COUNT YOURSELVES DEAD TO SIN

DECEMBER 3 - START YOUR DAY RIGHT DEVOTION

Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

COUNT YOURSELVES DEAD TO SIN

​The basic principle in Romans 6 is how the believer in united with Christ in both His death and life. If you are a true follower of Christ, you have died to sin – a fact that is reflected in several areas of your Christian experience.

1. You died to sin in God’s view. You are considered by God to have died with Christ on the cross and to have been raised up to new life through His resurrection (Romans 6:5-10).
2. You died to sin when you received Christ and were spiritually “born again” by the power of the Holy Spirit. As a result, you have been given Christ’s power to resist sin (Romans 6:14-18), to “put to death the misdeeds of the body” (Romans 8:13) and to live a new life in obedience to God (Romans 6:5-14, 18, 22).
3. You died to sin in water baptism as you identified with Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection and committed yourself to reject sin and to live for Christ (Romans 6:3-5; 6:4). 

These areas of the Christian experience mark the first stage that shows your life is dead to sin and alive to God. But in order to experience ongoing victory over sin, you must consider yourself dead to sin, not only in principle but also in practice. What does it mean to be dead to sin?

1. Consider the fact that if something is dead, it is not active or responsive. Being dead to sin means that the influences and temptations that may have once caused you to give in to sin no longer have control of you because you are unresponsive to these things.
2. Developing this type of spiritual resistance requires a deliberate and will full choice not to feed or exercise your sinful nature. It means refusing to carelessly expose yourself to those activities and areas of life that can easily trouble or tempt you.
3. Instead, you must feed yourself spiritually and exercise godly disciplines that bring you closer to Christ and build your strength to resist Satan’s temptations and the sinful tendencies of your own human nature. These spiritual disciplines include time in prayer, God’s Word, worship, Christian companionship and acts of service.
4. Dying to sin means refusing to let sin have its way so you can offer yourself fully to God – spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally – for His honor and purposes (Romans 6:13). 

BIBLE STUDY TOOLS I USE

• ​NIV Bible
• KJV, Personal Size Reference Bible
• Map Pencils
• College Ruled Spiral Notebook
• R.S.V.P. Ballpoint Pen

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