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Read: Romans 6:1-23 You are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness. (v. 16) Bob Dylan sang, “You gotta serve somebody. It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody.” This is a New Testament principle. In Romans 6 the apostle says that we are all slaves to something, either slaves to sin or slaves to Christ. Paul explains that as we have been baptized into Christ, our old self was “put to death” in the sense that we now walk in newness of life. Through Christ we have been set free from the bondage of sin and therefore are no longer slaves to it. Our “slavery” now comes in a different form; as Paul says,