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.

Outline of Romans 5 to 6

Paul Teaches on the Death of Christ

1 What Christ's Death Means to Us

What we gain through Christ's death (Rom 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 (Rom 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 (Rom 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 Rom 2:14-15)

Adam is a type of Christ but in contrasts rather than similarities (Rom 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 (Rom 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 (Rom 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