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10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Paul has just finished writing about the fallen human state after the sin of Adam and Eve -- how their disobedience brought spiritual and physical death. Although it was such a terrible fall that humans could no longer please God at all (v. 8), Jesus did please God through His obedient and sinless life and atoning sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary. And the wonder is that through our receiving of Christ by faith, we have actually received His very presence in our hearts and bodies. He abides with us, even as we abide in Him. Even though the Fall completely toppled and paralyzed us so that sin will always be possible and sometimes deceitfully appealing this side of heaven, we now have a much more powerful presence abiding in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. And it is through the Spirit that we are intimately connected with Christ who is the head of the Church. So then, the Spirit is the source of our experience of eternal life in Jesus. Through Him we are brought into union with Christ so that we may share in His righteousness, thereby putting to death the passions of our sinful desires as we behold and are powerfully held and led by the Lord Jesus Himself.

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