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Romans 6:1-23 (MSG)

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¹ So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? ² I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? ³ Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace--a new life in a ⁴ When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. ⁵ Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country. ⁶ Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life--no longer at sin's every beck and call! What we believe is this: ⁷ (SEE 6:6) ⁸ If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. ⁹ We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. ¹⁰ When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. ¹¹ From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did. ¹² That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day. ¹³ Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time--remember, you've been raised from the dead!--into God's way of doing things. ¹⁴ Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God. ¹⁵ So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? ¹⁶ Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never qu ¹⁷ But thank God you've started listening to a new master, ¹⁸ one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom! ¹⁹ I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing--not caring about others, not caring about God--the worse your life became and the less freedo ²⁰ As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. ²¹ But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end. ²² But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! ²³ Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.


Topics with this scripture:
(v. 2) Self-Denial / Sacrifice - We died to sin
(v. 3-5) Baptism / Conversions - Buried with Christ in baptism
(v. 7) Self-Denial / Sacrifice - Anyone who has died has been freed from sin
(v. 23) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Wages of sin is death

Answers with scripture:
(v. 23) What is the punishment of sin? For the wages of sin is death

Personal Studies with scripture:
(v. 1-23) Sin and Repentance - Kansas City (part III) (2011-02-16)
(v. 1-18) Getting Started (part I) (2011-11-19)
(v. 1-4) Baptism into Christ (part I) (2010-12-29)
(v. 4) Waking Dead - Arm Yourselves (part 2) (2010-08-05)
(v. 4) 30 Days at the Cross - Never Forget (2008-08-21)
(v. 5) Kingdom First - True Companions (2010-01-13)
(v. 5-11) Grace (part II) (2011-11-26)
(v. 6-7) Mind of Christ - About Self (part VIII) (2011-07-24)
(v. 11) Waking Dead - Life to the Full (2010-08-23)
(v. 13) Purpose Driven Life - The Reason for Everything (2008-05-28)
(v. 14) Blessings In Christ (part VII) (2012-03-11)
(v. 15-23) Sin (part II) (2010-12-22)
(v. 16) Waking Dead - Deep Restoration (part 5) (2010-09-08)
(v. 17) Mind of Christ - Intro (part V) (2011-06-12)
(v. 17) To Live is Christ - Enemies of the Cross (2010-03-20)
(v. 18) Names of the Believers (part XII) (2011-05-12)
(v. 22) Mission - First the Kingdom (2010-12-03)
(v. 22) Blessings In Christ (part II) (2012-03-06)
(v. 23) Contagious Christian - Making the Message Clear (part III) (2010-11-18)

Group Studies with scripture:
(v. 16) Sermon: Being prepared by God (2015-08-23)

This passage is referenced in the following documents(s):
(v. 4-22) Blessing In Jesus Christ (2025-01-26)
(v. 17) Reasons God is Good (2025-03-16)
(v. 18) Names of the Believers (2025-01-26)

Definition(s):
Jesus (Jeez-us): savior; deliverer
Sin (Seen): bush