What happened to believers when Christ died and rose again?
When Christ died, believers died with Him; when He rose from the dead, they arose to newness of life. God made them alive together with Christ and forgave all their trespasses—past, present, and future—so they are already forgiven.
Les explains from Colossians 2 that Paul writes believers were dead in their sins, in their pre-salvation existence, and in the uncircumcision of their flesh, regarding pagan Gentiles. But God quickened them together with Christ: when Christ died, they died; when He arose from the dead, they arose to newness of life. He made them alive together with Him and forgave all their trespasses—every last one they did commit, are committing, and will commit. They are already forgiven, not merely up to a certain point in time, but now and forever. Les stresses that when Christ died, He died for all the world's sins and tasted death for every man.
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
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