NO! We were cleansed to be vessels of honor in service to the Lord our God. This is not mostly about me / you / us – this is about Him. Lord help each one of us to walk in the newness of life that is ours in Christ Jesus To walk in the new love for you O Lord To walk in the new love for our neighbor O Lord To die to self and walk and live in the newness Christ has provided for us to glorify the Father as we are led by the Holy Spirit as witnesses to the whole world around us beginning at home and workplace and all other places God leads us to. Walking in newness of life in Christ Jesus. Let’s be about our walk. Amen
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we Our cleansing in Christ – our new birth in Christ was not mainly about just getting us clean – but in preparation to honor and serve God and to be ambassadors for the Lord. So, let what God has done in us work its way out into the far reaches of our lives and our minds and our words and our actions too might walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:1–4, ESV)