When Roman says I was crucified with Christ or I died with Christ or I was grown together with Christ in a death like his.

Then we're talking Calvary

and God looks down and sees me in Christ and I die with Christ historically

and that's the accomplishment of my

death with Christ. What does it mean to be united with Christ in his death.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Roman 6, 1 to 7 to explore the significance

of this union and its impact on our lives.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on October 1,000.000.

Verse 1. Vers 1.

2nd part of the verse, are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

And his answer, as you know, is no, may it never be.

And then he explains, how shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Dead men don't sin, that's the answer.

Then that triggers in his mind baptism.

So he says, says,

verse three,

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

have been baptized into his death?

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.

So my question is, what do we learn from baptism

in this text?

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