Dead to Sin

Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:5 For if we have become united with {Him} in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be {in the likeness} of His resurrection,

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with {Him,}

Romans 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ.

How could we have died with Christ on the cross? We were not alive back then. If we died with Him on the cross, what are the implications for our daily walk with Him?

Adam and Eve were lured into temptation by the god of this world and disobeyed their Creator. As a result of this fall, man developed a sin nature. We inherited this sin nature from our father, Adam, this nature that causes us to sin, from whence sin is born.

This death of the sin nature was an important aspect of the cross. The god of this world had a ball and chain around our ankles from the time of the fall, keeping us in bondage to sin. Jesus won our freedom as He died and allowed our sin nature to die with him on the cross. The second part of verse 6 in Romans 6 says: “in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin”.

Our old man had to die with Jesus so we would no longer be slaves to sin. Our freedom from sin comes through His and our death with Him. But, how could we have possibly have died with Jesus, 2000 years ago.

Hbr 7:9 And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, Hbr 7:10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Levi was not born yet but he paid tithes to Melchizedek because he was in the loins of his father, Abraham. Likewise, we were in the loins of Jesus on the cross. Jesus took all of His children, born of the Spirit children, with Him to the cross so that we all died, our old sin nature died with Jesus and thus He freed us from sin through this death. Without this understanding imparted from the Lord, we walk as if our sin nature is alive, powerful and in control, living a defeated Christian walk, up and down with brief periods of freedom achieved through our self-efforts.

2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, {he is} a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.