The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I have wanted to do a series on Romans chapter 8 for a while.

This is one of the greatest chapters in all of

Holy Scripture, and we're going to begin that next Sunday. But as a preparation for that,

we need to know a little bit about the chapters that come before. So that is why I read chapter 7,

and I will now read a portion from even chapter 6. So open your Bible to Romans chapter 6.

This is going to be a very important series for all of us as we understand the believers

battle with sin better so that we can be victorious through our Lord.

I want to have you look at the opening of chapter 6 and I want to read the first seven verses.

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

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