You may remember that our purpose in setting forth the present discussion of the sixth chapter of Romans is to point out the error of the current Evangelical position. The current position is that since we have been crucified with Christ and our sin has been judged on the cross we need not be anxious about our behavior. We shall never hear anything negative at the Judgment Seat of Christ because our sins were judged and done away on the cross.

However, this interpretation is by no means a satisfying conclusion from the study of the sixth chapter of Romans.

If the present position is a correct interpretation, where would one place Romans 6:19 (above)?

Before we were Christians we were the slaves of ever-increasing lawlessness and wickedness. Now we are to present ourselves as slaves of righteousness righteousness that leads to holiness. Apart from holiness no person shall ever see the Lord!

We could reason that while this is true, and we ought to be righteous in order to please God, even if we don't present ourselves as slaves of righteousness it remains true we are without condemnation because our sins were judged and removed on the cross.

This in fact is the current position. We are saved by an incorruptible grace that cannot possibly be affected by our behavior.

However, the sixth chapter of Romans does not at all accept this reasoning. The sixth chapter of Romans states that if we choose to not become the slave of righteousness and continue to present the members of our body as the slave of wickedness we will die spiritually. This conclusion is repeated in Romans 8:13.

The interpretation stating that even though we do not do what the Apostle commanded we will suffer no truly fatal consequences is nothing more nor less than Satan saying once again, "You shall not surely die."

The Evangelical position that we shall not surely die even though we do not choose to present our members as the slave of righteousness has destroyed the moral character of the majority of believers. The light has gone out. The secular realm is in darkness because only Christ in the Church is the Light of the world.

It is time for those who are willing to accept the teaching of Paul, in the sixth chapter of Romans, to proclaim to everyone who will listen that we have a generation of deceived Christians. God is not pleased! Destruction will follow in the near future if there is not a wholesale turning to God in the United States of America.

If you have a small child you may notice evidences of unusual spiritual insight.

Your four or five-year-old may astonish you with talk about the Kingdom or about Jesus that you would expect from older young people. This is because our generation has failed God in the area of righteous behavior and God is turning to the next generation.

The best we can do now is to serve as a Joshua or Caleb and train up the child in the righteous ways of the Lord. It is time for the new generation to cross over the Jordan, so to speak, and begin to take the land for God.

Future leaders are being born and this is why Satan is so anxious to have the babies aborted and to promote the barren practice of homosexuality. We see Satan trying to destroy children at the time of the birth of the baby Moses and also the baby Jesus.

If we adults will turn to the Lord we will raise up the generation of which it is prophesied they will praise the Lord. But if we do not we and our children may be vaporized in atomic war and God will wait for yet another generation.

God shall have people who will take the Kingdom no matter how long He has to wait.

How about you? Do you want to argue doctrine or get busy and start living in righteousness and holiness? If you will turn to the Lord now, today, you will save yourself and those who hear you. But if you do not, you and those depending on you are facing rough sledding in the future.

And the "rapture" may be too late to spare you and your household just as it has been too late to save the thousands of Christians in other countries being tortured and murdered on the day you read this essay.