Rebrand | Week 2 | Daniel Goulding · Rewind

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 16, 2022 · 70 min watch · 3 min read

Rebrand | Week 2 | Daniel Goulding

Big Idea

Grace is not a license to sin — it is the power that frees you from sin and empowers you to truly live.

In Romans 6, Paul confronts the temptation to treat God's grace as a permission slip for continued sin. Using the imagery of baptism — dying and rising with Christ — Paul argues that the believer's old self is genuinely dead and that the same resurrection power that raised Jesus now lives within every Christian. Grace is not merely the door into salvation; it is the ongoing, transforming power that breaks sin's hold, restores purpose, and enables believers to live as God's instruments in the world.

Key points

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1Grace is not a loophole that gives Christians permission to keep sinning — Paul answers that question with a firm 'of course not.'
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2Baptism symbolizes the death and burial of the old self and the emergence of a new creation — you cannot drag the old person out of the grave into your new life.
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3Being united with Christ in His death also means being united with Him in His resurrection — the power to overcome sin comes from staying connected to that resurrection life.
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4Remaining connected to Jesus — abiding in Him through the Word, corporate worship, and daily time with God — is the practical key to experiencing His transforming power.
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5Jesus did not only pay the penalty for sin on the cross — He also broke sin's power, so believers are no longer slaves to it.
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6Christians have been forgiven and freed not to live for themselves but to become instruments of grace — God's vessels — to the people around them.

Application

Pastor Daniel closes with a two-part challenge rooted in Romans 6. First, every believer is called to an honest moment of reflection — identifying the one sin of commission (something you need to stop) or omission (something you need to start) that you have been rationalizing and dragging into the new life Christ gave you. Second, and more fundamentally, the way forward is not willpower but remaining connected to Jesus through daily time in the Word, corporate worship, and prayer — trusting that the same resurrection power that raised Christ is at work within you, able to change not just your behavior but your desires. For those who have never surrendered to Jesus at all, Daniel reminds us that everything else — every self-improvement effort — is futile without first receiving the free gift of grace that makes you genuinely new.

Take it into your week

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Scripture in this message

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“Hey, if you have a bible, open up to Romans chapter six. I know there's playoff football happening, so I will get us out here in at least two hours or less”
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“Romans five emphatically states that there's nothing that the cross can't cover. Grace is enough”
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“that's where we start in Romans six verse one. He says, well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace”
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“He developed an entire theological disposition centered around Romans five verses twenty and twenty one. Where sin increases, grace increases all the more. Therefore, God is in the business of forgiving sinners”
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“Here's where he continues in verse two. He says, of course not. Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it”
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“He says, or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and we were buried with Christ by baptism”
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“Here's where Paul starts to get practical with us in verse five. He says, since we have been united with Him in His death, here's where the key and the power is. He says, we will also be raised to life as He was”
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“It's John 15. John 15, Jesus again trying to explain this mystery, this concept to his disciples. He said, guys, you have to understand. You are the branches. I am the vine”
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“he says 11 times in seven verses in John chapter 15 that we our responsibility on this side of eternity is to remain. It's to abide. It's to stay”
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“And then I remember when I read Romans chapter six, that part of my responsibility is to remain”
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“He says that we know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ, we were set free from the power of sin”
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“He says, so therefore, do not let sin control the way you live. Do not give in to those sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin”

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Before Paul gets to the hard question in Romans 6, he sets up why the question even needs to be asked. In Romans 5:20-21, he writes that where sin increased, grace increased all the more — so that just as sin reigned in death, grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life. That is an astonishing claim. Grace is bigger than sin. Always. But Pastor Daniel pointed out that this very greatness of grace is what tempts people to treat it carelessly, as if its abundance means our choices don't matter. Here at the start of the week, it's worth sitting with that tension honestly. Grace is not a small thing you might accidentally use up. It is vast, freely given, and it covers real sin. But Paul's point — and the sermon's — is that grace was never meant to be a ceiling you bump against and then bounce back down from. It was meant to be the ground you stand on as you walk forward. Today, simply let the size of grace land on you. You are not holding yourself up by your own effort. Grace already did something permanent when Jesus rose from the dead, and that same grace is still at work in you right now.

For reflection

When you think about God's grace toward you, does it feel more like a relief or more like an invitation — and what might that reveal about where you are with Him right now?

Pray

Pray for a fresh, honest sense of how big God's grace really is — and what it cost.

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Small-group discussion guide

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Open

Paul opens Romans 6 with a question that is almost too uncomfortable to ask out loud: 'Should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of His wonderful grace?' Take a moment to sit with that — and consider why Paul even had to raise it.

Discussion questions

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In Romans 6:1-2, Paul asks whether grace gives believers a reason to keep sinning — then immediately answers his own question with 'of course not.' What do you think made that question worth addressing in the first place, and what does Paul's sharp response tell us about how he understood grace?
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Paul uses the imagery of baptism in Romans 6:3-4 to describe what happened to the old self — death, burial, and a new emergence. What do you think Paul is trying to communicate about the nature of the change that takes place when someone comes to faith in Jesus?
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Romans 6:5 says that being united with Christ in His death means being united with Him in His resurrection. How does that connection — not just forgiveness, but resurrection power — change the way we might think about the struggle with sin?
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In John 15, Jesus describes Himself as the vine and His followers as branches — fruitfulness depends entirely on staying connected to Him. Alongside Romans 6:6-11, how do those two passages together help explain why Paul says believers are no longer slaves to sin?
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Romans 6:12-14 closes with Paul calling believers to become instruments of grace to the people around them. What might that look like practically in everyday relationships and ordinary settings?
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Pastor Daniel challenged us to think about something we have been rationalizing — a sin of commission or omission — and then pointed us away from willpower and toward staying connected to Jesus through the Word, worship, and prayer. What does that distinction — willpower versus remaining connected — actually mean for how we pursue change?

Pray together

Gratitude for a grace that not only forgives but genuinely frees — and for the resurrection power that is already at work within us

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