Poetry

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Do you not know that all of us,
Who have been baptized into Christ;
Were baptized into death as thus,
When on the cross was sacrificed.

We were buried along with Him,
By baptism into His death;
And was raised with spiritual vim,
Glory given life with new breath.

For if we have been united,
Having a death like His with Him;
We are sure to be invited,
About no longer feeling grim.

We know that we were crucified,
No more of a body of sin;
And God making us sanctified,
For eternal life to begin.

No one who has died is set free,
And no longer enslaved to sin;
As the Father who will decree,
Erasing the life that had been.

Now if we have died within Christ,
We believe that we also live;
No longer we will be enticed,
Since our past God will forgive.

We know Christ was raised from the dead,
Knowing we never die again;
Waking us up from the death bed,
No longer with the stench of sin.

For the death He had died in sin,
But the life He lives unto God;
For a new life that we will win,
Rejoicing to honor and laud.

So consider yourself as dead,
To the sin and alive in Christ;
As we are spiritually fed,
And to be heavenly enticed.

Copyright © 2021 Richard Newton Sherrer

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