Are You Dead Yet?

”For he that is dead is freed from sin.” –Romans 6:7

The comedian Ray Stevens didn’t like to sit up with the dead because sometimes “the dead start sittin’ up too.” In reality, a dead body cannot respond to any kind of stimuli whatsoever. You can speak to it, command it, coax it, or con it but it will never respond because a dead body is merely a lump of clay getting ready to turn back into dust.

Paul says that if we’ve been born again, then we are dead to sin. Therefore sin may tempt us, try us, or lure us but we have the privilege of saying, “Sorry, I’m dead to you.” There is a sense in which we were crucified with Christ when we were saved because we declared the old nature dead. But as long as we are breathing the old nature will keep hainging around and pestering us. So we must die daily. We must be crucified to sin afresh each day.

When you wake up in the morning, wake up in your new life, with your new nature on, and declare yourself dead indeed to sin but alive to righteousness and to Christ.