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In chapters 1-3 Paul reasons that all are hopelessly lost, and in chapters 4-5 that they are justified freely by grace, not works. In chapters 6-8 Paul will describe what the new life in Christ looks like.  The old is obliterated by the new. Grace radically transforms our world!

Notes:

• Antinomianism is the idea that there is no law at all for spiritual persons — that they are above the law, or even that they should flout the law to show their superior position. (Nomos is the Greek word for law, hence anti [against] + nomian.)
• Passages on baptism and death: Romans 6:3,6; Galatians 2:20, 5:24, 6:14; Colossians 2:12, 2:20, 3:1-3, 3:5.
• Two resurrections are in view: our rebirth (at baptism) and our transformation at the last day (the general resurrection). For more on the general resurrection, please listen to the relevant podcast in the Last Things series.

Suggested for memory: "Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life" (6:3-4).