Good morning. We are going to look at some things in Romans today. Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? Are you crazy dude? I'm sure that's the true translation of what Paul said. How shall we who died to sin still live in it? All who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death. And we know that dead people don't sin. Then after dying you are buried. Why? That as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Christ did not die and then stay dead – He arose. We too don't stay dead. We are to walk in newness of life. If we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection ... we should no longer be slaves to sin. It does not mean that we will never sin; but that we won't be slaves to sin. We can choose to sin or not. We won't be made to sin. If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. And just like the life that Christ lives He lives to God, so too the life that we live should be to God. We need to consider ourselves to be dead to sin. Too many times Christian say "I couldn't help myself", or "that's just the way I am". No – that is the way we were, not the way we are. We should not go on acting like we are sinners. We present ourselves to God as those alive from the dead. Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? You know the answer to that. We have been freed from sin and become slaves of righteousness! Father thank You that the reader is not a slave of sin but of righteousness. He/she walks in newness of life.

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