Section 12
were constituted sinners. In Romans 6 we have been baptized into Christ and identified with His death and resurrection. Now we are in Christ. Since we are in Him, whatever He has passed through is our history. He has been crucified and resurrected. Thus, His crucifixion and resurrec tion are ours. This is a glorious fact. We need to see this, not just to understand it. We need to pray that the Lord will give us a clear vision of the glorious fact that we are in Him, and that we have been crucified and resurrected with Him. To know this we need to see such a vision. After we see a certain thing, we can never say that we do not know it. God has accomplished the glo rious fact of putting us into Christ; we have been crucified and resurrected with Him.
Our knowing is based upon our seeing, and our seeing comes from the vision. We need a vision to see our co-crucifixion with Christ in Romans 6:6-7 and our co-resurrection with Christ in Romans 6:8-10. If we have seen these two aspects of the fact of our identification with Christ, we know that we are dead to sin and alive to God.
Here it is not a matter based upon our be lieving, but a matter absolutely based upon our seeing. When, by a vision, we see this glorious