Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

The function of the law of the divine life in us is to take away, to kill, the old element of Adam and to impart, or supply, the new element of Christ. When the law of the divine life works in our inward parts, it kills and takes away the old things of our natural being. The law of the divine life has the power to reduce all the negative things in our natural man. At the same time, it adds in and supplies the divine element of the new creation, bringing the risen Christ into our being. While it reduces the old element of Adam in us, it supplies the new element of Christ to us. While it takes away the old, it replaces it with the new. It performs a kind of metabolism in the Christian life and accomplishes the transformation of life for us.

- "Crucial Points in the Epistile to the Hebrews" PP8-9