ROMANS 6:1-11

ROMANS 6:1-11

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? ² By no means! How can WE WHO DIEDto sin still live in it? ³ Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH? ⁴ WE WERE BURIED THEREFORE WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, WE TOO MIGHT WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.

⁵ For if WE HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH HIM IN A DEATH LIKE HIS, WE SHALL CERTAINLY BE UNITED WITH HIM IN A RESURRECTION LIKE HIS. ⁶ We know that OUR OLD SELF WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIMin order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷ FOR ONE WHO HAS DIED HAS BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN. ⁸ NOW IF WE HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST, we believe that we will also live with him.⁹ We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

V2.  WE WHO DIED.   PAUL states that WE.  Who is the WE?  Is it you in the 21^stcentury?  Nope.  Is it Christians throughout all time?  Nope. Is it Paul and those whom he is writing the book of Romans TO? YESSIREE!

How is it that Paul can write to people who died?  Was their death physical? Nope.  Is it spiritual/ covenantal?  Yes.

V3  BAPTIZED into his death.  Was this physical?  Nope. Was it spiritual/covenantal?  Yep.

V4  Were the Roman Christians buried with Christ physically in the tomb?  Nope. Were they buried spiritually/covenantally?  Yes.

Is Roman Christians walking in newness of life likened to Christ being raised from the dead by the glory of the Father?  Yes.

V5  How were Roman Christians united with Christ in a death like his?  

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