Many people think of Christianity as a list of do’s and don’t’s. If you read a passage like the one we are looking at this Sunday simply on its own, you could easily get that impression. But Paul has littered it with allusions to remind his readers, both the original and now us, of what he has already laid out in this letter. Where does the empowering come from that allows us to begin to live holy lives? Our relationship with Jesus. It is by being IN HIM that leads us to Gospel transformation.