Consider Yourself To Be Dead To Sin

And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! Galatians 4:6

Right now we really are God’s children and because we are His kids, we now have the Holy Spirit just as Jesus has Him. Just as Jesus is kept by the power of the Holy Spirit, so are we. Jesus came and allowed Himself to be sacrificed so that we could have everything that He has. Jesus has died to sin once and because of what He did for us, so have we.

Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:9-11

We are the body of Christ right now, Ephesians 5:30, so we too are dead to sin and alive to live as one with God. Our relationship with sin has ended, not because of what we do, but because of what Jesus did. Because Jesus was so successful, we are now free from the law of sin equals death. 

Because we are members (parts) of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2. 

There are so many forces in the world and in religion that will try and make us feel like we can’t do anything but sin. Yet they are all lies. The Truth is that we are free from sin because Jesus has done it for us and only because of what He has done. It’s not by our works or by our obedience, it’s only by Grace. If we consider ourselves to still be sinners, what we really are saying is that Jesus just didn’t pull it off.  If we look at what we do as the measure of our Father’s Grace, then we are saying that we are the instruments of righteousness and not Jesus. What we do is not what makes us free or not free, it is what Grace is that makes us free and Grace is all undeserved.