Romans 6:6

"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified (it's put to death) with him (Christ), that the body of sin (the controlling factor of old Adam) might be destroyed (or put out of commission, it has to have that power over us totally broken. No human endeavor can do that. Only the power of God can break the control of our old Adamic nature. We can't do it. Oh, to a degree maybe. With Godly parents and a good home life, we can teach kids a certain amount of restraint and teach them not to do certain things, but there comes a point in the best person's life when they're still going to give in to the control of old Adam. The only way we can be delivered is that Adam has to die), that henceforth we should not serve sin." God in a substitutionary manner died my death, He died your death in your place. Paul makes that plain in Galatians Chapter 2.


Galatians 2:20a

"I am crucified with Christ (do you see that? It's just as plain as it can be): nevertheless I live (Paul wasn't actually nailed to a Roman Cross, but he was crucified, and he's alive); yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:..."


That's called the new life. The new creation he speaks of in II Corinthians Chapter 5. We are a new creation. Why? Because old Adam has been put to death, he's crucified, his power over our daily behavior has been broken, and he's dead. And that's what Paul experienced when he said:


Galatians 2:20

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh (day by day, as we endure the things of this world) I live by the faith (or faithfulness) of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."