Step 1: We Died to Sin What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Romans 6:1,2 Paul begins with a vehement denial of any thought that God’s grace gives us license to sin,
Step 2: Baptised Into Christ’s Death Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? Romans 6:3 God’s grace to us in Christ has decisively changed our relationship to sin. We are no longer ‘slaves to sin’ (6:6) but have become ‘slaves’ to God and righteousness (6:17-22).
Step 3: Sharers in His Resurrection 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. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly
Step 4: Crucified With Christ 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— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin Romans 6:6,7 In becoming a Christian we move
Step 5: Christ is Dead to Sin But Alive to God Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to
Step 6: We Are Dead to Sin and Alive to God In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus Romans 6:11 Paul is emphatic that God’s grace not only forgives sin but actually delivers the Christian from sinning. Grace does more than justify; it also sanctifies.
Step 7: Offer Our Bodies to God Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 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
Step 8: Under Grace Sin in No Longer Master For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace Romans 6:14 Paul is emphatic that God’s grace not only forgives sin but actually delivers the Christian from sinning. Grace does more than justify; it also sanctifies. It
The Two Halves of Romans 6 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 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
Four Steps in Exchange of Slaveries 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? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves
