 Matthew 7, 24 says that to everyone who hears my words and acts upon them will be compared to a wise man who built his home on a rock. If you believe God raised Jesus from the dead, then you must believe that he died on the cross and made it possible for you to remove the sin nature from you. Second Corinthians 5, 17 says that if you are in Christ, then you are a new creation and old things are passed away. Meaning you have died to the old nature. You buried it with Christ.