If we died with Christ, what do we believe about living with Him?
If we have been crucified, buried, and dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. This living comes by resurrection power: we have been raised in resurrection power as a new person, a whole new being, now placed into Christ.
Les explains that Romans 6:8 follows the believer’s identification with Christ in His death: if we have been crucified with Him, buried with Him, and are dead with Christ, then we believe we shall also live with Him. That life is not produced by outward ceremony but comes by resurrection power. The believer has been raised in resurrection power, is a new person and a whole new being, and is now placed into Christ. Les ties this to God’s invisible work in the soul and spirit—an area human hands cannot touch and baptizing the body cannot change—and he points to I Corinthians 12 as foundational, simplistic truth.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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What does it mean that if we be dead with Christ we shall also live with Him?
If we are dead with Christ — that is, by identification with the crucifixion — we believe that we shall also live with Him.