1. THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST COMES TO MANKIND TO SET THEM FREE FROM
SIN
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KNOW YE NOT, THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED UNTO JESUS CHRIST WERE
BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH.
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST COMES TO MANKIND TO SET THEM FREE FROM SIN
In Romans 6, Paul sets out to demonstrate the effectiveness of grace to deal with sin. Grace features the saving
work of both Christ (Romans 6:1-7:6) and the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-30). The law, on the other hand, is
ineffective (Romans 7:7-25).i
1A WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST: (principle #1)
BUT WE WERE “BAPATIZO” IN TO CHRIST.
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 My life was “fused” with Jesus Christ.
 I was “baptized” immersed, submersed into Christ.
 When you were saved you were immersed into Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians 10:2 2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
o Means come under authority of Moses, to participate in the Mosaic leadership.
o What God was doing for Moses so he was doing to them. Infused them into Him.
 We were baptized, placed in to Jesus Christ, deeply into Christ
 It is not talking about H2O
 But a personal fellowship with Christ.
 1 John 1:3: 3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with
us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians: 6 17
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
o Alters its condition or its relationship to its previous environment.
Here in Romans 6:3 and 4 and Galatians 3:27-28, baptism is meant symbolic
 Why? Well, water baptism cannot put a sinner into Jesus Christ. Only the Holy Spirit can do that.
Romans 8:9 and 1 Corinthians 12:13:
 Water baptism is a public witness of the person’s identification with Christ, while Spirit baptism is the
personal and private experience that identifies the person with Christ.
WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS THIS:
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2.  We are spiritually introduced or placed into a new environment, union with Christ, an unbreakable
joining together with Christ, an unbreakable union which forever alters the individual’s relationship to
their previous environment.
2A PRINCIPLE #2 HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH
WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST INTO HIS DEATH
 Aorist tense = past completed, fully accomplished, historical act.
 Picture’s the believer’s identification with Christ’s death, here also means in relationship with the
power of sin. Romans 6:10
 It’s the GALATIANS 2:20 VIEW
THEREFORE
In light of the truth that we “have been baptized into His (Christ Jesus) death” There has been a burial.
WE ARE BURIED4916 WITH HIM IN BAPTISM Vs. 4a
Now we are BURIED in His death and raised in His RESURRECTION, in order that we might be raised in to
new life.
 Colossians 2:12-13, 1 Peter 3:21
BURIED WITH CHRIST
 Together with. Our burial with Christ signifies the believer’s participation in His death by virtue of
our unbreakable coming together with Him.
THAT LIKE AS CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD
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Or IN ORDER THAT
 In order that, the purpose of, as in this case the believer’s spiritual baptism into Christ’s death, the
ultimate purpose being that we might experience “newness of life.”
AS5618 iv
 Even as, just as, exactly like….
WAS RAISED1453v
 That is, there was an awakening from sleep. Figuratively it meant to cause to return to life. Ephesians
2:5-6.
THE DEAD3498vi
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3.  So the purpose of you dying to SIN is so you could LIVE unto GOD.
BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER
 Which Christ was raised not only by God’s power, but by the glory of the Father.
 1 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 8:4.
 The sanctification of believers to the power of the glory of God
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EVEN SO WE ALSO COULD WALK )
 Figuratively refers to one’s manner of life, to one’s habitual way or bent of life or to one’s life-style.
o To regulate one’s life, to conduct one’s self,
 So with the purpose of the co-resurrection with Christ.
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 A new sense that it brings into the world a new quality of things which did not exist before.viii
2198 ZOEix
LIFE
 That fullness of life, a blessed life, a life that satisfies and can be lived as
God had it in mind.
 LIFE: His life is now in us as BELIEVERS, as a motivating, energizing,
pulsating principle of existence that has the potential to transform every
believer’s life.
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4. i
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BAPTIZED http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=907
http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/907.htm
1. to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
2. to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self,
bathe
3. to overwhelm
 Not to be confused with 911, bapto. The clearest example that shows the meaning of baptizo is a
text from the Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about 200 B.C. It is a recipe for
making pickles and is helpful because it uses both words. Nicander says that in order to make a
pickle, the vegetable should first be 'dipped' (bapto) into boiling water and then 'baptised'
(baptizo) in the vinegar solution. Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables in a solution.
But the first is temporary. The second, the act of baptising the vegetable, produces a permanent
change. When used in the New Testament, this word more often refers to our union and
identification with Christ than to our water baptism. e.g. Mark 16:16. 'He that believes and is
baptised shall be saved'. Christ is saying that mere intellectual assent is not enough. There must
be a union with him, a real change, like the vegetable to the pickle! Bible Study Magazine, James
Montgomery Boice, May 1989.
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AS http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=5618 JUST AS, EVEN AS
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WAS RAISED http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1453
to arouse, cause to rise
a. to arouse from sleep, to awake
b. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life
c. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.
d. to raise up, produce, cause to appear
1. to cause to appear, bring before the public
2. to raise up, stir up, against one
3. to raise up i.e. cause to be born
4. of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect
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DEAD http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3498&l=en
1. properly
a. one that has breathed his last, lifeless
b. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell
c. destitute of life, without life, inanimate
2. metaph.
a. spiritually dead
1. destitute of a life that recognizes and is devoted to God, because given up to
trespasses and sins
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5. 2. inactive as respects doing right
b. destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative
DEAD http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/3498.htm
3. 3498 nekrós (an adjective, derived from nekys, "a corpse, a dead body") – dead; literally, "what lacks
life"; dead; (figuratively) not able to respond to impulses, or perform functions ("unable, ineffective,
dead, powerless," L & N, 1, 74.28); unresponsive to life-giving influences (opportunities); inoperative
to the things of God.
4. 3498 /nekrós ("corpse-like") is used as a noun in certain contexts ("the dead"), especially when
accompanied by the Greek definite article. The phrase, ek nekron ("from the dead"), lacks the Greek
article to give the sense "from what is of death."
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WALK http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=4043
1. to walk
a. to make one's way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
b. Hebrew for, to live
1. to regulate one's life
2. to conduct one's self
3. to pass one's life
http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/4043.htm
to walkOriginal Word: περιπατέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: peripateó
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-pat-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I walk, conduct my life
Definition: I walk, hence Hebraistically (in an ethical sense): I conduct my life, live.
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NEWNESS
1. newness
a. in the new state of life in which the Holy Spirit places us so as to produce a new state
which is eternal life
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LIFE http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2198
1. to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead)
2. to enjoy real life
a. to have true life and worthy of the name
b. active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God
3. to live i.e. pass life, in the manner of the living and acting
a. of mortals or character
4. living water, having vital power in itself and exerting the same upon the soul
5. metaph. to be in full vigour
a. to be fresh, strong, efficient,
b. as adj. active, powerful, efficacious
cognate: 2198 záō – to live, experience God's gift of life.
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