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**Romans 6:7** β *"For anyone who has died has been freed from sin."*
Paul wrote this to believers in Rome who still carried the weight of their former lives β men and women who wondered if the old self would always have the final word.
It will not.
To be baptized into Christ is to have passed through a legal verdict. The Greek word here, *dedikaiΕtai*, is a courtroom term β acquitted, discharged, released. Sin no longer holds jurisdiction over the one who has died with Christ.
This is not a feeling to be chased. It is a standing to be received.
Walk with that today β not as someone straining to escape the past, but as one who has already been declared free by the covenant mercy of a risen Savior.
The gavel has fallen. The sentence has been served. Let us reflect on what it means to live as those who are no longer on trial.
Paul wrote this to believers in Rome who still carried the weight of their former lives β men and women who wondered if the old self would always have the final word.
It will not.
To be baptized into Christ is to have passed through a legal verdict. The Greek word here, *dedikaiΕtai*, is a courtroom term β acquitted, discharged, released. Sin no longer holds jurisdiction over the one who has died with Christ.
This is not a feeling to be chased. It is a standing to be received.
Walk with that today β not as someone straining to escape the past, but as one who has already been declared free by the covenant mercy of a risen Savior.
The gavel has fallen. The sentence has been served. Let us reflect on what it means to live as those who are no longer on trial.