Greater Life Church

Paul writing to the early church contrasts the life that was and the life that is resurrected. The life that was dead in sin and the life that lives in a newness of the resurrection. The message of the death, burial and resurrection is a fundamental message. Paul describes how we go about living this new life. The first is a description of what has transpired so that there is no question that we died to one way of life, and that we rose to walk in a newness of life. That knowledge is essential if we are to enjoy the beauty of living for God. The second thing Paul talks about begins in verse 11. The first part of the chapter is how God sees the death, burial and resurrection in our lives. Beginning in verse 11, Paul tells us how WE need to view it. He says that we need to view ourselves as dead unto sin. It does not matter how much we know. If we do not live that knowledge, it is all worthless. When we realize that we have died to sin, we are no longer controlled by sin. Sin will always be there,