Let's open our Bibles again to
Romans chapter 6 passage that we just read. The title of the
message this morning is, Are You Dead to Sin? Are You Dead
to Sin? I told you before, I'm in the
habit of coming out and studying Janice cooking dinner and preaching
to her in her kitchen. It's probably not fair when she's
cooking, doing something, but I kind of go over some of the
things. coming together in my mind, you know. And I told her
the title of the message was, Are You Dead to Sin? And she
went, hmm. I want to be dead to sin, don't
you? What does it mean to be dead to sin? I hope we'll see
that from God's Word here. Now in these previous chapters,
Paul has clearly showed us that a sinner is justified by faith
in Christ. It's not by what we do, it's
by what Christ has already accomplished for His people. You know, I do
a lot of reading. I hear a lot of people talk about
religious things. I hear people say and write,
but justification is a legal thing before God. And I'm sure
that that's so. But justification, if you've
been justified through faith in Christ, is a whole lot more
than a legal thing. Justification, being justified
through faith in Christ, affects the believer's walk every part
of the believer's life. That's what Paul begins to teach
us here in chapter six. Not only are we justified by
what Christ has done for his people without any of our works,
the believer is sanctified by Christ, too, without any of our
works being added to it. These two justification and sanctification
being made holy. You can't separate them because
Christ is both. Christ is our justification and
he's our holiness. He's our sanctification. without
us adding anything to it. God didn't save His people by
Christ. He didn't save us by grace, save
us through faith, and then make us keep our salvation and keep
our holiness through our good works. No, we're not going to
begin in grace and end by our works. It's all of Christ. It's all of Christ. Let's see
if we don't see that here beginning in verse 1 of Romans 6. What
shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that
grace may abound? Now Paul knows what the natural
mind, what the objection of the natural mind is going to be to
this message of salvation by grace through faith without any
works. He knows how the natural man
is going to object to that. They're going to say, well, if
that's true, this is what the natural man, a dead mind will
conclude. Well, then it doesn't matter
how I live. If salvation is by grace and it doesn't matter what
I do or what I don't do, then I'm just going to go out there
and sin all I want. You know, if my sin, glorifies God's grace,
well then I'll just help God out. I'll just help him get so
much glory because I'll just go out there and sin just like,
you know, wild. Now I'm telling you, that's stinking
thinking. That is the only kind of, the
only person that could come up with that kind of thought is
a dead, depraved person. That's dead thinking. Sin does
not cause God to get glory. Sin is the cause of God's wrath.
God's grace is glorified when He forgives sin freely through
the blood of Christ. He's not glorified when we sin.
God's grace is glorified when He forgives sin. Grace lets a
man or a woman be done with sin. Grace never encourages us to
go sin more. Grace enables us to be done with
sin. Grace never excuses sin. If we use God's grace as an excuse
to sin, well, it really doesn't matter what I do. God's going
to forgive me anyway. All we have shown is we don't know anything
about God's grace and we don't love God. That's all that shows. And I'll give you an example
of that. When Janet and I were married, she stood before all
the assembled witnesses and before Almighty God and she promised. I mean, she made a vow. She will
be faithful to me. The only thing her vow depended
on as far as what I do is if I'm living. She promised to do
this till death do us part. She'll be faithful to me. She'll
not leave me. She'll be a faithful wife till
death do us part. Now if I take that vow and I
say, it don't matter what I do. I can go be unfaithful all I
want. I can treat her any way I want and it don't matter because
she's not going to leave me. If I do that, you know what I've
showed? I showed I don't have any concept of what those marriage
vows mean. And it shows I don't love her.
That's what that would show. That would just be reprehensible.
Now you magnify that all you want, that's how much worse it
is to think that God's free grace to sinners would ever lead us
to sin all we want. That just means we're not objects
of God's grace and we do not love him. And Paul condemns this
kind of thinking in the strongest possible terms. He said, God
forbid. This is this is just it's abhorrent
to me. God forbid. He says in verse
two, God forbid. How shall we that are dead to
sin live any longer therein? God forbid that we would think
this way, because if we think this way, all it shows is that
we don't know God. We don't love him. If Christ
died for us, We know this. It's my sin that caused my precious
Savior to suffer and die at Calvary Street. It's my sin that caused
Him to suffer that. Then how can I want to do something
that's going to cause all that suffering to my Savior? You can't. If you know Him, you can't want
to do that. And then Paul makes this statement that gave me the
title of our message. How shall we that are dead to
sin live any longer therein. So here's my first point. What
is it to be dead to sin? What is it? Now in scripture,
there are three deaths relating to sin. And you see these three
deaths at the three crosses on Calvary Street. First, there's
a death in sin. A death in sin. That's the death
of the unrepentant thief. He died in sin. And that death
in sin always leads to eternal death. If we die in our sins,
there's no hope. Secondly, there's a death for
sin. That's the death of the man on
the middle cross. That's the death of Christ. He
died for sin. He died for the sin of his people.
He took the sin of his people away from them and he made it
his. And he died for that sin. He
died to satisfy God's justice against that sin. He died so
that he could give his people eternal life. That's the death
for sin. And then thirdly, there's a death
to sin. That's the death of the repentant
thief. Christ died for him. He said, today, you'll be with
me in paradise. He died for the sins of that
repenting thief. And the result was that thief's
death to sin. How could that thief that very
day be with Christ in paradise? He died to sin when his substitute
died for him. Christ took his sin away from
him and died for him so he has no more sin. That's being dead
to sin. Well, I can understand the experience. I can understand someone dying
in sin. I can even have a pretty good grasp of what it is that
Christ would die for sin. What is it to experience being
dead to sin? That's something that's more
difficult for us to grasp. How is it that I am dead to sin? Well, let me start like Dr. Gill
with what it's not. Tell you what it's not. Being
dead to sin is not being dead to the desire of sin. You know,
if you think being dead to sin is, well, God saves me and the
more I grow in grace, the less I desire to sin, you're going
to be sorely disappointed. No, we're not dead to the desire
of sin. That old man that's in me, he's unchanged. And he's
really me. That old man loves sin. He desires
sin. So being dead to sin is not that
I just don't desire sin anymore. Being dead to sin certainly is
not being dead to the presence of sin. The believer doesn't
want to sin. I don't want to. but his presence
is ever with me. Look over a page of Romans 7
verse 21. This is what Paul said. I find
then a law. It's just like the law of gravity.
If you drop something, it's going to fall to the floor. This is
a law. I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is
present with me. Sin is always present with me
because I cannot get rid of this old man, which is why our Lord
taught us to pray, forgive us our sins. We're not, we're not
dead to the presence of sin. And we're not dead to the effects
of sin, are we? No, we still get sick. We still
die. Why? Because that's the effect
of sin in this flesh. You're thinking, well, that's
pretty all encompassing. If I'm not dead to the desire
of sin, I'm not dead to the presence of sin. I'm not dead to the effects
of sin. How can I be dead to sin? Well, a believer is dead
to sin because we're dead to the guilt of sin. We're dead
to its guilt. Christ took it away and he made
his people not guilty. We're dead to the guilt of sin.
A believer's dead to the penalty of sin. Sin can never bring eternal
death to anyone that Christ died for. He already died for them. He already paid the penalty.
A just law is only going to require the penalty be paid once. Christ
already paid the penalty. So if Christ died for you, you're
dead to sin. You're dead to the penalty of
sin. And then a believer is dead to sin in this way. We're dead
to sin as our master. Christ is our new master. If
he died for us, he is our new master. Our Lord said no man
can serve two masters. The believer doesn't. Look here
at Romans 6 verse 17. But God be thanked that you were
the servants of sin. but you've obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you. Being then
made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
Now you don't serve sin, now you're the servants of righteousness. So being dead to sin is not to
be able to stop our acts of sin. It's not to stop desiring sin.
It's not to stop suffering the effects of our sin. Being dead
to sin is being dead to the penalty of sin. being dead to eternal
death. It can never affect you. Being
dead to sin is being dead to the guilt of sin. You're not
guilty. All right? How can I be made
dead to sin? If a believer is dead to sin,
I'd like to be dead to sin. How can I be made dead to sin?
The exact same way a sinner is justified. It's through Christ
our representative. Justification is being made without
sin. Sanctification is being made
holy, given a holy nature. Both of those come the exact
same way. Through union with Christ. This is what Paul tells
us in verse 3 of Romans 6. Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death.
Now here he's not talking about believers baptism. He's talking
about union with Christ. Now we looked at this last week
in the gospel of representation. We were made guilty through a
representative. And the only way we can be made
not guilty is through a different representative. All of us, everybody
in this room was in Adam when Adam sinned. He was our representative. What Adam did, we did. That's
how we became guilty. And when we were conceived, we
received Adam's nature. His nature was imparted to us.
That's how we were made guilty. But every believer was in Christ
our representative. The same way the natural man
was in Adam, the believer was in Christ. And whatever he did,
we did. When he obeyed God's law, we
obeyed God's law. That's how we're justified. Well,
how does a sinner get in Christ? God put them there in divine
election. He put his people in Christ. That's what Paul says when he
talks about us here being baptized into Christ. We were immersed
into Christ, just completely immersed. Just like if you in
water baptism, we baptize somebody, we immerse them. We put them
all the way under the water so you can't see anything of them
above the water. They're immersed in the water.
A believer is immersed into Christ so that you can't see the believer.
When you look, all you see is Christ because we're immersed
into him. So when Christ died, Everybody
who was immersed in Christ, they died too. Whatever Christ did,
we did, because we're in Him. Just like a pregnant mother.
Whatever that pregnant mother does, that baby does, because
that baby is immersed in her. Whatever it is that Christ did,
everyone who was in Him did too, because we're immersed in Him.
Christ died for sin, and we did too. In Christ, we're dead to
sin. He paid the penalty. He took
the guilt away. Whatever he is, we are. As he is, so are we in this world
because we're immersed in him. So what does that mean? Sin has
no more claim on the believer. No more claim on you. Sin cannot
harm you in any way. Because when Christ died for
sin, we did too. We died in him. Sin cannot have
any eternal effect on you if Christ died for you. His blood
put that sin away. Just like if they used to have
viewings and things when a person died in someone's home. Well,
suppose there's a casket and there's the loved one there in
the casket and people come by the house, you know, maybe you
just want to get away from it all. You turn on the evening
news. And there's the news. And boy, they're just, I mean,
they're just pouring the bad news on. Just pouring it on.
I can't emotionally take this, you know, in this time of grief
and loss. I can't take no more bad news. It just brings you
down. But don't affect that man in the casket. He's dead to it. He's dead to this world. The
events of this world have absolutely nothing to do with him. He's
dead to it. In the exact same way. The believer's
dead to sin. It can't affect you in any way.
It's not talking to you. You're dead to it. Christ put
it away. He put it away under the blood
of his sacrifice. And that's what the believer
confesses in believers baptism. Now in verse four, now Paul is
talking about believers baptism. Therefore, we are buried with
him by baptism into death. that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life. Now when we're baptized, what
we're publicly confessing is that Christ is all my hope of
salvation. My only hope of forgiveness is
in his blood, in his death. My only hope of justification
and sanctification, it's all in Christ. We're confessing in
believer's baptism that it's all in him, that when he died,
I died in him. When he was buried, I was buried
in him. And he was raised, I was raised too. Whatever it is he
did, I did in him. My only hope is this, that I'll
be accepted in the beloved. That I was baptized, I was immersed
into him. That's what I'm confessing in
believers baptism. Believers baptism is more than
a confession of Christ's death, isn't it? We don't just put the
person under the water and hold them there. No, it's a confession
of His resurrection. We bring them back up out of
the water because when Christ was resurrected, I was resurrected
too. I was resurrected to new life. And Christ is my life. Christ
is that new life. Christ is my holiness. I didn't
die in Christ so then I could be given a life that I keep myself
holy through what I do. No, this new life is holiness
in Christ so that He is my life. He's my righteousness. He's my
sanctification. He's my justice or justification. He's my wisdom. Every spiritual
blessing I have is through union with Christ. It's all ours. All of every blessing God has
for sinners is ours through union with Christ. And that's what
Paul shows us next. Here's the third thing. How does
being dead to sin affect the rest of my life here on earth?
How does being dead to sin affect my walk and my conduct here on
earth? Well, being raised to new life
in Christ means everything's new. Now, if I'm dead to sin,
I'm dead to the law. I don't live by looking to the
law. I live a life of faith in Christ, not trying to keep myself
holy by keeping the law. Verse five. For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also
in the likeness of his resurrection. That's why I said we baptize
a person. You don't just hold them down there under the water.
Baptism is a picture of union with Christ our Savior. He didn't
stay dead long, did he? Just three days. He didn't stay
dead. He came out of that tomb. And that's why we don't hold
the person confessing Christ under the water for very long.
We bring them back up out of that water as a picture of the
resurrection of Christ. My life is new life in Christ. And that new life is lived for
the glory of God. We don't live this new life.
Now, a believer doesn't. A believer does not live this
life trying to pay for our sin. Christ already paid for it. There's
no debt left to pay. The believer doesn't live trying
to justify myself. I've got to do things to make,
you know, no. I'm already justified in Christ. My sin is already
being, it's gone. It doesn't exist anymore. And
the resurrection of Christ is the proof of it. The father raised
him from the dead because he put away all the sin charged
with him. I don't justify myself. I have to do, keep the law to
keep myself justified. Christ is my justification. And
the believer doesn't live this life trying to keep ourselves
holy. We don't look to the law and say, we're going to keep
these things just so I'll be holy. No, Christ is my holiness. Christ is my sanctification.
The believer lives a life of faith, looking to Christ, not
to the law. That's being dead to the law.
Verse 10, Paul says, for in that he died, he died unto sin once,
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. That's the way the
believer lives, living unto God. Christ died ending the relationship
that his people have with sin. The believer has no relationship
with sin whatsoever. Christ died to give his people
eternal life. So his people don't have a relationship
with death anymore. He put an end of death. His people
have a life that's spent worshiping and serving him. All right, I
see that. But here's the truth of the matter
of my walk through this earth. I've still got to deal with this
flesh. I've still got to deal with this old man of sin. You
too. What about him? I'm still carrying him around
to the day I die. What about him? Verse six. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed
that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead
is freed from sin. He's justified from sin. His
relationship with sin is ended. Now that old man, Paul says,
is crucified. Now what is it to be crucified?
To be crucified is to be nailed to a cross. To be crucified is
not to be instantaneously put to death. To be crucified means
you're nailed to a cross. And being crucified was a long,
slow, painful, agonizing death. That old man's crucified. He
nailed to the cross. But don't you think for one second
he's dead. No, he's not dead. He's just
crucified. And it's going to take a long
time for him to die. You're just going to have to deal with him
a good long time. Now he can't use his hands and arms and feet
anymore to try to bring into captivity and bondage to sin
and to the law. He's crucified. He can't move
his hands and his feet. Boy, he sure can make a lot of
noise. I bet you if somebody crucified
me, I'd make a lot of noise, don't you? That old man's making
a lot of noise. Oh, a lot of noise. He's constantly
talking to us. Constantly influencing. You can't
get away from him. He's yelling. I mean, yeah, you
can't get out of the sound of his voice. He's constantly trying
to influence us, constantly trying to bring us into that desire
and love and enjoyment of sin. He constantly telling us, get
back to the law, get back to the law, get back to start doing
right. You know, things will get better. He constantly trying
to do that, but he cannot reign. He can't reign. He constantly
trying to bring us back into captivity, but he can't do it.
He cannot do it. He's nailed to a cross. He's
ineffective to rule over us. There's a new sheriff in town.
There's a new heart. Christ sits on the throne of
that heart. Christ is king, not this old man. He's crucified. He's making a lot of noise. And
you're just going to have to deal with him a long time, but
he cannot reign. Not anymore he can't. And that's
going to be the fight that Paul talks about in Romans 7. That
constant civil war that's going on inside a believer. We're constantly
fighting with that old man who's been crucified. Now look over
in Ephesians chapter 4. That old man is not going to
go quietly. He's going to have to be crucified
daily. This is a daily battle. Ephesians
4 verse 17. Now this I say, brethren, and
testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk, not as other
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding
darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart, who,
being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
to work all in cleanness with greediness. But ye have not so
learned Christ If so be that you have heard him and been taught
by him as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off concerning the
former conversation, the old man, that you just constantly,
you've got to put him off every day, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lust and be renewed in the spirit of your
mind. And that you put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true godliness. And that is just a daily, constant,
fight, putting off the old man, crucifying the old man, and putting
on the new man. So Paul tells us in verse 7,
he that's dead is freed, justified from sin. He's made without sin. Then if you're set free from,
if justified from sin, you're set free from the power of sin.
The power of sin to rule over you. How does sin rule? By bringing us back into bondage
to the law. Well, if we died in Christ, we're
free from the bondage of the law. Christ already kept the
law, then I don't have to keep it. If I'm immersed in Him, He
kept the law, I don't have to keep it. Christ died to satisfy
the law's last demand. There's got to be death for sin.
If Christ died for sin, then I never will. I'm free from that. If we died in Christ through
union with Him, we're dead to the law. And what does that mean?
I'm dead to the law. Well, it's just like that man
in the casket. The evening news has no effect on him whatsoever. If we're in Christ, whatever
it is the law says to us, doesn't matter. It has no effect
on us. Christ already satisfied the
law. The law can't bring any charge against anyone in Christ.
He's already satisfied. If we're dead to the law, its
threats of punishment has no bearing on us whatsoever. None. We're innocent. The law has been
satisfied if we're in Christ. We don't live under the bondage
of everything the law requires. It's already been kept in Christ.
That's why the songwriter said, free from the law. Oh, happy
condition. What a happy condition. We're
free from the law. free from sin, because Christ
died for sin. So here's how the believer, being
dead to sin, should walk through this world. We've been justified
in Christ, made not guilty in Christ. We've been sanctified,
given a holy nature through union with Christ. Then we should walk
through this world like we have no relationship with the world,
like we have no relationship with sin, like we have no relationship
with death, because we don't. We don't. We should walk striving
to never sin. Make that your goal. Every moment
to not sin. Always war against sin. Always
be fighting that old man. Take off the old man. Crucify
the old man. Put on the new man. But do it
knowing this. All I'm ever going to be able
to do is sin. But that doesn't make me look to myself or look
to the law. No. We look to Christ to our obedience.
We look to Christ our holy. We just walk through this earth,
walk through the rest of your journey here below, not looking
to your sin, not looking to the law, but walk looking to Christ. That's being dead to sin because
you've got no relationship with sin anymore. And then second,
a person who's dead to sin lives without fear of death. Christ
already died for you. What do you got to fear? Christ
is our holiness. He's justified us. then you have
a good hope. You can expect this. You're not
being presumptuous to expect this. If Christ died for you,
you expect to live with him forever. You expect to live with him in
glory forever because you have union with him. Since these bodies
are going to die. But since Christ was resurrected
in glorified flesh, everyone he died for will too. Verse 8. Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe. that we shall also live with
him, knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no
more. Death hath no more dominion over him, and it can't have any
dominion over anybody who's in him, because what he did, we
did. We already died through union with Christ. Then we'll
never die again. And you can expect to enjoy eternal
life with the Lord Jesus Christ, beholding his face, worshiping
him perfectly. Not like it is now where our
minds wander and daylight savings time starts and we're tired.
We can't seem to concentrate. There'll be none of that in glory.
Face to face. These minds cannot comprehend
the glory of that face to face. You can expect it because he
died for you. That we can live this life without
fear of judgment. You don't have to fear that.
You don't have to fear judgment. I was telling someone the other
day about the moment that my dad died. We had, Jonathan and
I drove their car home. They flew home. We drove home.
Took forever. And as we started the trip, Jonathan,
I was driving, Jon reached behind the seat there, and they had
a bunch of CDs. He just blindly grabbed one,
stuck it in the CD player. And that message was such a blessing.
How many times did we listen to that driving home? When we
got home, we told everybody, you've got to listen to this.
And mom just had that thing on continuous play. Oh, it was just
a great message. And the moment we noticed, my
dad wasn't breathing anymore. Henry's voice came across that
CD player saying, The believer doesn't have to fear death. That
ought to be on our lips every moment of our walk through this
journey below. If I don't have to fear death,
and I don't have to fear judgment, what am I looking to the law
for? Huh? If I don't have to fear death,
and I don't have to fear judgment, why would I ever take my eyes
off the Lord Jesus Christ? I don't have to fear death because
of Him. Because of who He is, then I
ought to be looking to Him. That's being dead to sin. That's
what I'm talking about. So. Verse 11. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin. Now you reckon yourselves to
be dead indeed. Really, you reckon yourselves
to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Now God reckons his people. He
counts us to be dead to sin. because we died to sin in Christ.
Now Paul says you reckon yourself to be dead to sin too. You reckon
yourself. You see yourself to be like God
sees you. Because however God sees you,
that's the way you really are. And you reckon yourself to be
dead to sin, just like God sees you. How can I reckon? How can
I count myself to be dead to sin? By not living under the
law. by not trying to keep the law
to make God more happy with you. If you're trying to keep the
law, thinking God will be more happy with you than he is somebody
else, you know what you're saying? You're saying Christ's obedience
to the law is not enough. To be dead to sin is to say Christ
is all I need. I don't have to try to keep the
law. I look to Christ. If you're dead to sin, you don't
look to the law as your rule of life. Somebody will say to
the preacher, don't you say that now. Don't tell people that.
Tell people they don't look to the law and the rule of life.
If they're not looking to the law, how will they know what
to do? If people don't look to the law, how will they know how
to live? When someone says that, this
is what I got to say about that. No matter what I say, the unbeliever
is going to go out there and sin all he wants. And no matter
what I say, the believer is going to go out there and sin more
than he wants. What I say doesn't matter. Sin can only rule you
if you're looking to the law to justify yourself. Sin can
only rule over you if you're looking to the law. You can do
something in the law to make God more happy with you. All
the law can do is be a mirror and show you your sin. If you're
trying to keep the law, sin's going to rule over you. How should
the believer live? How does a believer know how
to live? You're not under law, you're
under grace. The believer knows how to live
by looking to grace, not the law. You live looking to Christ,
not to Moses. Just like I started the message
telling you about the marriage vows Janet and I took. Well,
if I'm not supposed to look to the law to know how I'm supposed
to treat her and what I'm supposed to do, what am I supposed to
look to? Love. In the exact same way. If I love
her, that'll teach me to be faithful. That'll teach me to be the husband
I'm supposed to be. And that's a hard thing to say,
because every husband knows you're not as good as you ought to be.
I'm not as good as she deserves. But the believers are the same
way. We don't look to the law to know
how to live. We look to grace. Oh, His grace is free. It's unmerited. It's undeserved. His electing,
saving, calling, regenerating, keeping, saving grace. That's
all the motivation for a holy life I'll ever have to have.
If I'm saved by His grace, I'm gonna live to serve God out of
love, not out of duty. That's walking, being dead to
sin. So are you dead to sin? I ask
myself this question all week. Am I dead to sin? Well, I'm dead
to sin if I walk, if my conduct walk through this world having
no relationship with the law, no relationship with sin. The
only relationship I have to eternal life and spiritual blessing is
a relationship, a union with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
being dead to sin. Oh, I pray God will make it so
with everyone of us to be dead to sin. Let's bow in prayer. Our Father, how we thank you
for this portion of your word. How we pray by your infinite
matchless grace that you would cause us to be dead to sin. Father, deliver us from looking
to the law, from looking to anything that we can do ourselves to earn
any favor with you. But give us an eye of faith,
we pray, that would make us always and only look to our Lord Jesus
Christ. He's all we need. Father, how
we thank you for him. How we thank you for his perfect
obedience that makes your people righteous in your sight. How
we thank you for His precious blood that cleanses us from all
sin. How we thank You that You would
send Your Spirit to give the new birth. That we might be made
partakers of the divine nature. That in that birth, we would
receive the nature of Christ. Just like in our first birth,
we received the sinful nature of our Father Adam. That You
made Your people holy in Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Cause us to be taken up with
Him. Cause us to daily crucify that old man and constantly strive,
looking to our Lord Jesus Christ. It's in his name that we pray.
Give thanks.