What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:1-11, NRSV)
We might no longer be enslaved to sin…
This is a huge statement. We are no longer enslaved to sin if we are in Christ. Our old self was crucified with Him and we have risen to a new life in Him and can not continue on sinning…
So how many of us still sin?
If you said you don’t that is a sin! We are all still quite alive in our flesh and so we are sinners, and sin daily. But if we have put on Christ we are also dead to the life of sin and saints of God. We are new creations and the new fights with the old creations. We are at battle with ourselves to live the life He has called us to.
It is not possible for us to live sinless lives and on our own we are completely worthless sinners, yet if we hold to the promises that He died for us. Yes He died for you when you were so far gone He could not even look upon you. If we believe that and hold to the promise of our being raised with Him in a resurrection like His, we are new creations living daily with Him, and showing forth His love to all the world!
So know you are a new creation and live so that the world see Him instead of you!
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