Romans 6:7-11

7 For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men].

    

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

The question here is have we died, because we are in Christ, or are we going to die? 

For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3

I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20

The saying is sure and worthy of confidence: If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him. 2 Timothy 2:11

The Truth is that we are dead with Christ, so we are free, delivered, and loosed from the power of sin. 

9 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.

    

10 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].

    

11 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.

    

Amen look at that glorious bit of Truth: we are to consider ourselves to be completely dead to sin, just as Jesus is dead to sin! Is our Father asking us to lie here? Are we to say that we are dead to sin, even though we are still alive to it? Lying is a sin, so we have to be completely dead to sin to consider ourselves to be dead to sin. Are we dead to sin by our works? No, because our works are as filthy rags. Also if it was by our works then we could boast, but no man can boast before God. We are dead to sin by grace and only grace. We do not earn a better relationship with our Father by our actions or works. We will work righteous works, but it is only by our Father’s power that is at work within us. This is why there is no condemnation for us, Romans 8:1. Greater is He that is in us, then he that is in this world. 

Ask yourself this, do you consider yourself to be dead to sin? Our Father tells us that we can and that we should. Here is some great Truth: whether you believe it now or not, your dead to sin by the sacrifice of Jesus. How will they hear this Truth without a preacher, Romans 10:14?