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We who died with Christ       [Romans 6:1-14]                        Look at Romans 6:5a – “For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, ….”   “His death” here refers to the death of Jesus Christ.   Why did the sinless Jesus die?   Look at Romans 5:10a – “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, ….”   The purpose of the death of Jesus, who was sinless, was that we might be reconciled to God.   Look at 1 John 4:10 – “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”   The purpose why God loved us, who were His enemies, and sent His Son Jesus Christ as the propitiation was to make atonement for our sins.   If we look again at Romans 6:5a, the Bible says, “For if we have become united with Him in the liken...

We who died to sin       [Romans 6:1-14]       Look at Romans 6:1-2: “What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?  May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?”  Here, we have to think the phrase “grace may increase” in terms of the second half of Romans 5:20, “… where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”  Here, where sin increased, grace abounded more abundantly, which means grace abounded to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ (v. 21).  The Apostle Paul told the Roman church members that they should not continue to sin in order to receive more of this grace (6:1).  In other words, he was saying that we should not continue to sin more in order to receive more grace that leads to eternal life.  Paul said “May it never be!” (v. 2).  It was because we are already dead to sin (v. 2).   Look at Romans 6:3-4: “Or do you not know t...