ROMANS Study Guide

Chapter Six :

Understanding the fact of “being in Christ”

In Chapter Six we find how Paul instructs the believer how to deal with Sin in his or her life. What is the believer’s relationship to sin now that we are saved? Much of the problem of sin in a believer’s life is the failure to fully understand the spiritual accomplishments of Jesus Christ on the Cross for us and his resurrection. We no longer have to sin. This has led to many believers living frustrated and ineffective spiritual lives because they do not fully understand what they have inherited in Christ. Paul set the stage at the end of Chapter five and now it is for us to understand what he has written for our benefit in the next three chapters. These three chapters need to be seen as one unit. Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? Rom 6:2 Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Rom 6:3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Rom 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life. Rom 6:5 For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. Rom 6:7 For he who died has been justified from sin. Rom 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, Rom 6:9 knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him. Rom 6:10 For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God. Rom 6:11 Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1. The gift of being dead in Christ! vss.1-11

This Chapter shows how believes are to deal with sin that still confronts

them.

a. Reviving th e argument in chapter three (vs.5)… Paul repeats

what he knew others had been accusing him of…that his view of

God’s justification meant that there was no need to obey the law

or be accountable for our sins… in fact Paul’s enemie s insisted he

was teaching moral lawlessness (no limits to sinning in order to

glorify God by showing how much his grace can forgive).