For us to work out our own salvation is to carry it out, to bring it to the ultimate conclusion, by our constant and absolute obedience with fear and trembling, knowing that it is God who operates in us. As believers in Christ we have all received the salvation of God, and we didn’t have […]
We Experience a Constant Salvation by taking Christ our Pattern in our Daily Life
In Phil. 2:12 Paul tells us to work out our own salvation; this is not the eternal salvation from God’s condemnation but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person. After seeing the wonderful pattern of Christ in Phil. 2, Paul tells us, as beloved ones, to work out our own […]
When we by the Spirit live the Crucified Life, Christ is Exalted in our daily life
When we live a crucified life, we can experience the power of resurrection; Christ is exalted in our daily life as we, by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, take Him as the crucified life to be the pattern of our life. Our need is to experience Christ; on one hand we […]
When we Live Christ, we live the One who is the Pattern of a Crucified Life
In Phil. 2 we see Christ crucified as our pattern, and this pattern is the crucified life within us; when we live Christ, we live the One who is the pattern of a crucified life. Christ as our pattern is not something only objective, something that we should follow outwardly, but also something subjective and […]
Our Urgent Need is to Experience Christ as our Pattern of Living a Crucified Life
There is an urgent need among us in the church life in the Lord’s recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern; we need to live Christ in His human living, especially in emptying Himself and humbling Himself and in not grasping equality with God as a treasure. We need not only to know what […]
Christ is the Representation of Submission to Authority; His Life of Submission is in us
Christ, the Son of God, willingly emptied Himself to become a created man; He learned obedience through the things which He suffered, and He became the representation of submission to authority (Phil. 2:6-8). Our pattern in our Christian life is not merely a man but a God-man, our God-man Savior who emptied Himself and humbled […]
As our Pattern, Christ Emptied Himself, Humbled Himself, and was Glorified by God
For us to experience Christ, we need to know Him as the pattern; we need to have Him as the pattern infused into us, realising that Christ emptied Himself and humbled Himself, and later He was exalted and glorified by God. Oh, may this mind be in us – the mind of Christ, the same […]