Become a Reproduction of Christ by Living Christ: We Live Christ and He Lives in us

We believers in Christ can become a reproduction of Christ as our model by experiencing Christ as the One living in us, being formed in us, and making His home in our hearts; we can live the same way He lived by living Christ, that is, by Christ living in us today.

The Lord Jesus Christ has laid out His life, His living, before us as a model for us to follow.

If we read the Gospels we are amazed at the kind of living He had, for He expressed God, He lived the life of a God-man, and He was fully one with God in all that He did.

And He told us to learn from Him. Peter tells us that the Lord Jesus’ life is a model for us to follow in His steps.

How wonderful it is that we today can live even as He lived, expressing Him!

But how do we express the Lord? Should we imitate Christ by trying to be like Him? Should we merely say what He said, do what He did, and walk as He walked?

Is this something that has to do with our own effort, or should this something that comes from within?

As believers in Christ, we should live the same way as Christ did by becoming His reproduction.

We don’t have to copy Christ or imitate Him outwardly; we have to live one spirit with Him so that He may live in us in our daily living.

How can we live a Christian life under the government of God? If we look at the Lord’s life, He did not have an easy life; He was persecuted, evil spoken of, and very much hated and rejected.

The people whom He came to serve eventually put Him to death, and no one seemed to be on His side.

How can we live a life in the same way that He lived?

It is not by imitation but by becoming His reproduction.

The Christ who lived daily under the government of God, the One who suffered and never complained, now is the life-giving Spirit in our spirit.

We are not supposed to try our best to be like Him. We Christians are not supposed to outwardly try more to be like Jesus.

Rather, we need to realize that Christ as the Spirit is in our spirit; He lives in us, and we need to live one spirit with Him.

Our living needs to become His living, our words need to be His words, and our attitude should be His attitude.

May we learn to open to the Lord again and again throughout the day, allowing Him to live in us, be expressed through us, and make us His reproduction.

We do this by coming to Him again and again to enjoy Him, partake of the riches of His life, and cooperate with His living in us so that it would be no longer us who live but Christ who lives in us.

We need to realize that Christ Lives in us and we should Live one with Him today

How can we, human beings, live as Jesus did? How can we as believers in Christ live in the same way as the Lord Jesus lived when He was on the earth?

The way we should take is not trying and striving to be better so that we “look like Jesus” and “do what Jesus did”; we should become a reproduction of Christ.

How can we become a reproduction of Christ as our model? The Bible does not leave us in the dark in this matter.

In order for us to become a reproduction of Christ as our model, we need to realize that Christ lives in us and we should live one spirit with Him today.

It is very important for us to see that Christ lives within us, the believers in Christ.

On the one hand, Jesus Christ came a lived on earth two thousand years ago, and His life is now our model, as seen in the Gospels.

On the other hand, this Jesus who is God incarnated to be a man, went through a process in order to become a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).

Now the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). Even more, He is with our spirit, joined to our spirit as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

As believers in Christ, we are not those who try to be like Jesus by our own efforts; we have Jesus living in us!

All Christians need to realize that there’s another person – Jesus Christ – who lives in us. He indwells us, for the Lord Jesus is with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). Hallelujah!

It is true that Jesus is now in the third heavens, ascended far above all, enthroned with glory and honor.

But at the same time, He lives within us. When we realize that Jesus Christ lives in us, we will have a great change in our Christian life.

Jesus Christ as the Spirit lives in us. Hallelujah! Before His incarnation and resurrection, God was up in heavens and man was on earth, but God could not enter man.

But because Jesus Christ came as God incarnated to be a man, and went through human living, death, resurrection, and ascension, He now is a life-giving Spirit to enter into our spirit and be one spirit with us!

Gal. 2:20 clearly says, that Christ lives in us; Christ is not just in the heavens, saving us from our sins and from eternal perdition – He is in us, for He lives in us! Christ is our life (Col. 1:27), and Christ lives in us.

This is the key to us becoming a reproduction of Christ – realizing that Christ lives in us!

The New Testament reveals that Jesus Christ is deeply related to our inner being. He is not only our Savior; He is also our life, and He lives in us.

Becoming a Christian doesn’t mean that we adhere to a religion or join a social or religious club; it means that we have received the Lord Jesus as our life.

When we repent of our sins and call on the name of the Lord, we receive Christ as our life, and now He lives in us. Praise the Lord!

Gal. 1:16 says that it pleased God to reveal His Son in us. God didn’t just show us how wonderful Christ is; He revealed His Son in us.

One day we saw something of Christ and we were captured.

Now day by day we as believers in Christ seek to see more of Christ and to have the inner, subjective, personal revelation of Christ.

He is the most wonderful One! What we have seen is not something outward, a person outwardly or a scene, but the living, wonderful, excellent person of Jesus Christ! And day by day we are seeking to see Him even more!

We can see Him because He is in us; the pneumatic Christ – Christ as the life-giving Spirit – is living in us (1 Cor. 15:45; Gal. 2:20). Wow!

Christ has become a life-giving Spirit, and through regeneration He came into our spirit to be joined to our spirit.

May we never take for granted the fact that Christ as the life-giving Spirit lives in our spirit. He went through a long process to become a life-giving Spirit, and now He lives in us. May we open to the Lord and tell Him,

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming in us to be joined to us and to live in us. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have Christ as the life-giving Spirit living in us! Wow, Lord, may we realize that You live in us. May we be saved from trying to do things for You or trying to improve our behaviour. May we turn to You and exercise our spirit to contact You. Amen, Lord, may we be one spirit with You today. Cause us to see, dear Lord, that You are deeply related to our inner being. May we have a revelation of the living Christ in us. Praise the Lord, it pleased God to reveal Christ in us! Amen, Lord, we want to have a fresh revelation of Your wonderful Person today. May we realize that Christ is in us to be our life and our person. May we live one spirit with You today. Make us Your reproduction today. Live in us today. Lord Jesus, we love You and we want to be one with You in all things! We open to Your life-giving and to Your living in us today!

We become a Reproduction of Christ by Living Christ: we live by Him and He Lives in us

The Lord Jesus said in John 14:19, Because I live, you also shall live. He said this before He went through death and entered into resurrection.

How can we live Christ today? How can we become a reproduction of Christ? It is by Christ living in us and us living Christ.

If we see that Christ lives in us, we will realize that Him living in us causes us to live with Him.

Christ doesn’t live alone; He lives in us and with us.

When we turn to our spirit, when we contact the Lord, we are inwardly strengthened and enabled to live Christ, for Christ lives in us and we live Christ.

We Christians are not part of a religious group that has a set of beliefs or rules from the Bible; rather, we are human beings who have Christ living in them. Amen!

What a tremendous matter it is for us to realize that Christ lives in us!

If all Christians on earth would realize that they were not saved to get a ticket to go to heaven but rather, they were saved and regenerated to have Christ living in them, they would remain in the process of becoming a reproduction of Christ! Amen!

The apostle Paul realized that Christ lived in him; he testified in Gal. 2:20 that he was crucified with Christ and it was no longer him who lived but Christ who lived in him, and the life he lived in the flesh, he lived in faith.

God’s economy is that the “I” be crucified in Christ’s death and that Christ live in us in His resurrection.

When we touch the Lord in our spirit, we are crucified with Him and He lives in us.

We are one spirit with the Lord, we have one life with Him, and now we should be one person with Him (1 Cor. 6:17; Col. 3:4; Phil. 1:21).

The Lord Jesus practiced this throughout His living on earth; He testified that the living Father has sent Him and He lived because of the Father (John 6:57).

He daily exercised to turn to the Father, fellowship with the Father, and be one with the Father, so that He may live because of the Father.

He didn’t live by Himself, neither did He try His best to please the Father.

This doesn’t mean that the Son was set aside and ceased to exist; rather, He existed, He lived, and He did many things, but it was not Him but the Father who lived in Him and expressed Himself through Him. Wow!

The Son lived by the life of the Father, spoke the words of the Father, did the works of the Father, and did the will of the Father.

It is the same in our relationship with Christ today.

Christ came and died for us, then He became a life-giving Spirit, and as the Spirit He is both in our spirit and He is embodied in His word, for the words He speaks to us are spirit and are life (John 6:53).

When we eat the Lord by eating His words, we live because of Him.

When we turn to our spirit and live in our spirit, we live, yet He lives in us, and the life we live in the flesh we live in faith, in the organic union with the Lord.

We Christians have one life and one living with the Lord.

We don’t have two lives – He has His life and we have our life, and sometimes we meet up or interact.

Rather, we have one life and one living, for we live by Christ and He lives in us.

We live Christ and Christ lives in us. We simply need to let Christ live in us.

He is a living person. As we turn to Him, as we fellowship with Him, and as we contact Him and seek to be one spirit with Him, He as a living person wants to live in us so that we live by Him.

May we be normal believers in Christ tho have one life and one living with Christ.

May we realize that Christ dwells in us as the Spirit and may we let Him live in us, even live one spirit with Him.

May we realize that, in our spirit, we are one spirit with the Lord, and we also have one life and one living with Him.

And may we help one another to come to know this wonderful Person living in us.

The best help we can give a fellow believer in Christ is not something that we have experienced humanly and now we think can help them; it is to help them to touch and know the indwelling Christ.

If we see that Christ dwells in us, if we realize that He lives in us, we will turn to Him, we will let Him live in us, and we will live because of Him, taking Him as our person.

When this is our experience, we become a reproduction of Christ, for Christ lives in us and we live Christ. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, we praise You for making us one spirit with You. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have one life with Christ! Hallelujah, he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him! Oh Lord, may we realize that we have another person indwelling us – the living person of Jesus Christ who is in our spirit as the life-giving Spirit! Wow, Someone divine, heavenly, eternal, and spiritual lives in us today, and we can live one spirit with Him! Amen, Lord, we turn to You. We want to contact You and be one with You. May we realize that our natural man and our self has been put on the cross, and in resurrection we are one spirit with you! Wow, we now can have one life and one living with Christ! Amen, Lord, live in us today. May You live in us and may we live out Christ in our daily life. We take You as our life and as our person. We let You live in us. Praise the Lord, it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us! Amen, Lord, make us a reproduction of Christ by living in us as we live one spirit with You today!

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 Ted Williamson in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 55, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living a Christian Life and Church Life under the Government of God for the Economy of God (2024 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 4, Becoming a Reproduction of Christ and Experiencing Christ as the Shepherd of Our Souls.
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