Romans 6:11 KJV
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Christian has no fascination with death, but he does have victory over it. No enemy can be defeated without confronting it squarely. Christ confronted death for us and, through Him; the Christian has such victory that death is no longer a fear for him.
We are:
Dead to sin
Vs 2
Sin no longer had the dominion it once had in the life of the Christian. It does not interest us as it once did. It no longer is our desire in life. Not that we don't sin, but that it is no longer a driving desire for us. We have larger interests, better interests.
Dead with Christ
Vs 8
Our relationship with Christ is such that God views us as having already paid our wages for sin. (Vs 23) When Christ died on the cross it was as if we died with Him.
Dead indeed unto sin
Vs 11
If verse 2 speaks of God's view of us once we are in Christ then verse 11 speaks of our view of ourselves.
One is positional, God sees us as dead to sin, the
Other is practical; we must view ourselves as dead indeed to sin
To gain the victory over sin that God has awarded us, we must first reckon ourselves dead (to sin) and then alive again (unto God). We must see our baptism as more than a mere picture of salvation but as an actual resurrection. The body that was a servant of sin died and was buried with Christ. The body that arose from the water is a new man, alive and a servant, not of sin, but of the Lord.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Christian has no fascination with death, but he does have victory over it. No enemy can be defeated without confronting it squarely. Christ confronted death for us and, through Him; the Christian has such victory that death is no longer a fear for him.
We are:
Dead to sin
Vs 2
Sin no longer had the dominion it once had in the life of the Christian. It does not interest us as it once did. It no longer is our desire in life. Not that we don't sin, but that it is no longer a driving desire for us. We have larger interests, better interests.
Dead with Christ
Vs 8
Our relationship with Christ is such that God views us as having already paid our wages for sin. (Vs 23) When Christ died on the cross it was as if we died with Him.
Dead indeed unto sin
Vs 11
If verse 2 speaks of God's view of us once we are in Christ then verse 11 speaks of our view of ourselves.
One is positional, God sees us as dead to sin, the
Other is practical; we must view ourselves as dead indeed to sin
To gain the victory over sin that God has awarded us, we must first reckon ourselves dead (to sin) and then alive again (unto God). We must see our baptism as more than a mere picture of salvation but as an actual resurrection. The body that was a servant of sin died and was buried with Christ. The body that arose from the water is a new man, alive and a servant, not of sin, but of the Lord.
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