Died To Sin

Why do people bury the dead body? Obviously, it is because the dead is utterly useless and inactive. So, it should be buried. That’s what happened to us when Christ Jesus died and was buried some two thousand years ago. Our old self died and was buried with Christ. The cross of Jesus Christ is a timeless event. The Scripture does not say that we’re dying to sin or should die to sin. We died to sin once for all. When we died to sin, we also rose with Christ to live a new life. 

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:1-4 NKJV)

If you are a genuine Christian at all who by faith received the Lord Christ Jesus, you died to sin. It means that the iron grip of sin and death in you has been broken in Jesus Christ. You’re no longer in Adam. You don’t have to choose to obey to do evil any longer because you’re freed and liberated from the bondage of sin in Christ. You’re united with Christ Jesus the Lord. So, you cannot continue in sin any longer. By no means! May it never be! 

What does it mean practically? Since we died to sin, when the moment of pressure and stress compels us to manifest the old nature such as anger, revenge, depression, hatred, murder, jealousy, we just remind of the fact that our old self died with Christ. This is the crucial time. When we deny and submit ourselves to our Lord Jesus Christ who is within us, He begins to release His power for us to obey the commandments of God, “Love one another.” Paul exhorts us, “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:11 NKJV)

It’s not a mere theology, but fact. Regard yourselves to be dead to sin whenever you are stressed and pressured to rekindle the old nature of sin. Remember that a whole new life is available momentarily from within out of the rivers of living water for all the genuine believers in Christ Jesus the Lord. It’s it a good news? Thank and praise God! That’s what you ought to live which God intended you to be before the foundation of the world.