I find that there are two ways to react to the cross of Christ. There is the Christian way, and there is the right way. The Christian way is to feel the need to "make it up to" the Man on the cross for suffering so much for your sake and subsequently embarking on a moral performance that will so please Him and "pay Him back" that He will surely choose you as one of His own.

The RIGHT way to react (the spiritual, Scriptural way), having witnessed the Lord's terrible suffering, is to feel unworthy, undone, and completely at the end of yourself. In other words: numb. This reaction is not to be thought of as an embarrassing, inferior reaction, and neither is it to be shaken off for a "better" reaction. In fact, this reaction is to be bookmarked, set in stone, and never abandoned. Paul calls it, "conforming to His death" (Philippians 3:10), being "crucified with Christ" (Romans 6:6), and "being entombed together with Him" (Romans 6:4).

Settled into this disposition of having died with Christ, one then walks (quite surprised) onto a sunny landscape called, "being of the resurrection also" (Romans 6:5) and "walking in newness of life" (Romans 6:4). The shocking thing about all of it is that one is walking into this life and enjoying it even while continuing to feel constantly dead—as touching the old humanity. Yes. This numbness is the death of the old humanity, which is nevermore to be dug up, disentombed, or challenged in any way to perform, for why would anyone ever challenge a dead man to do anything, let alone perform?

In this new world, one is completely free from Sin and basks in the glorious acceptance of Christ. Completely free from Sin? Yes. Ask yourself: has a dead person ever sinned? Do dead people sin? Very well then. Dead people do NOT sin. They can't. It's impossible. Therefore, sin is impossible to one who has died and who yet finds oneself simultaneously basking in a new world as though one has already been resurrected from the dead.

These are the secrets, revealed today, from the sixth chapter of Romans. Less than a thousand people living upon the earth presently realize any of this. If you do, then good on you, for it is evidence that God has chosen you for membership into the body of Christ.