• Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? (4) Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in the newness of life. (8) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, (9) knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. (10) For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives He lives to God. (11) Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to he dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The letter to the Romans was written by the apostle Paul. In chapter 6 of Romans, Paul is addressing sanctification after the Christian is justified by faith in Christ Jesus. The very design of Christianity was to deliver men from sin; our union with Christ in His death and resurrection is the foundation for separation from sin. In faith in Christ, when He died we died in Him. When Adam sinned all men/women sinned in physical birth. But in faith we are transferred to Christ’s headship and have a new position before God. Biblical death is not cessation but spiritual separation. In Christ the reign of spiritual death is broken and Paul in our verses is talking about NOT living in sin as a way of life. PAul is NOT saying believers cannot sin but we are saved by God’s free grace. Since we in faith are united with Christ, in His resurrection we should walk as a new person – a steady gradual process of sanctification in Christ.
Paul’s focus is not on how to obey God and avoid sinning but on why. Christ’s work of redemption is not only substitutionary but also representative. Sin has no claim on Christ because he paid the penalty for sin: Sin no longer has claim on the faithful because Christ died as our representative. The very design of Christianity was to deliver man from sin.
In Romans 8:1 Paul writes “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.