1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Undoubtedly, we do still commit acts of sin in our ignorance, or more likely our unbelief of these foregoing truths. The truth also is that we, as to our new self, cannot sin due to His Seed that remains within us as the new us. What is the nature of God Christ-Seed? We know that He is “the Holy one of God (Act 3:14)”. How can it be true that we cannot sin? The fact is that we do not always live by trusting in (believing) the truth of His death, burial and resurrection life as us; we are deceived to think that we still have an independent life. We still assert ourselves to try to live the Christian life by our own resources, rather than count on the facts and truth, to trust His love, grace and life to be the Christian in us.

The sins we commit are not rooted in another life, but rather the mind remnant of the old way of living – the way of self-dependence. You are dead and Christ is your only life. Have you ever considered that beautiful cut flower is really dead flower – the blossom has not yet realized that it is dead?

We must know the truth and then go on in the one thing we now have – His life as our life. We have died as our old self already, in Christ, and we count it as such, so now we now go on by living “in Christ”. This is the truth of Christ having also risen as the new us. Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves … alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Emphasis on last half of this verse)  One day all believers we will have sufficient grace and revelation to see and believe this. We count upon and stand upon our death in Christ, so now we live by permitting and trusting His “Spirit of life” within our spirit to live through us, as the new us.

Divine Accounting: In Rom 6:11 the math of reckoning is quite simple. Here, the Greek word for “reckon” is logizomai, meaning “to account”; it’s an accounting term. We need to identify with Christ death as our death and count as such. Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Paul is saying, “Likewise, we identify with His life now as our life.”

Consider here God’s divine accounting to reconcile our account before God.

1. I had one (1) fallen life before my salvation.
2. I must deduct that one (1) fallen life since I have already died in Christ.
3. That leaves nothing (0) no life, but that is not the end.
4. I must then recognize that which I gained by Christ’s resurrection as me – His one (1) life in me as my new life.

Thus, Christ is now my ONLY legitimate life.

I trust and act upon that result of the math. Do you act upon the credits and debits in your checking account, or the resultant new balance? We as a soul-self now must live by acting upon the balance, which indicates Christ is now our only life within.

Any other thought of another life is an illusion, sometimes a grasping at what used to be when we were miserable sinners doing our own thing. If we do that we live beneath our means – it’s is not the real us. The real us is Christ in us as the new us. All else is an illusion of our deceived and unrenewed mind.

In Rom 5:10a, Paul tells us we were (have been) reconciled to God “by the death of His Son,” but Paul goes onto tell us that we “shall be saved (rescued) by His life.” This is how we go on – we go on in our new life, the life of His Son. It’s all we have as a life in us.

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved (completed) by his life.

Now go back with me to Rom 6:11 again, Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves …alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  This second half of our reckoning is that the one life this we have remaining is…His life (Col 3:4). Our death is a fact, we cannot add to it, so it is of no benefit to try to die to self as some Christian sects suggest. We now are to act upon the balance in our account – we only have His one (1) life remaining. We reckon or count our self alive unto God by the one (1) life we now have – the life of Christ in us as the new us. This is why Paul tells us we should “walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:4). Paul never says we need to die to self – Paul sees that as an accomplished fact upon which we must stand. He assures us that now under his grace gospel it is God who works in us. Philip. 2:13…it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.