Thinking today specifically of Romans 6 .1. Romans
6 .1 says, What shall we say then? Are we to
continue in sin so that grace may increase? Now
this comes right on the thought that Paul gave
about how the law came in so that the offense
would increase. But then where sin increased,
grace abounded all the more. So that as sin reigned
in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness
to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That's leading us up to the end of chapter 5.
The bottom line is then if you are saved, if
you are a follower of the Lord, if Jesus Christ
has paid the price for your sins, he's washed
you clean, he's regenerated you, saved your soul,
gave you a new heart, if all that's been accomplished,
then should you just keep right on sinning? Should
you just keep right on doing the things that
God would not want you to do? The answer is clearly
no. Even though grace would abound and take care
of it, that is not the point. That's not how
we're supposed to go. Verse 2 then, he says,
far from it. How shall we who died to sin sin?
still live in it. If you were baptized into Jesus
Christ, if you were baptized into him, you were
baptized into his death, he died, and then we
died. Our old self is dead and gone. We can't
keep living like that anymore. So I would encourage
you today to live right, do right, be right,
repent, turn to God, look for the strength, look
for the hope, the healing, the power that being
a Christian pertains, brings to you. Get in your
local church. Care about your brothers and sisters
in Christ enough to be there under your pastor,
listening, learning, working, growing.