Christ Passed through a Process for us to be Grafted into Christ and Grow with Him

In order for us to be grafted into Christ, He had to pass through the processes of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection; through our repentance and faith in Christ, we are grafted into Him and we grow with Him in the likeness of His death and resurrection. Hallelujah!

Thank the Lord for opening to us to see what grafting is and how we can be grafted and we were grafted into Christ!

May we be delivered from the concept of pleasing God according to our natural strength and with our natural zeal, and may we be those who know Him, enjoy Him, and live one spirit with Him.

What God desires is not that we behave better, express Him by our own efforts, and do our best to please Him by fulfilling what the Bible tells us.

What God wants is to “plug us into Christ,” that is, to graft us into Christ, cutting us from the old source and putting us into Christ so that we may grow together with Christ by Christ as our life supply to express Christ.

God wants Christ to be wrought into us and be lived out of us so that He would both cover us as our objective righteousness and be our subjective righteousness, being lived out of us.

On one hand, Christ went through a process to accomplish everything needed for Him to come into us; He accomplished a wonderful judicial redemption.

On the other hand, He entered into resurrection and became a life-giving Spirit to come into our spirit and regenerate us so that we may be saved organically in His life.

It is so precious to see the Lord’s wonderful salvation, which is complete; we are touched by His judicial redemption out of His love for us, and we receive His life to grow together with Him until we are fully like Him to express Him. Praise the Lord!

The nature of the Christian life is related to God’s organic salvation.

God’s desire is that He would be one with us and that we would be an organic union with Him.

This is the secret.

God is not satisfied for Him merely to gain worship, fear, and appreciation from us, human beings.

He wants to come into us. He wants to be joined to us. He wants to live in us.

He wants us to be one with Him organically.

How can we, human beings on earth who are mortal and corrupted, sinful, and rebellious, be one with God? Well, God made a way!

In our eyes this is impossible, for there’s nothing we can do to cleanse ourselves from our sins, get rid of our rebellion, or change our sinful nature.

But God in Christ made a way for us to return to God and enjoy God, even to be one with God.

Now through repentance and faith in Christ, we are joined to Him in spirit to be one spirit with the Lord!

For us to be Grafted into Christ, He Passed through Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

In order for us as human beings to be grafted into Christ, He had to first pass through the processes of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.

If you consider this for a moment, you will be amazed: our God, the Triune God, passed through a process in order to attain this kind of grafting.

God wants us to be one with Him organically, but He cannot be joined to us until He goes through a process and we also go through a process.

Our God dwells in unapproachable light; in His Godhead, there’s no way for us to be grafted.

But God made us in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26), so He now has a man with a life that’s similar to His. But there’s more to be accomplished.

First, He had to go through a process. Christ became flesh to be the seed of David, the branch of David, the Shoot, so that we may be grafted together with Him (John 1:14; Matt. 1:1; Zech. 3:8; Jer. 23:5; 33:15).

In order for God to be grafted with man and for man to be grafted into Christ, God became the same as we are so that He and we could be grafted together. Praise the Lord!

Our God loves us so much that He became a man and lived a perfect human life on earth, died on the cross, and resurrected!

He paid the highest price, went through the worst sufferings, and died on the cross for us to have a way to be grafted into Him.

He now can sympathise with our situation because He became the same as we are.

So many times we pass through things and may be disappointed, for what should be given to us is not and we lose rather than gain, so we may be upset with the Lord; He understands us thoroughly.

The God of the universe Himself became a man.

He understands us, He sympathizes with us, and He wants to be one with us.

We go through sufferings and difficult experiences so that we may know the Lord and realize that we need the Lord.

Day by day we need to open to Him and receive Him.

After passing through incarnation and human living, Christ was cut on the cross so that we could be grafted into Him.

Christ’s becoming the branch of David does not by itself mean that He could be grafted together with us.

First, before we can be grafted into Christ, He has to be cut and we also need to be cut.

Grafting requires cutting: two branches cannot be grafted together unless both are cut.

When He died on the cross, Christ was cut. When we repent and believe into the Lord, we also are cut.

After this cutting occurs, the joining and the organic union take place.

In grafting, therefore, we have the cutting, the joining, and the organic union.

For us to be grafted into Christ, He had to pass through incarnation to become the same as we are, human living to understand us and sympathize with us, death to be cut on the cross, and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17).

When Christ became the Spirit in His resurrection, He was ready for grafted; we can be grafted into Christ because He was cut on the cross and He became a life-giving Spirit to dispense Himself into us in His resurrection. Praise the Lord!

Once we repent and receive the Lord, He as the life-giving Spirit enters into our spirit, bringing the divine life into us, and we are grafted together with us (John 20:22; Rom. 8:11). Amen!

This life that we receive is a life of death and resurrection.

Christ joins Himself to us and us to Himself through our repentance and faith into Him; now we are grafted into Christ and we partake of all the riches of His being, growing with Him in His death and resurrection.

May we see that, as the life-giving Spirit, Christ brings the key to death and resurrection into us, the believers, that we may die and be raised with Christ (Gal. 2:20).

Amen, in His death and resurrection we are grafted together with Him, and now we are grafted into Christ!

How we praise and thank the Lord for the process He went through in order for us to be grafted into Christ and live one spirit with the Lord!

All we can do today is open to Him, receive Him, and live in this organic union with Him, for He made it possible, and now we can live one spirit with the Lord!

Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for making it possible for us to be grafted into Christ. Thank You for not remaining in an unapproachable light but coming to be incarnated, going through human living, death, and resurrection in order to graft us into Yourself. Hallelujah, we now can be grafted into Christ by repentance and faith in Him! Thank You, Lord, for being willing to be cut on the cross so that we may be grafted into You. What a privilege we have to be grafted into Christ so that we may grow together with Him in all things! Hallelujah, Christ went through death on the cross to be cut, and in His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit to be able to dispense Himself into us to make us one with Him! We praise You, Lord, for all You have done for us. We open to You. We want to remain in the organic union with You today. Live in us today. We want to live one spirit with You. Be expressed through us today. Flow in and flow out. We love You, Lord Jesus!

Being Grafted into Christ, we Grow with Him in the Likeness of His Death and Resurrection

When Christ died for us on the cross, He as the true vine was cut; He was thoroughly cut by God and now there is an open wound where we can be grafted.

He has prepared Himself to have many millions of believers as wild branches to be grafted into Christ.

As the life-giving Spirit in His resurrection, Christ now is searching in the being of many unbelievers to enlighten them and lead them to repentance.

The lovingkindness and mercy of God reach out to so many, and the Spirit operates in them to search them, enlighten them, and bring them to the Lord to just take a look at Him.

When we see the Lord Jesus, when we appreciate His love for us and all that He has done for us, we will be moved and touched, and we will repent and believe into Him.

We simply have no choice but believe into the Lord. We may tell Him,

O Lord, thank You for dying for me. Thank You for shedding Your blood for me. Thank You for loving me so much. I repent of my sinful past. I believe into You. I love You. I give myself to You. I just want to live for You!

When we repent and believe into the Lord, we are grafted into Christ, and we grow with Him in the likeness of His death.

Rom. 6:5 says that, if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

When we repent and believe into the Lord, we grow with Him in the likeness of His death.

We experience the cutting that the Lord did on the cross, and we are grafted into Christ to grow together with Him.

This is what a successful grafting is. In order to have a successful grafting, both of the parts need to be cut.

First, the tree needs to be cut, for there needs to be an opening where the branch is grafted.

Then, the branch to be grafted needs to be cut. These two are put together, and there is a kiss.

There’s an organic union between the branch and the tree, and this organic union is strengthened so that the two grow together.

First, they grow together in death, for they both have been cut and there is an open wound.

Then, they grow together in resurrection and multiplication of life, for the tree grows in the branch and the branch grows by receiving the supply from the tree.

The Lord on His side was cut on the cross; He died in the flesh and was resurrected in the Spirit (1 Pet. 3:18).

He was cut and He became a life-giving Spirit, preparing the way for us to be grafted into Christ.

Now once we repent and believe into Christ, we are grafted into Christ, and we grow together with Christ in the likeness of His death.

Then, we grow together with Him in the likeness of His resurrection, for we enjoy the rich supply of the resurrection life and we grow together with the Lord.

All this is happening in our spirit; our being joined to the Lord is in spirit, and it is because He became a life-giving Spirit that He can be joined to us and we can have an organic union with the Lord.

How amazing it is that we and God can be grafted together!

What He is, what He passed through, what He obtained, and what He has attained are all things we can enjoy now.

His history is our history, His death and resurrection are ours, and we are growing together with Him in the likeness of His death and in the likeness of His resurrection.

Because we have been joined to Him, His life becomes our life, HIs experience becomes our experience, and we are growing together with Him.

We are now crucified with Christ and it is no longer us who live but it is Christ who lives in us.

Praise the Lord, we still live, but the life we live in the flesh is in faith and by faith, in the organic union with the Lord (Gal. 2:20).

In the death and resurrection of Christ we were grafted together with Christ and now we have a new life, a new living, and a new source. Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for grafting us into Yourself through our repentance and faith into Christ. Hallelujah, by repenting and believing into the Lord Jesus we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, and now we are growing with Him in the likeness of His resurrection! Amen, Lord Jesus, we exercise our spirit to enjoy You and partake of all Your riches today. Keep us in the organic union with You in our spirit. Amen, dear Lord Jesus, we want to live in the organic union with You in our mingled spirit so that all You are becomes ours. May Your experience become our experience and Your history be our history. May all that You are be infused and dispensed into us so that we may grow together with You in the likeness of Your death and resurrection. Grow in us today. Keep us absorbing and enjoying Your riches in the organic union with You. Praise the Lord for His life in us! Hallelujah, we can grow in Christ and with Christ, and we can live a grafted life today by being in 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 Ray Mulligan in the message for this week, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994- 1997, vol. 5, “The Experience of God’s Organic Salvation Equaling Reigning in Christ’s Life,” ch. 4, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Christian Life (2024 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, The Grafted Life.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – O how deep and how far-reaching / Is Thy love, dear Lord, to me! / Far beyond my pow’r to fathom, / Deeper than the deepest sea! / It has caused Thee death to suffer / And to me Thyself impart, / That in Thee I might be grafted / And become of Thee a part. / Who can tell of all the wonders / Which Thy love for me has wrought, / Yet the greatest of these wonders / Is that Thou to me art brought. / Oh! to me Thy love has given / All Thou art as my supply; / As true life I now may share Thee / And Thy riches e’er enjoy. (Hymns #152 stanzas 1-2)
  – By His mercy, we’re selected, / Ours a glorious destiny. / Not by running, nor by willing, / But through God’s own sovereignty. / Once we were wild olive branches, / Now the root and fat partake, / Grafted in, rejoice together, / Growing for the kingdom’s sake. (Hymns #1203 stanza 7)
  – God in Spirit; I can touch Him; / In my spirit He’s the flow. / Deeper, wider, richer, fuller— / Oh, the very God I know! / As I heed “that same anointing” / Ever to “abide in Him,” / He is teaching, He is reaching, / Even all my heart to win. (Hymns #1119 stanzas 5-6)