The Power of Sin.

Romans 6:6-7
6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.

Happy December! Man, that means the Holidays are getting that much closer!

I don't know about you, but this passage from Romans definitely has some meaning. It has some important concepts that you don't want to miss, so don't jump on the bandwagon and ignore them!

What is this "old self" that was "crucified with Christ" as Paul describes? Well, it's not your sinful nature or desire to sin, because quite frankly, that will always exist. Your former self is the B.C. version of you...before Christ. You may consider that to be several years ago or just a few months ago. At any rate, this was when sin controlled your life. Sin was your master and you were its slave. You had to listen to sin. Therefore, you had little or no power to conquer sin.

In order to avoid sin's slavery, your old self had to die with Jesus Christ when you accepted him as your Lord and Savior; the one who delivers you from and forgives your sins. With death, sin becomes the powerless one. It doesn't have you to unleash its power any longer. Can you say freedom?!?! The only thing is, we still sin. I'll talk about that later in the week.

Did you ever consider yourself to be enslaved to sin? Thank you God for ridding my old self and allowing me to be free from sin.