Paul Teaches on the Death of Christ
—Outline of Romans 5 to 6
This page is an outline, for your reference, of Romans chapters 5 to 6. In these chapters Paul teaches us about the death of Christ.
1 What Christ's Death Means to Us
What we gain through Christ's death (Romans 5:1-5)
- Peace with God (reconciliation)
- Access to the faith
- Grace
- The hope of glory
- Joy, even in tribulation
- The Holy Spirit given as assurance
The Implications of Christ's Death (Romans 5:6-11)
- God loves and wishes to save every sinner whom he condemns
- God even more certainly loves the justified whom he has saved from wrath
2 Adam as a Symbol of Christ
Comparing Christ Who Died to Sin and for Sin, with Adam who Died through Sin (Romans 5:12-14)
- Adam's sin and spiritual death symbolizes that of all mankind
- "All men" includes those whose knowledge of God's law was not as direct as Adam's (cf Romans 2:14-15)
Adam is a type of Christ but in contrasts rather than similarities (Romans 5:15-19)
- Adam represents sin whereas Christ represents grace
- Adam represents condemnation through one sin, whereas Christ represents justification from every sin
- Adam represents the reign of death, whereas Christ represents the reign of life.
- Through Adam's disobedience came condemnation, whereas through Christ's obedience came justification
- Adam represents many becoming sinners, whereas Christ represents many becoming righteous.
3 The Fitting Response to Christ s Death
With regard to law and grace (Romans 5:20 to 6:2 cf 6:14)
- Because the law magnifies sin, it makes our need of God's grace obvious to us
- The more that sin abounds the more grace must abound for forgiveness, but we do not use that as a pretext for sin
The believer's response (Romans 6:3-23)
- Baptism is a symbol or likeness of Christ's death, and one is "baptized into Christ... baptized into his death"
- The old self is crucified and buried with Christ, and a new self is raised up with Christ
- One who has thus died to sin cannot continue to walk in sin but must rise to walk in newness of life
- Christ died to [the world's] sin once for all, never to die again. In him and through his death, we are dead to our sin and alive to God
- We are thus no longer to be slaves and instruments of sin, but under God's grace to be slaves and instruments of righteousness, justified and sanctified
- Obedience to God "from the heart" (meaning by faith) is the proper response to Christ's death
- The outcome of all of this is eternal life which we receive as a gift undeserved
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