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Messages by Desiring God

Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase?

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2000

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.

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0:00.0

Open to Romans chapter 6 verses 1 to 14.

0:07.0

What shall we say then?

0:10.0

Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

0:14.1

May it never be.

0:16.1

How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

0:19.9

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized

0:25.2

into his death?

0:27.8

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

0:39.0

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection.

0:48.8

Knowing this that our old self was crucified with him in order that our body of sin might be done away with so that we

0:55.1

would no longer be slaves to sin.

0:58.7

For he who has died is freed from sin.

1:02.0

Now if we have died with Christ we believe that we shall also live with

1:05.3

him knowing that Christ having been raised from the dead is never to die

1:09.2

again. Death no longer is master over him. For the death that he died, he died to sin once and for all.

1:18.8

But the life that he lives, he lives to God. Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ

1:27.6

Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you may so that you obey its

1:34.4

lust and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as

1:39.1

instruments of unrighteousness but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead and

1:44.7

your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

1:48.7

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

1:55.0

Father, there's no other place we'd rather be than under Grace.

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