ALIVE
Sunday, April 8th, 2012What shall we say, then?
Shall we go on sinning so
that grace may increase?
By no means! We 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.
If we have been united with Him like
this in His death, we will certainly also
be united with Him in His resurrection.
For we know that our old self was crucified
with Him so that the body of sin might be
done away with, that we should no longer
be slaves to sin- because anyone who has
died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that
we will also live with Him.
For we know that sine Christ was raised
from the dead, He cannot die again;
death no longer has mastery over Him.
The death He died, He died to sin once
for all; but the life He lives, He lives to
God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead
to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal
body so that you obey its evil desires.
Do not offer the parts of your bodies to sin,
as instruments of wickedness, but rather
offer yourselves to God, as those who have
been brought from death to life; and offer
the parts of your body as instruments of
righteousness. For sin shall not be your
master, because you are not under law,
but under grace.
(Romans 6.1-14).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!