We must learn to live by Him as He lives by the Father. We come to understand how important it is to dwell totally and consistently in Christ. It is those who eat His flesh and drink His blood who dwell in Him and He in them. It is those who will rise to meet Him in the first resurrection from the dead. Where the carcass (the slain Lamb) is, there the eagles (those who live by feeding on the slain Lamb) shall be.

Inside the Ark of the Covenant, along with Aaron's rod and the memorial jar of manna, were placed the two stone slabs inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments symbolize the transformed moral character of the Christian (Exodus 25:16; Hebrews 9:4).

Many times in the Scripture the Ten Commandments are referred to as the testimony. We Christians refer often to our testimony. One wonders if we do not miss a vital meaning of the word.

The testimony about which God is concerned is the moral law. When the moral law has been carved into our heart by the finger of the Spirit of God, and we have been renewed in God's moral image, then we become the new covenant—God's testimony to the world concerning His own Personality.

It is not what we say about Christ (although spoken words are essential), but what we have been made by God's working and what we do and speak through the Spirit, that are the true testimony of God. We attempt to testify for Christ, but it is what the Holy Spirit does in and through us that is the true Divine testimony.

God has commanded us to preach, to teach, and to exhort other people in the Word of Christ. But the Divine testimony, the testimony that is all important for the world to see and hear, is not only what we say about Christ and His love but also what we ourselves have become—the transformed moral nature.

The transformed character is something other people can see and experience in the saint. The righteous nature of the Christian is a true testimony of the Lord to the heavens and to the earth. Righteousness, holiness, and obedience of conduct run deeper than words spoken by Christians, although words are necessary in their place. When people see the good works of the saints they will glorify the Father in Heaven.

We are not claiming that good moral behavior alone on the part of the Church will save the unregenerate. God has ordained that the unsaved must be saved by accepting the atonement made by the Lamb of God on the cross. The preaching of the cross of Christ is God's provision for the unsaved.

The moral testimony of which we are speaking is the miracle of re-creation wrought in people by the working of forces that operate in the plan of salvation. The new life in Christ is a miracle of reconstitution of the person's entire personality and way of life. The miracle comes about by receiving the Divine Nature of God in Christ and by receiving the wisdom and power that come to us when we walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit of God.

The miracle of redemption is the re-making of the sons of Adam into the image of God. Redemption can be accomplished only by means of the Divine Life that comes to us from God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It cannot possibly be accomplished by the striving of human effort no matter how well-intentioned.

To be continued.