| SUMMARY: | After explaining the relationship between sin, law and grace, Paul will now deal with four issues that arise from this. He anticipates the questions and answers them. The first question is, since grace increases when sin increases, should we sin, so God’s grace may increase even more? The answer is certainly not! We have died to sin so we should no longer live in it. |
| I. Introductory Question and Answer | VERSES 6:1-3 | |
| A. The Questions: | ||
| 1. First: | What shall we say then? | (1a) |
| 2. Second: | Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? | (1b) |
| B. The Answer: | ||
| 1. The Denial: | May it never be! | (2a) |
| 2. The Rhetorical Questions: | ||
| a. First: | How shall we who died to sin still live in it? | (2b) |
| b. Second: | Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? | (3) |
| II. Discussion | VERSES 6:4-11 | |
| A. Our Identification with Christ: | ||
| 1. Its Purpose: | ||
| a. The Statement: | Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, | (4a) |
| b. The Reason: | so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. | (4b) |
| 2. Its Promise: | ||
| a. IF: | For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, | (5a) |
| b. THEN: | certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, | (5b) |
| B. Into His Death: | ||
| 1. Into His Death: | knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, | (6a) |
| 2. The Purpose: | ||
| a. First: | in order that our body of sin might be done away with, | (6b) |
| b. Second: | so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; | (6c) |
| 3. The Explanation: | for he who has died is freed from sin. | (7) |
| C. Into His Life: | ||
| 1. Our Identification: | Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, | (8) |
| 2. The Resurrection of Christ: | ||
| a. The Statement: | knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, | (9a) |
| b. The Results: | is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. | (9b) |
| c. The Explanation: | ||
| (1) His Death: | For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; | (10a) |
| (2) His Life: | but the life that He lives, He lives to God. | (10b) |
| 3. The Exhortation: | ||
| a. To be dead: | Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, | (11a) |
| b. To be Alive: | but alive to God in Christ Jesus. but alive to God in Christ Jesus. | (11b) |
| III. Application of this Truth | VERSES 6:12-14 | |
| A. Negatively: | ||
| 1. First: | Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, | (12) |
| 2. Second: | and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; | (13a) |
| B. Positively: | ||
| 1. First: | but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, | (13b) |
| 2. Second: | and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. | (13c) |
| C. The Explanation: | ||
| 1. The Statement: | For sin shall not be master over you, | (14a) |
| 2. The Reason: | for you are not under law but under grace. | (14b) |