Romans 6:21-23 - What good does sin do you?

6:21

What good did sin do you? There is a myth that in denying us the “right” to sin God is denying us something good. This is not true. When we say that homosexuality or transgenderism are not good we are accused of being homophobic or transphobic. This is not true. Homosexuality and transgenderism are not good and are not good for us, and nor is any sexual immorality. The gospel seeks to set us free from sin. Drunkenness and drugs are not good for us. Greed is not good for us, hatred and bitterness are not good for us. Nor, by the way, is our sin good for other people. Sin brings shame and it brings death. Sometimes it brings physical death, it always brings spiritual death.

6:22

Now things have changed. We have been set free from sin and are “slaves” of God. That is the benefit of the gospel, it is what the gospel is all about. So once we lived a life dictated by sin. Now we live a life guided by God, we live for Him. This has great benefits for our lives, it leads to holiness and eternal life. Now this does not mean that we earn eternal life by it, but that it produces eternal life. Eternal life is to do with the nature and quality of life as well as the never-endingness of life. We will notice changes within ourselves.

6:23

So the situation is this. The wages of sin are death, the gift of God is eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ. Sin leads to death, death is the product of sin, it is what we get for sinning. In the gospel God freely gives us the gift of eternal life, and that is life lived in and for Christ Jesus. If you still think sinning is a desirable or viable option then you have zero understanding of what the gospel is about, or what life is about.