Grace is for Freedom

Mick Murray continues a sermon series on grace, preaching from Romans 6:1-4 and 11-14. Mick explains that grace does not give believers a license to keep sinning freely, but ushers them into an entirely new identity. Drawing on Paul's use of baptism as a picture of dying and rising with Christ, and the exodus story of Israel walking through the Red Sea out of slavery in Egypt, Mick shows that everyone who trusts in Jesus has been moved out of sin's dominion and into a new life under grace. Mick unpacks three practices from Romans 6:11-14: considering ourselves dead to sin, resisting sin from that renewed identity rather than to earn God's favor and presenting ourselves to God as instruments of righteousness. Mick shares his own story of addiction to pornography, reminding us that we do not need to acquire more grace or freedom, but sin no longer has dominion over those who are under grace.