In my insomniac state, I was thinking about a question that Paul asks in Romans 6 that just stuns me. In the little bit of research I have done the commentators don’t say much on it. Maybe someone will have some thoughts.

“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.”
(Romans 6:20-21 ESV)

Earlier Paul states that either we are slaves of sin, which leads to death or of obedience which leads to righteousness (Romans 6:16 ESV).

Several thoughts come to me about this:

• Most unsaved people do not know that they are slaves.
• Since you do not know you are a slave, they think they are free, no authority, no consequences.
• When we receive the holy spirit, we finally realize we are slaves.
• Yet we willingly go back to the slavery of sin, because of the immediate gratification.

What stuns me about the verse above is that Paul asks the perfect question, you have been living this life full of pride, greed, selfishness, lust (just name your sin) and what have you gotten from it other than shame?

What stuns me is that I now have been saved from the shame, guilt, punishment and death of my sinful life style and yet I crave to go back to my sin.

I am just thinking about application here.
If I want to complain about something… What fruit will that produce?
If I want to lust about something… What fruit will that produce?
If I want to gossip about someone… What fruit will that produce?

It is a question that I need to pray to God to bring in front of my face in every aspect of my life!