We move on this morning to look at the second half of Romans 6. Over the last two weeks we have given thought to God’s amazing grace and how that leads us to being united in Christ as a result of His death, burial and resurrection. And so this morning I want to give more detailed consideration to what it means to be a slave. Although we touched on that subject when we looked at 6:6 where we read that “we should no longer be slaves to sin”, now here in 6:15-23 Paul expands on

Ephesians 2:4-5 ... because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.

Last week we spent some time looking at a few verses at the end of Romans 5 and beginning of Romans 6. These verses spoke of how our lives are totally transformed by the grace of God that He bestows on us. That transformation is something that we cannot earn or buy, or that we deserve, it is entirely a gift from God. We need to remember that as far as God is concerned we are sinners, no more, no less. In that sinful state we are not fit to be in His Company unless some amazin

Over recent weeks we have spent a fair amount of time looking at a few Psalms and then a chapter in Isaiah. This morning I want to return to the New Testament and spend two or three weeks considering the relationship between sin and our old lives, and grace and our new lives. Whilst Paul deals with a lot of this subject in Romans 6 there are references to both sin and grace and our old and new lives throughout this remarkable letter. I always find it interesting to see how Go