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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a Calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture from Romans chapter six. Our evening

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Speaker 2: reflection is written by Greg Grantamp and read by Kyle Norman.

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Speaker 2: From Romans chapter six, Shall we go on sinnings so

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Speaker 2: that grace may increase? I know means we are those

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Speaker 2: who have died to how can we live in it

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Speaker 2: any longer? Or don't you know that all of us

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Speaker 2: who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death.

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Speaker 2: We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death,

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Speaker 2: in order that, just as Christ was raised from the

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Speaker 2: dead through the glory of the Father, we too may

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Speaker 2: live a new life. For if we have been unified

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Speaker 2: with Him in a death like his, we will certainly

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Speaker 2: also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

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Speaker 2: For we know that our old self was crucified with

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Speaker 2: him so that the body ruled by sin might be

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Speaker 2: done away with, that we should no longer be slaves

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Speaker 2: to sin, because anyone who has died has been set

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Speaker 2: free from sin. Now, if we died with Christ, we

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Speaker 2: believe that we will also live with him, for we

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Speaker 2: know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he

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Speaker 2: cannot die again. Death no longer has mastery over him.

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Speaker 2: The death he died, he died to sin once and

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Speaker 2: for all, But the life he lives, he lives to God.

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Speaker 2: In the same way, count yourself dead to sin, but

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Speaker 2: alive to God in Christ. Jesus. Therefore, do not let

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Speaker 2: sin the reign in your mortal body, so that you

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Speaker 2: obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of

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Speaker 2: yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather

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Speaker 2: offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought

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Speaker 2: from death to life, and offer every part of yourself

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Speaker 2: to Him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall

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Speaker 2: no longer be your master, because you are not under

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Speaker 2: law but under grace. What then shall we sin? Because

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Speaker 2: we are not under the law but under grace? I

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Speaker 2: know means. Don't you know that when you offer yourself

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Speaker 2: to someone as obedient slaves, you were slaves to the

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Speaker 2: one that you obey. Whether you were slave to sin

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Speaker 2: which leads to death or to obedience which leads to righteousness.

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Speaker 2: But thanks be to God that though you used to

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Speaker 2: be a slave to sin, you have come to obey

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Speaker 2: from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now

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Speaker 2: claimed your allegiance. You have been sent free from sin

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Speaker 2: and have become slaves to righteousness on using an example

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Speaker 2: from everyday life, because of your human limitations. Just as

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Speaker 2: you used to offer yourself as slaves to impurity and

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Speaker 2: to ever increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves

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Speaker 2: to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin,

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Speaker 2: you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit

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Speaker 2: did you reap by that time from the things that

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Speaker 2: you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death.

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Speaker 2: But now that you have been set free from sin

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Speaker 2: and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap

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Speaker 2: leads to holiness, and the result is everlasting life. For

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Speaker 2: the wages of sin is death, but the gift of

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Speaker 2: God is eternal life. In Christ Jesus our Lord. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen all at once. It isn't as if we

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Speaker 2: suddenly changed. Don't we wish we know those weaknesses we

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Speaker 2: hate are still there, buried deep? Don't they surprise us?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes our words or even our thoughts temper Gosh, we

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Speaker 2: wish we hadn't gossiped, and that grudge that we're holding onto.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, It shouldn't be a bit of a

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Speaker 2: relief that Paul had those very same issues see Robin

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Speaker 2: seven fifteen and sixteen. Sometimes he just didn't understand why

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Speaker 2: he felt a certain way or did things that he did. Ah,

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Speaker 2: you should know, he shouldn't you. You know what's wrong

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Speaker 2: and God expects more to you. Right, Oh wait, maybe

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Speaker 2: God doesn't. God knew exactly who and what you were

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Speaker 2: when you were saved, and he still claimed you. He

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Speaker 2: still gave you new life in him. The simple fact

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Speaker 2: that you know what is wrong and what is right

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Speaker 2: means that you are walking in a new life. It

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Speaker 2: is in you, and yeah, you're gonna have to get

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Speaker 2: a bit used to it, aren't you. You are saved

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Speaker 2: now and it didn't have a darn thing to do

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Speaker 2: with anything that you did, but because of what Christ

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Speaker 2: did for you. And yes, you are special now, not

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Speaker 2: because of what you do or don't do, but because

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Speaker 2: you belong to him. And Jesus promised that no one

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Speaker 2: can snatch you from his hands, and that no one

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Speaker 2: will snatch you from his father's hands. Promised that we

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Speaker 2: see in Roman sixth is that your old self was

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Speaker 2: crucified in Christ. Sure parts still hang around for now,

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Speaker 2: but because you have died with Him, you have been

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Speaker 2: freed from sin. You are dead to sin, but alive

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Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. Sin is no longer your master. Regardless

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Speaker 2: of the temptations or even occasional missteps. You are no

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Speaker 2: longer under the law. You have new life in Christ.

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Speaker 2: You are under His grace. Lord, And know that without you,

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Speaker 2: I cannot be the person you want me to be.

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Speaker 2: I cannot live the life that you want me to live.

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Speaker 2: But I know with the help of your spirit, I

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Speaker 2: can grow in this new life and become the person

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Speaker 2: I want to be. In Christ, Lord, I surrender everything

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Speaker 2: to you. Help me to step aside and let your

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Speaker 2: spirit teach me and guide me. Amen, how did Tonight's

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