Please read the passage before the commentary
When does the word ‘if’ not introduce a conditional sentence? When it means since or because.’ The opening sentence of this reading does not mean that if you were not raised with Christ, you can do something else. It means “because you were raised with Christ.”
There are consequences to having been raised with Christ, just as there are consequences for those who have been born. A baby’s first breath comes at birth. A baby must grow and learn how to eat food and take care of the self.
So, too, there are consequences to having been raised with Christ. We were once dead, and our lives were rotten. Now we are raised to life again, to a new life. Now we must put aside the rotten things of our old life, things like immorality and impurity, passion, evil desire and greed. We must stop lying to one another because our lies lead us to discriminate against others. In this new life, there is neither Greek and Jew, stranger and citizen, circumcision and uncircumcision, Republican and Democrat, but Christ is all and in all.
Therefore, you and I are Christ; Active Duty and retired are Christ; Republican and Democrat are Christ; English speaker and foreign language speaker are Christ because Christ is all and Christ is in all. To maintain class distinction is to be lying to one another. Because we have been raised with Christ, we are supposed to remain with Christ and see Christ in all the rest of us.
It is not a question of whether we have or have not been raised with Christ. It is rather a statement that we have been raised with Christ and therefore we must live like Christ.