This wonderful freedom from sin and death, as stated in Ro 8:2, is available to whom? That well-known verse, John 3:16, states that whosoever believes in the Son of God should not perish but have everlasting life. The first criterion for freedom from sin and death is that a person believes in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. The non-believer does not share in this promise of everlasting life.
The second criterion for this freedom from sin and death is an understanding that the Word of God, including this verse, is true and is applicable to the believer's life.
And thirdly, even while believing that God grants freedom from sin, a believer must choose to live in this freedom rather than to continue living in sin. In Ephesians 4:17-20, the Apostle Paul told the gentile believers at Ephesus, "... henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ."
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