Walking in Newness of Life (Part Two)

Romans 6:4: “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” There is a quiet truth woven into this verse that changes everything. Biblically, spiritual resurrection means a believer shares in Christ’s victory by being spiritually “made alive” from a state of spiritual death the moment they trust in Him. Paul is writing to people who were stepping into new life, people who had turned away from old patterns and were learning what it meant to live differently. He tells them they have already been buried with Christ. The old life is gone. What rises now is not improvement. It is newness!

~Dr. Robert L. Taylor, Bible Expositor; Teaching with God’s grace & power