As believers in Christ, we can and should experience the Spirit of Christ in resurrection simply by being in our spirit, for the Spirit is with our spirit to supply us with the power of His resurrection, the transcendency of His ascension, and the authority of His enthronement whenever we turn to Him. Hallelujah!
The Bible is quite an amazing book, and the main person presented in this book is the Triune God; God is one yet three, three yet one – He is Triune.
On one hand, God is one, for there’s no other God but Him; on the other hand, He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and He works in His Divine Trinity throughout the Bible to dispense Himself into man.
Even more, the Bible starts with the mention of “the Spirit of God” brooding on the surface of the waters, then we see the Spirit of Jehovah and the Spirit of the Lord in the Old Testament.
In the Gospels we see “the Holy Spirit”, in Acts we see “the Spirit of Jesus”, and in the Epistles, we see “the Spirit of Christ”, “the Spirit of Jesus Christ”, and, “the Spirit”.
So, how many Spirits are there? And why are there so many names?
The Bible is both economical and specific when it comes to mentioning the name of God; in particular circumstances and in regards to specific situations and people, according to God’s desire, the name of God can be a different one.
The Spirit of God refers to the Spirit of God having divinity in Himself, while the Spirit of Jehovah refers to the desire of God to be related to man, for He comes to have a relationship with man.
The Holy Spirit refers to the matter of the sanctification, sanctifying, leading, and even interdicting man from doing things.
The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of the man Jesus with His human living and the capacity to endure sufferings; Jesus was God yet man, and the emphasis is His humanity, His human living, and His endurance of sufferings.
What about the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and even what about the Spirit?
Today we want to see that the Spirit of Christ refers to the Spirit of Christ in resurrection; this Spirit contains God’s divinity, Christ’s incarnation, His human living, His crucifixion, His resurrection, and His ascension.
All these are compounded or put together in the Spirit of Christ. On one hand, the Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of the One who was incarnated to be our Savior and who suffered in His human life, so in this Spirit, we have the endurance to suffer.
On the other hand, the Spirit of Christ filled with His resurrection and ascension, the power to overcome death and transcend it. Hallelujah!
In all our circumstances and situations, we can experience the Spirit of Christ simply by turning to our spirit and remaining in our mingled spirit, for in our spirit we are joined and mingled with the Spirit!
The Spirit of Christ refers to the Spirit of Christ in Resurrection with the Power of Resurrection, the Transcendency of His Ascension, and the Authority of His Enthronement
Rom. 8:9 says that we are in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in us; yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
The Spirit of Christ, which is used interchangeably in this verse with the Spirit of God, refers to the Spirit of Christ in resurrection.
Jesus refers to the man, God incarnated in the flesh to pass through human living, live a life of sufferings, and eventually died on the cross.
Christ refers to the Messiah, the anointed One of God, the One sent by God to fulfill His purpose.
We may use the titles Jesus and Christ loosely and interchangeably, but each refer to a specific aspect of the Lord.
Jesus in particular refers to His humanity as a man with the sufferings and death; Christ is glorious, the One whom all the Jews were expecting to come as Messiah, the One anointed by God to carry out His commission and who entered into resurrection.
![Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man shown by God to you to be approved by works of power and wonders and signs, which God did through Him in your midst, even as you yourselves know - This man, delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you, through the hand of lawless men, nailed to [a] [cross] and killed; Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held by it. Acts 2:22-24](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Men-of-Israel-hear-these-words-Jesus-the-Nazarene-a-man-shown-by-God-to-you-to-be-approved-by-works-of-power.jpg?resize=450%2C675&ssl=1 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man shown by God to you to be approved by works of power and wonders and signs, which God did through Him in your midst, even as you yourselves know - This man, delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you, through the hand of lawless men, nailed to [a] [cross] and killed; Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held by it. Acts 2:22-24")
The Spirit of Christ, therefore, refers to the Spirit of Christ in resurrection.
There is one Spirit, and in this Spirit, the entire Triune God is realized; this is the triune Spirit of the Triune God (John 4:24; 2 Cor. 3:17; Rom. 8:11).
The Spirit of Christ implies that this Spirit is the embodiment and reality of Christ, the incarnated One who accomplished God’s plan, died an all-inclusive death on the cross to terminate all negative things, and was raised from the dead and now has the power of resurrection.
The Spirit of Christ includes not only divinity (which He possessed from eternity) but also humanity (which He obtained through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
Such a One lives in us, in our mingled spirit, to impart Himself with all that He is and has accomplished, into our being, so that He may deal with any death in us and bring our whole being into resurrection.
With Jesus, we see the suffering, but with Christ we see the resurrection power, the overcoming of death, the transcendency of resurrection, and the authority of His enthronement (Phil. 3:10; Eph. 1:20-21; 2:6; John 11:25; Acts 2:22-24, 31-36).
On the one hand, the Spirit of Jesus in Acts 16:7 did not allow the apostles to go somewhere or preach the gospel in a certain place.
On the other hand, the Spirit of Christ lives and dwells in us to swallow up all the death and bring our being fully in resurrection.
When we are under persecution and in suffering, the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus with abundant strength to face the suffering and endure it.
When we turn to our spirit and enjoy this Christ, He becomes the Spirit of Christ to supply us with all that He is to live an overcoming Christian life.
In Rom. 8:9-11 we see the Spirit of Christ who raises up from any kind of death-element and animates us by imparting life into us.
We were dead in sins and offenses, and we may still be in some sort of death in our daily life, but the Spirit of Christ can save us from any kind of death. Hallelujah!
The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of the incarnate and suffering Jesus; the Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of the resurrected and life-giving Christ.
By the Spirit of Jesus, we can share in the fellowship of His sufferings and we can be conformed to His death; by the Spirit of Christ, we can partake of the power of His resurrection (Phil. 3:10).
By the Spirit of Jesus, we believers in Christ can share the Lord’s humanity and His suffering strength.
By the Spirit of Christ, we partake of His resurrection life, His resurrection power, His transcendency over all things, and His reigning authority.
Praise You Lord Jesus for not only being incarnated and dying on the cross for our sins but also for resurrecting to become a life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah, today the Lord is the Spirit, and this Spirit is the Spirit of Christ in resurrection to richly impart the resurrection life with its power into us! Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You to experience You not only as the Spirit of jesus with abundant strength to face the sufferings but also as the Spirit of Christ in resurrection with His resurrection power, His transcendency, and His reigning authority! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and we can experience and enjoy Christ’s resurrection power in our daily life!
Experience the Spirit of Christ to be Released from Death by Remaining in our Spirit
The New Testament makes a distinction between the Spirit of Jesus and the Spirit of Christ, each being applied or present in particular situations and related to a particular aspect of God’s organic salvation.
It is good to know the difference and to understand what the Spirit of Jesus is and what the Spirit of Christ refers to, but what does this have to do with us, and how can we experience the Spirit of Christ?
Rom. 8:9-10 gives us the key: the Spirit of Christ dwells in our spirit, and this Spirit makes our spirit life because of righteousness.
When we turn to our spirit, contact the Lord in spirit, and remain in our mingled spirit, life is imparted to our soul, and our inner being is filled with the death-overcoming life of Christ.
The Spirit of Christ is actually Christ Himself dwelling in our spirit to impart Himself into us as resurrection life and power so that any death in our being may be dealt with and eliminated (Rom. 8:2, 9).
Initially, we have been saved from death, for God in Christ as the Spirit of life came to mingle Himself with our spirit.
However, throughout the day we may experience death in our soul, simply by being involved with the things in the world, listening to the news, or just living our human life.
Death comes in many forms and shapes and sizes, and it can be sudden, creeping, quick, slow, or subtle; however, we are released from death and experience the power of resurrection of Christ when we experience the Spirit of Christ by remaining in our spirit.
Christ has the resurrection power in His life, and this resurrection life overcomes any death; such a One lives in us as the Spirit of Christ to rescue us from any death, release us from death, and impart the resurrection life with its power into us.
When we turn to our spirit, when we set our mind on our spirit, our mind becomes life (Rom. 8:6), and because the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, He imparts life even into our mortal body to make our body life. Praise the Lord!
We are joined to the Lord in spirit, and the Spirit of Christ dwells in us and is mingled with us; in this Spirit is all we need to overcome any kind of death and to experience the power of resurrection.
If we just turn to our spirit and remain in our spirit, we experience being released from death, and the resurrection power and life are ours.
![Which He caused to operate in Christ in raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenlies, Far above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this age but also in that which is to come. Eph. 1:20-21 And raised [us] up together with [Him] and seated [us] together with [Him] in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Eph. 2:6](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Which-He-caused-to-operate-in-Christ-in-raising-Him-from-the-dead-and-seating-Him-at-His-right-hand-in-the-heavenlies.jpg?resize=450%2C675&ssl=1 "Which He caused to operate in Christ in raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenlies, Far above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this age but also in that which is to come. Eph. 1:20-21 And raised [us] up together with [Him] and seated [us] together with [Him] in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Eph. 2:6")
We all can testify of this; many times we may feel so low, so dead, and in ourselves and by ourselves we can’t do anything to get ourselves out of it.
But when we just turn to our spirit by calling on the name of the Lord from deep within, something happens in us: resurrection life fills us, and our mind becomes life!
When we take the initiative to call on the Lord, read and pray His Word, and put ourselves under the hearing of faith either personally or in the meetings with the saints, we experience the Spirit of Christ imparting the divine life to swallow any kind of death.
In Luke 24 the Lord Jesus was walking in His resurrection with two of His disciples on their way down to Emmaus, and He opened the Scriptures and their mind to understand that Christ will suffer and enter into glory.
Hallelujah, Christ is now in glory – He is in resurrection, He has the resurrection power that overcomes any kind of death, and He has the transcendency of His ascension and the authority of His enthronement!
And we are organically joined to Him in spirit, so whenever we turn to our spirit and remain in our mingled spirit, we experience His resurrection life and power, we’re released from any death, and our whole being is filled with life.
Even more, we are identified with Him in the transcendency of His ascension and in the authority of His enthronement, for we are fully one with Him in spirit! Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, we want to turn to our spirit and simply remain in the mingled spirit so that we may experience the Spirit of Christ with His resurrection life and power. Amen, Lord, operate in us to swallow up any kind of death and impart the divine life into all the parts of our being. We set our mind on our spirit, dear Lord, so that our mind may become life. May the Spirit impart life even into our mortal body so that our entire tripartite being would be filled with life! Oh Lord, we want to experience the Spirit of Christ so that we may partake of the power of Your resurrection, be identified with You in the transcendency of Your ascension, and be one with You in the authority of Your enthronement! Hallelujah, amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1965, vol. 1, “The All-inclusive Spirit of Christ,” chs. 2, 12, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living In and With the Divine Trinity (2021 Thanksgiving Day Conference), week 5, entitled, Living with the Divine Trinity (2) God Operating in us.
- Hymns on this topic:
– With all these components true / His Spirit in us doth move, / And by His anointing full / The riches of Christ we prove. / This Spirit of Jesus doth / Encompass both great and small; / Inclusively He doth work / In us, making God our all. (Hymns #242)
– Christ has made me more than conqu’ror, / By His mighty victory, / Now His resurrection power / From my spirit strengthens me! / Death by Him has been abolished, / Incorrupted life is shown; / Death’s enthralling bonds are broken, / Resurrection life is known. (Hymns #540)
– One with Thee in resurrection, / Risen now to live in Thee, / With that life which is Thyself, Lord, / Now in me, Lord, even me. / One with Thee, one with Thee, / One with Thee, one with Thee; / Day by day I share Thy riches, / Thou art everything to me. (Hymns #474)
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