There we have the dead sinner raised to life--a new creation. Verse 10 tells us that "we

are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon good works (i.e. Christ's good works,

not ours, form the basis), which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them."

We are to walk in the works and merits of Christ. We are to work out that which has

been worked in; or, as Heb. 13: 21 puts it, "Make you perfect in every good work to do

His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight."

May the fact of a risen Saviour at the right hand of God, a life hid with Christ, a

glorified Head in heaven, our legal death with Christ here, our position as being "raised

together, and made to sit together in heavenly places" become more and more to us; and

so will the dead leaves and deadly ordinances of men fall and fade, leaving us standing

and walking by faith, not by sight, looking for that blessed hope of which, by grace, may

we seek to walk worthy.

I Cor.

8

1

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge

puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

I Tim.

4

3

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be

received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

2

20

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the

world, are ye subject to ordinances,

21

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

3

19

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind

earthly things.)

20

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus

3

2

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the

hearing of faith?

3

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

4

3

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

4

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made

under the law,

5

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

5

1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled

again with the yoke of bondage.

2

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

The reader may remember that in our previous articles we have briefly considered

sanctification and its connection with the atonement, and sanctification and its connection