A Christian Under Law
When a Christian sins, transgresses the law, he is building up that which he has destroyed.
He is acting as though he were back under the law.
He is doing the deeds of the old man that has been crucified with Christ.
He is denying the resurrection life of Christ which is in him.
He is walking after the flesh and not after the Spirit.
He is back on the basis of working instead of resting in the finished work of Christ.
He is under the works of the law instead of the hearing of faith.
He is not standing fast in the freedom wherewith Christ has set him free.
There is but one thing to be done in order to get back at once under grace and the faith life,—confess the sin and take cleansing in the blood of Jesus. This is wholly of Grace; no Christian would be so foolish as to try to atone for his sin or to help the Lord Jesus do a complete work of cleansing.