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Romans 6:1-10
Romans chapters 1-3:20 dealt with the sinfulness of mankind.
Chapters 3:21-5 dealt with Justification.
Now the topic in Romans 6:1-8:16 is Sanctification
There is a difference between Justification and Sanctification
Justification - is judicial - we are declared righteous
Sanctification - is Moral - We are made righteous
Justification - is Instantaneous decision
Sanctification - is a lifelong growth
Justification is imputed righteousness - the Christian's standing before God
Sanctification is imparted walk/practice before God.
Justification is indicative mood: you are justified (statement of fact)
Sanctification is imperative mood: act like it (command)
Justification is Union with Christ in His past death/resurrection
Sanctification is Communion with Christ in the present.
Knowing this difference in verses 1-10 He starts with the indicative - the statement of fact - You Have been baptized in Christ.
We have died and been raised with Christ.
Then later we will look at the imperative - the command - Now live like it in verse 11-14.
Now Paul starts with a question:
I.
The Question of License
1 What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid.
How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Paul states the issue: Does the fact that God forgives us by his grace mean that we should go on sinning so that God’s grace will be exalted in continuing to forgive us?
This comes from his statement in Romans 5:20-21
So we ought to not worry about sinning, because this just gives God a chance to exercise his grace even more?
The Jews especially that were used to the Law would especially be interested in the answer to this question.
In fact two things bother a lot of people about the teaching of salvation by grace and grace alone!
1. Grace seems to give us free reign to sin.
There is a feeling that sin does not matter much if we are saved by grace, not by doing good.
We don’t need to worry about righteousness.
We can do whatever we want.
God will forgive us anyway!
2. Grace seems to encourage sin.
God’s grace is so strong it can forgive any sin, inf act the greater the sin, the more magnified God’s grace becomes.
So then in reality, is sin then actually a good thing, so that His grace can be more magnified?
Of course not, and Paul gives an adamant answer.
God forbid!
By no means!
When a believer understands his position in Christ it makes it far too difficult to continue in sin.
The Word continue means to practice or to habitually yield to sin.
A true believer is dead to sin, a dead man cannot do anything, the true believer now just has to die to self and rekon yourslef to be in Christ.
How can someone who has turned to God turn more and more to sin?
it is the opposite of directions.
Does this mean the man will never sin, of course not, but as the believer yields to God through the Holy Spirit, he sins less and less.
So the question of license is thrown out with a hearty God forbid!
Now Paul turns to:
II.
The Answer to License
Paul begins to give a series of three things the believer needs to know in order to live the Christian life the way they ought.
A. The Believer Is in Christ
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
By position the believer is baptised/placed into Christ.
This is the first reality that every believer needs to know and remember!
There has been so much discussion and controversy over what is meant by baptism here.
It ends up being such a problem that the meaning is often bypassed.
The emphasis isn’t that baptism brings this position, it is that by baptism it shows the picture of our position.
Christians typically agree that baptism is a picture of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
by being placed under the water, he is proclaiming that he has died and been buried with Christ.
by being raised up from the water, he is proclaiming that he has been raised from the dead with Christ to live a new life.
Notice with me three wonderful ideas here:
1.
The believer is immersed, placed into, or identified with Christ in death.
This picture shows us the reality that this payment, this death, is made and he is now free form sin and it’s penalty.
When a person believes God takes that person’s faith and counts it as the death of Christ.
Counts him as having died in Christ.
Why would God do this, because of His love!
God loves His son so much that anyone who honors His Son with his faith in His Son, He honors them by placing them in Christ.
So then because we are immersed into the death of Christ we:
have died to sin
have died to the penalty of sin
have died to the judgment of sin
This means we are free from the rule and reign, the habits and desires of sin.
We no longer live “in sin”.
We cannot perfectly live without sin, but we are no longer living “in sin” because we are “in christ”.
We are no longer under the bondage of sin.
This is the believers position in Christ.
He is immersed, buried, placed into, identified with Christ in death.
2. The believer is baptized, placed into, or identified with Christ in His Resurrection.
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
This same picture of baptism is used to reinforce the truth of the new life we are given.
God takes the believer’s faith and counts the person as participating in Christ’s resurrection.
He counts the person:
to be raised in Christ’s resurrection
to be partakers of Christ’s Resurrection.
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.
This word glory (doxa) means all the excellence of God; all that he is in might and power, love and grace.
It means all of his attributes, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, sovereignty.
Specifically here it is dealing with his glorious power.
It was the glory of His might that raised Jesus from the dead, and it is by the glory of His might that he raises and positions us in Christ.
and then secondly, God’s purpose for raising us up with Christ is that we would walk in newness of life.
This idea of “new”carries the idea of purity, holiness, righteousness:
The Believer receives a new birth
The Believer receives a new heart
The Believer becomes a new creature
The Believer becomes a new man
God’s very purpose for plains us in in Christ through his resurrected life is that we might walk in Christ, soberly, righteously, and godly, even while in this present sinful world.
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