TITLE: Romans 6:1-10 MSG - BAPTISM - Could it be any Clearer?

Romans 6 The Message (MSG)
DEAD TO SIN AND ALIVE TO GOD
When Death Becomes Life
6:1-3 So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn’t you realize we packed up and left there for good?
BAPTISM: That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace - a new life in a new land!

3-5 That’s what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we’re going in our new grace-sovereign country.

6-7 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life - no longer at sin’s every beck and call!

8 What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of ‘death-as-the-end’. Never again will death have the last word.

10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

11 From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word.
You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6&version=MSG

Romans ◦ Chapter 6 the Remedy
1 What then should we say about this amazing healing plan? Should we spread the infection of distrust and selfishness and cause more devastation and destruction so that the power of God's healing solution may be more fully displayed?

2 Absolutely not! We have taken the antidote, and the infection of distrust and selfishness has been purged from our hearts and minds. How then can we choose to be reinfected with distrust of God and practice selfish methods again?

3 Or don't you realize that all of us who were immersed into union with Christ Jesus were immersed into selflessness and have died to self-centeredness?

4 We symbolically demonstrate that we have joined him in dying to self by being buried in water, in order that–just as Jesus rose from the dead, displaying the life-giving glory of the Father–we too may live a new life, displaying God's glorious character.

5 If we have joined him in dying to self, we will absolutely join him in his resurrection and in new life!

6 For we know that when our old selfish hearts and fear-ridden minds trust God and surrender to be crucified with Christ–the infection of selfishness is purged, and our hearts are no longer controlled by Satanic principles,

7 as anyone who dies to selfishness is free from Satan's methods, principles, and control.

8 Now, if we join Christ in dying to self, we are confident we will live with him forever.

9 Because Christ was raised from the dead and cannot die again, he has secured the Remedy and has revealed the truth; and death cannot touch him again.

10 The death he died, he died once, destroying Satan's lies and the infection of fear and selfishness, and restoring love and trust; therefore the life he lives, he lives to glorify God.
https://comeandreason.com/the-remedy-nt/

CREDITS:
1) Water text fill: Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash
2) Blue water background: Photo by Fabrizio Conti on Unsplash
3) NO MUSIC: See music version here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rlLZw6yAg