As we close out chapter 6, Paul is reminding us that our new life in Christ frees us, but it frees us to rightly put ourselves under the lordship of Christ. And the new hearts that Christ gives us, now have the ability to choose life or choose death as we are being sanctified by his Spirit.

There is tremendous, needed freedom and power found in discovering the greatness of your forgiveness.

We have gained the true opportunity to live with and for God today by dying with Christ on the Cross. The old master is dead!

Baptism is the whole hearted… whole bodied statement of the absolute end of my old self by my death happening with Jesus’s death. I am no longer the old me. I am now unified with Christ and there is not a single category of my life aside from that. The new life of living with God is our new life and it is, as promised.. the sweetest, deepest, richest life. God gives us three calls to action to live in this new freedom for God.

Look at the horrible situation that we all existed in and then how powerfully, thoroughly and magnificently Jesus crushed the whole situation and brought us far greater good out if it than we started with.

This week we look at Paul’s words to the church from Ephesians 4. God has put us together to walk with one another and help each other grow up by his Spirit as we speak the truth to one another in love.

God’s people is a spiritual and true family of His adopted children saved by grace, away from sin and to good and zealousness to implement and express it in good works.

As we continue in Romans chapter 5, we see how God’s radical and steadfast love for his people is different than what we might come to expect. His love rescues us, changes us, and keeps us as we seek to love others with the same kind of love that God shows us

The sweet grace of Christ is not primarily escape from the penalty of our sin, but rather escape from the darkness of sin itself and, in its place, having hearts able to see, long for and take confidence in the superior wonder of God.