Sunday 5th April
Read Romans 6:11-14
“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 any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.” (NIVUK)
Powerful words of encouragement meant for us to grasp the significance of uniting with Christ, in His death and resurrection. As John Stott says, ‘Grace lays upon us the responsibility of holiness’. He goes on to quote William Tyndale, executed in 1536 for translating the bible into English so that folk like you and me could read the good news for ourselves. His thoughts capture the significance of union with Christ and the message of Romans…
“Now go to, reader… Remember that Christ made not this atonement, that thou shouldest anger God again; neither died he for thy sins, that thou shouldest still live in them; neither cleansed he thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again; but that thou shouldest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not of the flesh.”
Amen.
