We Shall Also Live with Him

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Romans 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Romans 6 teaches us how to die to sin and live for God. Romans 7 is an example or trying to live for God in your own power and failing. Romans 8 is an example of living for God in the power of Christ and succeeding!

We Are Given the Reason for Dying with Christ

Romans 5:21-6:2  That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.  (6:1)  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  (2)  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

All who believe in Christ must be included in His death; not to make atonement for our own sin, but dying to the life of self-will as Christ also did! No longer conforming to the spirit and fashion of this present world.

Why can’t we continue in purposeful sin after being saved? He tells us that “sin hath reigned unto death” (5:21). We don’t continue in that which brings death hoping more grace will abound. It will only bring forth more death.

Those who are born again have passed with Christ into the life of resurrection glory, not into the death of more sin. You want to know what brings more grace? Obedience to the Lord!

Destroying the Body of Sin

Romans 6:5-6  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:  (6)  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Sometimes you hear the phrase, “Everyone is going to live for eternity. The question is, where?” Only those who have eternal life will live for eternity. All those who do not have eternal life will be dead for eternity.

This is why Jesus calls the Lake of Fire “The Second Death”. (Revelation 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.) It is better to be dead to sin in this life and live with Christ in eternity, than to live for sin in this life and be dead for eternity.

Death Has No More Dominion

Romans 6:7-9  For he that is dead is freed from sin.  (8)  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:  (9)  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

If Christ died and was resurrected because death has no more dominion over Him, and if Christ lives in you, then death and the sin that causes death also has no more dominion over you because 1 John 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Let’s strive to live as He who lives in us also lived!