Lesson 77
The Christ-Centered Life
The Foundation
is our Position in Christ - Rom 6
Ø 6:1-3 Overview
- Revolves about the question of 6:1
- Does Salvation
by Grace through faith, permit or encourage us to continue to live in sin,
dominated by the sin nature, out of which flows various acts of sin?
We are
not to continue in sin, that is, under the sin natures
dominion, it is not to continue to reign or dominate because of 2 things.
#1 we
are separated from it's power; "died to sin"
vs:2
#2 we
are identified with Christ! Vs:3
Ø
6:1-3 The first Question and answer! read 1-3!
Question #1; Are we to continue in sin so that grace
might increase?
- sin h` a`marti,a
refers to what? The sin
nature, that strong desire, propensity to sin, to operate outside the expressed
will of God.
- continue
= evpime,nw = to be at home or a guest
in someone's house; implication is of hospitality, fellowship, cordiality;
- What does v.2 say??
How shall we who died to sin
still live in it?
You have already died to
sin! Aorist tense avpoqnh,|skw
- Clearly the death to sin
is real, and its final in that its effective, for the
whole of one's Christian life.
Three reasons that I
can say that!
1.
2.
3.
- As to the question can we
continue in a cordial relationship with the sin nature, the context is going to
give us several reasons why we can not
do this.
#1.
#2.
#3.
#4.
Ø
6:3
First emphasis on what we need to know! Read v.3
- Or
do you not know, = present agnoew keep on not being
ignorant
- that all of
us o[soi relative pronoun plural;
as many as/all of us who; looks at a
group in which all have the same qualifications; characteristics; all are believers in Christ.
- all
believers Paul says have been baptized
into Christ Jesus bapti,zw = aorist passive
indicative; passive = outside agent!
[also] have been baptized into His death.
Ø
6:4
Gives us the significance & purpose of the baptism spoken of in
verse 3
- we have been
buried with Him [ou=n auvtw/| -
together with Him] [how] through baptism into [eivj] death;
-
in order
that [purpose,] just as
Christ was raised from the dead
[reality of His resurrection] through the glory of the Father, [brings into focus all that God is, His divine
attributes]
so we too might walk in newness of life.
- newness of life,
kaino,thj a
newness/freshness; speaks of a life that has a new and fresh quality
* Baptism [no water in context]
- Etymology of the word;
a. metal
when heated red hot being placed into water to temper it.
used baptize to describe that process; Homer in
The Odyssey 700 BC.
b. Sinking of a ship; The
ship was said to be identified with the water as it sunk. Euripides 400 BC.
c. Swords dipped in
blood was said to be identified with war.
Xenophon in Anabasis 360 BC.
- Meaning is to identify; to take something and
so identify it with something else so that its nature or character is changed.
-
What God does for each one at salvation based on the work of
Christ on the cross is the foundation of or the basis of the new life in
Christ!
- Context: Baptism refers to bringing the believing one
into a vital living union with Jesus Christ;
* There
are three aspects of this identification;
#1. 1 Cor
#2. Gal 3:27
#3. Rom. 6:3
living union
with Jesus Christ Joined
to the one
at the r-hand of Father
died
resurrected
buried