◄ What Does Romans 6:22 Mean? ►

Christ died FOR our sin, to pay the penalty for sin which positioned us in Christ and baptised us into His Body. He also died UNTO sin, so that the power of sin could be broken in the lives of all who believe in Him for salvation. Not only did the PRICE of sin have to be paid-for, in order to secure our salvation but also the POWER of sin in the lives of believers had to be severed in order to deliver us from the tyranny of sin and it's enslaving domination throughout our earthly life.

Jesus identified with our sin so that we might be identified with His righteousness; He died to pay the penalty for our sin. His death became our death and His resurrected life became our new resurrected life in Christ. It was His birth into the human race and His sinless life which qualified Jesus to become the perfect sacrifice for humanity's sin.

Jesus died as the perfect representative of the old fallen creation in Adam paying the price for our sin, but He rose again as the first Person of a new creation of mankind. Jesus Christ is the federal Head of God new creation of humanity. Those who place their faith in Him will also rise to newness of life, as part of that new creation in Christ. But as fallen members of the old creation in Adam, the power of sin in us also had to be broken. By faith, we were removed from the old creation and placed into the new creation so that in the power of His resurrected life we are enabled to grow in grace to His praise and glory.

In order for the ruling principle of sin, which enslaves every member of the human race to lose its power in our lives, we died in Him when Jesus died unto sin on the Cross. But as His spiritual seed, we also rose in Christ when He was resurrected from the grave, thus becoming part of the new creation in Christ and a member of His spiritual Body.

Jesus died FOR sin as payment and He died UNTO sin to break its power. By faith in Him our sins have been paid but in Him we also died unto sin and our death with Him delivers us from the sin's hold on our lives and frees us from its tyranny and power, so that we are enabled to live godly lives with Christ's own resurrected life working through us. Christ identified with our sin and died for us so that we could recieve forgiveness of sin, but we are also identified with Christ's death, for when He died we died with Him, which freed us from the power of sin and its oppressive enslavement over our lives.

His death unto sin became our death unto sin and His resurrected life became our new resurrected life in Christ so that with Paul we can say: "It is not I that lives but Christ that lives in me," so that having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and eternal life.

Heavenly Father, thank You that the power of sin was broken in my life, because I died with Christ unto sin. Thank You that I am a new creation in Christ and have received His new resurrected life. I pray that in Him, I may grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus, day by day. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.