Objection: Romans 8:10 Tells You That Your Body Is Dead Because of Sin

While this is a true statement, it leaves you hanging, but the context of the verse does not.  If you stop at the end of the verse, you could conclude that you have no right to healing in this life because you don’t have a glorified body yet, which is the point that the objector was trying to make.

But if you continue on, you’ll find out something important that undoes the objection!

Romans 8:10-13:
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:  but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

You’ll see that even though your body is spiritually dead (the point – it’s not your physically dead body!) and your spirit is alive, the Holy Spirit will impart God’s life to your subject-to-death (mortal) body!  In other words, even though your body is dead to spiritual things, the Holy Spirit will still infuse divine life into it.

This is talking about this current life – not the hereafter.  If you’ve heard this verse preached at a funeral, you’ve heard it preached out of context unless the preacher was conducting a graveside healing service for the benefit of the living.  The divine life is infused into your mortal (subject to death) body, not your dead body!  For further proof, see the answer to the objection that Romans 8:11 refers to the resurrection.