Dead to sin

Romans 6:10-11 TPT

“So let it be the same way with you! Since you are now joined with Him, you must continually view yourselves as dead and unresponsive to sin’s appeal while living daily for God’s pleasure in union with Jesus, the Anointed One.”

Romans 6:10-11 AMP

“For the death that He died, He died to sin [ending its power and paying the sinner’s debt] once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to [glorify] God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship to it broken], but alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 6:10-11 NASB

“For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”

When you look at these translations one thing is clear. Jesus died once to sin. So why are you trying to die more than he did? You could say “Jorge, Jesus is perfect he only had to die once.” That’s not true. He never had to die. He never sinned. He didn’t have to die. He died once for all because that was all that was necessary to change your nature. That is why he said, “it is finished”. How sad would it be if He said “I think it is done.” God is conclusive about the cross and the blood. He’s not confused about what happened. That “person” you used to be is gone.

Romans 6:10  says we are to consider ourselves dead to sin. Dead means “unresponsive; no longer current or relevant or expired”. Our death was climactic. It was final. It was fatal. It’s over. My sin is gone. I’ve been washed. I am clean. Regret cannot lay hold of me. I am a new person with new and right desires.