"neither yield your
members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as
alive from among the dead and your members instruments of righteousness to
God" (Rom. 6.13 Darby).
This is the essential element of consecration. If
we persist in holding on to something which God wants us to relinquish, sin
shall have dominion over us, and our reckoning shall be futile. If we fail to
yield our members as godly instruments of righteousness to speak and do what He
desires and go where He directs, should we be surprised we are not yet
delivered from sin! Whenever we refuse to relinquish or we offer resistance to
God, sin shall return to its dominion. Under such circumstances we naturally
lose the power to reckon, that is, to believe God's Word. In our ceasing to
exercise faith and to reckon, can we still be said to be positionally in
Christ? Yes, but we are living no longer in Him according to the sense of the
"abide in me" of John 15. Accordingly we are unqualified to
experience what is factual in Christ, even our crucifixion!
Jesus said:
John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
