Dead to Self
Dead to self is actually dead to your flesh (Romans 6:16-18) “know you not, that
to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you
obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? But God be
thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin,
you became the servants of righteousness”.
In the natural dead is not good, but in the spiritual realm death to self is wonderful
(Romans 6:2-8) “how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death;
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even
so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that hereafter we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed
from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with
Him”.
Your flesh, the first birth has to die so that you can be born again. Resurrected
to the new life (II Corinthians 5:17-18) “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and
has given to us the ministry of reconciliation”.
Remember that we are supposed to die daily, Paul says in I Corinthians 15:31.
Jesus said “he that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for My sake
shall find it” (Matthew 10:39), and in (John 12:25) “he that loves his life shall lose
it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal”.
We are told to take up our cross and follow Jesus (Matthew 16:24-25) “then said
Jesus to His disciples, if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it”.
Man wants to think that he can solve his own problems, but man cannot solve his
own problems; unless man dies to himself and let the Holy Spirit work within him,
man continues to be just as God the Father said in (Genesis 6:5) right before the
nationwide flood; it says “and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually”. God repented that He had made man on the earth. The sin nature
passed down from Adam (Romans 5:18-19) “therefore as by the offence of one
(Adam) judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the
righteousness of One (Jesus) the free gift came upon all men to justification of
life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of One shall many be made righteous”.
We have to be dead to the sin nature ruling over our lives. The old mind has to
be renewed (Romans 6:11-14) “likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead
indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin
therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but
yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace”.
You die to self by surrendering to God, Paul the apostle tells us in (Romans 12:1-
2) “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this world, but be you transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable and
perfect will of God”. Notice, it says “living sacrifice”; our flesh has to die before
our spirit is renewed.
Jesus had to do this and in the garden of Gethsemane, He prayed a prayer that
we all have to come to (Luke 22:42) “saying, Father if You be willing, remove this
cup from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done”.
John the Baptist, got the right idea when he said “He (speaking of Jesus) must
increase, but I must decrease”. Our will and rights must decrease, so that our
new man can increase.
We are told to “put off the old man” that’s the flesh (Ephesians 4:22-25,31-32)
“that you put off concerning the former life manner, the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And
that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
neighbor; for we are members one of another. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And
be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God
for Christ’s sake has forgiven you”. We have a part to play.
Also in Colossians 3:3-10) “for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with
Him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is idolatry. For which things sake the wrath of God comes
on the children of disobedience. In the which you also walked some time, when
you lived in them. But now you also put off all these anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another,
seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds. And have put on the
new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him”.
The apostle Paul tells us that “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me”. And we know
that he believed this because he was a persecutor of the church before he met
Jesus on the road to Damascus and died to himself; later Paul says in (II
Corinthians 7:2) “receive us, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man”. You see Paul had put off the old man and
had put on the new man.
Proverbs shows us how in (Proverbs 3:5-6) “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your
heart, and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct your paths”; and in (Proverbs 16:3) “commit your works
to the Lord Yahweh, and your thoughts shall be established”. As we submit
ourselves to the Lord, He does the work.
We have to be dead to the law (Romans 7:4-6) “wherefore, my brethren, you also
are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to
another, even to Him who is raised from the dead; that we should bring forth fruit
to God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the
law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death. But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should
serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter”. Dead to works as
a means to God’s acceptance (Colossians 2:20-22) “wherefore if you be dead
with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are
you subject to ordinances. Touch not, taste not; handle not. Which all are to
perish with the using, after the commandments and doctrines of men”
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: October 12, 2010
Dead to self is actually dead to your flesh (Romans 6:16-18) “know you not, that
to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you
obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? But God be
thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin,
you became the servants of righteousness”.
In the natural dead is not good, but in the spiritual realm death to self is wonderful
(Romans 6:2-8) “how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death;
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even
so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that hereafter we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed
from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with
Him”.
Your flesh, the first birth has to die so that you can be born again. Resurrected
to the new life (II Corinthians 5:17-18) “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and
has given to us the ministry of reconciliation”.
Remember that we are supposed to die daily, Paul says in I Corinthians 15:31.
Jesus said “he that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for My sake
shall find it” (Matthew 10:39), and in (John 12:25) “he that loves his life shall lose
it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal”.
We are told to take up our cross and follow Jesus (Matthew 16:24-25) “then said
Jesus to His disciples, if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it”.
Man wants to think that he can solve his own problems, but man cannot solve his
own problems; unless man dies to himself and let the Holy Spirit work within him,
man continues to be just as God the Father said in (Genesis 6:5) right before the
nationwide flood; it says “and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually”. God repented that He had made man on the earth. The sin nature
passed down from Adam (Romans 5:18-19) “therefore as by the offence of one
(Adam) judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the
righteousness of One (Jesus) the free gift came upon all men to justification of
life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of One shall many be made righteous”.
We have to be dead to the sin nature ruling over our lives. The old mind has to
be renewed (Romans 6:11-14) “likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead
indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin
therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but
yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace”.
You die to self by surrendering to God, Paul the apostle tells us in (Romans 12:1-
2) “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this world, but be you transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable and
perfect will of God”. Notice, it says “living sacrifice”; our flesh has to die before
our spirit is renewed.
Jesus had to do this and in the garden of Gethsemane, He prayed a prayer that
we all have to come to (Luke 22:42) “saying, Father if You be willing, remove this
cup from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done”.
John the Baptist, got the right idea when he said “He (speaking of Jesus) must
increase, but I must decrease”. Our will and rights must decrease, so that our
new man can increase.
We are told to “put off the old man” that’s the flesh (Ephesians 4:22-25,31-32)
“that you put off concerning the former life manner, the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And
that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
neighbor; for we are members one of another. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And
be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God
for Christ’s sake has forgiven you”. We have a part to play.
Also in Colossians 3:3-10) “for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with
Him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is idolatry. For which things sake the wrath of God comes
on the children of disobedience. In the which you also walked some time, when
you lived in them. But now you also put off all these anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another,
seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds. And have put on the
new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him”.
The apostle Paul tells us that “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me”. And we know
that he believed this because he was a persecutor of the church before he met
Jesus on the road to Damascus and died to himself; later Paul says in (II
Corinthians 7:2) “receive us, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man”. You see Paul had put off the old man and
had put on the new man.
Proverbs shows us how in (Proverbs 3:5-6) “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your
heart, and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct your paths”; and in (Proverbs 16:3) “commit your works
to the Lord Yahweh, and your thoughts shall be established”. As we submit
ourselves to the Lord, He does the work.
We have to be dead to the law (Romans 7:4-6) “wherefore, my brethren, you also
are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to
another, even to Him who is raised from the dead; that we should bring forth fruit
to God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the
law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death. But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should
serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter”. Dead to works as
a means to God’s acceptance (Colossians 2:20-22) “wherefore if you be dead
with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are
you subject to ordinances. Touch not, taste not; handle not. Which all are to
perish with the using, after the commandments and doctrines of men”
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: October 12, 2010
