Freed from Sin - A Sermon on Romans 6:6-7

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If the old self has died to sin, then why does the Christian still struggle with sin? In the previous passage, Paul confirmed that the old self in Adam was crucified with Christ. In this passage, Paul specifically uses the term “the body of sin,” which means the body lived in today. In the sermon on Romans 6:6-7 titled “Freed from Sin,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaks at length to distinguish between the “old man” and the “body of sin” to which Paul refers. As a Christian, the old self is dead but the mortal body has not yet been delivered from the effects of sin and the fall. Sin still has a rule on the body and so one should long for the redemption of the body that will come. Paul warns that it is because of this exact purpose that the Christian should no longer live in sin and let the members of the body be instruments of sin. Why would the Christian act like the person who has already died? A day is soon coming when the body will be glorified, just as Christ’s body was glorified when He ascended into Heaven. Let the Christian continue to fight the sin that tempts the carnal body and long for the day when they will be free from the effects of sin.

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Idk if this is quite right either though. How do we separate this from Gnosticism that falsely taught that the body and the spirit were separated? That we sinned in our body but our spirit is still saved? Doesn’t our mind/ heart/ spirit control our body? If the spirit is delivered, the body should be as well. Yes, we have urges but our mind/heart/spirit is in control of that because we have been delivered by Christ. Yes, we are still being sanctified but that doesn’t give us any excuse whatsoever to sin in the body with emotions or urges