Unfortunately, most of us know more about our failure than our freedom.

And sadly, many Christians are trapped in a cycle of guilt and shame, constantly keeping

track of their sins while missing the revolutionary gift of grace.

But today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall explains how we've been liberated from sin's power through Christ's death and resurrection. Even so, we often choose to remain imprisoned in old patterns.

In today's study, we'll discover how to replace spiritual defeat with daily victory

and how to trade our exhausting preoccupation with shame for the empowering reality of grace.

Romans 6 includes a passage that is unfortunately not known that well by God's people,

and it should be. For a few moments, I want you to simply listen to the reading of God's word

from the first 14 verses of Romans 6.

What shall we say then, are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

May it never be?

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

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

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,

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 would no might be done away with, so that we would no

longer be slaves to sin.

For he who has died is freed from sin.

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

that Christ, having been raised

from the dead, is never to die again. Death no longer is master over him. For the death that he died,

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