The Meaning of Being Conformed to His Death

What does it mean when the Scripture says, we are to be conformed to the death of Christ?  It could be assumed it speaks of our being crucified or sharing in a martyr's death for being a Christian.  In today's sermon we will review the first two questions we answered last week and finish by focusing on the third question which we did not have time to start.  First, we will review question one, what does it mean to be conformed to Christ's death.  We will define and illustrate the words conform and fashion.  Next, we will review the answer to the second question, what does it mean, He died to sin for all?  To help with this point we will read and examine the text from Romans 6:8-11.  Finally we will finish by carefully taking a look at the question, what does it mean to consider that the members of your earthly body are dead to sin.  To do this we will refer to the word's of the Apostle Paul in his letter to the church is Colossae in Colossians 3:1-11.