Dead to Sin.

Being dead to sin is so important. Satan would have us deceive ourselves into believing it is impossible to be dead to sin. So why then would the word of God say this--

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Satan is a great deceiver, the best deceiver in existence and if we don't believe this then we are deceiving ourselves.

Please Father God in heaven, please help us to not be deceived by the great deceiver that you've conquered. Satan still works his deception at every opportunity, please keep us from all his evil. Please. All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!

*******

The Spiritual Man- by Watchman Nee- (Excerpt)

'During the battle it is positively essential that the believer stand on Romans 6.11, acknowledging himself as one with the Lord: the Lord’s death is his death. Such faith releases him from the authority of the evil spirits since they can have no power over the dead.

This position must be firmly taken.

In conjunction with such a stand as this there must be the USE OF GOD'S WORD against all the lies of the enemy, because at this juncture the adversary will lie to the saint by suggesting that he has fallen beyond any hope of restoration. If he listens to this guile he will surely tumble into the greatest peril of all.

He should remind himself that Calvary has destroyed Satan and his evil hosts already (Heb. 2.14; Col. 2.14-15).

Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil

Col 2:14  Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 

Col 2:15  And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 

The work of salvation is finished that all may experience deliverance out of the powers of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love (Col. 1.13).

Col 1:13  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son

Suffering for the sake of recovering ground assures a person of that which the enemy is afraid of, and how urgent that the ground be recovered. Consequently, whenever the wicked powers inflict new and greater afflictions upon the believer, let him perceive that these are from the enemy and then let him refuse and disregard them, neither worrying nor talking about them.'