How did the resurrection open the door to be made alive to Christ? Let’s open the Scriptures and allow the Spirit of God to make this new life we have real to us. In Romans 6 Paul writes: “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. … For one who has died has been set free from sin.” Romans 6:5-7 * What does it mean in 1 John 5:15 where it says ask, then you will receive? * What does Mark 9:40 mean? “Whoever is not against us is for us.”