Resurrection Power to defeat Addiction! Romans 6

Before writing this blog, and when I have thought of Romans 6, the one verse that has marked this chapter in my mind is Romans 6:23. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” You could also regard Romans 6 as the salvation and baptism chapter. As I began reading the whole chapter, I had a really hard time picking one or two verses. I really was tempted to put the whole Romans 6 chapter as the blog. Please read the chapter in its entirety. We have not only died with Christ but we also live with Christ and, according to verse 5, we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection. In Bob Utley’s Romans 6 commentary, he states, “If believers have been identified with Jesus’ death (cf. Gal. 2:19-20; Col. 2:20; 3:3-5), theologically they should be identified with His resurrection life (cf. v. 10).”

Have you ever thought about being identified with Christ’s resurrection? We are in Christ and Christ is in us as believers. We have to remember who we are “In Christ.” Victory is a choice. We can choose victory over our addictions according to this chapter. We must believe what God’s word says about who we are. We are made in the image of God. Once we find Victory, we have to choose to not plant any more seeds of strongholds or sin in our life.

Romans 6:5-13

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be [in the likeness] of [His] resurrection,
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.
Now if we died 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.
For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God.
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
And do not present your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.

Whit Bass