We stand in Christ as He is toward sin.

We stand in Christ as He is toward sin.

“freed” is the perfect passive indicative of the Greek verb

dikaioo

dikaioo = to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent:

to declare to be righteous, to pronounce righteous

to cause to be released from the control of some state or situation involving moral issues - 'to release, to set free.'

to be freed from its dominion

Sin, the rebellion against God.

Sin which still dwells in my flesh, in the members of my body.

You and I have been declared righteous and free, released from, the dominion of sin.

We have been exonerated, released from, not only our personal sins, but also sin in the flesh.

Distinguish between being justified from sins - from the guilt of sins - by the blood of Christ, through faith…

…and being released from the dominion of sin - the thing itself-, by our death with Christ on the cross.

What comes roaring through Paul’s letters is this unconquerable confidence and boldness and abundant life.

He had no sense of guilt or bondage or failure before the Lord.

He knew that he had been justified from all guilt by the blood of Christ;

And he knew that he was also justified, cleared, released from the burden of sin itself!!

He had no consciousness of the burden of his sins or the burden of sin the thing itself.

And therefore, though walking in an, as yet, unredeemed body, …

… he was totally heavenly in his standing, life, and relations with God!

The conscious presence of sin in his flesh only served to remind him of the fact that he was IN CHRIST!!!

He had died with Christ, and his former relationship to sin had totally and finally ceased.

Sin’s presence gave him no thought of condemnation …

…but only increased his longing for the day when he would have that body like Christ’s own in glory.

He who died has been placed forever in the clear apart from sin.

Get rid of the idea that gradually we become saints.

This is NOT sinless perfection.
 
Actually, it is even better than that!

Sinless perfection would be an earthly condition.
 
Verse 7 is a heavenly position.

We, through our death with Christ on the cross, have forever passed beyond the sphere where our former relationship to sin existed.

We stand in Christ as He is toward sin.

God has ALREADY qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light!

Sin is not gone from our flesh, but we, having died, are declared righteous from it.

There are believers who think they are still on trial.

Many other believers who accept Christ’s finished work when it comes to the guilt of their sins.

But they are still living in bondage to the presence of sin singular in their lives.

The same God who declared you justified from the guilt of your sins through Christ’s shed blood has also ruled

that, in being identified with Christ in His death to sin, you are yourselves declared righteous from sin itself!!

Once you have accepted the facts on ROM 6:1-7 ,

the presence of sin in the flesh has no more power to trouble your conscience that have your sins;

for BOTH were dealt with at the cross!