Romans 6:4-10 (NIV)

I hope you have a great day in the Lord. May God be attentive to your prayers.

Romans 6:4-10 (NIV)
4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--
7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Do you have the victory? I was trained in a school of thought that by God's help and especially by His Spirit's aid a follower of Christ can live above the circumstances of life. This is why Irwin Lutzer writes, " The Spirit’s control will replace sin’s control. His power is greater than the power of all your sin." Hence a question that use to be asked of us is "Do you have the victory." Of course the more you study this question you realize how loaded this question is for the believer. Yet it is a good question to put to ourselves. Here is another way of putting the question, "Am I living free of sin and a life fully committed to God?" Once you understand to some degree the Spirit filled life you have to come to Romans 6:4-10. Paul is saying we can be free of sin. This is not to say we don't sin, but we will be discerning enough to know when we have crossed the line and we will confess that sin. That part of us that wants our way, our wants, desires and die and let the God life live in and through us. We are no longer slaves to sin. Amen.



True triumphs are God’s triumphs over us. His defeats of us are our real victories.

Henry Alford (1810–1871)