Family Study Guide for Romans 6

October 13 – October 19, 2005
(Read Romans 6 Online)
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Reflections on Romans 6 by Mark Chesner, Coach

For many people, the teenage years are all about exploring freedom. Childhood can seem like a parade of people telling you how to eat, sleep, learn, work, and breathe, whereas the teen years are the beginning of a chance to tell yourself how to live. For the first time, you are left home alone and trusted with the run of the house. For the first time, you are able to go out with friends without a small army of chaperones watching your every move. For the first time, you are handed the keys to the car and given a chance to sit behind to wheel. The world seems to be expanding and every day seems like a new chance to strike out on your own.

But Romans 6 reminds us that it is not really in our nature to be “free” in the sense we think of ourselves. Sure, we have political freedom, freedom of expression, and freedom of religious expression. But these forms of freedom are just ways for us to choose whom to serve. And to decide which reward you want to reap from your servitude:

“But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:22-23

For each step we take in exploring our freedom, we need to examine where we are going. Will this bit of exploration take me to be a slave to God, or a slave to sin? Is this decision a step toward God or a step away from him? Is this expression of freedom a praise to the Almighty or a call to evil? Because no matter what we may think about the colors of “gray” in the world – and sometimes the world does seem awfully foggy and it is hard to find your way – every move we make is either a step up toward heaven or a step down, deeper into the mud and the grime.

In the end, there is only one question: whom shall I serve? Okay, maybe two questions: where will that master lead me?

Questions to Consider from Romans 6:

• When in your life have you made a choice to be a servant of God?
• When have you wanted to explore your freedom, but accidentally fallen into something unexpected and unpleasant?
• When have you been unsure about where a choice would lead? How did you decide which action to take?

Chapter Outline: (From Jim’s Introduction to Romans)

4. God’s Righteousness Revealed in Sanctification (6:1-8:39)
a. Grounds of sanctification (6:1-4)
b. Attitudes for sanctification (6:5-23)

Finish the Verses for this Chapter:

“We were // therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” Romans 6:4
“For we // know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.” Romans 6:6-7
“The death // he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.” Romans 6:10-12
“Do not offer // the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”
Romans 6:13-14
“Don't // you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” Romans 6:16
“For the // wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

Sample Questions for Studying

Capitalized words are once-used-words

1. Reference : According to Romans 6:3, don't you know WHAT?
2. So that the body of sin might be done away with, our old SELF was what?
3. You have been set free from what?
4. How can we live in WHAT any longer?
5. Offer what in SLAVERY to righteousness leading to holiness?
6. You were slaves to what?
7. Reference : According to Romans 6:15, by no means what?
8. Reference : According to Romans 6:6, we know that what?
9. What benefit did you reap at that time from WHAT?
10. Do not offer what to sin?
11. 2 Part : Count yourselves what?
12. I put this in what?
13. Reference : According to Romans 6:9, we know that what?
14. Death no longer what?
15. We were therefore BURIED with him through BAPTISM into death why?
16. The death he died, he died to sin how?
17. Count yourselves dead to what?
18. Reference : According to Romans 6:1-2, by no means what?
19. Through the glory of the Father, Christ was what?
20. 2 Part : We should no longer be slaves to sin why?

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