Dead to Sin, alive in Christ

 Romans 6:1-14

We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 

But rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

Since God has provided a way for sins to be forgiven, 'shall we persist in sin, so that there may be all the more grace?' What an absurd idea! Christians are 'joined' to Christ, sharing his death and resurrection. Baptism - going down into the water - signifies that the old life is dead and buried. We come up out of the water to begin a new life. We were dead to God before; now we are alive to him. Sin's stranglehold is broken. We must live in light of that new freedom.

Why?
For we are dead with Jesus Christ and live with Christ when he was raised from the dead. Sin won't reign over us but belong to Jesus Christ.

Do not let sin reign in our mortal body, so we have some struggle in our body when we turn to Christ. For our body is flesh. Rely on the grace of Jesus Chris to overcome this challenge.

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我們在罪上死了，不是到此為止，而是還要在基督裏活起來。形狀活起來，就是有耶穌的形像。

向罪死了，基督進入罪惡的權勢，復活即打敗罪惡的權勢。對罪死了，就是罪不能再影響他，沒有反應的，對神的話語、勤勉、帶領是有反應的。

受洗與基督教聯合，我們不能只活一半，要有新生命的樣式向神活著，不能在罪中有份。為何人還會有人還被罪勝過?因為人身子的私慾。我們要向罪完全的死透，才能重生。我們受洗若只是想得永生，也是自己想得到，滿足私慾的罪

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How?

We must live in the light pf that new freedom, for we are bind with Jesus Christ. There is a new life in my body.