DO YOU NOT KNOW? PAUL'S CHALLENGING QUESTION IN ROMANS 6:3
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Do You Not Know?
a) This is about Paul’s challenging question, “Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” (Romans 6:3).
Romans 6:3-4
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
2. What Is Paul’s Teaching?
a) The work of redemption, which Jesus accomplished on the cross, was complete. Jesus paid it all. However redemption is not granted without “obedience to the faith” (Romans 1:5).
b) Being baptized is an act of humble obedience. It is not a proud attempt to contribute our works to the price of atonement. We know the death of Christ was the full redemption price. But we must enter into his death.
c) Paul teaches that through baptism, preceded by hearing, faith, repentance, and a confession of Christ, we enter into Christ’s death, and through that death we are redeemed.
d) Paul teaches that baptism is the likeness of Christ’s death and resurrection. Through baptism we die with Christ and are raised with him to walk in newness of life. This is “regeneration” or new birth.
e) The power for this regeneration is not in the baptismal water, the symbolism of baptism, or even in the act of baptism itself. The saving power is in Christ’s death and shed blood.
f) Paul would recall his own conversion when he became a believer on the road to Damascus. Later he received an instruction from Christ through Ananias.
Acts 22:16
16 Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’
g) At that time, Paul did not yet have his sins washed away. But he could wash away his sins by being baptized calling on the name of Christ. Paul understood that he was “baptized into Christ... baptized into his death” (Romans 6:3).
The End ...
1. Do You Not Know?a) This is about Paul’s challenging question, “Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” (Romans 6:3).
Romans 6:3-4
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
2. What Is Paul’s Teaching?
a) The work of redemption, which Jesus accomplished on the cross, was complete. Jesus paid it all. However redemption is not granted without “obedience to the faith” (Romans 1:5).
b) Being baptized is an act of humble obedience. It is not a proud attempt to contribute our works to the price of atonement. We know the death of Christ was the full redemption price. But we must enter into his death.
c) Paul teaches that through baptism, preceded by hearing, faith, repentance, and a confession of Christ, we enter into Christ’s death, and through that death we are redeemed.
d) Paul teaches that baptism is the likeness of Christ’s death and resurrection. Through baptism we die with Christ and are raised with him to walk in newness of life. This is “regeneration” or new birth.
e) The power for this regeneration is not in the baptismal water, the symbolism of baptism, or even in the act of baptism itself. The saving power is in Christ’s death and shed blood.
f) Paul would recall his own conversion when he became a believer on the road to Damascus. Later he received an instruction from Christ through Ananias.
Acts 22:16
16 Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’
g) At that time, Paul did not yet have his sins washed away. But he could wash away his sins by being baptized calling on the name of Christ. Paul understood that he was “baptized into Christ... baptized into his death” (Romans 6:3).
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