Section 8
was to fulfill God's righteous requirements so that He could dispense Himself into us.
Suppose you would like to dispense juice into a glass, but you find that the glass is not clean. If you fill a dirty glass with juice, the juice will not be fit to drink. Hence, before dispensing the juice into the glass, you must first cleanse the glass. In like manner, before God could come into us, His Son became a man and died on the cross for us, shedding His blood to wash us from our sins. This enabled us to become cleansed vessels, ready to be filled with the Triune God. Before God could dispense Himself into us, we had to be washed in the blood of Christ. This is according to God's righteousness.
RIGHTEOUS BY DYING
We have pointed out that Christ died on the cross to fulfill God's righteous requirements. Now we must go on to see that God desires that we also go to the cross and die. If we are not cruci fied on the cross, God's righteous requirements cannot be fulfilled in us in a practical way. In the eyes of the righteous Father, nothing is more righteous than for us to die on the cross. If we die, we are righteous in every way. However, if we refuse to die, we have no righteousness in our