 Okay, good morning and welcome to class everyone. Thank you for joining class Hope all of you are doing well Yes. No, are you ready to? dive into Romans chapter 6. I Hope all of you enjoying the study of Roman chapter 6. Yes Or is it too heavy for y'all? I know I know come here three of you are joining because there's no power Yeah, thank all you have internet connection at least in the Bible college It's been having heavy rain in Bangor city the last couple of days some places have been Fully covered with water So Okay, the mic is not working. Okay, so we're having an electricity problem in Bible college Thank God we work and do it from home. So it's not a problem Okay, we love begin can one of you please lead us in prayer, please Thank you. Yeah, can one of you please lead us in prayer anyone To be happy With everyone That it was special For work from the tournament break At the end of this class We'll have everybody in the bus to clarify your name Thank you father. Thank you so much because we may like the name glorified even in this class. Amen. Thank you, Harrison. Okay, so last week we looked at chapter five, where we saw Paul laying the truth of our identification. He basically, in chapter five, he's talking about the whole truth about identification, who we are. He says in Adam, you know, because we are coming from the race of Adam, whom he calls as the first Adam, the first man, the natural man, the man of the earth. He says, you know, because of Adam, we have inherited sin, and because of sin, the result of sin is death. And between sin and death, you know, everything else came because as a result of the consequences of sin, he says we become enemies of God, or he says we are without strength, we are weak, we are condemned, we face the wrath of God, eternal judgment, which is hell. And all of this as a result of being part of Adam, who he refers to as the first Adam, the first man, the natural man or the man of the earth. And in contrast, he says, you know, those of them who have believed in Jesus Christ will receive righteousness by faith, through grace, by faith. He says in Christ, who he refers to as Christ as the last Adam, the second man, the spiritual man, the man from heaven, he says, because of Christ, and what he did on the cross, you know, each one of us have inherited peace with God, we've inherited, we receive the gift of righteousness, we are justified, we are made righteous, we have received the abundance of his grace, the right standing in grace. We are saved from the wrath of God, we receive, or we have eternal hope, we experience the love of God, we have the life of God in us, we reign in life over every demonic oppression, over every challenge, over every situation that we face. And then he also says that we bear the image of the nature of Christ in us, or we bear the image of the heavenly man in us. So these are the wonderful benefits that we have, those have inherited who have put their faith in Christ or who are in Christ. And then, you know, we looked at chapter six, where, you know, again in chapter six, his Paul is bringing us to an in-depth or a very deeper understanding of the truth of identification. Yes, he's given us some of the truths of identification that he presented to us in chapter five, which I just mentioned, but, you know, he's taking us into a deeper understanding of the truth of identification in chapter six, which he has already introduced for us in Romans chapter five. Okay, so he's saying, you know, in chapter six, all we have received as our identification in Christ, all this is good, but, you know, he's saying, let's take a deeper understanding or a deeper look into the truth about that identification with Christ. And he says that because of Adam's sin, you know, we all have inherited sin. And as a result of that, you know, death and everything else, but in Romans chapter six, he says that we have been, not only been forgiven of our sins, but we've also been set free. We have been delivered from sin, so we don't have to be slaves of sin anymore. And then he goes on to explain to us how that happened, okay? And he also explains to us, you know, what does it mean to us and how does it affect our lives? He, after he explains how this has happened to us, how we are free from sin, how we are totally delivered from sin, that we are slaves, no more to sin. He goes on to explain how it affects our lives. So he transitions to Christian living. How do we live in the view of the cross and what Christ has done for us on the cross, what he's purchased for us on the cross and what has happened at the cross, okay? And then we began looking at chapter six. We looked at verses one, two and three. And, you know, in the chapter, he said basically he's asking two main questions. And, you know, he has two follow up questions for that one main question. We looked at the first main question towards the end of the last class on Friday. The first question Paul asks is in verse one, which he kind of knows his, you know, his readers or the Jews will be questioning or asking, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Yes, we have received forgiveness of sins. We have, you know, we have received righteousness by grace through faith, you know. So can we continue sinning because, you know, grace abounds and what is Paul's answer to that? He saw in verse two, what does he say? God forbid. Yeah, he says no, you know, he says no ways. You know, we cannot, certainly not, he says, okay? And why does he say that we cannot continue to sin even though grace abounds? Why does he say no? Because we have a new nature in Christ Jesus. We no longer into habitually sinning due to the nature of Christ we have now and his identity. Okay, thank you. Yes, we have a new nature, we have a new identity. What does he say in verse two? You know, he says, how shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Okay, so Paul is saying that no, we cannot sin any longer, certainly not. Why? Because he says we have been dead to sin. Okay, I like the way he puts it across. He says, you know, we have been dead to sin, okay? And that people do not sin. That people cannot sin because they are dead, okay? So, you know, the people can ask Paul this question. Now wait a minute, Paul. I mean, we know that we have been forgiven of sins but when did we die to sin? Okay, so that can be a question that will pop up in their minds. Okay, we know that we've been forgiven to sins but we've never heard this that we are dead to sin when did we ever die to sin? And, you know, Paul very beautifully just mentions in verse three, he says that when we are baptized into Christ, we are baptized into his death. That's when we are dead to sin. So beautiful, you know? I mean, it's so amazing, you know, the revelations the Holy Spirit is giving to Saman Paul and how he's just writing it so logically, so beautifully, so in depth. And he says that we have been baptized into Christ's death and that is when we are dead to sin. So what is the baptism he's referring to here? Well, we look at it last Friday. What is the baptism? Yes, it's a thank you, Kung. It's the spiritual baptism, okay? So he's referring here to spiritual baptism because he says we have been baptized into Christ, okay? Now, we need to understand, you know, we need to understand the language of the author. What would he mean by being baptized into Christ? And so we need to look at where else he has written about this and we looked at 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 13. Okay, and we try to understand it from that context and we saw that, and I explained to you in detail about 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 13, which says the Holy Spirit baptized us into the body of Christ, okay? So yes, what a baptism is a physical expression of the spiritual reality. And what he's focusing here is on the spiritual truth. The spiritual truth is that all of us believers have been baptized into Christ. We have been brought into Christ. We are immersed into Christ. We are put into Christ and we are cloded into Christ. So when we are baptized into Christ, we're baptized into his death. We now identify with Christ's death. And this is a powerful expression of proclamation of the spiritual truth of our identification with Christ's death. Not only with his death, but we'll also see his burial, his resurrection, his ascension and his seating at the right hand of the Father, okay? So we'll move on to verse four. We looked at verses one, two and three. I just explained it again. We look at chapter six verses four and five. So can somebody please read verses four and five, please? Anyone would like to read verses four and five, please? Therefore 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. Or verse five also, Taddu? Okay, for if we have been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. Thank you. Okay, so here Paul is saying, not only have we been baptized or immersed into Christ's death, but since we are part of his death, we are also buried with him. When Christ was buried, we were also buried with him. And he says through baptism into death, means that we are baptized into his death. Not only are we buried with him, but just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, which means he was resurrected. So we are also resurrected with him. So not only did we die with him, we're also buried with him. Not only did we die and not only are we buried with him, but we are also have been resurrected with him. And it says that Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father. Now if we look at Romans chapter eight verse 11, which we will study in a few weeks, we know that Christ was raised by the spirit of God. Romans chapter eight was 11. Now here Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father. Another Greek word we all know for glory is doxa, which is basically refers to the nature and the works of God revealed to us. So it's a manifestation of who God is and what he does. So the glory of God basically means the manifestation of who God is and what he does. It's a demonstration of his power. So we understand that the spirit of God causes the glory of the Father to be revealed even as Christ was resurrected from the dead. So here Paul is presenting a very interesting truth. He says we have not only received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, but we have received something more that has happened. We had also baptized into Christ. That means we identify with him spiritually. And because we identify with him spiritually, we identify with his death, his burial, and his disruption, okay? But Christ did 2,000 years back, even though it was 2,000 years back, but now it has meaning or it has implication for our life today. So how does it have meaning or implication for us today? How does it matter to you and me today? This is what he's going to be explaining in verse four and in verse five following, okay? So he says one of it is we should walk in newness of life. So our resurrection is telling us that, you know, we are to walk in the newness of life. And the Greek word for life fear is zoe, the Greek word is zoe, which means the newness of God kind of life. It's talking about the abundant life, the fullness of life, the God kind of life, the eternal life. And so he's saying that, you know, even as we identify ourselves in Christ, spiritually we identify with his death, with his burial and with his resurrection. And he says, you know, because we identify with his resurrection, you know, with that burial and resurrection, we also should walk in newness of life, which means that we now have the God kind of life. We are now living in the abundant life of God and God's life and God's nature is flowing in and through us, okay? And verse five, he says, for we have been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. So he says, we died with him, but also raised with him, okay? So the whole thing is death, burial and resurrection, we are with him, we identify with him, we are united together, which means we are identified with Christ, which means when Christ died, we died when he was buried, we were buried when he rose again, we rose again also. So in Romans chapter six, he does not mention about Christ ascending and him being seated at the right hand of the Father, but when we read Ephesians chapter two verse six, it says in Ephesians chapter two verse six, that Christ raises up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we have been raised up together with Christ and we have been made to sit together with Christ in heavenly places, okay? Because we are in Christ Jesus because we are in Christ Jesus, we are raised up together with him and we are seated together with him at the right hand of the Father. So this verse says that we are, not only united with him in his death, but real resurrection, but also united with him in his ascension. It's not mentioned in Romans six, but we read this in Ephesians chapter two verse six, when Christ ascended, we also ascended, that means we ascended spiritually, which means that the system of this world has no more control over a believer. Why? Because the believer has been taken out of this world. Now, when we talk about all of these things, we're actually talking about it spiritually, okay? So spiritually, we are still living in this world physically, but spiritually, as believers, we've been taken out of this world. If you look at Ephesians chapter two verses one and two, can somebody read that please? Ephesians chapter two verses one and two, we'll just move a little to Ephesians chapter two we'll just dwell on that and then we'll come back to Romans chapter six and we'll continue in the light of what we are studying. So Ephesians chapter two verses one to two, can somebody read that please? And you, he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sense of disobedience. Thank you Tarun. So some of these points which I'm mentioning are not there in your notes, so you'd like to just follow your notes and if you wanna make your notes, you can own notes, you can do so. So this first tells us that there is a system in this world, a system of disobedience and rebellion at work in the world. So the people of this world are under the prince of the power of the air, and we refer this to as a system of evil, of disobedience, or for rebellion. But you and I are not under that influence because we have been raised up with Jesus Christ. We have ascended as he has ascended to heaven. So we live in a world where there's spiritual darkness, there's evil, there's corruption, there is moral degradation, but that cannot or should not, and should not and cannot influence a believer. Why? Because we have been raised up with Christ Jesus. We've been raised up with Jesus spiritually. We've been taken out of this world. We have been taken out of the influence of darkness, evil, corruption, and moral degradation. And hence we actually are at the point where we can dominate the situations, the challenges in this world, the darkness around us that dominates. And the challenges, the difficulties, and the darkness and the evil that comes against us, we are not to feel overwhelmed by it. We are not to be given to it in fear, but we are in a place where we can dominate those things also because we have our positional authority, God has given us the authority, the keys of the authority of the kingdom of God has given us the authority. We are in a positional authority because we are heirs of God. We are co-heirs with Christ Jesus. And from that position, from that authority, and because we identify in Christ, we identify with His death, His body and His resurrection, His ascension, the things of this world cannot dominate us. We are above these things. So we speak to these things. We speak from the spiritual into the natural because we belong to a spiritual kingdom. The kingdom of God we know is two dimensions. It has a spiritual dimension, the natural dimension. And at present, we have the spiritual dimension because the kingdom of God is in us. We will see the natural dimension when Jesus comes again on this earth. So the kingdom of God in us, which is spiritual influential influence our lives, our surroundings, our environment, our geographical areas and whatever comes against us. So we can dominate this world and not let the darkness, the evil, the forces of evil and demonic oppression to come against us and dominate us. We are the light. We are more powerful than the darkness. And most of us believers don't know this and hence they're living under the dominion of darkness. But we know the truth and we need to live above that. We need to live with the authority that God has given to us. So we see here that in Ephesians chapter two verse six that we read, it says that not only have we been raised up together but God has made us to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we are also united or identify with Christ in his exaltation. We identify with Christ in his death, his burial, his resurrection, his ascension and also in his exaltation. When Christ was made to sit at the right hand of the father, you and I are also made to sit at the right hand of the father. We are placed in the place of the highest authority. Okay, God could not place you and me in any other higher place. This is the highest place. No, we are seated with Christ. This is our place of authority and dominion in the spiritual then and on this earth, even as we are physically living on this earth, we need to operate from this place of authority. So when we operate from this place of authority, we can confront any demonic powers or any challenges that come in our life. We can speak to the storm just like when Jesus, you know, when he faced the storm, he did not, when the disciples woke him up, he did not say, Father, what do I do? Okay, he knew the authority that he had. He just spoke to the storm and he commanded the waves and the wind to die down and it just died down. He spoke to sicknesses. He spoke to demons and he just spoke the word and he saw sickness by its knees. He saw demons flee and that is the authority that he has given to us. He says, in my name, you will cast out demons. So in the name of Jesus, we have the authority. We represent him, we stand in his place and we decree, we speak, okay? And why can we do this? Because we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, okay? Now we need to remember that we are not striving for authority, we're not, but we are exerting our authority. We're not striving, which means we don't have to fast and pray and beat up our bodies and all of those things. No, I mean, these spiritual disciplines are important, I'm not against it, but what I'm saying is that these disciplines is important for us to keep because these disciplines help us to maintain a good spiritual condition so that we are fit to be used by God and even to use what God has given to us, but we don't strive for this authority. This has already been given to us. The keys of the kingdom have been given to us. God has given to us because it's by grace that we have received it, but only thing what we need to know is that we have to exert this authority. So we are in the place of authority. We exert this authority by faith, not in pride, not bossing over others, but in faith in God and using the word of God and by using the power that is in the name of Jesus Christ and in the anointing of the holy spirit. So in all of these coming back to Romans 6, now in all of these stages, whether it is in his death, his body and his resurrection, ascension and his seat at the right hand of the Father, we are also united with him. We are united together, means we identify with him. So what does it mean to us today? How does it affect our lives today? And Paul is going on to explain that. Now we need to remember what he started out with. Remember, he started out with a question, should we continue to live in sin? And he says, we are dead to sin. And now he's going on to explain how this happens. In order to explain this to us, he's introducing us to a truth of being united together, being identified with Christ in his death, burial, resurrection, ascension, his seated at the right hand of the Father. And he's going to explain to us pit-fight with how this affects us by being free from sin. So now having understood this truth, yes, Christopher. Oh, yes, Pastor, I just wanted to ask a question with regards to this living in the natural, living in the supernatural, in the spiritual. For many believers, I think there is a phase of getting to that, getting to the state where you live completely in the supernatural or in the spiritual. So although we believe in all the truths, and we know that we aspire towards that, that spiritual state or that spiritual state of living in that world. Just wanted to understand how believers, I mean, the question, I guess, is there would be, I mean, it's a process, basically, right? To get to that, I get to that stage. It's not really, I mean, in that process, it's not like, you know, it's either or. It's like there is a process where we are, we are not, you know, not with that particular state. So just wanted to get some clarification on that, yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Christopher. Yes, I think that's so true. That's why Paul begins was six by saying knowing this. Many believers don't know this truth. They're ignorant of this truth. Then he says, you know, we need to have a spiritual understanding. So the basic way we know it is, you know, of course, you know, when we are born again, we are born again in our spirit, man. That's why we say all of these things are spiritual, okay? But we need to renew our minds. We need to be renewed. And the Bible very clearly says daily, we need to be renewed in our minds, you know? We need to crucify the flesh daily. We have to take up our cross daily and, you know, follow the Lord. So this is something that we need to do on a constant day to day basis because we tend so much to, you know, sometimes to think in the context of this world. You know, in the context of this world, but, you know, we also need to come to a place where we are thinking, kingdom thinking, you know? We have living kingdom culture, living kingdom lifestyle. And for us to do that, we have to consciously train our minds, we need to consciously train our spirits to think. So, you know, okay, when we are facing a natural situation, because we're living in a natural world, we can think logically, okay, what is the solution for this problem? But we can say, hey, wait a minute, you know? I don't belong to this world actually, you know? I am a kingdom citizen. So how can I bring in, you know, kingdom authority into the situation? What can I do? And that's what we see Jesus also doing at all times, you know, he operates, he brings in the spiritual to the natural because he's constantly operating in that mindset. So I think we need to develop that mindset. And once we keep developing that mindset and flowing and not oscillating between the spirit and the carnal man, you know, the more we feed the spirit man, the more we're operating the spirit man, the more we're feeding the carnal man, that is taking dominion or dominates and, you know, that is what we are flowing in. So it depends what we are feeding, who we are feeding. Are you feeding your spirit man? Are you feeding your carnal man? Are you having time to spend time with God, reading his word and the truths of God's word that you're living out? The quicker and faster you will be trained in that. So it won't be a difficulty because you will automatically live, think, speak, kingdom behavior, kingdom thinking, kingdom patterns, kingdom culture and kingdom lifestyle. Yeah, but for us to do it, we need to constantly be in tune with God's word and, you know, meditate on God's word and fill our hearts and minds with God's word and God's word will rule and reign over our logical thinking and our logical minds. Does that help, Christopher? Oh, yes, thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on. So, Paul, having helped us understand the truth of identification in Romans chapter five and six, he goes on to say what do you do with it? How do you live it out? Now, his primary interest here is dealing with sin and how do we live the truth with respect to the aspect of sin? So this is his primary focus and he says we identify with Christ, but how can we identify or how can we live in holiness? So in Romans chapter six was seven and most part of eight, you know, sorry, Romans chapter six, Romans chapter seven and Romans chapter, most of Romans chapter eight, he's answering this question that we are in Christ. We identify with him now, but how do we live holy lives? How do we overcome sin? Okay, so we'll look at how we do that in the latter half of Romans chapter six and we'll go on to chapter seven and half of chapter eight where we'll be focusing on this. So can somebody read Romans chapter six versus six and seven, please? Anyone, Romans six, six and seven? Knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin, for he who has died has been freed from sin. Thank you, Tarun. So here he's talking about the old man and the new man, okay, old man versus a new man. If the old man refers to the old sinful nature, the adamic nature, the unsaved human spirit, and he says that the old man came to Adam and the new man came to Jesus. When we say Jesus was the last Adam, we understand it because in Jesus, the old man comes to an end and in Jesus starts the new man. So that's why we say we are a new creation in Christ. When we say Jesus is the second man, we're talking about a new race. The first man is the old race, the second man's a new race. We say last Adam, we're saying that in Jesus, the old man comes to an end and it starts, it's the beginning of the new man, which we are talking about the new creation in Christ. So in contrast, the new man is referring to the divine nature of God in us, that which is created in the image of God in true or utter righteousness and in true holiness. So the old man is the old sinful nature, which has the inclination to sin. And what is Paul saying about this old man? Or what happened to this old man? Paul is saying it was crucified in Christ. So when we are dead in Christ, when we identify with his death, he's saying our old man is crucified in Christ. So when Christ was crucified, you and I were also crucified, our old man was crucified. So which part of us was crucified? It was the old man that was crucified. The old man was crucified, was put to death, which means that it's the end of it, okay? The old man is no longer alive. So as a believer, you and I don't have the old man. We have the new man, which comes because of our faith in Jesus Christ. So there is no longer the sinful nature in your spirit. Because your spirit man is born again. So in your spirit man, there is no longer the sinful nature. But just like I said, the mind has to be made new so it can think differently. And the body has to be crucified. Why? Because the body will still like to behave like the old man, follow the old patterns. The old ways of doing things, but it has to be retrained to live according to the new man. Which Paul will explain to us in the rest of these verses in this chapter in Romans 6. But we need to understand this that in our spirit man, you know, there's no more the old man that is operating, but it is the new man. And in verse six, he says, knowing this, that our old man was crucified. We need to know this, okay? So many people don't know about this, but we need to know about this. And he says the old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, and we should no longer be slaves of sin, okay? And here he's talking about the body of sin. You know, the body of sin basically represents the sum totality of sin. The sum total of sin that is in us, the power of sin. He's saying that the sum totality of sin, the power of sin might be done away with. Now the body in the New Testament is spoken in different ways, can refer to the physical body, the carnal nature, the fleshly desires. It can also represent the body of Christ that represents all the believers as one body in Christ, or it can also refer to as a sum totality of something, or it can, it also means a full measure of something. So that is a way it is used here in this context. It's talking about the sum totality of sin, or the power of sin. And he's saying that the body of sin might be done away with. So he's saying that the sum totality of sin was done away with, it has gotten rid of so that we are no longer slaves of sin. And now this verse six is so powerful, this truth that has believers, you know, we are no longer a slave of sin. Why are we no longer a slave of sin? It's because the old man was crucified. They're dead to sin. The totality of sin was taken out of our life. So when you and I died with Christ on the cross, this is what happened. You know, we died to sin. The old man was crucified. The sum totality of sin was taken out of our lives. So as a believer, we're no longer a slave of sin because the sum totality of sin was done away with. So he says in verse seven, for he who has died has been freed from sin. Okay, so he says for he who has died has been freed from sin. Now let's think about this in the natural, okay? For example, just say for example, you know, a drunkard. You know, all his life, he just has been drinking. He loves to drink. He's always thinking about drinks. He's always thinking about when to get his next drink, where to get it from, how to get it from. And now just say this drunkard dies, okay? Now when he's dead, you know, we can keep around, I mean, keep around his coffin, the best alcohol, all the alcohol that is the best kind around his coffin. But will he get up and drink? No, he can't get up and drink. You know, it's quite obvious he's dead. He can't get up and drink because he's dead and he's dead to sin and he's free from sin. So that's what Paul is saying in verse six and seven. He's saying that the old man is dead, which means the sum totality of sin that is controlling us is dead. Dead and therefore he says we are free from sin. So this is what took place on the cross. So when Christ died on the cross, we died with him. Our old man was crucified. The power of sin of our lives was broken. So that we are free from sin. And this happened 2000 years back, but today since we identify with him spiritually, we also identify with him what happened 2000 years back. So the truth is that we are dead to sin in Christ. We are crucified in Christ. The power of sin over our life is broken. And this is real, it comes to us spiritually. This is spiritual truth that you and I can walk in this spiritual truth today. So today you and I can say that the old man was crucified with Christ and the body of sin was destroyed. The power of sin is destroyed in my body. So you can keep telling yourself, even as you face certain weaknesses, certain challenges, and sometimes you feel upset. Why did I get angry again? I'm trying to control my anger. Or why did I lie? I'm trying to stop lying. Or why did I behave so rude or arrogant? I'm trying to overcome that. We need to consciously tell ourselves that the power of sin is broken over our lives. And we need to use our authority. And in Jesus' name, break and bind those strongholds and that sin in our body. And say that it's totally destroyed, that they're not going to go back into my own way. So the power of sin was destroyed. You and I are no longer slaves of sin. We are dead to sin. We are free from sin. And we can say this because spiritually this is ours in Christ. Now the devil may want us to think that we are still subject to these things. The devil does not want us to know these truths. And some that's why he hides these truths from us. But we need to make a conscious effort to constantly see the truth, believe in the truth, know in the truth. And these things we are learning here what Paul is writing to us are very powerful truths. And if we know these truths, we can resist what the devil puts on our lives or puts in the life of a believer that it's okay for us to sin because grace of God abounds in our lives. And we can say no, there will be constant even though we have the grace of God because I am dead to sin. Okay. We'll move on versus eight and nine. Can somebody read verse eight, please? Wait, verse eight, nine. Did somebody read that? Now, if we date with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him. Thank you. So here we see that Christ died and rose again. And the story just does not end with his crucifixion but it says he died and rose again. We believe that also he rose again. We also believe that we have been united together with him not only his death, but as Paul has already told us in verse four and five, we also believe that we have been united together with him in his burial. We also believe that we have been united together with him in his destruction. And we also live with him. So Paul says, everything else is the truth. Not only that we have been dead with Christ, but also the rest of it, what I just mentioned is also the truth that when Christ was raised up, death had no more control over him. In the same way, when we died and rose up in Christ, the past things, the past way of life, the past nature, the past sinful passions, indulgence, we have to put behind because they have no more control over our lives. Now, what does this mean? In verse four, we know that Jesus Christ was raised back to life by the glory of the Father. We also walk in the newness of life. Now, to be resurrected with Christ means that we are raised to walk in the newness of life. So when Christ was buried, we were also buried. Now, what does that mean? It means an end to the old man. The old man does not have any more claims on that person. Let me give you an example. Just say for an example, a man has huge debts and he's not been able to pay up his debts. And because of his huge debts and he's not been able to pay it up, people have put court cases against him, okay? Now, suddenly the man dies, poor man dies because of the stress and the pressure and paying the debts and the court cases and everything to say the man dies. And the man is dead and he's buried. And once he's dead and buried, this world has no more claims on him, okay? No one can come and say, hey, wake up, pay back my money. You haven't been giving me my thousand rupees or the lakhs of rupees or the million dollars that you've taken for me. You have to repay it. Nobody can go to his grave and try to wake him up and say, hey man, pay me back. Or if the court case that is against him, the hearing is there and no one can go and wake him up and say, hey man, wake up, you have to attend the court case. No, they can't do it because it's over, okay? The man has dead and he's buried, signifies a complete transition, okay? He's no more has any claims of this world on his life. In the same way, you know, when we were dead in Christ, crucified with Christ, when we're dead with Christ, when we're buried with him, the old life has no more claims on us. We have been released from the old way, completely free from the old way of life, the old way of living life, old claims of life has no more hold on us. So Paul is saying when Christ was buried, we were buried with him and the old life has no claim on us. And he says, when we were raised up from the dead, just as Christ was raised up, we can walk in newness of life. That means resurrection brings in newness of life. So just to end this whole thing, you know, so beautifully Paul is saying, in crucifixion, it is the end of the old man. It's the breaking of the power of sin. In the burial, he's saying it's the end of the old life, which means that the old life has no more claims over, has no more claims on us by the old life. And when we resurrected, he says, we are given a brand new life. We are living in the eternal life here and now. So powerful, so wonderful. I'll just repeat that again, when Paul is saying, you know, when we crucified Christ with death in Christ, he's saying that it's the end of the old man. It's a breaking of the power of sin. And when he says, you know, we were buried with Christ, it is the end of the old life as the old life has no more claims on us. The world has no more claims on us. He says, when you're resurrected, you know, we are given a brand new life. We are living in the eternal life here and now. Okay, isn't that so wonderful, so powerful, these truths. So I'd like you to just, you know, yes, hallelujah, amen. Thank you, God for what you've done. Thank you Jesus for everything that you've provided for us. Just like you to, you know, read Romans, just soak in these truths, let these truths not just become something that you've heard in class, but these are important, powerful truths which the enemy can rob away from us. We can either be that seed which falls on the roadside which, you know, has not taken root. The birds of the air will come and eat it. It is the enemy will come and snatch it away or you can be like, you know, see that falls among the rocks that has no deep rooting and hence it died away, can be like the seed that falls among thorns that, you know, is choked by the things of this world. You're so busy with the chores of this world, your work and everything, no time to read God's word. But if you wanna be that seed that produces fruit to live in the spiritual truth and to operate out of the spiritual into the natural, then, you know, you need to just soak in these truths that Paul is teaching us here and also look at the truths in God's word because the truth alone can set us free. Amen. Okay, thank you for joining class. Anyone has any questions? Thank you Abhishek and Rupa for your wishes. Thank you Asha, Akun and Siddharth. Okay, if there's no questions, then I'll see you all on Friday and please lead the Romans and please live in the truth and walk in the truth and let the truth set you free. Okay? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Kennedy, thank you. I'm trying to avoid it, Kung, but I can't, I have to come, it's quite a long travel, now one and a half, 15 minutes for my place and plus, okay, let me just end class and then speak to you, Kung. Okay, stop recording.