Should we live in sin? Paul clearly states that the answer is no. Why? Because we are dead to sin.

Paul says that if they don’t know they couldn’t possibly live in sin because they had died to sin, then they must not understand baptism.

Romans 6:3-6 are the verses I use to teach on baptism. Before I baptize someone, I want them to understand they are dying and resurrecting with Christ. They are going to leave their old life in the water and be raised with new life, the life of Christ by the Holy Spirit given to them.

We join ourselves to Christ. We join Him. We live together with Christ. How do we crucify our old man and put sin to death? How do we do away with sin?

By faith. We bury our old man by faith. We just believe it’s true. We believe that in baptism we buried it. We left it dead in the water.

In doing so, we are free from death.

How can we be free from death? Because we are free from sin. Sin brought death into this world. Sin brings death into this world. Jesus reversed the curse by setting us free from our slavery to sin. In Christ we are no longer slaves.

We now live as instruments of righteousness in the hands of God.

Paul points out repeatedly that because we live under grace does not mean we should sin!

We are slaves of the one we obey. If we obey sin, it will lead to death. Instead, we are to be slaves of righteousness. We are to live as if we must do what is right, we are bound to it as slaves.

If we live in righteousness, the fruit of that is holiness and everlasting life. If we live in sin, we will get our due, death. But we have in Christ the gift of eternal life, which comes through the gift of righteousness.