I was meditating on Romans 6:4. It says, “Therefore…” which means we have to go back to the verses before. Why do we keep sinning? Verse 3 says, “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” When we are tempted to sin, we often fail to recognize that we are dead to sin. Dead things have no ability to respond.

Verse 4 goes on to say of our salvation experience, “…we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

What does newness of life look like? Let’s compare Scripture with Scripture. 1 Corinthians 2:13. In 1 Corinthians 11:1 Paul wrote, “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” 1 John 2:6 says, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 1 Peter 1:3 says that we are begotten again, “…through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”