READING ROMANS, CHAPTER 6

 

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

 INTRODUCING ROMANS, CHAPTER 6 

Summary will be added tomorrow. (https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/6/Romans-chapter-6.html)

1)Death to Sin, Alive in Christ, Part 1 (Verses 1-7), JEANNIE

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. ⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

SECTION QUESTIONS:

1. Why should a person not want to live in sin anymore? (V2)

2. What does baptism symbolize about our relationship to Christ? (V2-4)

3. What makes it possible for a person to live a new life? (V4

2)Death to Sin, Alive in Christ, Part 2, (Verses 8-14), DESTINY

⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once and for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master because you are not under the law but under grace.

SECTION QUESTIONS:

4. How does being united with Christ through his death change our lives? (V6-7)

5. After our new relationship with God, what should our relationship to sin be? (V11-12)

2)Slaves of Righteousness, (Verses 15-23), MAMA

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. ¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in^[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.

SECTION QUESTIONS:

1. What's the difference between verse 1 and verse 15?

2. What are the two types of slavery mentioned in Romans 6? (V17-18)

3. What command is so important that Paul repeats it twice? (V13-19)

4. What is the result of presenting yourself as a slave to righteousness? (V19)

5. What is the great gift of God? (V23)

6. What are the three steps that lead to eternal life? (V22)

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Thought Questions:

1. How do you consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God?

2. What is your personal answer to the question in verse 15? Explain your answer. 

3. After reading Chapter 6, how would you respond to the person who says, "I don't have to live by the law anymore. I'm free. I can do whatever I feel like doing?”