Our Greatest Need Ron Spear - The Eternal Gospel Church

56 OUR GREATEST NEEDTrue Righteousness by FaithBy His death, Christ first reconciles us to God and then, by His lifeHe saves us:For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled toGod by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled,we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:10.When we die daily with Christ, He lives His life in us:I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in theflesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, andgave himself for me. Galatians 2:20.Christ living His life in us is our hope of glory. See Colossians 1:27.Jesus Christ is everything to us—the first, the last, thebest in everything. Jesus Christ, His Spirit, His character,colors everything; it is the warp and the woof, the very textureof our entire being. The words of Christ are spirit andlife. We cannot, then, center our thoughts upon self; it is nomore we that live, but Christ that liveth in us, and He is thehope of glory. Self is dead, but Christ is a living Saviour. TheFaith I Live By, 150. All emphases supplied unless otherwisenoted.With true daily conversion our nature is replaced by that of Christ’s.We then find eternal life in the obedience which Christ works out in usday to day through our faith in His transforming power:It is the privilege of every believer in Christ to possessChrist’s nature, a nature far above that which Adam forfeitedby transgression. He who sees the Son by faith and believesin Him, is obedient to the commandments of God, and inthis obedience he finds everlasting life. The Upward Look,18.The active obedience of Christ clothes the believing sinnerwith the righteousness that meets the demands of the law.The Youth’s Instructor, November 29, 1894.