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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Death, or Life? continued
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; (Deuteronomy 30:15)
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
"Ye shall die." What does this mean, "ye shall die"?
We have established that "ye" is referring to Christians. Is Paul saying that if Christians live after the flesh they will die physically? Of course not! Christians will die physically whether or not they live after the flesh.
If we are a Christian our physical body is dead, cut off from God, because there is sin dwelling in it. But our new born-again inward nature is alive because of righteousness. The righteousness of the Law of Moses has been ascribed to our inward nature because we are choosing to obey a new law, the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Righteousness always is followed by eternal life.
Our body is spiritually dead. Our new inward nature is spiritually alive because it is righteous. It is righteous because the righteousness of Christ has been imputed to it. The righteousness of Christ has been imputed to it because it trusts in Christ and is walking after the Spirit of God.
Numerous believers of our day are not walking after the Spirit of God. They are living after the flesh. Therefore, the righteousness of Christ is not being ascribed to them. The righteousness of the Law of Moses is imputed only to those who walk after the Spirit.
A spiritually dead body. A spiritually alive inward nature.
If the life of our inward nature depends on righteousness being imputed to us, then if we lose the imputed righteousness by not following the Spirit of God our inward nature dies. If our inward nature dies and the Spirit of God no longer is dwelling in us, then our mortal body will not be made alive by God's Spirit in the day of resurrection. This is what Paul is saying in Romans 8:13.
If all of this is true, and it is, then the kind of resurrection from the dead we are going to have is being directly affected by the kind of life we are living today.
There is no truth of the Scriptures more lacking than that concerning the impact of our life today on the kind of resurrection we will experience in the Day of the Lord. The trumpet needs to be blown in Zion!
To be continued.