Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to a year in the Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hey, everyone. So today,

we're going to be making the Christ connection between the two passages we've discussed so far this

week, Judges 2, 10 through 19, and Romans 6, 15 through 23. Alexa, do you want to start our conversation

about this connection? Yes. So just as a reminder about the Book of Romans, Paul wrote the book of Romans to the church at Rome, who were struggling with how to live as followers of Christ, in particular when it came to abiding by the law. In Romans 6, Paul addresses the question of if Christians have license to sin because they are no longer under the law, but under Christ's grace. In the beginning of Romans 6,

Paul addresses this question, should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? He then goes on to

teach that because we have been crucified with Christ and our old selves are dead and gone. We no

longer live like our old selves. Because we have been set free from our sin, we no longer walk in our sin.

And so Paul continues this conversation in Romans 6, 15 through 23 by speaking more about the

freedom that we have in Christ. He uses the language of slavery to describe how believers are to

still walk in obedience to God's law, even though they have been saved by Christ.

Yeah, you know, the language of slavery, it might seem kind of confusing or jarring to our audience.

So do you want to explain why Paul is using that language?

Absolutely. It can be hard for us to read the words of being slaves to God since our modern day

understanding of slavery raises a red flag for us in our minds, as it should.

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