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The Promises of God: Part CCXLIX
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Jun 26, 2025
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:1-4
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:1-4
Many of the sacraments of the Christian church have been turned into dead rituals, such as baptism and communion; others, such as the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the gifts, have been done away with by the churches, saying that they have passed away!
Baptism, however, is our death to sin, our burial of the old man, and the resurrection of the New Man into new life! When one is born again, he becomes a new creation; old things (habitual sin) pass away, and all things become new! The old man is dead, buried, and hopefully forgotten, never to rise again!
The new man is to walk in the Spirit, being filled with Holy Spirit power and fully operating the gifts of the Spirit! Nothing has passed away except our sins and iniquities. We have been transformed from an old man steeped in sin to a New Man set free from the bondage of sin.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:5-11
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
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