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Good morning, Church.

My name is Brooke Leadbetter and I serve on the production team and doesn't care

advocate. This morning we're reading Roman 6-1-11.

What shall we say then? Are we to continue and sin that grace may

abound? By no means. How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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

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

into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory

of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be

united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was

crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing so

that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set

free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live

with him. We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.

Death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died, he died to sin

once for all. But the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider

yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Jesus Christ. This is the word of the

Lord. Thanks be to God. Thanks bro. Well good morning. It's good to see you. We're

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