15.17 WALK – Walk in newness of life

We have covered all the verses on “walk” in the book of Ephesians. It is clear that God wants us to walk as a new creation in Christ but the only way to do so is to first sit (rest) in our identity as a new creation in Christ. This is the New Covenant. Under the Old Covenant, they were poor old sinners trying to walk righteously to attain to righteousness. We are not under that system.

There are many other beautiful verses that cover the Christian “walk” in the Epistles. Though we are focusing on the book of Ephesians, I would like to divert from the book to share some of these verses. Romans 6 tells us that we should walk in newness of life – or to walk in the new life as a New Creation in Christ.

(Rom 6:4)
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.

Today, for some strange reason, the church focuses a lot on morality. Their focus seems to turn bad people into good people morally. That is the role of the law in all religions. That is not Christianity. True Christianity is about turning dead people to be alive in Christ. One can be moral and not saved. But when one is alive in Christ, morality follows automatically.

So the law based Christian focuses on keeping the Ten Commandments and keeping morality. But the grace based Christian focuses on the fact the he is a new creation – he died with Christ and is raised with Christ into newness of life.

If we try to walk in morality, we are most likely using our flesh. The law says, “Thou shall, Thou shall…” Keeping the law is through self-effort. But if we first learn how to sit in the revelation of the new creation, we can walk in newness of life by the power of the Spirit.

Right revelation leads to the right action. The secret on the following verse is to reckon yourself to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ. To sit is to have the right revelation of what happened on the cross.

(Romans 6:10-11)
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, RECKON yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.