God put us in Christ as the Mold for us to Learn Christ as the Reality is in Jesus

As believers in Christ, we were put into Christ as the mold at the time of our baptism, and now we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus by being conformed to the image of Christ so that the living of Jesus would be duplicated in us, the members of the Body of Christ. Amen!

This week we come to a new topic in our morning revival, The God-man Living.

We are most blessed today to have the privilege to know the highest peak of the divine revelation.

It is not a small thing to know and enter into these matters.

Throughout the centuries, not many knew or heard about the reality of the Body of Christ and the matter of God becoming man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead to obtain the New Jerusalem.

These are not new inventions; these are new discoveries that the Lord granted to us from His word and with the help of some faithful brothers.

We may read concerning the high peak of the divine revelation and may think that it is so high, but we can experience it day by day and we can even become what the Lord wants us to be for the fulfillment of His purpose.

We should not be afraid or ashamed to speak the highest peak of the divine revelation, thinking that we are not there yet, that others may not understand it, or that they may misunderstand it and misinterpret it.

May we ask the Lord to guide us as the Spirit of reality into the experience of what we are enjoying and studying in His word, especially concerning the matter of the God-man living.

We need to enjoy and experience this matter, and we need to speak it to others not in the way of doctrine but in the way of experience, imparting something of the divine truth into them.

If we merely read the life-studied and recite them, without having any enjoyment and experience of what we read, we impart knowledge to others, and knowledge kills.

But if we come to the Lord and inquire of Him, read and pray over His word, and allow the Lord to touch us, deal with us, break through in us, work Himself into us, and transform us, we will have something of Christ to impart to others.

Related to the matter of the truth, we need to realize that the truth is absolute; we need to be uplifted in our experience to the standard of the truth and we should never lower this standard.

The standard of the divine Word must not be lowered to the level of our personal attainment; we should not say that the truth is too high, so we must lower it or make it more palatable, thus diluting it and lowering its standard.

We should not and we cannot tamper with the truth in any way in order to justify our own deficiencies.

We have to transcend ourselves, our own feelings, and our own interest in our speaking of the truth. The truth is the truth, and we must speak it and enter into it.

And we must pray that the Lord would uplift our experience of Christ to the level of the truth.

God put us in Christ as the Mold for us to Learn Christ as the Reality is in Jesus

The desire of God’s heart is that “the reality…in Jesus” (Eph. 4:21) would be duplicated in us, the many members of the Body of Christ, by the Spirit of reality so that we may become the reality of the Body of Christ, the highest peak in God’s economy.

When we come to the matter of the God-man living, we need to realize that the first God-man who had the perfect God-man living is Jesus Christ.

The God-man living today is the reality of the Body of Christ, a corporate living by the many God-men who have been perfected to live Christ.

This is what is meant by Paul in Eph. 4:20-21 where he said, But you did not so learn Christ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus.

Paul declared in Phil. 1:21 that to him to live is Christ, but here we see that we need to learn Christ. Christ came into us not only as our life but also as our pattern.

Actually, when we believed into the Lord Jesus, God put us into Christ as the mold, the pattern, and now we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus.

Christ didn’t just come and, after being incarnated and dying for us, came into us as the Spirit; rather, He lived a God-man life, a pattern of the God-man living for thirty-three and a half years.

He set up a pattern, a model, which is of great significance.

When Christ lived on earth, he as a man did everything in God, with God, for God, and by God.

There was reality in His living, and the reality is the truth; the truth is the light. God was expressed in everything that He did.

The unbelievers today walk in the vanity of their mind, but the Lord Jesus lived and walked in reality, and His God-man living was reality.

The New Testament gives us a unique biography of the Lord Jesus written from four directions; in His living, we see the mold of the life that can satisfy God and fulfill His purpose.

When we read the Gospels we see that the Lord Jesus lived a particular kind of life; He lived one with God to express God, do the work of God, speak the word of God, and seek the glory of God.

Then, He was crucified on the cross, entered into resurrection, and came into us to be our life. Now He is in us and we are in Him.

Christ is both our life and also our example (John 13:15; 1 Pet. 2:21), and we learn from Him (Matt. 11:29).

We are learning from Christ according to His example, not by our natural life but by Him as our life.

1 Cor. 1:30 says that it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus. God put us in Christ; when we were baptized, we were baptized into Christ, put into Him as the mold (Rom. 6:3; Gal. 3:27).

Just as a baker shapes the dough into the form of a mold, so God intends to form us into the mold of Christ.

God desires to conform us to the image of Christ, the Firstborn Son of God, so that He may be reproduced and duplicated in us (Rom. 8:29).

We were put into Christ as the mold, the pattern, and now we need to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus by putting off the old man and putting on the new man.

We were buried into Christ and have been brought out of Adam and the old creation.

We learned Christ when we were buried into Him in baptism; Christ is the mold, and we’re molded into the pattern set up by Him during His years on earth. This is amazing!

The four Gospels show the pattern of the life that God desires, the mold of the life that can satisfy God and fulfill His purpose.

Jesus lived a life in which He did everything in God, with God, and for God, for God was in His living, and He was one with God.

This is the reality in Jesus, and we’re learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus by being molded into the pattern of Christ to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:28-29; Eph. 4:20-21).

After Christ established the pattern of a God-man life, He was crucified and entered into resurrection, and He became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).

Now as the Spirit He comes into us to be our life. God put us into Him as the pattern, and we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus so that we may live in the same way that He lived.

May we daily learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus so that we may be molded into His pattern and be conformed to the image of Christ, the firstborn Son of God.

Thank You, Lord, for putting us in Christ at the time of our baptism. Hallelujah, it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, who is not only our life but also our pattern! Amen, Lord, we want to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. We want to learn Christ day by day so that we may be molded into the pattern of Christ. We have heard Christ and are being taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus. Oh Lord, we want to follow in Your steps, for You are our pattern. We want to live the same kind of life that You lived. Only Your life and living can satisfy God and fulfil His purpose. We want to live a life in which we do everything in God, with God, and for God. May God be in our living and may we be one with God in everything we do, say, and work. Amen, Lord, conform us to Your image a little more today. Keep us learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus so that You may gain the reality of the Body of Christ!

Being Perfected by the Lord to be God-men Living by the Divine Life and Denying our Natural Life according to the Model of Christ

Being a Christian doesn’t merely mean that you believe that God exists or that Christ died for our sins; it is much more than that.

Being a Christian, a genuine believer in Christ, means that we have Christ in us as life and we are in Christ as the model, the pattern, the mold for our daily life.

As Christians, we can’t just live the way we want to live. Others can do this and that according to their desire, but we are in Christ as the mold of our life, and we are being conformed to the image of Christ.

We are being perfected by the Lord to be God-men, those who live by the divine life by denying their natural life according to the model of Christ as the first God-man (Matt. 11:29; 17:5; 1 Pet. 2:21).

Christ came into us to be our life and God put us in Christ as the mold; we are now learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus, for we’re being perfected by the Lord to be God-men.

The characteristic of the life the Lord Jesus lived was that He always denied Himself; He didn’t just deny Himself once and for all at the end when He went to the cross but He did this throughout His life.

He had a perfect human life, but He chose to deny His natural life and live by the life of the Father.

Christ lived in the reality of His baptism; through baptism, He declared that His natural life is good for nothing except death and burial, and He lived in that reality.

He did not do anything from Himself, nor did He speak His own words or do His own will.

Everything He did was in oneness with the Father. In His life on earth, Christ set up a pattern as revealed in the four gospels.

Then, He was crucified and resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit so that He might enter into us to be our life.

May we learn from Christ according to His example, not by our natural life but by Him as our life in resurrection.

As believers in Christ, we love the Lord and contact Him, and we love to read the Bible.

The Gospels in particular reveal to us the pattern of Christ as the first God-man.

When we read the four Gospels, there’s a spontaneous desire in us to be a testimony for the Lord and live the same kind of life that He did.

But we either ignore this desire or we try hard and fail, for in ourselves we can’t do it.

We are not here to imitate Christ outwardly and try harder to do what He did and live the way He lived; we’re here learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus, being perfected by the Lord to be God-men.

We need to open to the Lord day by day to be perfected by Him to live like the Lord Jesus lived, denying our natural life and living by the divine life in our spirit.

We are in Christ and Christ is in us. We have been put into Christ as the mold, and He is in us as the life to replicate Himself and live the same kind of life in us.

Our Christian life is a life in Christ and also a life of Christ in us (1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 5:17; 12:2a; Col. 1:27; Gal. 2:20; Rom. 8:10).

We are in Christ as the mold and He is in us as our life. In this way of Him in us and us in Him, we learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus, and this reality is the reality of the Body of Christ.

May we realize that our Christian life is the living of Christ in us and our living in Christ.

We’re in Christ and Christ is in us; He is our life within to be our living without, and we’re learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus.

Lord Jesus, we open to Your perfecting to make us God-men living the divine life by denying our natural life. Amen, Lord, we want to follow Your pattern as the first God-man. We take You as our life within and we want to live You out in our daily life. We aspire to live the same kind of life as You did. Oh Lord, how we love and appreciate You in what You are, what You have done, and the way You lived. We want to live the same way that You did. Conform us to Your image. We put our natural life aside and we want to live the divine life so that Christ may live in us today. We do not want to do anything from ourselves or by ourselves; we turn to You and we want to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. May we realize that our Christian life is a life in Christ and also a life of Christ in us! Live in us today, Lord Jesus!

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 Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Ephesians (msgs. 46 and 49) 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 5, entitled, The God-man Living.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – “Consider Him,” let Christ thy pattern be, / And know that He hath apprehended thee / To share His very life, His pow’r divine, / And in the likeness of thy Lord to shine. / “Consider Him”; so shalt thou, day by day, / Seek out the lowliest place, and therein stay, / Content to pass away, a thing of nought, / That glory to the Father’s name be brought. (Hymns #656 stanzas 1-2)
  – God’s intention is to have us / All conformed to His dear Son; / Thus a work of transformation / By the Spirit must be done. / Lord, transform us to Thine image / In emotion, mind, and will; / Saturate us with Thy Spirit, / All our being wholly fill. (Hymns #750 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Already dead! And buried too! / With the old man I am through! / Already dead! And buried too! / With the old man I am through! / No longer I! No longer I! / Christ in me I’ll testify! / No longer I! No longer I! / Christ in me I’ll testify! (Hymns #938 stanzas 1-2)