Here again Watchman Nee.
The divine way of liberation
It is God's clear intention that the expectations reflected in these lines of thought lead us to the practical liberation from sin. Paul makes this very clear, as he begins the sixth chapter of his letter with the following question: , Shall we continue in sin "His whole being shudders literally back from this thought: , God forbid, "he exclaims !. How could a holy God and unholy by sin-bound children to be happy! Therefore, he says: , as we should ... still live in it? " (Romans 6:1-2). God has certainly taken the best precaution that we can be freed from the dominion of sin.
But therein lies our problem. We were born sinners. How can we cast off our heritage of sin? What is the way out of this nature, after we realized that we were born in Adam? Let me assure you equal, that the blood of us can not get out of Adam. There is only one way out: Since we came into it by birth, we need to be re-released by death. In order to overcome our sinful nature, we have to end our lives. The binding to the sin was by birth, the recovery happens from sin through the death - and this is exactly the way paved by God. death is the secret of liberation. Romans 6:2 says that we are dead to sin.
How is it possible, however, that we die? Some of us have tried desperately to this sinful Life had to get rid of, but find that it is very persistent. So then how does the way out? The way out is not in trying to kill ourselves, but to recognize that God has already killed Christ. Paul understood this fact together in his following statement: ,,... that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus, are baptized into his death " (Romans 6:3).
If God but , in Christ Jesus " has taken away, we need to be in it, so this fact can be applied to us. This in turn seems as intractable To be a problem. As we come into Christ? At this point our God comes to help. In fact, we ourselves have no way to get into it, but what is even more important, we need to try not to, because we are already in it. What we ourselves do not accomplish for us was that God has done for us: He has placed in us into Christ. I would like to remind you of 1 Corinthians 1:30. I think ch, that this is one of the most beautiful verses in the entire New Testament. , from it (ie from God) but her are in Christ Jesus. " God is praised! Not us, he left it to us a way into it or imagine to prepare. not we have to break us over the head, as we get into it, God planned everything. And he did not plan it, he carried out his plan themselves. , are from him but you in Christ Jesus. " We are already in it. Therefore, we must strive not to get into it. God has acted, it is already done.
If that is true, it has some consequences. In the example in Hebrews 7, which we further discussed above, we saw that in Abraham all of Israel - was offering tithes to Melchizedek - and, even Levi, who was not yet born. The Israelites did not bring Melchizedek individually tithes, but they were in Abraham, when he was offering the tithe, which included so that its offering of his whole seeds. This example is therefore a wonderful image for the fact that we are in Christ. When the Lord Jesus died on the cross, we all died - although not individually, because we were not even born yet - but because we were trapped in it, we died in him. ,,... that one died for all and therefore all died " (2 Cor. 5:14). When he was crucified, we all were crucified with him.
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