(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”  This is reality. God can do anything. He has chosen to literally see those who turn from their sins and ask for mercy to be saved, as dying in His Son. Since this is truth, we without doubt live (as in never to die again) in Him.

(Rom 6:6) “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. (7)  For he that is dead is freed from sin.”  Notice to practice sin is to serve sin. It is to be a slave to sin. Interesting that when we willfully choose to sin we think we are simply fulfilling that which we desire to do. But truth is, it is servitude – every bit as much as any addiction.

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  The person of whom I am ashamed of his desires and actions, God put in Christ on the cross. He is dead. In March of 1973 he died and I was born!

(Rom 6:5)  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”  I believe the Bible teaches that your soul is the real you. The physical body houses the soul. The spirit is the spiritual body of the soul. When we die we are still clothed, live, in this spiritual body in the presence of God Who is Spirit. But the day will come when the Lord will resurrect and transform our physical bodies into immortal bodies. 

(Rom 6:5)  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:” Being made one is not an unusual concept in Scripture. The Lord chooses to look at a man and woman as one (Matt 19:6; 1 Cor 6:16). By the way, a husband and wife’s spirit are also made one in the sight of God. Give a careful reading to Malachi 2:13-16.

(Rom 6:5)  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:” The person born spiritually and put spiritually into Christ Jesus, in the mind of God, is made one with Christ. You may study this truth out by looking up the many verses in the Epistles which read, “in Him’ or “in Christ Jesus”.

(Rom 6:5)  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:” The person born spiritually and put spiritually into Christ Jesus, in the mind of God, is made one with Christ. You may study this truth out by looking up the many verses in the Epistles which read, “in Him’ or “in Christ Jesus”.

 (Rom 6:4) “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”   The complete Godhead – Father, Son, and Spirit, are each said to have raised up Christ from the dead. Here He was raised “by the glory of the Father”. Jesus said He would raise Himself: (Joh 10:17) “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (18)  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”  And, the Holy Spirit raised the Lord Jesus: (Rom_8:11) “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

(Rom 6:4) “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”  As we progress in this chapter, we will see this is not simply pretty poetic speech. This is real plainly revealed spiritual reality. We have been freed from the once sovereign power of the sin nature. We are now freed to walk in newness of life! 

(Rom 6:3) “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”  This is speaking of a spiritual event we portray by a physical observance. Baptize: immerse; the saved are immersed into Christ Jesus. Thus His death became our death; His burial, our burial; and His resurrection our resurrection. We live in and through Him. Hard to get the mind around? That makes it no less a spiritual truth.