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In verses eighteen to twenty-two, Paul talks about the effect of sin. Sin has caused all of the creation to fall from the perfect state in which God created it. So the world is subject to frustration and bondage to decay so that it cannot fulfill its intended purpose. one day all creation will be liberated. Until that time it waits in eager expectation for the resurrection of God’s children. We as Christians see the world as physically decaying and spiritually infected with sin, but we hope in a future glory. We look forward to the new heaven and earth that God has promised. in the meantime, we must go into the world where they heal people’s bodies and souls and fight the evil effects of sin in the world.

Romans 8:18-22
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.