Section 9
relationships with others and even with material things. We may treat people unfairly, and we may fail to handle our material possessions properly. Therefore, to be righteous before God, we not only need to be washed—we also need to die. When we die, we are spontaneously justified. A proper Christian is one who has died with Christ and who conducts himself daily according to this fact. If a believer lives in a natural way, he will be unrighteous. But if he experiences the death of the cross, he will be righteous in everything, with everyone, and in every way.
GOD DISPENSING HIMSELF
We have laid stress on the fact that God's right eousness requires the death both of Christ and of ourselves. We were involved in the death of Christ. When He died, we died also, for we died in Him. This all-inclusive death was for the ful fillment of God's righteous requirements. Be cause God's righteousness has been satisfied, God is justified in dispensing Himself into His redeemed and crucified people.
God cannot dispense Himself into persons still living in their natural life, but can only dis pense Himself into those who have died. If you are still alive in a natural way, still living in sin