they were “set free” from “sin”.

The verse continues, “... you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” Paul added the words “you have your fruit” or “Paul's readers were to hold, own and possess their deeds, works and acts” “unto holiness” which means “toward consecration and purification”, “and the end” or “and the termination, finished, closed and set out for a definite point or goal” “everlasting life” which refers to “without beginning and end, that which has been and always will be state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate”. As a result of being “freed from sin”, Paul's readers were now to “possess” consecrated “acts, deeds and works” and would inherit “everlasting life”.

When we think through these words of Paul, we see how those who believe and trust in Jesus Christ as their “Savior and Lord” are “freed” from “sin”, have “deeds and acts” which are consecrated and pure, and shall enjoy “life that is without end”. God desires to give every person who will submit to His Son Jesus each of these wonderful benefits. Jesus came to “set people free” from “sin”, allow them to “hold and possess” pure “deeds and acts” and to provide “eternal life” to people who are “bound”. This is the “gospel” or “good news” of God. Jesus came to live as a man, died for the sins of the world and was raised the third day afterwards, and the blessings mentioned by Paul are a result of believing and trusting in Him.

Next time Paul tells the people in Rome about, “the wages of sin” and “the gift of God”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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