Let's open our Bibles to Romans 6:11.

The work of God in Christ is foundational to everything else about Christianity

A Bookkeeping Term - Logizomai - count, reckon, or credit

Bookkeeping term from which we get log, logistics, and logarithm

Philosophy - objective, non-emotional reasoning from which we get logic and logical

Logizomai has to do with reality, with things as they really are

Our sin is reckoned to Jesus and His righteousness is reckoned to us

The First Reality: Dead to Sin

"Dead to sin" means that we are dead to our old way of life in Adam, and we cannot go back to it

The believer is not just a remodeled sinner, but a remade saint

Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Six things "dead to sin" does not mean

It does not mean that it is my duty as a Christian to die to sin

It is not a command for me to die to sin

It does not mean that I am to reckon that sin as a force in me is dead

It does not mean that sin in me has been eradicated

It does not mean that I am dead to sin, as long as I am in the process of gaining mastery over it

It does not mean that reckoning myself dead to sin makes me dead to sin

The Second Reality: Alive to God

We have been reconciled to God

We have become new creatures in Christ (2 Cor 5:17)

We are free from sin's bondage

We're pressing forward to a sure destiny and new goals

We can no longer be satisfied with this world and its offerings

"A Man Like Me"

Nehemiah: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?" (Neh. 6:3)

"Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!" (Neh. 6:11)