Romans 6

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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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.

⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

The word says here in verse 6 that our old self was crucified with Christ. This means he bore our sin and shame FOR US. So we are now new creations because we died to our former fleshly desires and are alive in Christ’s new life and desires for us.

Therefore, must not claim sin as our own. We must not wear it proudly and profess that this is who we are after Jesus christ died for us to receive victory and freedom from the bandages of sin.

The word says we should not continue in sin just because grace now abounds, that is taking God’s grace for granted which will not happen forever. When we sin we are to ask for forgiveness and repent. Note I said when, because yes we are new creations through Christ’s death but we are still flesh and we mess up. The point here is not to stay there, but to continually crucify the desires of the flesh so that sin does not rule in our bodies but that we can live in the delivering power Christ died for us to have.

It is a step by step journey but if your heart’s desires are on him, he is helping you already.

ROMANS 6 :8-18

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 7

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Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Be free, let us consciously live with the understanding that we are no longer bound slaves to sin, let us remember the ultimate sacrifice of love that christ died so that we don’t have to carry those burdens.

Let’s face it, sin only makes us feel worse, miserable and very heavy.

Lay them down and walk in the newness of who you are as a child of God.