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Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

by Russell S. Miller

“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore 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” (Rom.6:3,4).

Yes, Romans 6 teaches us that when we got saved God took us back to Calvary, made us one with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection; and we have been made one with one another also. And not only are we made one with Jesus Christ in His death, but our sins, and that old sin nature, has been put away forever out of God’s sight (Lev.16:1-34; Heb.13:10-14), and we have been set gloriously free! Just as Jesus Christ was actually buried, so we have been buried with Him. “Therefore,” says the Apostle, “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” (Rom.6:4). Again it is the Apostle Paul who tells us how these things are accomplished:

“Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through THE FAITH OF THE OPERATION OF GOD, [not ministers, but GOD] who hath raised [Christ] from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses” (Col.2:12,13).

We have all been so fully identified with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. So complete is our salvation in Christ. The Lord thought of everything in saving us from our sins. And because these things have actually, really, taken place, Paul says we are to “reckon” them to be so in the daily lives we live for the Lord Jesus:

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.6:11).

This is the gospel that Paul preached, not popular, because it “crucifies the flesh with the affections and lusts” (Gal.5:24). But “godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” (ITim.4:8). Consequently there is no excuse for sin in the believer’s life today.

“If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained” (ITim.4:6).

Posted by Eden (Member # 5728) on :

WildB, your posted article said

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Yes, Romans 6 teaches us that when we got saved God took us back to Calvary, made us one with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection; and we have been made one with one another also.

Actually, I do not think that God took us back to Calvary when we got saved, God ALREADY INCLUDED and CONDEMNED TO DEATH ALL that belonged to the first Adam, both in the past, present, and future.

It was a one-time act in which the "old man" was crucfied WHILE Jesus was on the cross (not, later when we got saved).

Rather, when we get saved, if we are diligent at reading the Word of God, at some point God will lead us to discover that our old man WAS crucified with Christ already BACK THEN.

It is this discovery on the part of a newly saved person that causes the newly saved person to "ackowledge" what God did "back there" and so now the saved Christian begins to act differently, knowing that all that belongs to the first Adam "was done away with" already WHILE Jesus was on the cross.

So, to repeat what the article said, WildB,

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Yes, Romans 6 teaches us that when we got saved God took us back to Calvary, made us one with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection; and we have been made one with one another also.

God does not take us back to Calvary when we get saved, God leads us to DISCOVER that we WERE already crucified with Christ when Jesus was on the cross.

love, Eden