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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Goal, #3
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3—NIV)
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, (Ephesians 2:6—NIV)
Or don't you know all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (Romans 6:4—NIV)
When we were baptized in water we dramatized the fact that we have chosen to place our entire adamic nature on the cross with Christ.
How many churchgoers have placed their entire adamic nature on the cross with Christ? These are the genuine Christians. The remainder have never started on the path to the resurrection into eternal life in the body.
"But I believe!" Belief is only mental assent until it seeks Christ with its whole heart and obeys the commandments of Christ and His Apostles. Mental assent does not produce eternal life or salvation.
The only correct response to the Gospel is to assign our whole first personality to the cross with Christ.
Sometimes people pray for years for deliverance from spiritual bondages only to discover that the bondage continues. Deliverance from sin is the reward for doing what God has said. If we do not count that we are dead with Christ; if we do not present our body a living sacrifice; if we refuse to set aside our own life, take up our cross, and follow Jesus, then we have not started on the path that leads to eternal life in the body. And while we may experience some deliverance, there will be other bondages that are not broken. This may be because we have not done what God has commanded in His Word.
God will not do what He alone can do until we do what we can do.
God does not intend to deliver people so they can run about according to the desires of their flesh and soul.
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (Romans 6:4—NIV)
The purpose of assigning our first personality to the cross with Christ is that we may, by the power of God's Spirit, live a new life. The new life is one of righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God. If we really believe that we have been crucified with Christ, and have been resurrected with Him and ascended to the right hand of God in and with Him, this fact will be revealed in our behavior.
If we are not living a new life it is because we have not laid hold on the Christian salvation in the correct manner.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. (Romans 6:5—NIV)
When the Apostle Paul uses the term "resurrection" he is thinking primarily of the resurrection of the body. While it is true that we have a portion of eternal life now, in our inward nature, the whole purpose is that we will attain to the resurrection of the body.
To be continued.