6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? |
This issue is of present living. It has to do with "remaining upon Sin" (the word indicates a persistence in a current behavior that is sometimes faced with an apparent futility). The "logic" is that "where Sin abounded, Grace superabounded, so why shouldn't we simply persist in that process?". |
6:2a God forbid. |
The potency of this denial is reinforced by Romans 3:8. |
6:2b How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
This thesis is that we "died" to Sin. The "logic" is that we cannot "live" in it. |
6:3a Know ye not, |
There may be a problem: ignorance. |
6:3b that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? |
We were baptized into Christ Jesus. We, therefore, were baptized into His death. |
6:4a Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; |
Therefore we were buried together with Him. The burial was through the baptism into the death. |
6:4b 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. |
The purpose was to empower us to live a "new" life. The provision is the glory of the Father. |
6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: |
The "logic" is that we have become [Perfect Indicative] "in the likeness of His death" so that we shall be "in the likeness" of His resurrection.
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At Issue:
The "glory of the Father" is at the heart of our provision for a resurrected-kind of "Life".