Living The Crucified Life! (Romans 6:1-4)

In our passage, Paul expands powerfully on this great truth of living the crucified life! The crucified life means that we walk in newness of life. The crucified life is a life of being dead to sin. I remember reading and laughing at a cartoon that I saw many years ago where two women are talking and one woman says, “Well, I haven’t actually died to sin, but I did feel kind of faint once!” I believe that cartoon captures how many believers feel about Romans 6:2, where Paul says that we “died to sin.” But Paul mentions it in 6:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13. That’s because Paul wants us to understand and embrace it! Apparently it is vital when it comes to living a godly (crucified) life. Be encouraged!

~Dr. Robert L. Taylor, Th.D., Bible teacher & expositor