TOPIC: WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE
TEXT: Romans 6:3-11(NKJV)
- 6:3. Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
- 6:4. Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- 6:5. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be [in the likeness] of [His] resurrection,
- 6:6. knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [Him,] that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
- 6:7. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
- 6:8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
- 6:9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
- 6:10. For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God.
- 6:11. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
STUDY:
Apostle Paul’s assertion in verse 3, ‘Know ye not’, sounds as if these Roman Christians were not taught the spiritual implications of the Baptism which they had received and the obligations expected of them thereafter.
Some of these spiritual realities that take place at Baptism are:
(i) we are dead with Christ
(ii) We have resurrected with him
(iii) Our old man is crucified with him
(iv) We are dead to sin, and
(v) We shall live with Christ (vv. 4-10).
The expected response from these spiritual realities therefore is that we should walk in newness of that new life we have received. Be no more slaves to sin, and live unto God henceforth (vv. 4, 6, 10-11). Many people view Christian baptism as a mere fulfilment of all righteousness and so do not live in confidence of the spiritual realities we mentioned earlier.
The advice for us remains that we must learn to live to meet the expectations God has of us as a result of our Baptism by walking in the newness of life Christ has imputed in us, everywhere we find ourselves, so that when Christ shall appear, we shall also appear before him spotless (I John 3:3-10).
PRAYER:
Lord, enable me to no longer serve sin, but walk in the newness of the glorious life and salvation I have received in Christ Jesus, Amen!
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