Romans 6:1-4

Romans 6:1-4 (NIV)
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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.

What we are doing is going over the core of the book of Romans. If we are to have victory over sin and live a life fully devoted to Spirit living, then we must understand the truths that are in Romans 5,6, and 8. We have a nagging problem and it is this propensity to go wayward from God. We want to go it alone or find our own way. The Lord is our Shepherd and we must let Him shepherd us. A profound truth is that if you come to know Christ as your savior and Lord then you have died to sin. This means sin no longer has advantage over you. You no longer have to listen to what it says. The language that sin speaks is a foreign language and a follower of Christ no longer knows that language. We are dead to sin. A follower of Christ has been raised to a new life. God wants us to live that new life in Him. The new life is full of possibilities and of transformation. Their is no secret to this new way of living, but there are truths that we must apply to our lives. Here is one of them.

Romans 6:11-14 (NIV)
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

We must yield ourselves to the Lord. We must let God have absolute control over our lives in every area at all times. This really comes down to one word and that is obedience to God. Either we our obeying the Lord or we are not obeying the Lord. Are you fully surrender to Lord in every area of your life? Please mediate on this with me for weekend. It is a question I try to ask myself all the time.