75 Question 35 & 36 Are we dead to sin by works?

To be dead to sin means that we are no longer under the penalty of sin because we have accepted Jesus into our hearts and are a new creation, free from the bonds of sin (2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come”). 

Under the Old Covenant, sin rained through Adam even with the law, no amount of works could redeem a man from sin but through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, we have access to His unbound grace in our lives, thus leaving no room for sin unless we submit to it again.

Galatians 5:1 “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”

Satan wants us to believe his lies and submit to the yoke of slavery (sin) because he has no power over us when we have surrendered our lives to Jesus; when Christ rose from the grave, the power of death was broken and the sin that rained through Adam was forgiven.

1 Corinthians 15:22  “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”

Romans 6:11 ”So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”

Colossians 2:6  “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,”

1 Peter 3:18  “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,”

Ephesians 2:5  “Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—“

1 Corinthians 15:56 “The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.”

1 Corinthians 13:10 “But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.”

Colossians 2:20-23 “If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”  (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?  These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.”