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Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his (v. 5).
WE DON'T GET UNLIMITED TIME, BUT...
Imagine that you were given a jar of coffee beans, and you were told that the number of beans in that jar is the same as the number of days you have to live.
Each day you would take a bean out of the jar, and you would see that the number of days you have left to live getting smaller and smaller until you were left with only one bean.
How would that make you feel?
In this life, we don't get unlimited time. We only get a certain number of beans (i.e., days).
When that reality finally hits us, we might start to panic and say to ourselves, ''I haven't done everything I want to do!''
Life then becomes all about me. ''I don't have time to live for God!''
For those who are troubled by the brevity of life, the Bible has a comforting promise: ''We [i.e., people who have put their trust in Christ] shall certainly be united with [Christ] in a resurrection like his'' (v. 5).
There's a connection between living now in ''newness of life'' and believing in a future resurrection.
DO YOU HAVE THE DESIRE TO LIVE IN NEWNESS OF LIFE?
''Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more'' (5:20). No matter how great our sin is, God's grace is greater. So, ''Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?'' (v. 1). Paul answers, ''By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?'' (v. 2). To say to God, ''I'm going to live however I want to live, and you'll keep on forgiving me'' is the ultimate insult.
Paul says that we ''died to sin.'' When did that ha ...
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his (v. 5).
WE DON'T GET UNLIMITED TIME, BUT...
Imagine that you were given a jar of coffee beans, and you were told that the number of beans in that jar is the same as the number of days you have to live.
Each day you would take a bean out of the jar, and you would see that the number of days you have left to live getting smaller and smaller until you were left with only one bean.
How would that make you feel?
In this life, we don't get unlimited time. We only get a certain number of beans (i.e., days).
When that reality finally hits us, we might start to panic and say to ourselves, ''I haven't done everything I want to do!''
Life then becomes all about me. ''I don't have time to live for God!''
For those who are troubled by the brevity of life, the Bible has a comforting promise: ''We [i.e., people who have put their trust in Christ] shall certainly be united with [Christ] in a resurrection like his'' (v. 5).
There's a connection between living now in ''newness of life'' and believing in a future resurrection.
DO YOU HAVE THE DESIRE TO LIVE IN NEWNESS OF LIFE?
''Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more'' (5:20). No matter how great our sin is, God's grace is greater. So, ''Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?'' (v. 1). Paul answers, ''By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?'' (v. 2). To say to God, ''I'm going to live however I want to live, and you'll keep on forgiving me'' is the ultimate insult.
Paul says that we ''died to sin.'' When did that ha ...
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