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Romans 6:11 - Consider Your Sinful Nature Dead And Live For Christ.

Romans 6:11 (NLT) So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:11 (AMP) Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.

WORD STUDY

"Count yourselves dead to sin" means that we should regard our old sinful nature as dead and unresponsive to sin. Because of our union and identification with Christ, we are no longer obligated to carry out those old motives, desires, and goals. So let us consider ourselves to be what God has in fact made us. We have a new start, and the Holy Spirit will help us become in our daily experience what Christ has declared us to be. [Life Application SB]

INTRODUCTION

We can have fellowship with God through Christ. We can enjoy our new life in Christ because we are united with him in his death and resurrection. Our evil desires, our bondage to sin, and our love of sin died with him. Now, united by faith with him in his resurrection life, we have unbroken fellowship with God and freedom from sin's hold on us. [Life Application SB]

COMMENTARY PEARL

Dead and Alive
   Joshua thought that the 0 he spent on a CPR course for a health class was a waste of money. In 2010, however, while standing on a beautiful sandy beach in Aruba, he spotted someone struggling in the water. He dove in, found the young man, pulled him to shore, and began CPR. For 12 minutes, there was no sign of life. Before giving up on the unresponsive man, he decided to continue a little longer - and that's when the man began to respond. Eventually, he fully recovered.
   The apostle Paul described the Christian as being dead in one way and alive in another. This spiritual condition reveals a battle within the human heart - almost as if two people were inside of you, each fighting for air. For the Christian, the "old man was crucified with [Christ], that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin" (Romans 6:6). He explains further, "Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (v. 4).
   The word "dead" in today's Bible promise doesn't mean "sort of dead" It describes a continued state of death. When we give our hearts to Christ, we want the sinful nature to be completely dead, just as Christ "died to sin once for all" (v. 10).
   Don't try to resuscitate the "old man" of sin. Let the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, given "in Christ Jesus," make you "alive to God" It's worth far more than 0.
   Lord Jesus, I choose to die to my old way of life and ask for Your power to live inside me. [The Most Amazing Bible Promises by Amazing Facts]

INSIGHT

Days spent in self-absorption over sin in my life cause my mind to wallow in regrets, weakening my witness as a Christian. The problem isn't just the sin but my obsession with it. I make it all about me. During those periods, I allow a tsunami of shame to overwhelm me. When I exercise the hope and power I possess through Jesus, my faith muscles grow and shift. As a result, I become more effective. My hands and heart share more love for Him, with Him, and through Him. [Mornings With Jesus 2024 Devotional by Guideposts and Zondervan]

CLOSING THOUGHT

Humanity United With Divinity. Christ's humanity was united with divinity; He was fitted for the conflict by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And He came to make us partakers of the divine nature. So long as we are united to Him by faith, sin has no more dominion over us. God reaches for the hand of faith in us to direct it to lay fast hold upon the divinity of Christ, that we may attain to perfection of character.  {DA 123}

LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY

Romans 6:12, 13 - WHAT'S CONTROLLING YOU?
https://www.abible.com/devotions/2020/20200330-0837.html

Ephesians 4:22-24 - Putting on the New Nature.
https://www.abible.com/devotions/2024/20240620-0855.html

Psalm 19:13 - Presumptuous, Willful, Deliberate Sin.
https://www.abible.com/devotions/2006/20060306-0953.html

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT

https://abible.com/links/