NOTES for Co2 12:7-10
To change oneself and his life is exceptionally difficult. That is why, by calling for renovation, the apostle speaks such wonderful words. This thought became one of the most important in Christians’ conception of life and death. The apostle says that death frees us from obligations and links accumulated during life, first of all because we lose the possibility of practicing these links. That’s exactly why physical death, depriving from the possibility of committing sin, gives us the possibility to turn away from it. So, the words of the apostle give us the reason to say that Christians begin a new life, free of sin already now and here.
It is important, because we often think that Christians wait for a sepulchral reward or we use unbiblical representations of hell and paradise, with frying pans and stream of nectar accordingly. No, Christians, in distinction from the followers of other religions, wait for nothing. They become citizens of the kingdom of Heaven already now, that’s why this word of the apostle.