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(2) BUT if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead with respect to sin; but the spirit is life with respect to

righteousness' (Rom. 8:10 Author's translation).

Here is another subject. It is one thing to have the new nature (Christ's spirit) and thus be His, but it is quite

another for Christ to be in us. If He is, in the sense intended here and more fully explained in the verses following,

then `the body is dead with respect to sin' - a statement which cannot be made with truth of every believer - and `the

spirit is life with respect to righteousness'.

Another problem now presents itself. While it may be true that the body is dead, and the spirit is life, yet, while

we are here in this life on earth, the only means and instrument of service that we possess are the members of that

body in which dwells no good thing. Romans 6 has already urged the believer to use these same members, which

once were yielded as instruments of unrighteousness, in the service of righteousness unto God. The lesson Romans

8 teaches is that the old energy, supplied by the old man under the law of sin and death, is now replaced by a new

energy, the new man, under the law of the Spirit of life:

`But if the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead

shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of the indwelling of His Spirit in you' (Rom. 8:11 Author's

The change of government indicated by these words is better seen when the passages which contain the words

`dwell in' are brought together:

`Now then it is no more I that work it out, but sin that DWELLETH IN ME' (Rom. 7:17 Author's translation).

`For I know that IN ME (that is, in my flesh) DWELLETH no good thing' (Rom. 7:18).

`Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that DWELLETH IN ME' (Rom. 7:20).

`... ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be spirit of God DWELLS in you' (Rom. 8:9 Author's translation).

`But if the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead DWELL in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead

shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of the INDWELLING of His Spirit in you' (Rom. 8:11 Author's

Again, this deeply important subject is epitomized for us in Galatians:

`For I through law am dead to law, that I might live unto God' (Gal. 2:19; Rom. 7:4 Author's translation).

`I have been crucified with Christ' (Gal. 2:20; Rom. 6:6 Author's translation).

`... nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I live by the

faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Gal. 2:20; Rom. 8:11).

Here we have all the parallels with Romans 8:11. The quickening of the mortal body because of the indwelling

Spirit of resurrection is now, as Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 4:10,11 testify. We are not debtors to the flesh, to

live after the flesh, for just as Galatians 6 warns us that to sow to the flesh is to reap corruption, so here to live after

the flesh is to die (Rom. 8:13). For `if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live' (Rom.

8:13). The mortification of the deeds of the body is the echo of the crucifixion of the old man, that the body of sin

might be rendered inoperative. It is the mark of sonship to be led by the Spirit of God:

`For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear' (Rom. 8:15).

This was the condition which the Jew had under law:

`... who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage' (Heb. 2:15).

`But ye have received the spirit of full-grown sons, whereby we cry, Abba, Father' (Gal. 4:6 Author's

This present `adoption', a word meaning much more than is conveyed by the term to English ears (see Galatians

for meaning of the term), is an earnest and a pledge of a future `adoption'. Here, in this life, we receive the spirit of

adoption, but it is evident from Romans 6 and 7, and the verses of 8 already considered, that the body, which has

played so prominent a part in the tragedy of sin, shall have a place in the triumph of grace: