The monumental error in Evangelical thinking is that the blood of Jesus keeps us righteous whether or not we are walking in the light and undergoing the program of exchanged life. This point of view is totally unscriptural. It is only as we follow the law of the Spirit of life that the blood keeps atoning for our sin. The blood of Jesus is not a ticket to Heaven! Divine grace is not an eternal, unconditional amnesty! You can blow the program. Please don't try to prove me wrong.

The new covenant does not consist of our obeying the Apostles. But it is only as we obey Christ and His Apostles that we enter the new covenant.

The part of our personality that has been formed from the Divine Nature of Christ does not sin. Christ does not sin and that which is born of Him does not sin.

Our goal is to be filled with Christ. Then we have attained the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

When we die there probably will still be some of the old sin in us. Whatever there is in us will be removed by the Lord. To those who look for Him will He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. The salvation is the removal of whatever sin still resides in us.

Those who are walking in the light, obeying God in all that they know, are the overcomers. An overcomer simply is a believer who is doing all he knows to do. That is all there is to it!

One can see at a glance that some overcomers will die after a short Christian life and Christ will have to remove a great deal of sin from them if they are to receive the rewards assigned to the overcomer sin they did not live long enough to gain the victory over. Or perhaps they simply had not been taught that there was such a thing as a program of deliverance from sin.

We are not including here the average American church-attender who is neglecting his or her salvation in favor of attending to the materialism of our culture. That individual will not escape the wrath of Christ whether or not he or she has taken the four steps of salvation!

Is there a difference between the victorious saint who has had many years to achieve the new creation and the victorious saint who has had little opportunity to achieve the new creation? In both instances the Lord will remove the power and presence of sin from them and give them a body of indestructible eternal life.

Yes, there is one great difference and it will no doubt be reflected in the capabilities of the body they receive and also in their position in the Kingdom of God.

The difference is that the saint who has spent many years gaining the victory over sin has had developed in him or her a conquering spirit, a wall against sin. These are God's rulers and they have suffered! They will govern the creation.

The saint who has had but a short time or little teaching will probably never throughout eternity have the opportunity to develop a conquering spirit. But he will have sin removed from him and will receive a body of life. He will be totally pleased with his position in the Kingdom.

To be continued.