The text for today's message is found in Romans, the sixth chapter,

verses 1 through 14.

What shall we say then?

Are we to continue in sin that grace might 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 in order that 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

be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old self was crucified

with him and that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should 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, he died to sin once for all, but the life

that he lives he lives to guide. Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lust. And do not go on presenting

the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves

to God as those alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Amen.

Father in heaven come now afresh for a special anointing for the word. You have been with

us in this service till now and have applied truth to us in song and prayer and you have

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