Audio commentary on this verse

Note 10 at Ro 6:9: Our death to sin and resurrection to life with Christ is already a reality in our spirits (see note 7 at Ro 6:6), but it will only become a physical reality as we know and believe these truths (see note 8 at Ro 6:6). In this verse, Paul was stressing that this resurrection life is dependent on knowing that our death with Jesus unto sin is a one-time death that does not have to be repeated (see note 11 at this verse).

Note 11 at Ro 6:9: Much current theology believes that we died unto sin but that we resurrect unto sin every morning and therefore must continually repeat this process. That is not what happened to Jesus, and these verses are comparing our death to sin with Jesus' death to sin (see note 3 at Ro 6:11). It is true that we continually have to appropriate this death to sin, but there is a big difference between dying over and over and over and just renewing our minds with an accomplished fact.

Note 12 at Ro 6:9: In the same way that Jesus died unto sin once (Ro 6:10) and now death has no more dominion over Him, those who recognize their death with Christ unto sin will not have sin rule over them anymore either (Ro 6:14). Christians who are struggling with sin have not recognized that they are dead unto sin (see notes 7-8 at Ro 6:6).