Dead to Sin, Alive to God
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Consider is an interesting word. It is a word surrounded by faith because it believes without any evidence to support it other than the Word of God and His promises.
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Are we convinced or convicted about sin? If I am baptized into His death, He who died to free me from sin, then I am convicted and executed. I must by faith consider myself dead to sin.
That does not convince me that I am dead since I am alive, so what is this death we speak of here? God told Adam that the day Adam would disobey God he would die. Adam lived another 800 years after he begat Seth according to Genesis 5:4. Adam the day he ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was was separated from God. That is spiritual death not physical.
This is why Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again, to become alive in Christ by faith.
Born of the spirit restores us to a position where we stand with the Father in Christ, free of the guilt of sin because we have been convicted and executed with Christ by faith.
“How can we who died to sin still live in it?” That is the question Paul asked us all.
What do we consider when sin confronts us? That is just me asking.