This document contains a summary of lessons from Romans 5-6 on the topic of grace and freedom from sin. It discusses how grace abounds more than sin and defeats death through Jesus. It states that baptism symbolizes dying to sin and walking in newness of life. While believers can choose to sin again, the new self desires to live for God. To be under grace rather than law means using grace rather than the law for salvation and receiving power to walk in a new life. The document urges readers to become slaves to righteousness rather than sin and notes that obeying right teaching helps with this. It concludes by stating that being freed from sin through grace results in being made a slave to God and having fruit unto hol

1. Lesson 7

3. “Moreover the law entered that the offense
might abound. But where sin abounded, grace
abounded much more.” (Romans 5:20)
How does grace abound MUCH MORE when
sin abounds?
Grace is enough to forgive every
sin.
Grace solves the terrible
results of sin.
Grace defeats death and gives
us eternal life through Jesus.
Grace can transform us.
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4. “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:4)
According to Romans 6:1-11, Christians die to sin through baptism.
How is that possible?
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5. If a believer dies to sin through baptism, could
he sin again?
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Yes, he could, but he is able to choose whether he
wants to be ruled by sin or not.
The old man DESIRES to live for sin.
The new man DESIRES to live for God, although he
might sin sometimes.
We cannot overcome sin by ourselves. Only by
faith and thanks to God’s promises we can
overcome sin.
Let’s remember that God’s grace always abounds,
even if we sin.
“Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body so that you obey
its evil desires.” (Romans 6:12)

6. What does ‘not to be under law, but
under grace’ involves?
“For sin shall not be your master, because
you are not under law, but under grace.”
(Romans 6:14)
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To be ‘under the law’ means to
use the law as a way to salvation.
“The law shows the sin (chap.
3:20); the law enlarges the
transgression because the sinful
way of man (chap. 5:20). The law
cannot forgive sins nor give any
power to defeat them. If a sinner
tries to be saved under the law,
he will be tied stronger to his sin.”
(SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, on Romans 6:14)

7. What does ‘not to be under law, but
under grace’ involves?
“For sin shall not be your master, because
you are not under law, but under grace.”
(Romans 6:14)
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To be ‘under grace’ means to use grace as
a way to salvation.
“A Christian admits that he has
transgressed the divine law and he
cannot carry out its requests by his own
strength. He admits that he deserves only
damnation, but he surrenders to God’s
grace and mercy through faith. Then, his
sinful past is forgiven through God’s grace
and he receives divine power to walk ‘in
a new life.’”
(SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, on Romans 6:14)

8. If we are no more under the law, why must we keep it? (Romans 6:15)5
“To be under grace doesn’t mean that a believer is free to disobey
God’s moral law with total impunity; to say that is to distort the
purpose of God’s plan. God, in his love, offered grace to the sinner
because he violated the divine law; man is free from sin’s control
only by God’s grace. Therefore, how could be right or reasonable
to stand deliberately under the old slavery? Disobeying God’s law
involves becoming slave to sin again, since disobeying the divine
law is sin (1 John 3:4) and anyone who perseveres with sin is slave
to sin (John 8:34). To keep sinning after accepting God’s grace –
that forgives and transforms – is to deny the purpose of that
grace. Anyone who refuses to be lead to obedience to God’s law
by His grace is rejecting that grace; he is rejecting God’s freedom
and salvation.” (SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, on Romans 6:15)

9. Are you a slave to sin or to obedience? (Romans 6:16)6
Slaves to sin Slaves to obedience
How can we become slaves to obedience
[“slaves to righteousness” (Romans 6:18)]?
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“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you
wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were
entrusted.” (Romans 6:17)
The right doctrine or teaching helps us to become “slaves to righteousness.”
Death Righteousness

10. What do we obtain when we are freed from sin?
(Romans 6:19-23)
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1. We are made slaves to
God.
2. We have our fruit to
holiness.
3. We have eternal life in
Jesus Christ, our Lord.

11. “So now offer the parts of
your body in slavery to
righteousness leading to
holiness.” (Romans 6:19)
Do you want to be slave to sin or slave to righteousness?
Let’s follow Paul’s advice:

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