Freedom From

Being locked into anything means bondage to it, something that someone else often has to free us from.

Accordingly, Paul speaks of “crucifying” the sinful body, no longer being a “slave” to sin, dying to sin and being “dead” in it (Romans 6:6, 7, 11), not being under the perfection necessity that law-keeping in theory requires.

This freedom from “slavery” to the consequences of sin comes, not from ourselves, but from the One sinned against, from the One who completed his righteousness before the Father. So now the Father is willing to view us as like him, to free us from sin and its consequences, because we have committed ourselves to him who in his righteousness died to sin.