It is of God that all the born again Christians are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification (holiness) and redemption (glory) (see 1 Cor. 1:30).
All the believers in Christ are part of the church, and God’s purpose for the church is first that it would have the sonship so that He may be expressed corporately, and secondly that the multifarious wisdom of God may be displayed to the enemy through the church, thus dealing with and subduing Satan.
How can God’s multifarious wisdom be expressed through the church? It’s by Christ becoming wisdom to us from God: He Himself is God’s wisdom, and He came to regenerate us according to His righteousness, sanctify us according to His holiness, and redeem our mortal body according to His glory.
At the time of our regeneration, Christ became the wisdom of God to us as our righteousness (for our past, in our spirit).
Throughout our Christian life Christ is the wisdom of God to us for our sanctification through our transformation with the divine we have received (for our present, in our soul).
Eventually, Christ will be wisdom to us from God for the redemption of our mortal body to saturate it with the divine life and glorify it in His glory for His corporate expression (for the future, in our body).
Daily, we need to experience Christ as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We were put into Christ at the time of our regeneration, and Christ today is the wisdom of God to us.
In a very present, practical, and experiential way we can enjoy the transmission of Christ as the wisdom of God to us. As we call on the name of the Lord and pray-read His word, we become righteousness; we’re exposed of how unrighteous we are, and we take Christ as our righteousness all the time.
When we exercise our spirit and live not in the self but in the spirit by calling on the name of the Lord, we are sanctified from anything common and God’s holy nature saturates us.
Through calling on the name of the Lord, God’s divine life increases in us until we ourselves are terminated, Christ is replacing us, and we are being brought back to God as being one with Christ fully in our spirit, soul, and body. Hallelujah, Christ is the wisdom of God to us to experience and enjoy daily!
Daily Experiencing Christ as Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption
One of the many wonderful things that happened to us at the time of receiving the Lord Jesus into our heart as our Lord and Savior is that God put us into Christ. Every genuine believer is a person in Christ, and Christ is wisdom to him from God as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
This expression “wisdom TO US FROM God” doesn’t speak of something that happened once for all but indicates something present, practical, and experiential, something in the way of transmission.
Today Christ should continually flow from God to us and be our present and practical wisdom in our experience. The wisdom in 1 Cor. 1:24 and 30 denotes the divine way spoken of the Lord in John 14:6. Christ is the way = Christ is the wisdom of God.
For us to enter into the Father and be one with God, Christ is the way, the reality, and the life. To enjoy God and participate in Him, we must have a way, and this way is God’s wisdom; Christ is God’s wisdom and God’s way, and He is righteousness, sanctification, and redemption for us to experience day by day.
You could say that there’s a “freeway into God”, which is Christ Himself, and this freeway is constructed with the materials of righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. When we experience Christ as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, we are brought into God.
All throughout our Christian life, we are on a journey not to “heaven” but into God; our destination is God Himself and our way into God is Christ as the wisdom of God to us.
Daily, we need to enjoy the present, practical, and experiential transmission of Christ as the wisdom of God to us.
Experiencing Christ as Righteousness by Calling on the Name of the Lord
When we exercise our spirit and call on the name of the Lord, we experience Christ as righteousness and we even become righteousness.
The Lord is rich to all who call on Him, and all those who call on the name of the Lord are saved (see Rom. 10:12-13). When we first say, Oh Lord Jesus, save me! I repent… – we are saved.
Then, throughout our Christian life, whenever we exercise our spirit and call on the name of the Lord, we are being organically save and we experience Christ as our righteousness, becoming God’s righteousness in Him.
Never graduate from calling on the name of the Lord, no matter how “mature” you think you are in life. Calling on the name of the Lord causes us to be organically saved in the divine life all the way from regeneration to glorification.
Experiencing Christ as Sanctification by Living in the Spirit and Calling on the Lord
In our Christian experience, the more we exercise our spirit and call on the name of the Lord, the more we are separated from what is common and from being common ourselves, and the more we are sanctified unto God.
We shouldn’t live in the self or the flesh but live in the spirit, exercising our spirit to call on the name of the Lord Jesus and pray-read His word. Then, Christ will become our enjoyment, nourishment, and supply in a very practical way, and we will be separated unto God and saturated with God’s holy nature.
Again and again throughout the day we should spiritually breathe by calling on the name of the Lord, and we will be sanctified in all our being, living, speaking, attitude, and work.
May we be those who do not live in the self or in the flesh but in the spirit by calling on the name of the Lord!
Experiencing Christ as Redemption by being Terminated, Replaced with Christ, and Brought back to God
As seen in the meaning of redemption in the Old Testament, redemption includes three matters: termination, replacement, and being brought back to God. When we repent and believe into the Lord, God redeems us: He terminates us, replaces us with Christ, and brings us back to Himself.
In our Christian life, however, many times we realize that we still are so much in the old creation; God’s light in His word exposes us, we see and hate ourselves, and we confess our need to be further terminated, replaced with Christ, and brought back to God.
This is the actual process of transformation in which our old element is terminated and replaced with Christ Himself as the new element in resurrection.
Day by day we need to experience Christ as redemption by allowing God to terminate us, replace us with Christ, and bring us back to Himself in Christ and with Christ for His satisfaction.
Oh, Lord Jesus! Oh, Lord Jesus! We call on Your name to experience You as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Lord, we confess that we are so wrong, so unrighteous, so common, and so much in the old creation. We take You as our righteousness. We call on Your name and we choose to live in spirit so that we may be sanctified and saturated with God. Lord, replace us with Yourself and bring us back to God in Christ! Keep us enjoying the continual transmission of Christ as the wisdom of God to us!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, bro. Ed Marks’ sharing in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-Study of 1 Corinthians (msg. 13), as quoted in, the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Vision, Practice, and Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, week 2 / msg 2, God’s Purpose for the Church (2) – To Subdue God’s Enemy by Displaying His Multifarious Wisdom through the Church.
- Picture credit for 1 Corinthians 1:24 and more spiritual quotes via, Christian Pictures Blog.
- Hymns on this topic:
# We have seen Christ is reality: / But it’s not sufficient just to see: / He in our experience must be / Everything to us. / We in prayer behold Him face to face, / In the Word and meetings know His grace; / But in daily life, in every place, / What is He to us? (Hymns #1178)
# We will call upon the Lord, who’s worthy of our praise; / Thus our grateful hearts in worship we to Him may raise. / We are those who call upon His name in every place / With all the saints who from a pure heart call and taste His grace. (Hymns #1083)
# To share with Thee Thy life divine, / Thy very likeness to be mine, / Since Thou hast made my nature Thine, / Christ crucified, I come. / To be what Thou wouldst have me be, / Accepted, sanctified in Thee, / Through what Thy grace shall work in me, / Christ crucified, I come. (Hymns #1049)
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O Lord Jesus! When we first heard the gospel and received Christ by calling upon His name, He became to us the righteousness of God. Now as we call upon His name, enjoying and experiencing Him as our life and life supply, we are being sanctified unto to Him. Finally we are also enjoying some glorification of our bodies, even thou this will be experienced fully with the glorification of our new bodies, in corruption. In this way, of being made the righteousness of God, of being sanctified unto God and of being glorified by Him, Christ, is the power of God and the wisdom of God, to us. Calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus is a way to breath Him into us. Just as we never stop breathing in our human life, nor should we stop breathing the Lord’s name in prayer. When we call we receive the person of that name and He, Christ, becomes everything to us. Whatever we need, whatever situation we are in, Christ is our supply of resurrection life to us, even to the glorification of our bodies. May we continue to enjoy, experience and express Christ, who is our life and for our living. Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God to us, as the way. Amen.
Amen,salamat sa Iyong salita na laging nagpapa alala,oh halelluja Lord Jesus.
Praise the Lord! We need You as our daily nutrition to nourish our spiritual life. Experiencing You day by day. Amen