Romans chapter six is where we're going to be today. If you have your Bibles there now, I'm going to read the first 14 verses from Romans chapter six starting at verse one.

Paul writes, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not. How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us

as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we were buried with him

through baptism into death that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should

walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of his death,

certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that our old man

was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away

with that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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

having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer

has dominion over him. For the death that he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life

that he lives, he lives to God. Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin,

but alive to God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Therefore, do not let sin reign

in your mortal body that you should obey it in its lusts, and do not present your members as

instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead,

and your members as instruments of righteousness

to God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

All right.

Your attention for a moment, Paul ends chapter 5, if you were here last week, with the statement that where sin abounds,

grace abounds even more. And what he said there in chapter 5 was that no matter what the level

of our sin or the depth of it, that God's grace is greater still and he can forgive any of our sins.

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