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Romans 6:4

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By being baptized, we were buried with Christ into his death. Christ has been raised from the dead by the Father’s glory. And like Christ we also can live a new life.

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Then Jesus said, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you will see God’s glory?”

What Jesus did here in Cana in Galilee was the first of his signs. Jesus showed his glory by doing this sign. And his disciples believed in him.

But God raised him from the dead. He set him free from the suffering of death. It wasn’t possible for death to keep its hold on Jesus.

God has raised this same Jesus back to life. We are all witnesses of this.

Because you are human, you find this hard to understand. So I am using an everyday example to help you understand. You used to give yourselves to be slaves to unclean living. You were becoming more and more evil. Now give yourselves to be slaves to right living. Then you will become holy.

All of us were baptized into Christ Jesus. Don’t you know that we were baptized into his death?

We died with Christ. So we believe that we will also live with him.

We know that Christ was raised from the dead and will never die again. Death doesn’t control him anymore.

But now we have died to what used to control us. We have been set free from the law. Now we serve in the new way of the Holy Spirit. We no longer serve in the old way of the written law.

The Spirit of the God who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you. So the God who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your bodies. He will do this because of his Spirit who lives in you.

By his power God raised the Lord from the dead. He will also raise us up.

It is true that Christ was nailed to the cross because he was weak. But Christ lives by God’s power. In the same way, we share his weakness. But by God’s power we will live with Christ as we serve you.

When anyone lives in Christ, the new creation has come. The old is gone! The new is here!

Here is what I’m telling you. I am speaking for the Lord as I warn you. You must no longer live as the Gentiles do. Their thoughts don’t have any purpose.

At one time you were in the dark. But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has done. Live like children of the light.

You have started living a new life. Your knowledge of how that life should have the Creator’s likeness is being made new.

Masters, give your slaves what is right and fair. Do it because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

The water of the flood is a picture. It is a picture of the baptism that now saves you too. This baptism has nothing to do with removing dirt from your body. Instead, it promises God that you will keep a clear sense of right and wrong. This baptism saves you by the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

Those who claim to belong to him must live just as Jesus did.




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