Dead to sin; alive in Christ

---REPOST FROM XANGA JUNE 2010---
 

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. 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, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:4-11).

old self? it got crucified - that body of sin was done away with. we are no longer slaves to sin. we are freed from sin.
we live with Christ. Christ lives IN us [gal 2:20 - it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me].

want to live under the rule of the sinful nature? go ahead, raise your dead body up; empower it and the prince who holds it.
When we believe something is going to go wrong, we have given our faith to the enemy. fear is the manifestation of faith in the wrong kingdom.

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we are saints because we are new creations and that is the title given to us as a Christian - our sinful nature is not with us because it got crucified like Christ (when we becamse Christians, not when Christ died) and left behind when we were raises as new Creations.