Newness of Life

Happy New year everyone! With a new year starting today what is usually on the minds of most people is a chance for new beginnings.

“New beginnings don’t start with a turning of a calendar page. New beginnings start with turning to Jesus”

Becoming a Christian is not making a new start in life; it is receiving a new life to start with.

John Blanchard

Today we will be looking closer within the Bible on what exactly is the new life God has offered. And perhaps answering some questions along the way about this topic.

Today’s title is “Newness of Life”

Turn if you will to Romans 6:4

And because our minds are on things that are new…I am going to do something new this morning. New in how I will present today’s message. But keep in mind this doesn't mean that I will be doing it this way for now on. I just through it would fun and different to try something new.

Romans 6:4 NKJV

4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Newness of Life Means Died to Sin.

Romans 6:1–2 NKJV

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

1 Peter 2:24 NKJV

24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

Newness of Life Means Baptized into Christ

Romans 6:3 NKJV

3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Romans 6:4 NKJV

4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Newness of Life Means being in His Likeness

Romans 6:5 NKJV

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

But it is not enough simply to die to the old life; there must also be resurrection and the manifestation of the new life. We put off the “grave clothes” of the old life and put on the “grace clothes” of the new life.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Newness of Life Means Crucified with Christ

Romans 6:6 NKJV

6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Newness of Christ Means Freed from Sin

Romans 6:6 NKJV

6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Romans 6:7 NKJV

7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Be Dead Indeed to Sin, But Alive to God in Christ Jesus Our Lord

Romans 6:8–14 NKJV

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.