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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Sabbath, #4
Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. (Romans 6:13—NIV)
Under the new covenant adultery is treated in an entirely different manner. This is because we Christians are not of a piece. We have given over our adamic nature to be crucified with Jesus Christ on the cross. We now count ourselves risen with Christ and positioned at the right hand of God.
We now are two persons. We have an old, adamic nature, and we have a new nature born again of Jesus Christ.
This duality of personality was not true of anyone prior to the resurrection of Christ because no individual was born again prior to the resurrection. Jesus Christ remains the First of the new creation.
Because of the duality of our personality we are in a struggle for eternal life. Our old adamic nature is dead because of sin. Our new nature is alive because it has been born of God and the righteousness of Christ has been imputed to it and dwells in it.
Therefore, adultery is seen in an entirely new way. Instead of adultery being a transgression of the Law of Moses, the penalty for which was stoning, adultery is to be viewed as an action of our old, dead, crucified adamic nature. The adamic nature has come to life and the Law of Moses has authority over it and condemns it. Also, it is the entrance of death into our personality which is struggling to lay hold on eternal life.
As long as we repent and turn away from our sin, denouncing it, renouncing it, always resisting it by the help of the Holy Spirit, the blood of Jesus Christ forgives our sin. It also is true that we may suffer for the rest of our life because of our sin. God will chasten us severely just as He did King David, although God forgave David's sin.
One of the enormous errors of today's Evangelical teaching is that through the blood of Jesus we can "get away" with sin. Brother, Sister, let me tell you after 55 years as a Christian that no individual, especially the believer, gets away with sin. We who seek to live close to the Lord are judged more strictly than those who are afar off.
To continue in adultery is unthinkable for a Christian. Adultery is a wicked deed of the adamic nature and was condemned on the cross of Christ. To continue in adultery is to continue in death. To continue in adultery is to slay our own resurrection to eternal life.
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, (Romans 8:13—NIV)
Paul means by the above that if we, having received Christ, then live as though we were still in the flesh, behaving according to the passions and appetites of our flesh and carnal mind, we will kill our own spiritual nature. Then, when the Lord appears, we will not receive the redemption of our physical body.
To be continued.