When we think about sin, we don't think of ourselves as dead. We think of ourselves as having made mistakes, but usually nothing fatal. They were bad choices, things we could have done better, but it's the same that everyone else is doing, right? Dead seems extreme. As a society, we proclaim that as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, it's probably okay.
Paul is reminding us that sin is far more serious than that. Sin has caused a permanent rift between us and God, one that we cannot fix on our own. Without a solution, we are dead, and we need to take this seriously. We can't drift on autopilot just assuming that it is fine... sin has created a problem, and we need a solution.
Fortunately, God came up with a solution. We were dead, but as Scripture shows us, death isn't the end of the story. As someone once said, Christ turns death into a gardener, planting seeds that will grow up into something beautiful, something wonderful, something lively. Thanks be to God that despite our sin, we have hope for life because of what God has done.
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