Again to quote Barth:

” That you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead,

that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

We encounter here that Other Who stands directly contrasted with the loftiest pinnacle

of human achievement which is the ‘living’ body of Christ, for we encounter -Him Who

was raised from the dead. For that Other we have been unfettered and set at liberty.

Beyond the evacuation in Christ of the achievement of religion- evacuation which is

fulfillment- we perceive in Him the power of obedience which is the power of obedience

which is the power of His Resurrection. In this final balance sheet, in which religion and

grace confront one another as death and life, our pardon is assured and we are enabled

to recognize the freedom of God,. Not as religious men do we obey the categorical

imperative; not as religious men do we become free from sin and servants to God; the fruits

unto sanctification, which God gathers into His barns, are not our religious thoughts and

desires and actions. Rather, we obey the imperative of God as men under grace; as men

standing within the peace of God which passes all understanding; as men who have passed

from death to life. So it is that St. Paul dares to address as brethren men who, like himself,

know the Law only too well. He addresses them thus, because they are not ignorant of their

unobservable establishment in God, which lies beyond the frontier of religion and is perceived

in the passing of Christ from Crucifixion to Resurrection.”

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR GRANTING US YOUR RESSURRECTION LIFE!