Romans 6:4-7,10-11 AMPC
We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. [5] For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection. [6] We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the Cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. [7] For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin. [10] For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. [11] Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it completely broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.
When Jesus went to the Cross and down into the grave to die for our sins, Romans 6:10 says that he also “died to sin.” Verse 11 sums up what chapter 6 has already been saying about our union with Christ in his death by making it clear that when Jesus went into the grave to die to sin, we too went with him down into that grave to die to OUR sins. What the New Testament makes abundantly clear is that when Jesus went to the Cross, he did not just go to the Cross for us; he went to the Cross as us. As us, Jesus died to sins power, and reign so that we can in faith consider ourselves dead to sins reign and because of our union also with his resurrection we can now consider ourselves living to God a life of righteousness because we are in Christ. Someone has said that Christian growth is bringing what we do and say and feel into line with what, in fact, is already true about us in Christ. In union with Christ, the broken, enslaved old self was crucified and buried; therefore, we died to sins right to rule over us once and for all. Also, in union with him, we were raised from the dead as a new creation equipped to live a godly life because, being in Christ, he is now our life. This is the glory of the gospel. This is the primary and astounding message of the New Testament. Jesus did not just come to pay for all that we have done. He came to set us free from who we were and to make us into someone totally new and supernatural in union with the risen Christ. We certainly are New Creatures in Christ.
Living from Christ, not for Christ