A Crisis Moment

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Now we move with Paul into Romans 8. Here he comes right out with who he is. What he said he had “reckoned” on in Romans 6:11, he now
says he “realizes” (Rom. 8:2). The governing principle, “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” has set him free. So there is a settled
knowing. In “reckoning,” you say it is so; in “knowing,” you know it is so. There is a crisis moment. The lives of the great men of the Bible—Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, right through— to Jesus Himself—bear witness to this knowing.

So do I know? And how do I know? I began my new knowing at my new birth, and the Spirit bore witness. Now this is a total knowing. If you have seen this change through Calvary, from being Satan-Sin-indwelt and Satan expresser to now being Christ-indwelt and Christ expresser, then be sure you have spoken the word of faith and recognition, as Paul did. “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” he says, “has set me free.” And in Galatians he proclaims, “I have been crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”

Say your word now, and say it to someone else! Then what you say echoes back in you, and you know (1 John 5:10). Maybe you cannot yet
give a date for when you received that knowing, just as I mentioned about Pauline and myself. Only be sure not to pull back, if you do not yet know. What you have said, you have said. You stand on such a word as Galatians 2:20 or Romans 8:2, and God in His time makes you a knower.