START YOUR DAY RIGHT DAILY DEVOTION
(KJV) Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
COUNT YOURSELVES DEAD TO SIN / ROMANS 6:11
The basic principle in Romans 6 is how the believer is 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.
- 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).
- 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 Go (Romans 6:5-14, 18, 22).
- 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?
- 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 one caused you to give in to sin no longer have control of you because you are unresponsive to these things.
- Developing this type of spiritual resistance requires a deliberate and willful 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 temp you.
- 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.
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).
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Some of our Post That Might Interest You, All Out of the Current Book / Chapter
- HE DIED TO SIN ONCE FOR ALL / ROMANS 6:10
- THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS / ROMANS 1:4
- THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVES IN YOU / ROMANS 8:9
- OH, THE DEPTH OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD / ROMANS 11:33-36
- ACCORDING TO THE SINFUL NATURE … THE SPIRIT / ROMANS 8:5
- BE DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER / ROMANS 12:10
- LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD / ROMANS 8:14
- FAITH CREDITED AS RIGHTEOUSNESS / ROMANS 4:5
- SUBMIT … TO THE GOVERINING AUTHORITIES / ROMANS 13:1
- BURIED WITH HIM THROUGH BAPTISM / ROMANS 6:4
- DO NOT CONFORM … BUT BE TRANSFORMED / ROMANS 12:2
- THE SPIRIT HIMSELF TESTIFIES / ROMANS 8:16
- THE SPIRIT HELPS US / ROMANS 8:26
- GUIDED BY GRACE HOME
Thank you for taking the time to read my Daily Devotion
Blessings,
Margarita & Stace
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