If Christ is in us, is being formed in us, is dwelling in us, there is an actual (de facto) righteousness, an actual eternal Life dwelling in us. Our righteousness no longer is only an assigned (de jure) righteousness. There is an actual righteousness of personality and behavior dwelling in the new creation being formed in us.

If we keep on serving righteousness, tending carefully to the growth of the Divine Life in us, putting to death through the Spirit of God the impulses of our body and our fleshly, human, soulish, self-centered reasonings, we will live in God's sight being filled with God's own Life.

The creating of eternal life in us is leading toward the hour when the inner salvation can be extended to include our mortal body. This is what is signified by deliverance from "the body of this death" (Romans 7:24). Paul was seeking the gift of eternal life—the redemption of his mortal body.

And not only they [the material creation], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:23)

The bringing of Divine Life into our flesh and bones is the climax of the Christian salvation. The redemption of the mortal body will take place when the Lord returns from Heaven. If we hope for the redemption of our body when the Lord returns we must follow the Holy Spirit in putting to death the sins of the flesh and by allowing the Spirit to crucify our self-life so Christ may reign freely in us.

The redemption of the mortal body shall not take place for those who have continued to walk in their lusts and self-will, even though they name the name of Christ.

Believers who continue to live according to the appetites and impulses of their soul and flesh shall experience a resurrection to contempt and corruption.

It may be true there is no truth of the Scriptures more in need of being broadcast in our day than that concerning the effect of our daily life on our resurrection from the dead. We are going to reap what we have sown. We wash the robe that will clothe our resurrected flesh and bone as we confess our sins and turn away from them.

When we are revealed before the Judgment of Christ we will receive the things done in our body during our lifetime on the earth.

There is a strong wind of "compassion" blowing in the Western nations. But it is not God's compassion, it is Satan hoping to arm mankind against the idea that he and his angels must spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.

America and many of the other "Christian" nations are deceived. People commit heinous acts of violence against other people. Yet we are supposed to be "compassionate" toward them. This is not God, it is a misdirected attempt to "be like Jesus" or to exercise the ungodly, anti- Christian ideas of Humanism.

To be continued.