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Inspiration

Summary

Paul explains that we are to be dead to sin AND alive to God in Christ. We must die to sin in order to become alive in Christ. How do we do this? How can we die and yet become alive? Paul tells us that we accomplish this through baptism. Through baptism we are united with Christ in his death on the cross. As Christ died and was buried so we die and are buried with him through baptism. It is a spiritual link with Christ. In our baptism we leave all the Sin and guilt at the foot of the cross and in the tomb. This is not the end. Paul continues saying that just as we die in Christ we also share in his resurrection. We are raised with Christ as new creatures so that we might walk with a newness of life.