I can not die for sin like Christ, but I can and I must
die to sin like Christ. Christ died for me. In that He stands alone. Christ
died to sin, and in that I have fellowship with Him. I have been crucified,
I am dead.

And here is the great subject to which I want to lead you.--What it is to
be dead with Christ, and how it is that I can practically enter into this
death with Christ. We know that the great characteristic of Christ is His
death. From eternity He came with the commandment of the Father that He
should lay down His life on earth. He gave Himself up to it, and He set His
face towards Jerusalem. He chose death, and He lived and walked upon earth
to prepare Himself to die. His death is the power of redemption; death gave
Him His victory over sin; death gave Him His resurrection, His new life,
His exaltation, and His everlasting glory. The great mark of Christ is His
death. Even in Heaven, upon the throne, He stands as the Lamb that was
slain, and through eternity they ever sing, "Thou art worthy, for Thou
wast slain." Beloved brother, your Boaz, your Christ, your all-sufficient
Saviour, is a Man of whom the chief mark and the greatest glory is this: He
died. And if the Bride is to live with her husband as His wife, then she
must enter into His state, and into His spirit, and into His disposition,
and ever be as He is. If we are to experience the full power of what Christ
can do for us, we must learn to die with Christ. I ought not, perhaps, to
use that expression, "We must learn to die with Christ;" I ought, rather,
to say, "We must learn that we _are dead_ with Christ." That is a glorious
thought in the 6th chapter of Romans; to every believer in the Church of
Rome--not to the select ones, or the advanced ones, but to every believer
in the Church of Rome, however feeble, Paul writes, "You _are dead_ with
Christ." On the strength of that he says, "Reckon yourselves dead unto
sin." What does that mean--You are dead to sin? We can not see it more
clearly than by referring to Adam. Christ was the second Adam. What
happened in the first Adam? I died, in the first Adam; I died to God; I
died in sin. When I was born, I had in me the life of Adam, which had all
the characteristics of the life of Adam after he had fallen. Adam died to
God, and Adam died in sin, and I inherit the life of Adam, and so I am dead
in sin as he was, and dead unto God. But at the very moment I begin to
believe in Jesus, I become united to Chri