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To give thanks to God through Christ, our Lord.

Who is it that delivers us from being compelled to think, speak, and act in a sinful and rebellious manner, from being forced to behave differently from what we desire in our mind and heart? It is Christ.

When and how does Christ deliver us from being forced to sin against our will?

The moment we receive Him He provides us with the power to choose not to sin.

For sin shall not have dominion over you [shall not rule over you]: for ye are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14).

It is the power of the Spirit of God operating on the basis of the authority of the blood of Jesus that enables us to put to death the deeds of our physical body.

For if ye live in the appetites of 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).

When the Lord Jesus Christ appears in the clouds of glory He will bring with Him our "house which is from heaven." That "house," which is being fashioned from incorruptible resurrection life, will clothe our mortal body, swallowing it up in life. Being clothed with life will totally, utterly, destroy from our flesh every particle of the law of sin. This is the white robe of righteous conduct being formed now before the Throne of God as we sow to righteous conduct in our present mortal body.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith (Galatians 5:5). For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (II Corinthians 4:17).

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (I Corinthians 15:44).

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).



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