Romans 8:13. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Romans 8:13. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
“To live is Christ” is not the end of morality. It’s the beginning. The indwelling life of Christ has given us the knowledge of good and evil through the shared life of Christ. We have, through grace, what we tried to earn in the Garden through effort. The Garden left humanity with knowledge but no life. In Christ, we have his life and his knowledge. We have his love and we know how to use it. The daily question is “will we?”
If all this sound like the same old rule following to you, it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s not law keeping to find love, it’s living out of love that has found us. It’s living as the new self. Living in “to live is Christ.”
“To live is Christ” is not the end of morality. It’s the beginning. The indwelling life of Christ has given us the knowledge of good and evil through the shared life of Christ.