What We Learn About Sin ~Baptism ~ Jesus Living to God
Women’s Connection
Bible Study meets every Thursday (except 3/28) where we are studying the Book
of Romans: – Fellowship ~ Lively
Discussion ~ Refreshments.
1. If we, as
Christians, are dead to sin then why must we abandon or repent from sin?
Because when we place our trust in Jesus Christ by faith, we are “regarded” as
righteous but we are not “made” righteous. The work of sanctification by the
Holy Spirit begins at regeneration – when we receive Christ - and continues
until we join Him in glory.
2. What kind of
baptism is Paul referring to In Romans 6:3-4? When Paul speaks of the fact
that we have been baptized into Christ in Romans 6:3-4 – he was not
talking about water baptism but Spirit baptism. If he had been talking about water baptism, it would appear that these passages would mean that we are saved by water baptism. We have been baptized into the
body of Christ, into God’s family, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Water
baptism does not save us and does not cleanse us. Water baptism is a public testimony of what
has taken place spiritually on the inside but has nothing to do with our salvation.
We are only cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
3. How is it that
Jesus would live to God when He had already been living to God? The last word
“liveth” in v.10 mean’s “keeps on living”. Jesus then, after His resurrection,
kept on living to God.
Romans 6:1-4, 10 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so
that grace may increase? 2 May
it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of
us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as
Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might
walk in newness of life.10 For the death
that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives
to God.
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