Romans 6:20-22

So we have been given a chance here, we have been given an opportunity to live like God lives and those past sins have been forgiven, taken away, totally removed. We are no longer to go back to lawlessness or uncleanness. But we have to present our members, we have to present our bodies, all our functions, all our faculties now as slaves of right doing so that we can be cleaned up, made pure, sanctified, so we are like Jesus Christ.

Now that you have become a slave of God, and sin is, I will not say not a problem, but it is conquerable through Jesus Christ, then we can see that it produces good things. Yes, it will produce sanctification. It will produce holiness in our life. We will live righteously. And the end, it is so good—everlasting life. We have that hope of everlasting life because we have, through God, made ourselves slaves of Him and His righteousness. We have cooperated that far and if we just keep on going we can see that glorious end and have the hope of the resurrection and all the good things that come with it.

That is so much better than death. I mean, the rewards for being a slave of righteousness are so much better than being a slave of sin. I mean, that is comparing everything with nothing, right? What do you have in death? Nothing, zilch. (I sound like my dad.) But otherwise, if we are slaves of righteousness, then we have the Kingdom of God to look forward to.

Romans 6:22

The Days of Unleavened Bread explains and memorializes the second major step in salvation, that is, our sanctification. The first significant step is the justification that Passover pictures. Verse 22 gives us a three-step process to eternal liberty and everlasting life.

First, Jesus Christ liberates us from sin. Second, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we serve God in obedience to the law of liberty. And third, in liberty from sin, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we produce righteous fruit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control, and all the other wonderful attributes of God that we are to imitate and internalize.