Baptism (908) (baptisma from bapto = dipping something into dye and changing the color) (Click word study of root verb baptizo) describes the result of a dipping and figuratively as used in this context refers to the identification with a person in what the name of that person stands for or what he has come to do. His life now operates in us as a motivating, energizing, pulsating principle of existence that has the potential to transform every believer's life. Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ. Wuest makes a subtle distinction in regard to "newness" "The newness of life therefore refers, not to a new kind of life the believer is to live, but to a new source of ethical and spiritual energy imparted to him by God by which he is enabled to live the life to which Paul exhorts in Romans 12-16. 8:6; Rom. There is no way you can do that! In light of this truth Wayne Barber applies this truth asking the question "Can a Christian go back and live like he used to live?" Whereas before we had only a relationship with Adam’s sin, now that has been broken and we have a relationship with Christ, "the last Adam" (1Co15:45, cp 1Co 15:22) in his death, burial and resurrection. J. Vernon McGee speaking of our identification with Christ in His resurrection writes "We are joined today to a living Christ. You put the flour down and the shortening or whatever else goes in them. Romans 6:4. N      New Adam (Romans 5:12-21) – We are children of two “Adams” Paul describes them as, "Put off the old man" (Col 3:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 -see notes Col 3:5, 6-8, 9, 10) and "put on the new." Peripateo in Romans - Rom. (1Cor 15:14), In the present context the primary meaning of resurrection is to a spiritual resurrection as discussed above (see note by Charles Hodge), Matthew Poole phrases it this way "The graft revives with the stock (part of plant to which graft is attached) in the spring, and that (occurs) by a virtue which it receives from the stock; so as a believer is raised to newness of life, by virtue flowing from Christ, into Whom he is engrafted." (The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans), William Newell in his devotional commentary adds that "when the apostle says we are to be united with "the likeness of His resurrection, " he refers to the walking in "newness of life" just spoken of in the preceding verse. Beloved, do you wrestle with "eternal security"? Christ arose! In short, Paul is expressing a historical fact looking back some 2000 years to our union with Christ in His death on the Cross and His burial. 11:15; Moule writes that "All possible emphasis lies upon those words, “newness of life.” They bring out what has been indicated already (Ro 5:17, 18-note), the truth that the Lord has won us not only remission of a death penalty, not only even an extension of existence under happier circumstances, and in a more grateful and hopeful spirit — but a new and wonderful life power. And that is what happened to you when you believed in Him." Of note is that the word Pal chose is not neos (see word study) which refers merely to newness in point of time. Beet adds that this is "a strong adversative particle indicating that the second cause utterly overpowers the first (in other words as Beet paraphrases it) "It is true that we suffer a death like His: but this we need not regret; for from it we infer that we shall share a resurrection like His.". 1989. You have been united. Now let me ask you again. 6:23; Rom. But not only saved: we walk here on earth by appropriating faith, in the blessedness of His heavenly "newness" of resurrection life! In newness of life (ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς). As he rose from death, so we, being made dead to sin and the world by that religion whose profession is expressed by baptism, should rise to a new life, a life of holiness. (Romans Commentary - Online). A vine branch has one great purpose—to bear fruit. Some have difficulty believing these mysterious truths because of the 2000 year time gap. In the sense that you have Someone who lives in you now that gives you power to do what you couldn’t do before; Someone to convict you of sin; Someone to give you knowledge that you didn’t have before. 6 What shall we say, then? 13:13; Rom. As (5618) (hosper) even as, just as, exactly like and in the NT used only in comparisons. (Jn 11:40) But here we have to do with the resurrection of the Son; and therefore Paul says: by the glory of the Father. The answer is of course not. My friend, there are only two places for your sins: either they were on Christ when He died for you over nineteen hundred years ago—because you have trusted Him as your Savior—or they are on you today, and judgment is ahead for you. Because we are justified, we are to be holy, separated from sin, separated to God; not as a mere indication that our faith is real, and that therefore we are legally safe, but because we were justified for this very purpose, that we might be holy… The grapes upon a vine are not merely a living token that the tree is a vine and is alive; they are the product for which the vine exists. Buried with Him therefore (not merely dead with Him, but, as the dead Christ was buried in order to rise again, buried with Him also) were we, in that we were baptized into His death. And the hands are lifted up, and the knees confirmed, as the man uses the now open secret — Christ in him, and he in Christ — for the real walk of life. (1SAAS), GWT: When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. Walk is aorist tense, subjunctive mood, this mood in context expressing the purpose of the our co-resurrection with Christ. 6:3; Rom. by Robert Lowry. ("newness of life") Now I have to deal with sins… As a believer, we must remember that we don’t sweep sin under the rug. You shame what salvation is all about. When we are "united with" Christ, His resurrected life flows into us and we continue to grow with Him into spiritual maturity (in the process known as sanctification or "Present Tense Salvation"). (e) And we who are his members rise for this purpose, that being made partakers of the very same power, we should begin to lead a new life, as though we were already in heaven. Have become united with (4854) (sumphutos from sun/syn = together speaks of intimate union + phúo = grow up, spring up, of men, to beget = engender or generate, to produce, to bring forth, to put forth shoots) means growing up or spring up together. Was raised (1453) (egeiro) means to awaken from sleep or to rouse from sleep. (Bolding Added) (For full sermon click True Human Potential). (GWT), NLT: Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised as he was. In the same way, the Christian life is a matter of taking two steps, one step after another. and Rev. A life that is brand new, qualitatively different? It is important to realize that the resemblance signified by homoíoma in no way implies that one of the object in question has been derived from the other. A stronger expression than new life. (Bible Exposition Commentary. 8:10; Rom. Heavenly Father, You alone are worthy of our praise and worship.. for You alone are the true and living God. This lust still pulls us away from what our spirit is trying to get us to do. The Apostle does not say “being dead with Christ, let us rise with Him;” but, “as Christ rose again, so we also should walk in newness of life.” The mystical expression for this is given in the next verse. Should walk - Should live, or conduct. 5:14; Rom. Our union is an undeniable fact. (Jn 2:19). The statement which follows is in fact is true in time and space for every person who has been justified by faith. There is nothing that can separate us from that! You are a new person in Christ. (GWT), NLT: For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. By our very baptism, by our very profession, we have become dead to sin, as Christ became dead; and being devoted to him by that baptism, we are bound to rise, as he did, to a new life. Romans 6 Commentary; C NORMAN BARTLETT. There is no third place for them." And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. There is no atoning (see Atonement) or soteriological (related to salvation - except in the sense of course that we are saved by identification with His once for all time death) significance to our death with Christ. Then we bear them no more. (This operation is illustrated by water baptism.) 5:12; Rom. Romans 6:4-5 Chapter Parallel Compare 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. So water baptism is a picture, a symbol worked out for us, to teach us what has happened to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus." Or possibly the word "glory" is used here to denote simply his power, as the resurrection was a signal and glorious display of his omnipotence. Both A.V. CERTAINLY WE SHALL BE ALSO [IN THE LIKENESS OF] HIS RESURRECTION: alla kai tes anastaseos esometha (1PFMI): Certainly (235) (alla) is a particle implying some diversity or super-addition to what preceded. Now all of those ingredients can be separated, but at the same time they are with each other—meta. Into death - εἰς eis. Young's Literal: we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk. Godet has this comment regarding "through the glory of the Father" "The glory of the Father by which Christ was raised, is not the display of His power apart from His other perfections; but, as usual, that of all the divine attributes combined. But it is the blessed portion of all true Christians. Victor), Bishop Handley Moule graphically asserts "We have “received the reconciliation” that we may now walk, not away from God, as if released from a prison, but with God, as His children in His Son. He was alongside them, in a room together with. A woman came up to him and asked him to baptize her nine-year-old daughter. Romans 6:1-8:39 Sanctification of Life; ALBERT BARNES. You were joined to Him, and what happened to Him happened to you. 3:21. 6:9; Rom. The life every believer now has the potential to walk is a life of a brand new kind, new because the believer is now in union with and identified irrevocably with Christ. The believer has in actuality been permanently delivered from the power of sin. You bring total blasphemy to everything Jesus Christ did for you. (Expositor's Bible Commentary). That’s the word meta. (Gal 2:20-note). Was Christ made to be sin on our behalf and did He die unto sin? But now that you have put your faith into Christ, you have been taken out of Adam and put into Christ and you are so united with Him that His Spirit lives in you. As we have seen, the main idea is that there is a necessary connection between the death and resurrection of Christ and the death and resurrection of his people. And here it denotes that Christians and the Saviour have been united intimately in regard to death; as he died and was laid in the grave, so have they by profession died to sin. Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior, 5:10; Rom. Romans 6 is the sixth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid 50s CE, with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22. This union cannot be broken. The life of Christ is our life now, beloved. Into (1519)(eis) is a preposition of motion into any place or thing or direction to, toward or upon any place or thing. Dying to sin is not thru the outward physical act of water baptism, but it is by Christ thru faith (Ro 5:1-note). Figuratively as here in Romans 6:4 it means to cause to return to life (the ancients closely associated death with sleep). Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. It is just as true that they who are baptized by affusion, or by sprinkling, are baptised into his death; become professedly dead to sin and the world, and under obligations to live to God, as those who are immersed. It does not even make good firewood. For Paul, the truth expressed by the believer’s association “with Christ” is power and hope for a life in the “now” caught between the “once” and the “not yet.” (adapted from the excellent summary by The “With Christ” Motif In Paul’s Thought by John Harvey in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society volume 35/3 Sept, 1992, page 332). (The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans - online), Romans 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, (NASB: Lockman), Greek: ei gar sumphutoi (JMPNX: congenital, planted together) gegonamen (1PRAI) to homoiomati tou thanatou autou, alla kai tes anastaseos esometha; (1PFMI), GWT: If we've become united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him when we come back to life as he did. 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