<p>6:12&nbsp;<i>Therefore do not l</i><em>et not sin reign&nbsp;</em>- We are to live out in practice the status we have in Christ. &ldquo;Sin shall not reign over you&rdquo; (6:14); but we must therefore make an effort to not let sin reign. Likewise in Rom. 8:9,12: &ldquo;You are not in the flesh&hellip; do not live according to the flesh&rdquo;.</p><p><em>In your mortal body</em>- Having said that &ldquo;the body of sin&rdquo; is to be destroyed (6:6) and that we are to live in the sphere of Christ rather than Adam, we have changed masters and should live and feel like that, Paul reminds us that our body is still mortal- reminding us that we are still awaiting the change of body which is to come at the final judgment when Christ returns.</p><p><em>That you should obey the lusts of it</em>- There are within the human body the natural passions / desires to sin, &ldquo;the passion of the flesh&rdquo; (Gal. 5:16). They aren&rsquo;t sinful in themselves- for the Lord Jesus was sinless and yet had our same &ldquo;mortal body&rdquo;. But the fact they are the source of sin and are within our bodies explains why there is such a strong connection between sin and our bodies, leading to expressions such as &ldquo;the body of sin&rdquo; (6:6) and &ldquo;sinful flesh&rdquo; (8:3). But this isn&rsquo;t to say that the body is itself sinful or that it&rsquo;s somehow a sin to be human.</p>