Romans: Lesson 11 – Alive to God

Romans: Lesson 11 – Alive to God

Do Not Be Burned! Always Find and Be in Him

Scripture Focus: Romans 6:1-11 (NASB)

In this powerful and clarifying lesson, Chris Pope addresses a critical question: If grace abounds where sin increases, should we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Paul's answer is emphatic: Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Chris explains that through our baptism into Christ, we were baptized into His death and raised to walk in newness of life. Our old self was crucified with Him so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.

Chris warns us not to be burned by continuing in the very things Christ died to save us from. Instead, we are called to find our life in Him and to remain in Him. We are to consider ourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. This lesson challenges us to live in the reality of our new identity and to walk in the freedom that Christ has purchased for us.

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Scripture Focus:

Romans 6:1-11 (NASB) – "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, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for the one 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 time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."