A WORD ABOUTBIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS USEDFor the sake of readability & getting at what I believe to be the truest essence of the text, I’m using a combination of the:

* NRSV* The Kingdom New Testament

THE SERMON-IN-A-SENTENCE

Your old JERK landlord no longer gets to tell you what to do & you can prove it!

ROMANS 6

What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into The Messiah were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as The Messiah was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:1-4

For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we will certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with The Messiah, we believe that we will also live with Him.

Romans 6:5-8

We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. 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 The Messiah, Jesus.

Romans 6:9-11

Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:12-14

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to final vindication? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were committed, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of God’s covenant purposes.

Romans 6:15-18

(I am speaking in human terms because of your natural human weakness.) For just as you once presented your limbs andorgans as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to covenant justice which leads to holiness.

Romans 6:19

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to covenant justice. But what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is the fruit of holiness. It’s destination is the life of the age to come. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is the life of the age to come in The Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:20-23

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Hello, my name is regretI'm pretty sure we have metEvery single day of your life

I'm the whisper insideThat won't let you forget

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Hello, my name is defeatI know you recognize me

Just when you think you can winI'll drag you right back down again

'Til you've lost all belief

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These are the voices, these are the liesAnd I have believed them, for the very last time…

Hello, my name is Child of the One True KingI've been saved, I've been changed, and I have been set free

"Amazing Grace" is the song I singHello, my name is Child of the One True King

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I am no longer definedBy all the wreckage behind

The one who makes all things newHas proven it's true

Just take a look at my life

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Hello, my name is Child of the One True KingI've been saved, I've been changed, and I have been set free

"Amazing Grace" is the song I singHello, my name is Child of the One True King

SOUL TRAININGEXERCISEIn light of today’s message:

Prayerfully commit yourself to sign upfor our Spring baptism ceremony

Grab (or download) a copy of the“Who I Am In Christ” list & read it daily

When faced with temptation this week,say, “I am dead to sin, but alive in Jesus!”