No “joy” from sin?
Rom 6:2 - How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? I’ve heard it said that the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is that the Christian gets no “joy” when they sin. The idea is that the Christian is still a sinner, as they were before redemption, but now it bothers them and they feel a sense of remorse after they engage in it. Many take comfort in that feeling of remorse and take it as a sign that they are indeed saved, the children of God, and everything is fine. This is a far cry from what the Apostle Paul said about what our conviction and attitude against sin should be in Romans 6 - How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Rom 6:2). Paul doesn’t address the remorse over sin as if it’s some kind of virtue, he addresses the continuing living in and engaging in sin as the real problem. In fact he states that really we are the slaves of whichever one we obey: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves serv...