Why sanctification is an execution, not a murder

Paul doesn’t say to “kill” the old Adam in you. He says rather to “put to death” the earthly members, the deeds of the body.

This language refers to execution by an authorized agent (even if that authority is being misused in some cases). You carry out a death sentence on your sinful habits and desires.

And you carry out that sentence first and foremost by understanding that the death of Jesus was the death sentence against your sin. You are free from sin definitively by God’s judicial action in history so that you might behave free from sin in your life.

That’s Romans 6 as I understand it.

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