Dying to Self - From Old to New

Romans 6:¹ What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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.

Read and study this carefully. Each time you come to the word "we" or "us" substitute your own name.

¹ What shall we say, then? Shall I go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! I have died to sin; how can I live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that you who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ I was 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, I too may live a new life.

What a way to look at this passage! I caused it... I need to get out of it!

Getting rid of your old self and putting on the new. What do I need to do to stay in my new self? I need to stay focused on Jesus! That's a start. Think before I react or speak. Love everyone. Stop judging others. No more getting angry, whether it's with myself or someone else. I need to be just and calm, no matter what happens.

What's the plan of attack? This is the first step. Staying with the word every day. This will help me stayed focused on all that God has done for me.

Romans 6:¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I need to stay as far away from sin as possible. There is much I need to learn about this still.