Section 4
sons out of sinners to form the Body of Christ, God firstly had to take care of our past deeds. Do you still remember the things you did before you were saved? If you think that your past deeds were not bad, let me ask if you have ever stolen anything. When people tell me how good they are, I check with them about stealing. None of us can boast of our past. Since God cannot accept us as His sons with such an evil history, He had to take care of it.
God has dealt with not only what we have done, but also with what we are. Even after being saved, we are still not so good. We are all a prob lem to others. The wives are a problem to the husbands, and the husbands are a problem to the wives. The children are a problem to the par ents, and the parents are a problem to the chil dren. I am a problem to my neighbors, to my in-laws, and to my dear wife and children. Thank God that He takes care of what we are!
Christ's death on the cross deals with what we have done, and the resurrected Christ living in us deals with what we are. Through His death we have obtained righteousness, and we are there fore justified in the presence of God. By this, the problem of our past has been solved. Now Christ is living in us, working God's holiness into our