As those Called by God, we need to Know and Experience Christ’s Power and Wisdom

As believers in Christ who are called by God, we are the called saints, and we need to know and experience Christ’s power and wisdom, for to us, those who believe, Christ as God’s power and wisdom flow unceasingly in the divine dispensing. Amen!

Praise the Lord for Christ crucified, who is both the power of God and the wisdom of God toward us who believe!

As long as we know, enjoy, and experience the crucified Christ, we have Christ as God’s power and wisdom being our experience and supply.

What does it mean for us to experience the crucified Christ? How can we experience the crucified Christ?

Is this experience so deep and profound that only some of the more mature saints can have and participate in?

Paul said that he preached the crucified Christ, who was a foolishness to the Gentiles and a stumbling block to the Jews, but to those who believe, this One is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

We all as believers in Christ need to know, enjoy, and experience the crucified Christ, even apply Him to our daily living.

The crucified Christ with all that He is, all He has, and all He has accomplished is in the Spirit, whom Christ became in His resurrection.

And this Spirit today is with our spirit, for Christ as the Spirit has joined Himself to us as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

We do not need to seek a deeper experience of something called “the crucified Christ”; we simply need to contact the Lord by exercising our spirit to call on His name.

When we call on the name of the Lord, we experience the crucified Christ.

When we’re about to do something or say something and we simply turn to our spirit and call on the name of the Lord, we enjoy and experience the crucified Christ.

And when we experience this One, we are terminated.

Our natural being is exposed and put to death, our self is shined on and denied, and our flesh is put to death – not by us trying to do this but by turning to our spirit so that the crucified Christ is our experience. Amen!

May we learn to call on the name of the Lord, Oh Lord Jesus, again and again!

As we remain in the calling on the name of the Lord, we enjoy the constant transmission of Christ as God’s power and wisdom toward us.

And this Christ is the crucified Christ, the One who delivers us from the self, the flesh, and the natural man, with all the ordinances and ways of doing things.

We will be freed in Christ, and He will have a way to live in us and express Himself through us.

As those Called by God, we need to Know and Experience Christ’s Power and Wisdom

Christ crucified is our experience only if we believe, that is, if we are called by God. As those who are called by God, we need to know and experience Christ’s power and wisdom.

1 Cor. 1:24 tells us that to those who are called, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

We are the called saints. As believers in Christ, we are the called ones; we did not call God first but He called us first.

Every saved one is a called one.

We didn’t initiate our salvation, nor did we initiate being a Christian; even though we may have been seeking the Lord or we may have had an inclination to read the Bible, it is God who saved us and called us.

God calls us and we are those who are called by God.

We as those who are called by God need to know and experience Christ’s power and wisdom.

1 Cor. 1:2 mentions “the called saints.” As believers in Christ, we are called saints; we are not called to be saints but rather, we are called saints.

God called us and we are called saints; this is a positional matter, a sanctification in position with a view to sanctification in disposition.

Thank the Lord that it was not us who called God but He who called us.

The difference between being a Christian and being in a religion is that, when you’re in a religion and see something of God, something that is good, you want to pursue that.

It all comes from you – you pursue something.

But to be a Christian means that God came to you, He appeared to you, and you just responded; it is something you saw of God and enjoyed of Him.

Christianity is not a religion that people can join because there are good things in it; the essence of Christianity is that God appears to us, He calls us, and we simply respond to Him.

Throughout our Christian life, our whole Christian living, is because of Christ, the One who calls us.

To call upon the name of the Lord implies to believe into Him (Rom. 10:14).

When we call on the name of the Lord, we are saved (Acts 2:21).

All believers in the Lord should be callers; we all need to be those who call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart in every place (Acts 9:14, 21; 22:16).

When we call on the name of the Lord, we receive His divine dispensing, and in this divine dispensing we receive Christ’s power and wisdom.

Christ’s power and wisdom is toward us who believe.

When we call on the name of the Lord, we realize that we are nothing, we are fragile, and we need the Lord.

This was Enosh’s realization; he realized the fragility of the human life and called on the name of Jehovah.

As believers in Christ, we saw something of Christ, we enjoyed something of Him, and we simply responded to Him.

Now we call on His name. As we call on Him, we acknowledge that Christ is everything to us.

We are believers in Christ; we have been chosen by Him and we believe into Him.

God chose us even before the foundation of the world, and now we believe into Him in time.

We have been called to call; we have been called by God to call upon the name of the Lord.

To those called by God, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Instead of trying to figure out how to solve the problems at hand, we need to call on the name of the Lord, and Christ’s power and wisdom will become ours. Amen!

Those who are called (1 Cor. 1:24) refers to the believers who were chosen by God in eternity (Eph. 1:4) and who believed into Christ in time (Acts 13:48).

We have been chosen by God in eternity and believed in Christ in time, and now we call on the name of the Lord, for we are the called saints!

To us, those who believe in Christ and call upon His name, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Amen!

May we remain with the Lord to receive His dispensing so that Christ’s wisdom and power may be transmitted into us all the time.

Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are the called ones, those who are called by God and chosen by Him! Amen, Lord, as those called by God we want to enjoy and experience Christ’s power and wisdom today! We call on Your name, Lord Jesus, and we open our whole being to You. We want to remain under Your divine dispensing day by day. Infuse us with all that You are. Keep us calling on Your name throughout the day. May we believers in Christ be the callers, those who call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart. May we call on the name of the Lord both personally and together with those who call on the Lord! Hallelujah, we have been called to call on the name of the Lord! Oh Lord Jesus! Praise the Lord, to those called by God, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God! Thank You, Lord, for choosing us in eternity and calling us in time for us to believe into You. Praise the Lord, we have now believed into Christ, and we can call on His name to enjoy and experience Christ’s power and wisdom!

Christ as the Power of God Strengthens us and Christ as God’s Wisdom is our Way

We believers in Christ can and should experience Christ’s power and wisdom. Christ crucified is the power of God for saving us and the wisdom of God for fulfilling His plan.

Power is the ability or strength to do something, and wisdom is the way to do that thing.

If we have wisdom, we will have the proper way to do things and carry out some activities; however, if we are not wise, our way of doing things will be foolish.

The divine way to do things is Christ as our wisdom.

This means that Christ who became wisdom to us from God in 1 Cor. 1:30 refers to Christ being the way in John 14:6.

Christ is our way; He is our wisdom. We need to experience Christ’s power and wisdom today.

The Lord said that He is the way; He is the way to God, He is the way to do all things, and He is the unique way.

We need to enjoy and experience Christ, and we will have Him as our way, our wisdom.

True wisdom comes from our enjoyment of Christ.

As we live in the mingled spirit day by day, even hour by hour, we have Christ as God’s wisdom toward us being transmitted to us.

As we exercise our spirit to call on the name of the Lord, we have Christ as our wisdom, our way of doing things.

Christ is first our power, our strength to do things, and then He is our way, our wisdom.

Christ is the power of God to carry out God’s economy, and He is also the wisdom of God, the way of God, to carry out God’s economy.

In 2 Cor. 4 Paul speaks of his own experience in the gospel and in serving the Lord.

He said that they are pressed on every side, but not constricted; unable to find a way out, but not utterly without a way out; persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed.

Many times we find ourselves in a similar situation, in a very complicated situation in our family life, our work life and even in the church life.

We are pressed, but we are not constricted.

We go through things in which we are unable to find a way out, but not utterly without a way out.

Sometimes we may go through things in which we think that this is the end of the road – there is no way out.

But we continue to call on the name of the Lord, for we are called saints.

We call on Him who is the way. He is the initiator, He called us, and He brings us to go through certain things.

Many times we are in situations where we seem to have no way out, but not without a way out – there still is a little opening. Somehow, the Lord is able to bring us through.

We are persecuted, but we are not abandoned, and we’re cast down, but not destroyed.

This is the experience of Christ’s wisdom and power, that is, the experience of the wisdom of God to be the way of God to carry out His economy.

Christ as the power of God strengthens us with a dynamic power, supplying us and sustaining us in what we are and what we do.

There’s an energy and an effective action in us as we call on the name of the Lord to experience Christ’s power and wisdom.

In Eph. 1:19 Paul prayed for us to see what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the operation of the might of His strength, which He caused to operate in Christ.

As we live for the Lord on the earth, we need power; even as Christ lived as a man, He needed the power.

There was a power which operated in Christ, and Paul also prayed that we would be empowered with this power.

In Eph. 3:14-16 Paul prayed that we would be strengthened with power by His Spirit into the inner man.

This power is not a natural power, making us strong and mighty; we need to be strengthened into our inner man to let Christ make His home in our hearts.

In all our circumstances and conditions, Christ as the power of God enables us to suffer, to bear burdens, and to stand firm.

As we live in this complicated world with so much corruption and so many negative things, we are children of God calling on the name of the Lord.

The age is becoming darker and darker, even worse and worse.

In the midst of all the complicated situations and the corruption around us, we need the power of God to enable us to suffer, to bear burdens, and to stand firm.

Christ sustains us to the point that we are unshakable; for this reason, Paul declared, I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me (Phil. 4:13).

He in us empowers us. Christ as the power of God is daily supplying us and sustaining us through His divine dispensing.

In all our situations, in the environment we are in, we can become unshakable and stand firm by remaining under the divine dispensing to enjoy Christ’s wisdom and power.

Christ as the wisdom of God flows unceasingly from God to us to be our present and practical wisdom in our experience (1 Cor. 1:24).

May we remain under the divine dispensing day by day!

Lord Jesus, may we see that Christ crucified is the power of God for saving us and the wisdom of God for fulfilling His plan. Hallelujah, Christ is our wisdom, for He is the way. Lord, we take You as our wisdom and our power today. You are our power and You are our wisdom. Amen, Lord, You are the power of God to carry out God’s economy, and You are the wisdom of God to carry out His economy! Amen, Lord, in all our situations and in the environment we’re in, we call on Your name. As we see that the age grows darker and corruption is more prevailing, we just call on Your name to remain under the divine dispensing! We want to enjoy Christ as the power of God so that we may be strengthened with a dynamic power! Amen, Lord, Supply us and sustain us in what we are in what we do. Sustain us to the point of being unshakable! Hallelujah, we are able to do all things in Christ who empowers us! Amen, Lord, may Christ as the power of God supply and sustain us daily through His divine dispensing!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3122-3123 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 15, God’s Power and God’s Wisdom.
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