Paul analogizes our baptism with the death and resurrection of Jesus, writing that when we go underwater it is like we are buried, and when we come up it is like we are risen. All of this is so we can experience a newness of life.

Paul asks a rhetorical question in verse two, but he answers it anyway in verse three by pointing to our baptism. How does our baptism mean that we have died to sin? We lay out the meaning of baptism today, and will get to how it means we've died to sin tomorrow.

Paul answers his question from verse one here by saying that we simply cannot live in sin because we have already died to it. We unpack that major concept of dying to sin.

Paul starts chapter six by posing a question he's likely heard before from those trying to poke holes in his and Jesus's radical theology of received righteousness. We set up the question by zooming out and showing where we are in Paul's letter and where we're going.

Paul closes out chapter five by stating that not only does grace always outmatch sin, but that grace leads us to eternal life. We talk about man's quest for eternal life.

Paul is closing out chapter 5 by circling back to the concept that God gave us the law to increase the trespass. We talk about what that means, and then we talk about Paul's solution to the increased sin in the world: a superabundance of grace.

Paul writes that we have been appointed to the station of sinners, but points out the alternative path of classification: righteousness through Christ's obedience. We talk about the decision we have to move about classifications.

Paul both sums up his prior verses and pivots to new verses in verse 18, noting that one act led to our downfall and one act led to our salvation. We talk about one person can do.

Paul identifies another difference between death flowing from Adam's sin and grace flowing from Jesus's sacrifice, and shows how much greater grace is than death.

Today we get nerdy with greek word definitions and talk about how the free gift of grace, given by one man, that we have is so much more powerful than universal condemnation.