When you give your life to Jesus, a radical change takes place. It will probably take some time to work its way outward, but you have become something different than you were before. Jesus called it being born again. We symbolize that change through the ritual of baptism in water, the old gone and buried, the new raised to new life. We often make reference to the language Paul used in Roman 6:3-4 as we perform the baptism.

But this illustration is given in the service of a broader point that Paul is making. Verse 2 says in part, "How shall we who died to sin still live in it?" Having now been set free from the rule of sin, we must intentionally throw off its chains. We must now choose to serve life instead of death. Join us as we continue our study with verses 8-14.