Romans 6:11 (ESV)
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
CONSIDER Yourself Dead to Sin!
If you look up the word “consider” in the above text in Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament words, this is what you read:
logizomai; middle voice from 3056; to take an inventory, i.e. estimate (literally or figuratively): — conclude, (ac-)count (of), + despise, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on).
In Romans 6:1-10, Paul has given us an argument that Christ died and rose again and in His death He defeated Satan and in His resurrection He defeated sin and death. That is the jest of his thoughts. We, being in Christ, were “crucified” with Him (vs. 6) and in His resurrection were made alive with Him (vs. 5). We are not told to do anything until verse 11 of this passage. The first thing we are told to do is an act of faith to consider what he just said, SO! The word “consider” is to count it so. It is more of an accounting term than it is a logic to grasp, although the “logi” portion of the word means logic. God wants us to put our faith in the act of Christ’s death and resurrection as the reason we have been set free from sin. We no longer have to submit to the power of sin since we have, based upon Christ’s finished work, We are to “count” it as what Paul said. Our confidence is in what Christ did, not what we can do. We are to “consider” it so. When we submit to sin’s power we fail to “consider” Christ’s work agains sin and His setting us free from the grasp of sin. So, “consider” it so.
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