<p>6:10&nbsp;<i>For the death that he died, he died to sin once</i>- This apparently obvious fact is added to develop the argument that because He totally isn&rsquo;t under the power of sin and death any more, we who are in Him are likewise free from it, totally and utterly- by status. And seeing His death isn&rsquo;t ongoing, our freedom from sin should likewise be ongoing.&nbsp;</p><p><em>But the life that he lives, he lives to God</em>- The fact that even now, the Son of God lives &ldquo;unto God&rdquo;, to His glory, for His sake, unto Him&hellip; is a sure proof that He isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;God&rdquo; in any Trinitarian sense. But just as His life is constantly and in every dimension &ldquo;for God&rdquo;, so we also should be living unto God now (6:11)- not a hobby, a part time religion, but a devotion to His sphere in every aspect of our existence.</p><p>The life that He lived and now lives, and the death that He died, become ours (Rom. 6:10 RV). We identified with that life, that death, at baptism. But it&rsquo;s an ongoing thing. We live in&nbsp;<em>newness</em>&nbsp;of life. The life in Christ is not a stagnant pond, but rather living water, spring water, bubbling fresh from the spring. The Lord Jesus died and rose as our representative. Therefore we live out His life, His death, His rising again to new life; and so as we sing,&nbsp;&ldquo;into&nbsp;<em>my</em>&nbsp;life&nbsp;<em>your&nbsp;</em>power breaks through, living Lord&rdquo;. And this is what we give out to others- for &ldquo;he that believeth in me, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of springing water&rdquo; for others (Jn. 4:10; 7:38). We can experience the newness of life of Christ right now. His life is now made manifest in our mortal flesh (2 Cor. 4:11), insofar as we seek to live our lives governed by the golden rule: &lsquo;What would Jesus do&hellip;?&rsquo;. The life that He had and now lives is the essence of the Kingdom life.</p><p>Throughout the New Testament, there is a clear link between the preaching of the cross, and men and women being converted. There is a power of conversion in the image and message of Christ crucified as our representative. Man cannot remain passive before this. Baptism is an appropriation of His death and resurrection to ourselves. This is why the response to the preaching of the cross in the 1st century was baptism. And the response doesn't stop there; it continues, in the living of the life of the risen Jesus in our lives after baptism: &quot;For the death that he died, he died unto sin&hellip; the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Even so reckon ye also yourselves to dead unto sin but alive unto God because you are in Christ by baptism into Him&quot; (Rom. 6:10,11 RV). The death Christ died for us, the life He lives, are all imperatives to us now.&nbsp;</p>