{"id":440,"date":"2006-01-26T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/romans_6.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:47","slug":"romans_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/romans_6.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Romans 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 6:1-11 – This is one of my favorite passages of scripture because it gives us insight into the process of salvation. I love knowing how things work, and this tells me, in part, how salvation works. By understanding that, I get a vision of what I should be where I should go and what I should do as a result.
\nWhen we are baptized, we die and are raised again, just as Jesus was. We go into the water and are buried in it, just as Jesus was buried in the ground and raised up our of it. Read the passage, that’s exactly what it says in verse 3-4:<\/p>\n

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.<\/p>\n

Romans 6:3-4, ESV<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the amazing part, to me anyway, is in verses 5-11. It is this death, our own actual death in baptism, that sets us free from sin. Dead men have no sin, they can sin no more and they can be held responsible no more. They are “set free from sin” as it says in verse 7.
\nFree.<\/em>
\nBut, usually, when one dies, their chances are over. Their turn is done, their time is up. That wasn’t true for Jesus, and it is not true for us. We die in baptism and return to life, free from sin and free from death’s dominion. Death is a line we all must cross one day, however, to the Christian, they’ve already crossed that line in baptism. They’ve willingly surrendered their life to God and willingly, under His terms, crossed the line of death.
\nYou know those movies where the bad guy chases the hero. The bad guy has the faster car and more powerful weapons, but somehow the hero stay one step ahead. The chase goes on, over hills, crashing through fences, over rough terrain and through impossible circumstances. They round a bend and the bad guy knows it leads to the drawbridge, and it’s time for the ferry to cross. The bridge will be up, and our hero will be caught. As they near the bridge, the hero floors it in a last ditch attempt, one final hope. The hero jumps his car over the opening drawbridge and the bad guy is trapped on the other side, unable to cross. He can only watch as the hero escapes to freedom.
\nAs I read this passage, I get his kind of chase in my mind. Sin has chased us all our lives, nipping at our heels, just waiting for our death so it can finally catch us and claim its victory. It is persistent, yet patient, for it knows that we will come to the line of death and at that line, it has won. What sin doesn’t expect is for us to floor it and veer suddenly right toward the line, trusting in God’s promise, jumping across to a new life in Christ. There sin stands, at that line of death, unable to cross and touch us and bring us death anymore. For the line we’ve crossed, it cannot. And because we crossed that line willingly, surrendering under God’s terms, we go on living after death, just as Jesus did. We are now free from sin to go on and live for God.
\nCall me a Church of Christ wacko, but this passage shows baptism to be an amazing, mysterious, powerful and absolutely crucial aspect of Christian life because it is the connection to the blood of Christ, to His death, to His resurrection, to His new life and it’s the portal from slavery to freedom, from death to life.<\/p>\n

We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For 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 Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

Romans 6:9-11, ESV<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How cool is that<\/em>? And, more importantly, as the rest of the chapter implores us to think about, if this is true, how should we live then? In sin? No!<\/p>\n

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.<\/p>\n

Romans 6:13, ESV<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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