This week's devotion is entitled:

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
~Romans 5:20-21

This verse sets us up for a very important lesson about righteousness and sin. Some would say, "If God forgives you of everything, why not keep sinning?" Of course we know we can't do this. But why? What is the Biblical backing?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
~Romans 6:1-9

What is all that saying? It is saying that if you are in Christ and you are baptized in Christ, you have partaken of His death and resurrection; therefore you should be dead to sin and resurrected to life through Christ when you are saved. Your "old man [should be] crucified with Him" and you should "walk in the newness of life." You shouldn't run around sinning, because in that you are trying to live dead. Live live like Christ, not dead like the old you.

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~Romans 6:11