Are You Really Living? Rom 6:11

Calvary chapel

...What does Romans 6:11 say? Romans 6:11 says, consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God. Consider yourself dead to sin. And as I thought about that, I realized this is talking to the Christian that it's saying there, consider yourself dead to yourself. Because sin and self are synonymous. Now, that isn't very popular to say in the world, is it? Because everybody's talking about the self. All the advertisements say, you deserve it, you buy it, you need it, you deserve it. If you don't watch out for yourself, nobody else will. So when we talk about dying to self, it sometimes brings up a rebellion in us. But I'm not talking about dying to that self in you that was created in the image of God or that unique personality and characteristic traits that God gave you. I'm not talking about putting that down and dying to that. Well, what am I talking about then? I'm talking about dying to that self in you that would rise up in rebellion against God. And I think, you know that part, the part that I mean, I don't know about you, but my biggest problem is me. I'm always getting me in trouble. And it's that self-enough that would rise up and just push the Lord right off of the throne and take over.