• Does the Teaching of Grace Encourage People to Sin? — Rom 5:20-21; 6:1-2
  • Our union with Christ — Doctrine — Rom 6:1-14
  • Our union with Christ — Practical — Rom 6:15-23
• The Question — Rom 6:1
  • The true teaching of grace does not provoke this question
  • The question indicates a misunderstanding of the grace principle
• The Answer — Rom 6:2
  • God forbid
    • By no means
    • Let it not be
    • It is unthinkable
  • Grace is to deliver us from the bondage and rule of sin
  • The answer in a question — "How shall we who died to sin, live in sin?"
• Our Death to Sin
  • It happened once and forever
  • A definite fact that belongs to the past. One unique point in history
  • The believer died to sin — Rom 6:3-6, 11
• Analysis ofRom 6:2
  • "We" — being what we are
    • Justified by faith
    • Our special position
  • "We who died to sin"
    • An event that has happened
    • Not a process
  • "How shall we live any longer therein?"
    • Does not mean "perfection"
    • Does not say we "ought" to be dead
    • Does not say we "are dying to sin"
    • Does not say we "are renouncing sin"
  • In what sense has the believer died to sin? — Rom 5:21
    • We have died to the reign of sin
    • The death and resurrection of Christ brought an end to the reign of sin in the believer
• Analysis ofRom 6:3-5
  • Question: How did we die to sin?
  • Answer: In the doctrine of our union with Christ
  • The meaning of baptism in Romans 6
    • Sacramental — the act or rite or performance of baptism joins us to Christ — the act itself
    • Refers to baptismal vows — our vows put us into union with Christ
    • This is not water baptism
    • It is the baptism of the Holy Spirit — 1Co 12:13
      • He joins us to Christ
      • He puts us in the body
  • "Know ye not?" Do you understand?
  • "All who have been baptized into Christ"
    • All believers have union with Christ
    • Something that has been done for us
  • "Into Jesus Christ"
    • Totally, fully, completely
  • Being baptized into Christ means —
    • That we are joined to Him
    • That we are participators in what has happened to Him
      • We are joined with Him in His death
        • It is an objective fact
        • It is not a subjective experience
        • It has happened
      • Death to the reign of sin
      • Burial is the proof of death
      • We are joined to Christ in His resurrection
        • Christ was raised by the glorious power of the Father
        • The same glorious power that raised Christ has done the same to us — Eph 1:19-20
        • We have "newness of life"
          • A new realm
          • A new "walk" — 2Co 5:17

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