But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
22. Ye have your fruit unto holiness, etc. As he had before mentioned a twofold end of sin, so he does now as to righteousness. Sin in this life brings the torments of an accusing conscience, and in the next eternal death. We now gather the fruit of righteousness, even holiness; we hope in future to gain eternal life.
To use the doctrine of grace as license for sin is to abuse it utterly and reject it with abhorrence. Any opinion that opens a door to practical immorality, however plausible its appeal to free grace, contradicts the truth as it is in Jesus. Sanctification consists in two things: mortification, dying to sin, and vivification, living to righteousness.
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Commenting on Romans 6:1-23
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God,.... In what sense regenerate persons are free from sin, and are become the servants of God, has been observed already; the consequence of which is, that such have their fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life: holiness is a fruit of freedom from the bondage of sin, and of serving God; holiness...