Rom 6:2 (Separation of the Sin Nature from Believer)

{Just a footnote: What the veil is and symbolizes in the temple and the heart of a Believer}
*In the Tabernacle and Temple of God, the veil was a temporary curtain that was hung to separate man from the presence of God (in the Holy of Holies). This was the place where the presence of God would come down and abode with the High Priest.

In effect, the Veil is a type of man being evicted from the Garden of Eden at the Fall of man from God's Perfection that he was intended to begin and grow in. Since God cannot be around sin, man was separated from the presence of Almighty God, thus the need for the veil in the temple from the "Holy of Holies," where the presence of God would descend and abode there on top of the Mercy Seat.

*When Christ died on the Cross, the scripture says that the veil of the temple was rent, (therefore giving access to us as Believers to the presence of God, which no man had beforehand). The Word says that the veil of his flesh was rent (He is again, talking about when Christ was smitten, and pierced on the Cross...His body was the "Temple or Tabernacle of God.") All because of what Christ has done for us on the Cross.} The reason that the Veil was now rent in the temple, (again, this is a type and indication physically of what has happened spiritually for mankind), we are not given access by Jesus (Our Perfect High Priest), who was the only One Holy to walk the face of the planet earth and be presented to God as the Perfect Sacrifice for sin.

ok, having said that:

One of my fav commentators says that when the Believer receives Christ into their heart, there is a circumcision of the heart that takes place. the heart of man is separated from the sin nature, ad Jesus Christ is placed on the throne of the Believer's heart instead.

He gives an illustration of a floor lamp connected to a wall outlet. if you cut the connection between the sinner and the evil nature, he ceases to function as a sinner.

The change is this: after conversion, the believer has the desire to live unto God, not to sin. before conversion, the sinner was a compulsive sinner. Before Salvation, the evil nature had absolute dominion over the sinner. Since Salvation, we now have absolute dominion over it.

Here is a KEY: ***WE MUST BELIEVE THIS, CONDUCTING OURSELVES AS A CHILD OF GOD.*** Just as a Believer has the power over a tv, to turn it off when there is something being shown that is not suitable for a Believer to watch, so does this Believer have the power over the sin nature.

Another KEY here is to: Identify the Sin Nature when failure and sin are taking place,
and to pray about it...bringing it to the One that can do something about it (because we can do nothing apart from Christ's help), and allow the Holy Spirit to work in those areas to change us progressively. That is part of the sanctification process, (which we will not get into yet, but at some other time).

Doing it ourselves will always result in ultimate and total failure and greater iniquity will be the outcome. WORKS PRODUCE FAILURE, and failure is a result of man's attempt to cover up his sin.

John Gill had some interesting nuggets to share on this topic as well:

He defined death as: "there is death for sin, a death in sin, and a death to sin. to be dead TO sin means: that they are both justified and sanctified.

*justified persons are dead to sin; discharged from it, Not to have condemnation & death imputed (put in) to them. it is (sin) crucified, abolished, and made an end of by Christ.

*sanctified persons are dead to sin; sin is not made their business, not the course of their life, is no longer pleasurable to them-but loathed & abominable-it is looked at as an ENEMY."

this was my favorite thing that he said about the sin nature being in us, but we are cut off from it. he says, "though sin may live in them, they do not live in sin anymore." So brilliantly spoken!