Jesus came to set us free.  There is freedom full and complete Jesus paid for that some have yet to experience.    

John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. Christ Jesus came to set us free!

But free from what?

Sin and its power

Romans 6:18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Jesus set us free from the power of sin so that we could become slaves of God.

That phrase means we were liberated from the rule of sin to be brought under the power and rule of righteousness.

Before coming to Jesus, you were ruled by your sinful nature. Even when you appeared to have some control over sinful behavior, you were still alienated from God because you were born with a sinful nature.

Behaving well or doing good deeds could not change your basic sinful nature.  But when you were placed in Christ, that nature was buried with Christ, and you were raised in new life with Christ when He was raised from the dead.

Romans 6:3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

When you become a new creation in Christ, your history goes away, and His history becomes your history.  That’s why it says that when He died, you died with Him, and when He rose from the dead, you rose with Him.  The New Creation you in Christ is a part of His righteous history.

2Corintians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Jesus set us free from sin and its power at work in us.  He also, in doing so, set us free from our past.  Jesus paid for our sins, past, present, and future.

He completely took care of all of it by removing the old dead sinful nature and giving us a new alive righteous nature.  I encourage you to remember who you are in Him.  Live today and always as that beautiful new creation Jesus made in His image—an image of the very righteousness of God.