Romans 6:21, Sin Causes Shame

Romans 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

The Apostle Paul is urging the Christians in Rome to choose to live holy lives. Sin causes shame. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit, they were guilt-ridden. They realized that they were naked. Sewed fig leaves to cover their shame yet it did not soothe their conscience. This was God’s warning to them before they fell into sin – Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Indeed, Adam and Eve did not escape God’s judgement for sin. Physical death and spiritual death befell them. The Apostle Paul is reminding the Christians in Rome that the way of sin has dire consequences. A terrible price to pay. Do not go that way now that you have been freed. The Apostle Paul is providing a clear warning to awaken his reader just as Jesus said in  Matthew 7:24-27 “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.“

May God help us to yield to the teaching of His Word for our eternal spiritual benefit. Amen.