Christ’s two becomings: Christ became flesh in incarnation and He became the Spirit in His resurrection

Through our faith in Christ we receive Christ into us as a living Person! This is the most precious result of our believing into the Lord – we get Christ, a living Person, to come into us and live in us! On the one hand, Christ is in the heavens at the right hand of God, but on the other hand, experientially, Christ is dwelling in all His believers (Rom. 8:10, 34)!

Our Christ is not only in the heavens – our Christ is also in our spirit as the Spirit, dwelling in us and even witnessing with our spirit that we are children of God (Rom. 8:16). For this to happen, Christ went through two main processes – Christ had two major becomings:

1. First, Christ took the step of incarnation to become a man in the flesh (John 1:14). As a man in the flesh, Christ was the lamb of God to accomplish redemption for man (John 1:29), and to manifest the Father to the believers (John 14:9-11). In His incarnation Christ accomplished an all-inclusive redemption for man through His death, and He declared all that the Father is and has to the disciples. For the first time in the history of the universe and in the history of the earth, God became a man in a person called Jesus Christ, lived a perfect human life, died an all-inclusive death on the cross, and resurrected on the third day! In His incarnation, Christ was the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world, and He expressed God in all He did, all He spoke, and in all His living.
2. Second, Christ took the step of death and resurrection to be transfigured into the Spirit so that He might impart Himself into His believers as their life and their everything! In John 20:22 we see that Christ came to the believers and breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit! In His resurrection, the Christ in the flesh was transfigured to become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), the life-giving breath, to come into the believers for the building up of His Body, the church, the habitation of God, to express the Triune God for eternity. In His incarnation, Christ expressed God individually as a man, but in resurrection, Christ expresses the Triune God in full in a corporate way in all the believers by coming into them as the life-giving Spirit and living in them as the indwelling Christ! This is for the building up of the Body of Christ – the corporate expression of the Triune God!

These two becomings are clearly seen in the Gospel of John, the gospel of life. The gospel of John clearly reveals that Christ became flesh to be the lamb of God and in resurrection, He became the life-giving Spirit. Now as the life-giving Spirit Christ dwells in us and lives in us to express the Triune God in us and through us.

Today we enjoy the indwelling Christ as the life-giving Spirit in our daily lives – by continually turning to Him, talking to Him, and exercising our spirit to be one with the Lord!

[sharing inspired from  the Morning Revival on, The Crucial Elements of the Bible]