Christ as our Life is a Crucified Life, a Resurrected Life, and a Life Hidden in God

Hallelujah, Christ is our life, and Christ as our life is a life hidden in God! The life of God is the life of Christ, and the life of Christ has become our life – Christ is our life, He is so subjective to us that He is our very life to be our living today.

When we were regenerated, we received the life of God; now all genuine believers in Christ have the same life as God has.

Even more, it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 1:30) – our position is in Christ, we have one life and one living with Him, and we have one destiny and one glory with Him!

Right now our life is hidden and not manifested, but when we exercise our spirit, the life of Christ becomes real to us, for we are joined to the Lord as one spirit!

His life has become our life so that He may live in us; He is our life, and He is becoming our living. He is also transforming us and conforming us to His glorious image until we share the same glory and the same destiny with Him.

He wants us to be where He is and even as He is, so now Christ our life is hidden, but when He is manifested, we will be like Him, for we will see Him even as He is! Our destiny is to be in glory with the Lord, even where He is and as He is!

We will not share in His Godhead, and only He is worthy to be praised, but we will become otherwise as He is, the same in life, nature, expression, appearance, and function.

Today we need to see that our position is in Christ; God put us in Him, and the things He went through are also the things we went through in Him.

We were crucified with Christ, we were buried with Christ, we were made alive with Christ, we were raised with Christ, and we were ascended with Christ.

We are in Christ, and in Christ we experienced His death, burial, being made alive, being raised up, and being ascended. Now in Christ we are seated at the right hand of God!

Christ as the Son of God is in the Father, we are in the Son, so we are also in the Father by being in the Son.

If we look at ourselves we may not realize our position in Christ for we may see what the eye can see and what the mind can understand.

But when we turn to our spirit, when we touch the Lord in the spirit, we receive the divine transmission from the throne, and we are one with Christ practically and experientially.

When we are in the mingled spirit we are in Christ, in the Father, and in heaven; outside of Christ there’s only sorrow, sin, and problems, but in Christ we have everything, and all that He is becomes our enjoyment and our experience.

May we learn to exercise our spirit, stand on the word of God, and declare the facts in faith so that we may enter into the enjoyment and experience of Christ as life, even as we are in Christ, sharing the same position to have one life, one living, one destiny, and one glory!

Christ is our Life – He has become us, we have one life and Living with Him!

In Col. 3:3-4 we see that we died, and our life is hidden with Christ in God; we also see that Christ is our life – and when He is manifested, we will also be manifested with Him in glory. This shows us that we have one life with Christ.

The life of God is the life of Christ, and the life of Christ has become our life; our life is now hidden with Christ in God, and Christ is our life.

This life here is not merely Christ’s life but rather it is the life of Christ becoming our life. Our natural, human life cannot be hidden with Christ in God; the life of Christ is hidden with Christ in God, and this life has become our very life.

Christ and God have one life; even more, the life of God is the life of Christ, and the life of Christ has become our life – now God, Christ, and the believers have one life!

This life is not necessarily manifested through our being kind, quiet, or nice; rather, this life is Christ as our life, that is it is Christ living in us.

When a brother is eloquent and powerful in speaking, or a sister is gentle and quiet, we may think that they are full of life; however, they both may just be naturally this way, and it may not be the life of Christ being expressed through them.

Hallelujah, Christ is our life!

Christ is God and also life (1 John 5:12); the life of God – which is God Himself – is in Christ (John 1:4), so the Lord said that He is life (John 14:6; 11:25) and that He came for us to have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10).

So we the believers in Christ who have Christ, we have life (1 John 5:12), and He dwells in us as our life.

Because we have Christ, we have life, for life is in Christ, and Christ is life. God is in Christ; life is in Christ; and Christ is our life.

What does it mean for Christ to be our life? Nothing is more subjective to us than our life; if someone takes our life, we are finished. Nothing is more intimately related to us than our very life, for our life is actually we ourselves.

So it is impossible to separate us as the person from the life that we have, for our life is our very person, and if we don’t have life, we cease to be.

For Christ to be our life means that He has become us; He has become so joined to us and so one with us that He cannot be separated from us. Just as our life cannot be separated from us and Christ is our life, so we and Christ are so one that we cannot be separated, and He is our life.

Especially when we speak of the one new man we need to realize that Christ is our life and our person; for us to be the Body of Christ, we need Christ as our life, and for us to be the one new man, Christ must be our person.

In the one new man Christ is both the life and the person – He is our life and He is our person. Our life is our very person; for Christ to be our life is for Him to be our person. So today we need to have one life and one living with the Lord who is our person.

Humanly speaking, we need to do many things, such as go to work, take care of our family, do laundry, do shopping, care for the children, clean the house, rest, etc but in all these things we need to realize that Christ is our life.

As we do the daily things of our life, we need to be aware that we don’t do these alone – Christ is our life, and He is also our living. We need to go to work one with Christ, do the laundry with Christ, care for the things of our house with Christ, etc.

This is a normal Christian life, that is, experiencing Christ as life by having one life and one living with Him.

Thank You Lord Jesus for coming into us as life; now Christ is our life and He wants to be our living! Amen, Lord, we take You as our life and we want to live one spirit with You today. May we have one life and one living with You today; live in us, Lord, and may Your life be expressed through us. We take You as our life and person for the one new man, so that You may gain a corporate entity in which Christ is all and in all! Amen, Lord Jesus, may we experience You as life in all the things and in all the situations of our daily life!

Christ as our Life is a Crucified Life, a Resurrected Life, and a Life Hidden in God

With Christ as our life there are three characteristics that distinguish it from the natural life – this life is a crucified life, a resurrected life, and a life hidden in God.

For Christ to be our life means that His crucified life is our life, for Christ lived a crucified life, a life of dying to the self and living to God.

We are joined to the Lord, we are one spirit with Him, and the life we now live is a crucified life, for we have been crucified with Him toward the world, the flesh, sin, sins, the self, and anything negative so that we may live in newness of life (Gal. 2:20).

The life of Christ which is our life is a crucified life; this means that this life is not a natural life but rather, the natural life is over, and we live a crucified life.

Even as He lived, so we live today when take Christ as our life.

The life of Christ which is our life is a resurrected life (John 11:25); the Lord Jesus said that He is the resurrection and the life.

The life of Christ which is our very life is a life that doesn’t belong in the old creation – it passed through death and came out in resurrection, and it is a resurrection life.

This means that Christ as our life is resurrection life; He is the resurrection itself, and when we take Him as our life and live by Him, we live in resurrection.

The only life and service that God appreciates and accepts is the one that passes through death and enters into resurrection; when we take Christ as our life, we live a crucified and resurrected life, and God is satisfied.

Furthermore, Christ as our life is a life hidden in God (Col. 3:3-4; Matt. 6:1-6, 16-18). This means that Christ as our life is a mysterious matter, something hidden with Christ in God.

Christ as our life is not a showy life, a life that likes to make a display and be seen and praised by others; rather, this life causes us to seek our Father in secret, and the Father who sees in secret will reward us.

The life of Christ which is our very life is not a self-glorifying life; this life likes to be in secret with the Father, and it is hidden with Christ in God.

How dear and precious is such a life! And this life is our life for us to enjoy, be filled with, live by, and express in our daily living!

When we take Christ as our life, we live a crucified life, a resurrected life, and a life that is hidden with Christ in God.

Whatever we do in the church life and in our daily Christian life shouldn’t be in a showy way or just for others to see, but by this life hidden with Christ in God.

Hallelujah, nothing can suppress this life – not even death; rather, this life overcomes death, has the mark of death, enters into resurrection, and is hidden with Christ in God!

Lord Jesus, we take You as our life and we want to experience You as our life. Thank You Lord for coming into us as life, and such a life is a crucified life, a resurrected life, and a life that is hidden in God. May we allow this life to live in us so that God may be expressed through us. Amen, Lord Jesus, we want to live by this crucified and resurrected life that is in our spirit! We want to seek You in secret, enjoy You in secret, and have many transactions with You in secret, so that You as our life may live and be expressed through us!

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References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 29, 50 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Knowing and Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ (2019 Thanksgiving Conference), week 6 on the topic of, Knowing and Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ as Our Life and as the Constituent of the New Man.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – With Christ we have one position, / One life, living, destination, / Glory, in the heavenlies! / Christ is our life, Christ’s subjective; / He’s our living with one motive— / Life and glory to release! / He’s all the members, / In all the members; / He constitutes the new man! / His peace must rule us, / His word must fill us, / To manifest one new man. (Song on, Know and Experience the All-Inclusive, Extensive Christ)
  – Jesus, I live to Thee, / The Loveliest and Best; / My life in Thee, Thy life in me, / In Thy blest love I rest. / Jesus, I die to Thee, / Whenever death shall come; / To die in Thee is life to me, / With Thee I’m ever one! (Hymns #504)
  – Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace! / The Christ who’s all within me lives. / With Him I have been crucified; / This glorious fact to me He gives. / Now it’s no longer I that live, / But Christ the Lord within me lives. (Hymns #499)