How/when were we crucified with Christ? (ref. Ro 6:3-4)
Crucifixion was the means by which our Lord was put to death. The apostle uses the Lord's death to speak of our own death, to the law (Gal 2:19), to the world (Col 2:20), and to sin (Ro 6:11). In Romans 6:2, Paul speaks of the fact that we have died to sin, and thus should no longer live in it. He explains in verses 3-4 how we died to sin. It is by our baptism into Christ Jesus, for therein, our death to sin is the like figure of His death, and our raising to walk with new life is the like figure to His raising from the dead. |
GALATIANS 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
ROMANS 6:3-4
"Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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 also should walk in newness of life."
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