Romans Worksheet - Chapter 6

 

Review Of Justification by Faith:
 

The word justify, which Paul uses so frequently, should be clearly apprehended. To be justified is to be counted righteous, or guiltless, before God. He who has one sin recorded against him is not justified. He whose sins are all blotted out is justified. The sinner who believes upon Jesus Christ, clings to the mercy seat by an obedient, trusting faith, and finds mercy through Christ's redeeming blood, is justified. As no man could keep the law perfectly, no man could be justified by the works of the law. As we obtain God's mercy, the righteousness God bestows in Christ, by faith in Christ Jesus, so we are justified by a faith that leads us to Christ. In Romans 5, Paul began share the benefits of being "justified" before God.  He showed that as sin increased when the law of Moses was given, the grace of God increased all the more toward those who were justified in faith.  In Chapter 6, he will ask questions concerning this and answer them as well.

Romans Chapter 6

What shall we say then?...Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?...May it never be!...How shall we who died to sin still live in it?.....

1.  When we are baptized into Christ Jesus, what are we baptized into? vs. 3 -

The word baptism in the Greek language is "baptizo" means:

Definition (Greek Lexicon)

to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk) The clearest example that showsthe meaning of baptizo is a text from the Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about 200 B.C. It is a recipe for making picklesand is helpful because it uses both words. Nicander says that inorder to make a pickle, the vegetable should first be 'dipped'(bapto) into boiling water and then 'baptised' (baptizo) in the vinegar solution. Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables in asolution. But the first is temporary. The second, the act of baptising the vegetable, produces a permanent change. When used in the New Testament, this word more often refers to our union and identification with Christ than to our water baptism.  There must be a union with him, a real change, like the vegetable to thepickle! Bible Study Magazine, James Montgomery Boice, May 1989.   Based on the definition above, to be "baptized" into the death of Christ would be to be completely "identified" with His death.  He died and therefore we die to ourselves, a spiritual death, so that a new birth can take place.

2.  After Christ died and was buried, He came up out of the grave into His resurrected life. 

• How does our baptism or identity with Him show this same action? vs. 4 -

3.  As believers, what happened to our old self, the person we use to be, when Christ was crucified for the world?  vs. 6 -

Read and comment on the following verse for more clarification on this:

• Colossians 2:10-14 -

Note: Although you were not alive at the time of Christ's crucifixion, He paid for the debts of all the sinners on the cross that day for all time - past, present, and future.  Therefore, the sins that condemned you and caused you to be born a sinner were already paid for on the cross.  The day that you accept Christ as your Savior and believe in your heart that He is Lord of all, asking Him to be Your Lord and confessing Him as such, God credits Your account as 'righteousness', as legally adopted as a child of God.  You are born again into the family of God.  Every debt against you is paid in full by the blood of Christ!  You have access to the throne of grace through the inherited promises of being a child of God.

4.  Our old self was crucified with Him. 

• What effect did this have on our body of sin? 
• What is the logical result of that? vs. 6-7 -

5.  If we have died 'with Christ', and He has been 'raised' up from the dead, what is the result for us as well? vs. 8 - 11 -

6.  We are to consider ourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 

• What are we commanded to do about sin and lust? vs. 12 -

7.  We are not to continue to present the members of our body (our mouth, our minds, our arms, our legs, our hands, our eyes, etc...) to sin as instruments of unrighteousness.

•  As we present ourselves dead to sin and alive to God, what are we consciously to do with the members of our body?  vs. 13 -

8.  How is this possible?  What enables us to live in this way? vs. 14 - 

Note:  Grace is thought of as something that happened to us in the past, but we have seen in the first lessons of Romans that we are to stand in the same grace that we are saved by.  Grace is an action verb.  It is power.  It is the agent that gives us the ability to keep going, to keep having authority over sin in our life.  It is the victory agent! Remember the definition - It is unearned, undeserved favor of God.  If you know that you can continue to approach God's throne of grace when you don't deserve it and can't earn it, you will go not by your own works or righteousness, but by His mercy and by His grace, by the fact that you have been justified, declared "not guility" by the blood of His Son Jesus.  This is the key to overcoming habits of sin in your life!  Don't you see it?  Free from condemnation, you can be more than a conqueror.  When you fall, you get back up again.  You know you are loved by God and that the hope in Him will not leave you disappointed.  It is the power to live a victorious life! Paul asks another question that he answers himself again.  What then?...Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?...May it never be! Being under grace does not make us want to be slaves to sin.  Grace causes us to desire to live a righteous life for our God who loved us so much and forgave us of all things, not counting our sins against us.  We want to please Him because we love Him.

9.  In the Old Testament, God prophesied of this grace that would come to His people under a New Covenant that would replace the Old Covenant of Law. 

Read what He said "the promise of the Spirit" would do to the ones who received Him:

• Read Jeremiah 31:31-33
• Where would God write His law at? 
• Read Ezekiel 36:25-27
• What would God cleanse them of? 
• What kind of heart would be removed? 
• What kind of heart would be given? 
• What would the Holy Spirit within them cause them to do?

Note:  The law would go from being a code on the outside to being engraved from love on the heart.  Their have to's would change to want to's.  This is the power of grace under the New Covenant of the blood of our Lord.

Back to Romans 6, Paul said that we are slaves of the one we choose to  "obey". 

10. What happens if we continue to  "obey" the sin nature and do not desire to  apply the power of grace as justified saints? vs. 16 -   (if this is the case, we need to examine to see if the new birth has truly happened or if we have been fooled by religious games)

11. What happens if we "obey" the way of righteous living by the "grace" that God has supplied that we live in? vs. 16 -

12. Even though we use to be slaves to sin, what can we thank God for if we are His children? vs. 17-18 -

Paul wants us to see that in the same way we purposed to present our bodies of sin to the slavery of lawlessness and impurity ...we can now present our bodies to be slaves of righteousness, which will result in our sanctification (the process of becoming like Christ - holiness - a set apart life from the world).....

13. What obligation were we free from when we were slaves of sin? vs. 20 - 

Now that we are free from that obligation and we are now bondservants to God, we have sanctification and will have as the outcome, eternal life.

14. What are the wages of remaining in sin? vs. 23 -

15. What is the free gift of God that is offered to us? vs. 23 -

Application:

Have you been completely baptized or identified into the death of Christ?  Have you died to your old body of self and chosen to life in the power of His resurrection?  Are you presenting the members of your body (eyes, mind, taste, hands, feet, etc..) to deed of righteous living rather than to the deeds of lust that were a part of the person you were before you were born again into God's family? Can you grasp the reality of daily grace in your life?  We are saved by His grace and we must stand in His grace!  This is the power over sin in our life as a Christian.  Do you apply His grace frequently?  Are you approaching the throne of grace to receive mercy and find help in your time of need? If not, why not?  Will you practice standing in His grace more often after understanding the truths in this lesson? What is an area you can apply it to right now, today?

Your summary and prayer today:

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