Section 10
hours without sleeping. On the contrary, an em ployee would complain if he were compelled to do this. But no one at a gambling table complains of tiredness, for everyone is full of energy be cause the body is a body of sin. I have never heard a gambler say that he was tired and wanted to go home. Even if a man's wife would plead for him to come home, he would stay at the gambling table for several more hours. This indicates that the body is never tired of sinning, although it may easily tire of other things. When parents charge their children to do their homework, the children often say, "Oh, I'm too tired. Besides, I am not feeling well." But when it comes to doing some thing sinful, the body is full of energy.
Because our old man has been buried with Christ, the body of sin has lost its job. It has become of none effect because the sinning per son, the old man, has been crucified. The body is not the sinning person; it is the sinning instru ment, the means by which a person does sinful things. But now that the person has been buried, the body of sin is unemployed. This means that we are freed from sin. Since our old man has been crucified and buried with Christ, we are freed from sin. This is the main point of Ro mans 6.