Romans 6:3, and Galatians 3:27 tell us that we were baptized into Christ Jesus. The word “baptize” means to “dip” or to “place into.” At the heart of what it means to be a New Creation is that we were placed into His life, and the life He lives. We are part of the Vine. We are His Branches, through which He bears fruit.
Romans 6:10 says, “For the death that he He died, He died to sin once; but the life that He is living, He is living to God.” He bore our sin; but risen from the dead, He has no more relation to sin.
Since Romans 6 declares our union with Him in His death, burial, and resurrection, what’s true about Him right now, is also true about us. Therefore, Romans 6:11 makes sense. “Even so, continually consider yourself dead to sin, but continually living to God in Christ Jesus.” If it’s true that as a believer you are in Christ, then you are right now in union with His victorious, overcoming life. He is living free from sin’s power, and you are in Him, therefore, by faith, consider yourselves free from sin’s power in the moments of temptation, claiming instead, that the life He is living to God right now is your life right now, because you are in Christ. Your faith doesn’t make it so, it simply takes hold of what already is so, and thus enters into the experience of it.
