"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin."
In today's quote, Paul makes it very clear that once a lost soul is baptized into (Placed inside) the crucified body of Christ, through faith in the operation of God, that soul is resurrected to a new existence. The "old man" is gone, dead, so that the "body of sin" is destroyed forever. Sin may well continually be splattered all over the physical body, but none can ever be charged to the resurrected and renewed spirit. The righteousness of Jesus Christ that is imputed into a lost soul by faith, presents that soul forever wholly righteous before God.
Paul further said that those whom have been immersed into the death of Jesus Christ should be risen to "walk in newness of life" and that they should not "serve sin". Any and every person who has been saved by the grace of God has a very strong imputed aversion to sin and wants no part of it.
We must remember that Jesus himself said, "there is none good but one, that is, God" (Matthew 19:17 in part) Therefore, we are not expected to live above sin in our physical bodies, but we are expected to repent and ask forgiveness for every transgression. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1John 1:8-9)~
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