747. Sin's Power is Broken — Romans 6:1-23

747.

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

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Today's Passage: Romans 6:1-23

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.

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7th strategy.
Repetitive Reading

• Begin by getting your heart ready to receive the words that God has laid down for us on this page. Ask Him to give you what you need to hear. Ask Him to give you the mind of Christ to be able to remember this strategy and continue it throughout the day.
• Read the passage completely. Ask God to give you one verse that resonates in your heart today.
• Write the verse down on a pad of paper, sticky note, or even on your phone in notes or your calendar.
• Pray and ask God to give you a number of times to repeat this verse throughout the day. Write that number underneath the verse.
• Or ask Him if it would be better for you to read and repeat the verse three times and then do that again later in the day. Asking how many times to have this little repetitive session and writing that down under the verse.
• Every time you repeat the verse mark a tally under the verse.
• Do this throughout the day. Try to reach your set goal or above it.
• At the end of the day attempt to speak the verse without looking at it.
• Before bed repeat the verse again either rereading it off of the paper, or quoting it from memory. Either is a glory to God.
• And remember, God gleans great pleasure when you stop and thank Him for being with your throughout your day.
  

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1. Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?
2. Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
3. Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?
4. For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

5. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.
6. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
7. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.
8. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.
9. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.
10. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.
11. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

12. Do not let sin control the way you live, do not give in to sinful desires.
13. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.
14. Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God's grace.

15. Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!
16. Don't you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.
17. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.
18. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

19. Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration or slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

20. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right.
21. And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.
22. But now you are free from the power of sin, and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.
23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our LORD.
Romans 6:1-23 NLT

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