Romans 6:2

‘Certainly not. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live in it?'

His reply is firm and strong. ‘Certainly not!' Literally, ‘let it not be'. Nothing was further from his thoughts. His teaching was rather that we have died to sin. That being so how can we possibly continue to live in it? And that we have died to sin is what he now demonstrates. By becoming Christians and responding to the crucified One Who ‘died for our sins' (1 Corinthians 15:3) and ‘bore our sins in His own body on the tree' (1 Peter 2:24), we have recognised and acknowledged the heinousness of sin. And by being united with Christ by faith we have committed ourselves to ‘having died with Him', thus turning our backs on sin and all that it involves. We have become sin-repudiators. How then can we continue to live ‘in the realm of sin', the sin that crucified Christ? It would be a repudiation of all that we have claimed.