Dead to Sin
Justification is the act of God whereby He forgives the unsaved person’s sin and credits to them the righteousness of Christ when through faith they believe.
Romans 6:1 ESV
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
Romans 6:2a ESV
By no means!
Romans 6:2 ESV
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 6:6 ESV
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 6:7 ESV
For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Romans 6:8 ESV
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Romans 6:10 ESV
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
Romans 6:11 ESV
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:2b ESV
How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 6:3 ESV
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
There are 3 types of baptism mentioned in the New Testament:
1. Water Baptism
2. Spirit Baptism
Luke 3:16 ESV
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”
Acts 1:4-5 ESV
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Luke 3:16c ESV
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
3. Baptism into the Body of Christ
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 NIV
The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free.
Titus 3:4-5 NIV
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:13 NIV
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free.
Romans 6:3a ESV
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus…
1st Because He died…we died.
Romans 6:3 ESV
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
2nd Because He was buried…we were buried.
Romans 6:4 ESV
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death,
3rd Because He was raised from the dead…we are raised from the dead.
Romans 6:4 ESV
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 1:19-20 NLT
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead…
Colossians 1:13 NIV
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Ephesians 2:6 NIV
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 3:20a NIV
But our citizenship is in heaven.
Philippians 1:6 NLT
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
