To grasp this truth, we must understand that the Bible speaks of two distinct spiritual deaths that occur in the life of a person connected to Christ:

1. Dead to the Law (The End of Condemnation)

Before a person is in Christ, they live under the constant scrutiny and condemnation of God’s perfect law.

The law is holy and just, but it can only reveal sin; it cannot provide salvation. It acts as a spiritual mirror, showing us how utterly short we fall of God’s standard, resulting in guilt and separation. Apostle Paul explains this powerful liberation:

To be dead to the law means the law no longer has the power to condemn us.

Christ, by fulfilling the law and taking its penalty upon the cross, effectively placed the believer outside the law's jurisdiction of punishment; He justified us and reconciled us to our maker to be in peace with the Almighty God!

The death sentence has been carried out—not upon us, but upon our representative, Christ Jesus, the holy, pure, and righteous lamb of God. We are free from the law's curse, now bound only to Christ in a new covenant of grace.

Therefore, only by Christ Jesus, not by any name or any one, can we be redeemed from the curse of the law unto God the Father! This is the ONLY WAY, if you have not given you life to the Lord Jesus Christ, I am afraid you still under the curse of the law! Repent and believe in the only Son of God!

Myth #1: Hell is Just a Metaphor

This is the more crucial and practical aspect of being "dead in Christ." Before salvation, a person is a slave to sin.

Sin is not merely a series of bad choices; it is a master that dictates actions and controls the inner life. Let me brake it down for you, When a person is saved, they are united with Christ in His death and resurrection. The act of water baptism beautifully symbolizes this reality, yet the spiritual event is far deeper than the ritual.

To be dead to sin means the power of the old nature—that part of us that was addicted to self-rule and rebellion—has been broken, crucified with Christ, hallelujah!

This does not mean sin is absent from our lives, no! But it does mean sin is no longer our unavoidable master...

The death we died with Christ was a severing of the control sin held over us. The believer is no longer obligated to obey the temptations of the flesh. We have a new nature and a new choice—we are new creatures and workmanship of the Lord, glory be unto God in the highest!

If a christian is truly dead to sin, why do they still struggle with it? Well...this is a million dollar question that is still boggling peoples minds right now as we speak! This leads us to the crucial theological and practical command Paul gives in Romans 6, lets look at it:

...As you can see, our death in Christ is a fact of our conversion; our victory over sin is an act of faith. The word "reckon" means to count, consider, or calculate. It is an accounting term; but to us christians it is a command to believe as true what God says is true about us....

We are to mentally consider ourselves utterly unresponsive and insensitive to the allure of sin, just as a corpse is unresponsive to commands. Let that sink in, "...as a dead body is not responsive or listen to commands, simple because the person is already dead; the command is useless and all in vain!"

We do not try to be dead; we believe that we are dead to sin's power, and then we live accordingly. The practical application is powerful: when temptation arises, we do not have to battle sin from a position of inferiority. We remind ourselves: "I am dead to you. You no longer have the authority to command me."

...But not think that the flesh is going to live ou alone, no it will not. Neither is the Devil going to live you alone, so you have to keep you flesh, thought and desires under the subjection: God has given you more than enough grace to overcome every temptation, evil thoughts, the dead works of the flesh, influences and deeds of the Devil and his demons, and so on, thorough the power of His grace, hallelujah!

The spiritual death is not an end but a doorway. We do not stop at being "dead in Christ"; immediately following the crucifixion is the resurrection. Our spiritual death results in our spiritual rebirth: "...but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:11)

Our spiritual life is now channeled toward God. Our new nature, created in righteousness and true holiness, seeks to glorify Him. Our purpose has shifted from pleasing self to serving the King. The life we live now is no longer our own, but the life of Christ dwelling within us:

This new life produces "fruit unto God" (Romans 7:4), which includes love, joy, peace, and all the qualities of the Spirit, demonstrating that the old life has truly been discarded.

Before we can conclude, it is time that we go higher and change gears to more mature revelation, than the one that we are most aware of. Lets go a little more deeper of what it also means when one is dead in Christ.

The book of revelation teaches us also that blessed are those that have died in the Lord Jesus Christ, of course not in any other name of an false christ; whether from the past or the future adn even the ones that claim today.

The Book of Revelation 14:13, reveals that those are the ones that will rest, in other words they will be with the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven, the Place of Glory and Rest. By this we can confidently see that all that die in the Lord will receive rest of the Lord that the Holy Ghost has Promised all those that labour for the Lord.

While on the other hand we have a scripture where the Lord Jesus Christ says publicly, "...Let the dead bury their dead." Luke 9:60. This is where now it gets confusing, "How in the world can a dead person do anything, let alone burying someone, both of them are already dead, right...?"

What the Lord meant was that, let those that are spiritually-dead bury those that are physically-dead or rather literally dead: in the sense that their spirits have already left their bodies, thus the are now physically dead!

In Christianity we do have christians or believers that are still dead, even when they claim that they believe in the Lord Jesus. But when the Lord God, spirits, angels, or, those that can discern spirits and prophets, that they are still dead(that is, spiritually-dead)!

They are still dead in their sins, under condemnation and under the curse, and of course that have fallen from grace; while they boast that they have been pastoring, preaching, teaching and so forth for many years, Lord have mercy!

This including everyone who is not yet baptized or filled with the Holy Spirit is also spiritually dead, because it is the Spirit of Christ that quickens, or makes alive or resurrects, the one that is dead. So even in the times of the apostles (early church days) the were still believers, disciples or christians that were still not yet baptized with the Spirit of God.

But the bottom line is, we all need to be baptized with the Holy Ghost before we can even think and talk about dying in Christ: as hard as it may sound or unfair, only those that die physically, that is, when their spirits separates from their bodies; while still having being baptized by the Lord Jesus with His Spirit are the ones that will die in Christ and have rest, hallelujah!

In other words, without being born of the Spirit, that is, baptized with the Holy Ghost; YOU DO NOT BELONG TO CHRIST AND IF YOU DO NOT REPENT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, YOU WILL DIE IN YOUR SINS, AND WILL DEFINITELY SEE NO REST AND HEAVEN, which is spoken of in Revelation 14:13!

People can make excuses about whether one may enter Heaven with or without the Holy Spirit... But we know the truth that the reason why the Lord gave us his Spirit was not just to anoint us then that was it, no; it was to seal and confirm unto us that we really are the son's of God.

If you do not have the Holy Spirit Ask God to baptize you, because it is written in Romans 8:12:

...I paraphrase this way, "He who does not have the Holy Spirit and says that He is a christian is a lier and does not belong to Christ Jesus," neither will he/she enter the rest of the Lord Jesus, because he/she is still under the curse of the law, dead in sin and above all spiritually dead while he still physically alive!

Repent in right Now, in Jesus Mighty Name, glory be unto God!

To be dead in Christ is the most important truth a person may embrace following salvation, hallelujah!

It means the past is canceled, the power of sin is dethroned, and the authority of the law to condemn is eternally silenced. This is not some esoteric piece of theology reserved for scholars; this is the believer’s daily freedom manifesto.

When anxiety about past failures creeps in, we declare, "I am dead to the law’s accusation!" When the old destructive habits attempt to reassert control, we proclaim, "I am dead to the power of sin!" The assurance of this death is the engine of our sanctification, enabling us to walk in newness of life.

For those that have not the Holy Ghost; let them ask the Lord to baptize them or attend one of the Churches that believe in the Holy Spirit Baptism to ask them to pray and lay their hands on you. The Holy Spirit is the give that God wants all of us to be filled with Him, it is His spirit that seals and anoints us and quickens our dead bodies!

Let this reality sink deeply into your soul: You are no longer who you once were. You are dead to the past and alive to God. This profound, life-altering truth provides the ultimate peace, security, and power for living the resurrected life today, fully empowered by the one who conquered death.

So, what does it mean to be dead in Christ? ...It means more that we can right in this life time...! Repent and keep believing in the Lord until He returns because surely He is coming, God bless you in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen and Amen!