Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him.

— Romans 6:6a

Jesus went to the cross to die for you; at the same time He died, your old man was crucified.  The sinner and failure you became through Adam’s sin in the Garden had to be put to death, so you could be recreated in the image of Christ.  God created man in His image and after His likeness (Genesis 1:26), and His plan for man has never changed.  Through an act of faith, not only did Jesus die on the cross but He also took every old man and crucified them all with Him.  When He died, you died; when He was buried, the old man was buried; when He rose, you rose, and when He was seated in heavenly places, the new you was seated with Him, in Him.  Notice the key to living and walking in the revelation:  know that your old man is crucified with him-–not he will be crucified, not he was crucified, but that he is!  You must have a present-tense knowledge of the old you as dead and the new you as alive!  Your old man was not washed up, cleaned up, or cleansed from sin-–no! he was put to death once and for all.  You must meditate on this fact–-see your old man on the cross, see him dead, see him buried forever.  He was not washed in baptism, he was drowned in baptism.  You no longer have to yield to sin; you are free from it (Romans 6:3)!  You can now live with Christ (Romans 6:8).

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived:  neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  And such were some of you:  but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

— 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

You may have been a sinner, you may have been an alcoholic, you may have been a drug addict, you may have been in sexual sin or a thief, but such were some of you.  You are no longer the old person.  The crucifixion killed what you were.  You are not a saved alcoholic; the alcoholic died!  You are not a recovering drug addict; the drug addict is dead!  You are no longer an angry man, an insecure man, a depressed man–-you were, but now you are a new man, washed!  Sanctified!  Justified!  Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!  You do not have to fight and struggle with old sin habits.  You do not have to try to overcome your faults.  They are no longer your faults-–they were the old man’s faults, the old man’s sin habits-–and he is crucified.  Whatever you claim to be, you will have to fight against.  If you claim to be angry, you will have to fight anger.  If you claim to be a sinner, you will have to fight to overcome sin.  There is nothing you can do to overcome sin, but you can believe that He already overcame sin for you.  I am not a sinner but a righteous person by the Blood.  No longer dirty and filthy, but washed and made whole.  Do not think on what you were, but meditate on who you are and the old man will stay crucified.

I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

— 1 Corinthians 15:31

Paul gives us a key to a life of victory, miracles, and power demonstrations:  I die daily!  Notice he is not dying daily, not putting himself to death, but he dies daily--he remembers that the old man with the old nature is dead, daily.  He had a present-tense revelation that he was dead, day by day.  This gave the new man with the new Christ-like nature the opportunity to live.  He was not trying to control his old nature or overcome his old nature, but he was disclaiming and denying the old man.  He considered him dead and gone-–daily!  Paul remembered daily “I am dead to sin, sickness, worry, fear, anger, and offense.”  He was so sure of the old man’s death that he said in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:” He prayed that Christ would be magnified in his body (Phil.1:20), and said for him (Paul) to now live was Christ (Phil. 1:21)!  Paul was yielding to and allowing the new man to live his life.  Daily he remembered that the old man died and a new life was being manifested through him.  It pleased God to reveal the Christ nature that was in Paul so Paul could preach Him to us (Gal. 1:15, 16).  Why?  So we too could get a revelation-–a revelation of the old man crucified and the new man manifested in our mortal body.  God’s desire = for us to live, is Christ!

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.   — I Peter 1:23

Everything on earth has a beginning.  Every plant, every animal, every person came from a seed.  Every seed will produce after its own kind.  An apple seed will produce an apple tree; a dog seed will reproduce another dog.  An apple seed cannot produce an orange tree; the seed of a dog cannot produce a cat.  Every seed produces after its own kind.  When you were born again, you were born of a seed.  That seed was not a failure seed, a sick seed, a weak seed, but the incorruptible seed-–the Word of God!  God and His Word are one (John 1:1).  Therefore, we can conclude that you were born of God (John 1:13).  The seed of God Himself reproduced you as a brand-new creation spiritually at the new birth.  What kind of seed is the seed of God?  Sick seed?  Insecure seed?  Sin seed?  NO!  It's a seed that contains the life and nature of Almighty God!  That which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of Spirit is spirit, that which is born of God is God – you have been born into the image and likeness of Almighty God, with His divine nature in you.  You can now claim that nature and your new identity and live in the victory that belongs to you!  You are born of God!