Living Under Grace (Romans 6:1-14)

About this episode

Pastor Steve McKenzie discusses the implications of living under grace as described in Romans 6:1-14, emphasizing freedom from sin and the transformative power of Christ's resurrection.

Do you feel defeated by sin? Not in some abstract theological sense, but the Tuesday afternoon kind, where you feel like you've broken the same promise for the thousandth time? Or maybe you've swung the other direction, quietly convinced that grace is a blank check and the fire for holiness has just gone cold. In this message from Romans 6:1–14, Pastor Steve McKenzie shows that both postures are living like a prisoner in a cell where the door has already been ripped off the hinges. The Christian life is not about white-knuckling your way to better behavior. It is about reckoning what is already true: you have been moved, fused with Christ in his death and resurrection, and sin no longer has authority over you. Listen and let the first command in the book of Romans do its quiet, revolutionary work.

People in this episode

Host: Pastor Steve McKenzie

Topics covered

• grace
• sin
• Christian life
• holiness
• Romans
• spirituality

Keywords

• grace
• sin
• Christianity
• Romans 6
• holiness
• spirituality
• freedom

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Romans 6:1-14

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