ROMANS 6:4. “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” NEWNESS OF LIFE. In the new life we have been given, the power of sin is broken. It no longer has the power to control us or manipulate us into doing its biding. The nature that loves sin is buried and we become new creatures in Christ Jesus. Old things are passed away and all things have become new. Thank God, the power of sin is broken!
A new nature has been given to us. It is the divine nature that can enjoy God, the things of God, the same things that God enjoys. To be alive to God means we look at events in life, situations in the world and at people, the way God does. In our baptism we testify to the fact that we have new life with Christ. The symbolism of baptism is a powerful, visual statement that I am dead to what I was, because when Christ died, I died. Then when He was buried, the person that I was, was buried with Him. When He rose from the dead, I rose from the dead with Him. The life I live now is one that is alive to God. We can see ourselves alive to the new life - and unresponsive to the old life!
There is new freedom in this new life that is empowered by the new nature. We are free to live for God. We are free from the dominion of sin. We are free to obey God. We are free to present ourselves to God. We are free to yield ourselves to be used as instruments of righteousness. We are free to enjoy fellowship with God and to do His will. We no longer are powerless over the old motives and desires of our past life. God has given us a new start and the Holy Spirit helps us to experience in a practical way what God has declared us to be.
“This new life has been such a blessing Father. I look around at others who want what I have, but they are looking for it in all the wrongs places. They are avoiding the Lord Jesus Christ, ignoring the Gospel, and leaving the Bible unopened. I want to intercede for those unbelievers who don’t know what they are missing. I also want to intercede for those believers who are trying to get what they can from a sinful world to find some kind of satisfaction. By Thy Spirit, move upon these people that they might turn to the fountain of life, and experience the newness of life that is so wonderful. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”