Since Christ Died For Me, Why Do I Still Have to Die?

Q. Since Christ has died for me, why do I still have to die? 

A. My death is not a payment for my sins, but it puts an end to sin and is an entrance into eternal life.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life…. 

Philippians 1:21-23 

• For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 
• But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. 
• For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. 

1 Thessalonians 5:9,10 

• For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
• who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

Q. What further benefit do I receive from Christ’s sacrifice and death on the cross? 

A. Through Christ’s death our old nature is crucified, put to death, and buried with Him,

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 6:5-11 

• For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
• knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 
• For he who has died has been freed from sin. 
• Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 
• knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 
• For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 
• Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Colossians 2:11,12 

• In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 
• buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead

so that the evil desires of the flesh may no longer reign in us, 

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 6:12-14 

• Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 
• And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 
• For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

but that we may offer ourselves to Him as a sacrifice of thankfulness.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 

Ephesians 5:1,2 

• Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 
• And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 16