Romans - Chapter 6

Romans 6 (New International Version)


Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

OK, so Paul says the law was given to identify sin, there-bye increasing sin, and there-bye increasing grace. Does that mean we can and should keep on sinning? NO, absolutely not! As believers we died with Christ and in doing so we died to sin. Through Christ’s resurrection we may live a new sinless life.

Romans 6:1-4
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means! We 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.

United with him in his death means united with him in his resurrection. Our old self, born with its sin nature, was crucified and is done away with. We are no longer slaves to sin. Anyone who has died is free from sin.

Romans 6:5-7
5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

We are now dead to sin. Sin shall no longer reign in our mortal bodies. We have been brought from death to life. Sin is no longer your master. You are no longer under law but under grace.

Romans 6:11-14
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 the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.


***AND NOW MY FAVORITE PART...


Slaves to Righteousness

OK, than Paul says should we keep on sinning because we are no longer under the law? NO, of course not!!! Don’t you realize you are a slave to whomever you obey? Whether it is slavery to sin (death) or slavery to obedience (righteousness). Even though we were slaves to sin we are no longer. We have been set free from sin! Through Christ we have become slaves to righteousness.
Now that we have been set free from sin we have become slaves to God, which leads us to holiness.

Romans 6:15-18
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom 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 wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:22
22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.