The Bible Study Podcast episode 204. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of newness

with new life. Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. With this

week's episode,

I believe we will end the study on newness. This will be a seven-part series on newness,

and we're going to end with new life. It's really interesting if you look at the New Testament,

particularly and particularly the Gospel of John, how often the word life appears. In the Gospels especially,

but throughout the Bible and throughout the New Testament especially, again, that is a theme

that we keep coming back to. You'll recognize familiar verses like whoever finds their life

will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my

sake will find it from Matthew 10, verse 39. Or perhaps John 1, verse 4, in him was life, and that

life was the light of all mankind. Or at the end of the section in John 10 about the good shepherd

and his sheep, Jesus says, the thief comes only to kill and destroy. I have come that they may have

life and have it to the full. It is God's intention that we have a full life, not just a life hereafter, not just a life when we are done, not just a eternal life sort of thing, but it is my understanding that God intends that our life be better now.

Now better is a relative term, obviously, And I want to look at two particular sections of

scripture that have to do with this new life. And what is different between this new life

and that old life that we're moving away from? The first one is Romans 6. And in Romans 6 it says this, what shall we say then?

Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

By no means, we are those who have died to sin.

How can we live in it any longer?

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ

Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death

in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the Father,

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