What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans 6:1-7
When we trusted in Christ Jesus our sins were transferred to him and his righteousness to us. As far as the Father is concerned our sins were nailed to the cross with His Son. God reckons us dead to sin. This is in relation to our eternal status. We still have to contend with this life, so we should reckon ourselves dead to sin and cease from sinning.
Romans 6:11-14 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Without the power of the law to condemn and damn us, we are dead to sin; it cannot be imputed to us.
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Being dead to the law, we are where there is no law. Though we cannot be damn it is not a license to sin and we will be judged. We are not without law to God. Those that are Christ shall all stand before his judgment seat and give an account.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
The warning that those who have trusted in Christ Jesus will have to appear before His judgment seat should be taken to heart by all the saints. They would live much better lives if they looked in the mirror every morning and reminded themselves that they will have to give an account of this day.
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