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Thinking today specifically of Romans 6 .1. Romans

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6 .1 says, What shall we say then? Are we to

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continue in sin so that grace may increase? Now

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this comes right on the thought that Paul gave

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about how the law came in so that the offense

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would increase. But then where sin increased,

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grace abounded all the more. So that as sin reigned

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in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness

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to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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That's leading us up to the end of chapter 5.

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The bottom line is then if you are saved, if

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you are a follower of the Lord, if Jesus Christ

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has paid the price for your sins, he's washed

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you clean, he's regenerated you, saved your soul,

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gave you a new heart, if all that's been accomplished,

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then should you just keep right on sinning? Should

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you just keep right on doing the things that

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God would not want you to do? The answer is clearly

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no. Even though grace would abound and take care

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of it, that is not the point. That's not how

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we're supposed to go. Verse 2 then, he says,

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far from it. How shall we who died to sin sin?

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still live in it. If you were baptized into Jesus

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Christ, if you were baptized into him, you were

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baptized into his death, he died, and then we

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died. Our old self is dead and gone. We can't

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keep living like that anymore. So I would encourage

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you today to live right, do right, be right,

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repent, turn to God, look for the strength, look

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for the hope, the healing, the power that being

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a Christian pertains, brings to you. Get in your

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local church. Care about your brothers and sisters

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in Christ enough to be there under your pastor,

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listening, learning, working, growing.