In His resurrection, Christ became the life-giving Spirit and regenerated the believers for His Body; we can set our mind on the spirit to receive and enjoy life and peace, and we will be men of life, men of zoe life! Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord for Christ’s resurrection! First, Christ went through incarnation, then He entered into death and came out in resurrection to enter into the stage of His inclusion.
In the stage of His incarnation, Christ accomplished many wonderful things; when He resurrected, however, He entered into another stage, the stage of inclusion.
We call it inclusion because in the Spirit, whom Christ became in resurrection, are included all that Christ is and has, and all He has accomplished and attained.
The first thing that happened in Christ’s resurrection was that He was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness.
How come that the Lord Jesus, who was already the Son of God from eternity (John 3:16), was begotten by God again to be the Son of God in His resurrection?
Rom. 1:3-4 reveals that Christ came as the seed of David, a man in the flesh; in His humanity, He was not yet deified, so through death and resurrection, He brought His human nature into God to deify it.
He was begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:28-29).
He is the firstborn Son and we are the many brothers of Christ. Hallelujah!
Just as He went through a process to be designated the Son of God, so we are going through a process to be designated sons of God in full. Amazing!
We are children of God, sons of God, but we are in the process of being designated sons of God in full.
We are in the process of regeneration, sanctification, transformation, and glorification so that we may be conformed to the image of Christ, the firstborn Son of God, to be sons of God in full. Praise the Lord!
The key to the process of designation is resurrection; Christ is resurrection, He is resurrection life, and He operates in us constantly to resurrect us and conform us to the image of Christ.
The more we contact the Lord, the more we are being designated sons of God.
The more we turn to our spirit and live according to the spirit, the more we are being designated sons of God.
Hallelujah, one day we will be like Him, sons of God in full, for we are undergoing the inward process of designation by resurrection!
The Last Adam – the Incarnated Christ – became the Life-giving Spirit
One of the greatest truths in the New Testament, which has been very much overlooked in Christianity today, is that the incarnated Christ, who is the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).
God in Christ went through a process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, and resurrection, and in resurrection Christ became the Spirit, the Spirit who gives life.
The Spirit whom Christ became in resurrection was promised in John 7:37-39; this is the all-inclusive, life-giving, compound Spirit.
Christ became the life-giving Spirit in His resurrection, thus entering into the stage of incarnation.
The Spirit is the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God.
We use the word “inclusion” based on our use of the word inclusive; Christ, the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit, is for Him to become the all-inclusive Spirit (Phil. 1:19).
Now the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:6, 17), the life-giving Spirit.
This Spirit, who gives life, is also called the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2), the Spirit of Jesus (Acts 16:7), the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19), and the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18).
Our Triune God was processed and consummated to become the Spirit who gives life, and this Spirit is now the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit.
He is a spontaneous power in our spirit; we can switch Him on and, like electricity, He will operate in our inner being.
When we call on the name of the Lord and praise the Lord, we switch Him on, and life is dispensed into our inner being.
The Spirit is also called the Spirit of Jesus; this Spirit is mentioned in Acts 16:7 as being the Spirit who did not allow the disciples to go to a particular place.
The Spirit has many functions and aspects, for He is all-inclusive.
And we can enjoy Him as the bountiful Spirit with an all-inclusive supply of our Christian life and church life.
The ministry of Christ in the stage of inclusion as the life-giving Spirit is revealed in Romans 8, which shows that the life of the Triune God, as the law of the Spirit of life dispensed into our tripartite being, makes us men of life (Rom. 8:14, 6; 12:5).
The more we open to the Lord and receive His divine dispensing, the more His life is dispensed into our being to make us beings of life, men of life, to be God’s sons and the members of the Body of Christ.
As such ones, we constitute the Body of Christ for His expression, thus fulfilling God’s original intention (Gen. 2:7, 9).
Right now in our being there is the law of the Spirit of life, constantly operating in us to free us from the law of sin and of death (Rom. 8:2).
Though our human body is dead and dying because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness (v. 10). A third part of our being, our spirit, is life!
When we set our mind on our spirit, our mind becomes life, and we enjoy life and peace, for the mind set on the spirit is life and peace (v. 6).
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Even more, the divine life in our spirit spreads not only into our mind to make it life but even to our mortal body, for the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us and gives life to our mortal bodies (v. 11). Hallelujah!
On one hand, we have the bios life, the human biological life in our body; on the other hand, we have our psychological life, the life in our soul.
But through regeneration, we received another life, the zoe life, the life of the Triune God, in our spirit.
Our spirit is full of life; our spirit is life.
When we set our mind on our spirit, our mind becomes life, for the Spirit who gives life imparts life into our mind.
When we pay attention to our spirit, when we focus on our spirit, our mind becomes life, for life spreads from our spirit into our mind.
Eventually, the Lord will impart life even into our mortal body.
Christ in resurrection became the life-giving Spirit, and as such a Spirit He is mingled with our spirit, constantly imparting the divine life to every part of our being to make our being life and make us men of life.
The result of our enjoying the divine dispensing of life by the Spirit who gives life is that we become men of life, men full of life in our spirit, soul, and body! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, Christ in resurrection became the life-giving Spirit! Thank You, Lord, for coming into our spirit as the Spirit who gives life. We open to Your divine dispensing today. Dispense more of Your life into our mind, emotion, and will, and have a way to dispense life even into our mortal body. Lord, we set our mind on our spirit. We choose to turn to You and to pay attention to our spirit. We open to Your divine dispensing so that life may spread from our spirit into all the inner parts of our being. Hallelujah, our spirit is life because of righteousness! Praise the Lord, the mind set on the spirit is life and peace! Thank You, dear Lord, that You as the Spirit will also give life to our mortal bodies to fill our entire being with life! Praise the Lord, we are becoming men of life filled with the divine life in our spirit, soul, and body!
In His Resurrection, Christ Regenerated the Believers for His Body
1 Pet. 1:3 tells us that we all as believers in Christ were regenerated by Christ in His resurrection.
In His resurrection, Christ first was begotten to be God’s firstborn Son, then He became the life-giving Spirit, and finally, He regenerated us to be the many sons of God constituting the Body of Christ. Hallelujah!
The pneumatic Christ became the firstborn Son of God and the life-giving Spirit so that He may regenerate us, the believers in Christ, and make us the many sons of God born of God with Him in one universally big delivery.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead was one universally big delivery, for both Christ and all the believers in Christ were begotten by God to be the many sons of God, with Christ as the firstborn. This is amazing!
This is for the fulfilment of God’s purpose, which is to have the Body of Christ as the corporate expression of the Triune God on earth.
The New Testament has many verses that indicate what happened in Christ’s resurrection, and one of the most mysterious matters that took place is that we all, the genuine Christians, the believers in Christ, were resurrected with Christ and born of God to be the children of God.
We have received the Lord Jesus as our Savior and life at different points in time, each according to their own experience.
But in God’s eyes, there was one big delivery in the resurrection of Christ.
Through His death, the Lord’s human shell was broken, and in His resurrection, His divine life was released and propagated to be dispensed into millions of human beings who believe into Him. Wow!
John 1:12-13 is now a really enjoyable portion of the word to us because it says that, whoever believes into the Lord, that is, receives Him, is given the authority to become a child of God, born of God.
All the believers in Christ are born of God, and we all were regenerated in the resurrection of Christ to be the many sons of God. Praise the Lord!
Even more, as believers in Christ, we have been baptized in one Spirit into the one Body of Christ and have been given to drink of this one Spirit for the constitution of the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13).
On one hand, Christ came into us, and on the other hand, we were put into Christ and were given to drink of the Spirit.
We grow in life and advance in the Lord by drinking of the one Spirit to be further baptized into the one Body of Christ and become the Body of Christ in reality.
How do we drink of the Spirit? Where is the Spirit today?
The Spirit is embodied in the word of God.
In His resurrection Christ gave Himself as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit without measure through His speaking of the words of God (John 3:34).
We can drink of the Spirit by coming to the Lord in His word with the exercise of our spirit.
As we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and pray over His word, we drink of the Spirit and are constituted members of His Body.
Day by day we need to drink of the Spirit by coming to the Lord in His word to receive the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit.
As we feel that we’re about to lose our temper, we simply need to turn to our spirit.
When we are about to gossip, we can choose to turn to our spirit and call on the name of the Lord.
As we call on the Lord and pray over His word, we enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into our being, and our whole being is filled with life.
May we drop any religious and ethical teachings and simply come back to the living word of God, which reveals that the life of the Triune God is dispensed into our spirit to make our spirit life and also that we were positioned and given to drink of the one Spirit.
Praise the Lord for Christ’s resurrection, through which Christ became the life-giving Spirit and we were regenerated to be the many sons of God and the members of the Body of Christ! Hallelujah, we were all regenerated in the resurrection of Christ to be the many sons of God constituting the Body of Christ for His corporate expression! Amen, Lord, thank You for regenerating us with the divine life in our spirit to make us children of God. Thank You for positioning us to drink of the Spirit and for baptizing us into this one Spirit. Praise the Lord, Christ as the Spirit is in our spirit and we are baptized in the one Spirit into one Body! We come to You, dear Lord, to contact You and drink of You as the Spirit in Your word. Dispense more of Yourself into us today. We want to deeply drink of the Spirit by coming to the word in a living way with the exercise of our spirit.
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 Ed Marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Romans, pp. 648-653, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 9, entitled, The Full Ministry of Christ in Three Stages.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– Dealing with the matter of resurrection, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 68.
– 3 Wonderful Things That Happened in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, article via, Bibles for Europe blog.
– The Last Adam, Christ, Became a Life-giving Spirit, article via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– The ministry of Christ in the stage of inclusion, article in, Affirmation and Critique.
– In resurrection Christ as the last Adam becoming the life-giving Spirit and entering into His believers as the Holy Spirit, a portion from, The Economy and Dispensing of God, Chapter 5, by Witness Lee.
– The True Nature of Our Relationship with the Lord Jesus, article via, Bibles for America blog.
– The transfiguration into the life-giving Spirit, a portion from, Lesson Book, Level 2: The Triune God—The Triune God and the Person and Work of Christ, Chapter 20, by Witness Lee.
– What is the Life-giving Spirit? Read more via, LSM Radio Newsletters.
– Now Christ is the life-giving Spirit, a new song via hymnal.net. - Hymns on this topic:
– Now He must have our cooperation. / We must set our mind upon the Son. / We must turn away from all that leads astray, / Till our mind is set on Him each day. / Lord, our human spirit now contains You. / Still Your purpose in us You would do; / If our wandering mind would leave old thoughts behind, / Then Your life and peace in it we’ll find. (Hymns #1193 stanzas 4-5)
– O Lord, Thou art the Spirit now / Who in my spirit makes His home; / He mingles with my spirit too, / And both one spirit thus become. / Lord, teach me how to exercise / My spirit now to contact Thee, / That in Thy Spirit I may walk / And live by Thy reality. (Hymns #493 stanzas 4-5)
– We are also born of Spirit / On the day when we believe, / And of Him we now are drinking / As we daily Him receive. / Yet we also must be baptized / With the Spirit from on high, / Thus to be equipped for service, / And be clothed with pow’r thereby. (Hymns #272 stanza 4)
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Life-study of Romans, p. 648, by Witness Lee
May today be a day of turning our mind to our spirit so that we may enjoy life and peace.
Amen, may we choose again and again to just turn to our spirit so that Christ as the life-giving Spirit would impart the divine life into our mind, emotion, and will.
Rom. 8:9, footnote 4 on, “Spirit”, Recovery Version Bible
Amen brother.
The Christian life and the church life is a life of being daily transformed & conformed to the image of Christ.
We need to continually set our mind on the spirit so that our Lord-Spirit may have the opening to spread from our spirit into our soul and eventually into our mortal bodies.
We can become people of zoe with the appearance of jasper.
Amen brother,
I enjoyed and kept enjoying the following prayer reading for today:
I need to say to the Lord,
Amen.
What a mercy and a blessing to see that in the second stage of His full ministry, the stage of inclusion, the incarnated Christ, as the embodiment of the Triune God, became the Life-giving Spirit in resurrection.
Such a one is the pneumatic Christ, the Spirit of the processed and consummated Triune God to make sons of men sons of God to be their life, to live by the law of the Spirit of life dispensed into their tripartite being for the expression of God!
As the one who indwells man, not by measure, He is the All-inclusive Spirit! Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord! 😃🙋🏽🙏 Amen!
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Hallelujah for the mind set on the spirit!
This is where the pneumatic Christ is and is spreading into our soul.
Whenever we have issues we have a place to get away to ✨oh praise the Lord for our spirit!
Ameeen brother🥰
The Lord in the second stage as the last Adam became the life giving, compound, Spirit as the law of Spirit of life who made our spirit life and is spreading and dispensing Himself into our inward parts even to our mortal body to make us God’s sons, men of life, members of Christ to constitute His Body for His expression.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. Rom. 8:6
This morning I am impressed by the fact that “ethical and religious teachings” do not make us “men of life.” Furthermore, not only do we need complete transformation in our mind, emotion, and will, we also need complete transformation, even glorification, in our “mortal bodies.”
It isn’t easy to see, especially when we are young, that our body is even a “body of…death.” We don’t beg to feel the element of the encompassing death within our being, physically, until our later years. I’ll never forget when Witness Lee said, “when we are born, we do not begin to live….we begin to die.” It simply requires a number of years for the indwelling death to manifest itself physically. (Rom. 7:24). However
I also appreciated the term Witness Lee used… “ointment,” which he says “signifies the Life-giving Spirit.” Ointment is a healer, a fixer, and even a sealer. Our entire being needs this all-inclusive “ointment,” the life-giving Spirit as it’s “Healer.” (pge. 196)
As sinners, as fallen humans, our outward behavior and good or bad intentions are not the flux of issue as sinners. It is the life, the constitution of death deep within that expresses itself without. It is our constitution of death inherited through Adam’s fall that is at the core of every human failure.
I HAVE IT, YOU HAVE IT, WE ALL HAVE IT. EVERY HUMAN ON THE EARTH NEEDS TRANSFORMATION AND A CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION THROUGH THE ALL-INCLUSIVE, INTENSIFIED LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT, CHRIST!
Without the indwelling and operating Life-giving Spirit, we are like dogs with painted-on tiger stripes attempting to roar, but can still…only bark. (Isa. 64:6).
Today we must ALL become crystal clear concerning our WHOLE being. Outside of God our whole being is just “death.” (1 Chron. 29:15; Eph. 2:12). Religion and ethical behavior are both “without hope.” (2 Cor. 4:7).
Praise the Lord that HE “expands into our mortal body and thereby makes our whole being zoe. Hallelujah we are men of Life!”
We are not men of good behavior and human ethics, but of LIFE in Christ Jesus! Turn away from religion. Turn away from human ethics. Turn away from vain, “soiled,” human righteousness. Turn to the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit in our spirit.
[Enjoyment from: HWFMR, Wk9, Day4, pge. 196-197 (LSM)]