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The Word Is AliveRomans Chapter Six Narrated by Tony Gillon

Chapter Six • Romans 5:1–8:39 - Hope as a result of righteousness by faith (continues)

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter SixChapters 6-8 are designed both as a spectacular exposition of the Christian life in their own terms and as a way of taking forward the thrust of the whole letter, of which they form a central part.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter SixChapters 6-8 are designed both as a spectacular exposition of the Christian life in their own terms and as a way of taking forward the thrust of the whole letter, of which they form a central part. • Paul frames the account in similar terms to the Exodus.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter SixPaul told it this way because: • Jesus is the fulfilment of the promises.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter SixPaul told it this way because: • Jesus is the fulfilment of the promises. • Many Jews expected a new Exodus.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter SixPaul told it this way because: • Jesus is the fulfilment of the promises. • Many Jews expected a new Exodus. • What God has done in and through Jesus is the fulfilment of the hope of Israel.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter Six • Paul looks almost exclusively at what it means for the Roman Christians to commit themselves to being followers of Jesus.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter Six • Paul looks almost exclusively at what it means for the Roman Christians to commit themselves to being followers of Jesus. • Paul argues that their baptism into Christ should result in them casting off their former selves.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Summary of Chapter Six • Paul looks almost exclusively at what it means for the Roman Christians to commit themselves to being followers of Jesus. • Paul argues that their baptism into Christ should result in them casting off their former selves. • They have but two choices in life: to be slaves to sin or to be slaves to obedience.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Personal comment: • At times I will refer to Jesus in this document where it might be more accurate to have used Christ or Messiah. The reason for this is that, in many ways, the individual Jesus of Nazareth no longer exists as a person but is now the embodiment of the Godhead and of God’s whole creation; (Continued).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • He is the anointed one of God, who rules and reigns by the dominion given to him by the Father for his total obedience, demonstrated in faith and through his death on the Cross. I often tend to use Jesus as I view my relationship as a personal one with the individual in his loving grace and mercy for me.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1–23 – • The triumph of grace over the power of sin

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1–23 – • The triumph of grace over the power of sin • The law does not and cannot conquer sin.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1–23 – • The triumph of grace over the power of sin • The law does not and cannot conquer sin. • There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout (Job 3:17-18).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-14 - Dead to sin, alive in Christ

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-14 - Dead to sin, alive in Christ • Our baptism moves us from a likeness of Adam to a likeness of Christ.Day by day we should be able to turn away from sin and resist its evil hold over our lives that it once had.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. • (Romans 12:2).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. • (Romans 12:2). • And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God’s will.(2 Corinthians 8:5).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • God demands nothing but our whole selves as he did of Paul at his conversion: • “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do” (Acts 9:6).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Others who responded to the call were: • Abraham: • Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.(Genesis 22:1).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Others who responded to the call were: • Abraham: • Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.(Genesis 22:1). • But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied (Genesis 22:11).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Moses: • When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am” (Exodus 3:4).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Samuel: • Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am” (1 Samuel 3:4).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Samuel: • Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am” (1 Samuel 3:4). • Isaiah: • Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” • (Isaiah 6:8).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Peter, Andrew, James and John: • So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him (Luke 5:11).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Peter, Andrew, James and John: • So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him (Luke 5:11). • Philip: • The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me” (John 1:43).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Matthew or Levi: • After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him (Luke 5:27-28).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-5 – • Leaving the state of sin through baptism

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-5 – • Leaving the state of sin through baptism • 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-5 – • Leaving the state of sin through baptism • 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? • What shall we say then links the earlier discourse from Chapter 5 in order to take Paul’s argument forward.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Romans 6:1-5 – • Leaving the state of sin through baptism • 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? • What shall we say then links the earlier discourse from Chapter 5 in order to take Paul’s argument forward. • Away from me, Satan! (Matthew 4:10b).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • In every age some have wrongly interpreted and applied Paul’s Gospel of grace to rationalise sin, i.e. go on sinning.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • In every age some have wrongly interpreted and applied Paul’s Gospel of grace to rationalise sin, i.e. go on sinning. • A knowledge of truth that leads to godliness. (Titus 1:1).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • In every age some have wrongly interpreted and applied Paul’s Gospel of grace to rationalise sin, i.e. go on sinning. • A knowledge of truth that leads to godliness. (Titus 1:1). • Because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever (2 John 1:2).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Paul, by placing the law on the side of sin and not grace in Romans 5:20, poses the question did God give the law so that sin would increase and grace abound.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • 2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • 2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? • Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship (Romans 12:1).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Those who belong to Christ have died to sin.

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Those who belong to Christ have died to sin. • For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God (Galatians 2:19).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Those who belong to Christ have died to sin. • For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God (Galatians 2:19). • For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died (2 Corinthians 5:14).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Christ has introduced a new era:

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Christ has introduced a new era: • For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. • (Romans 5:19).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • The laying off of our sinful nature released us from the bondage of slavery. Once Christ leads us out of Egypt, should we ever consider returning?

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Baptised into Christ:

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Baptised into Christ: • “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptised with the baptism I am baptised with?” (Mark 10:38).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • Baptised into Christ: • “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptised with the baptism I am baptised with?” (Mark 10:38). • But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!(Luke 12:50).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased”. • (Mark 1:10-11).

Hope as a result of righteousness by faith • For we were all baptised by one Spirit into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free — and we were all given the one Spirit to drink (1 Corinthians 12:13).

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