Sincere Truth

We were once alive apart from the Law, but once the Law came; sin came alive in us and we died. When the Law came; sin which lies within our members deceived us and when we partook, we died. The Law did not bring death to us, but rather it exposes the extent of that which is in us. If we do in the flesh what we do not want to do in accordance to our life now in Christ, we show the Law to be good and the nature of sin at work in our members. Know that if you are in Christ you have been raised in Him and no longer enslaved to sin. It is still within your flesh, but you have been set free in Christ. Know that nothing good resides in the power of our flesh, and that though we have the desire to do what is right, yet all that we do will be tainted by the flesh if done apart from Christ in us.

Though we now delight in the Law in our inner being, we are conscience still of the sin which wages war within us. We are truly wretched, deserving of death and in need of a savior, which is Christ our Lord. Christ continually cleanses us from the penalty of sin, so that though we are at war, we have through His blood the power to overcome whatever accusation are thrown at us; that we might move on and grow as He transforms us each day in Himself. Not looking back at what we did in the flesh, but looking forward to where we are in Christ. If we are in Christ, yet do the very things we don't want to do, we are no longer the ones doing it, but sin which dwells within our members. We find then the principle that evil is present in us, that though we want to do what is good we are unable to do so apart from Christ who is to be our all in all onto salvation, justification and sanctification.

We must come to see our source of life to be wholly in Christ. Our flesh will always lead us to destruction and separation from the purpose of God in our lives. Do we not see ourselves as part of His body? As those who are now set free to walk and live according to the measure of His power over death and His ability to know good and evil, yet not be in bondage to sin. Again we are not to find our source of life in our flesh which is perishing. We are instead called to renew our minds and turn in repentance through the knowledge of Christ Jesus, which comes through the putting off of the old man each day and walking in faith onto eternal life in Him.

We need to let go of the desires of the flesh to make itself right and fix that which is broken in it. This is nothing but the flesh and its desire to save itself. Know that our flesh is merely a tent which houses us within this time and space, and that which will one day face corruption in death. Instead of trying to fix it, let us rather put it into submission as to the will of the Lord by trusting in Him alone. In this way we might walk no longer according to its will, but in Christ in whom we are now hidden by the grace of God who placed us in Him.