should make a huge difference in our lives, and he offers us two strategies. The first, in verse 11, is to consider or take into account our new identity, the fact that we are dead to sin and alive to God. The second strategy, in verses 12–14, is to live out this new identity by choosing God over sin. Two pictures help us wrap our minds around what it means to choose God over sin. First, we are not to let sin rule as a king whom we are obligated to obey (v. 12). Second, we are not to offer the “members”