We’re Identified with Christ in His Death: We no longer Live but Christ Lives in us

The way for us to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is by being identified with Him in His death so that it may be no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us, and the life which we now live in the flesh we live in the faith of Christ. Amen!

The book of Galatians gives us many ways for us to enjoy and experience the blessing of the gospel, which is the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit with our spirit.

We need to be helped by the Lord through His word and His shining to get out of ourselves, out of our situation, and out of our condition, and be brought into Christ, into the enjoyment and experience of what He is.

Our Christian life is fully wrapped with all that God in Christ as the Spirit is to us; we live the Christian life not in and by ourselves but in our spirit, where we are one spirit with Christ.

However, we believers in Christ are full of concepts that block us from seeing Christ, enjoying Christ, and partaking in Christ.

It seems that the more we grow in our human life, the more we develop and learn to take care of things, the more we are filled with concepts. These concepts hinder us from seeing the Lord in a fresh way, and they darken our understanding, even veiling us from seeing the Lord’s shining.

How much we need the Lord’s mercy to drop our concepts. We need Him to shine on us and in us to penetrate through our concepts, and we need to cooperate with Him to remove any veils so that we may see Him face to face!

This is the secret: we need to see the Lord with an unveiled face so that we may be infused with Him. For this, we need to daily turn our heart to the Lord.

Our heart is so sticky – it sticks to many things, persons, and matters. Sometimes our heart sticks to a certain feeling; other times, it sticks to a certain thought or concept. We need to learn to turn our heart to the Lord and set it absolutely on Him.

And we don’t do this in and by ourselves; we turn our heart to the Lord by opening to Him, calling on His name, and asking Him to turn our heart to Him.

Oh, when our heart is turned to the Lord, the veils are taken away, and we can behold the Lord and be infused with Him!

When we are unveiled before the Lord, we are filled with the revelation of the Son of God and become a new creation in Christ, for Christ lives in us and we live Christ! Praise the Lord! May this be our reality today in our Christian life.

Enjoy the Spirit as the Blessing by being Identified with Christ in His Death so that Christ Lives in us

Galatians 2:20 gives us a very practical and applicable way for us to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit – it is by being identified with Him in His death so that it may be no longer we who live but Christ lives in us. Hallelujah!

When we believed into the Lord Jesus and were baptised, we were identified with Christ.

Rom. 6:3 tells us that we have been baptised into Christ and therefore we were baptised into His death. Baptism is not a ritual or an outward form; baptism signifies our identification with Christ.

Through baptism, the repentant people are immersed into Christ, taking Christ as their realm, so that they may be united with Him as one in His death and resurrection.

When we are baptised into Christ, we are baptised into His death. The Lord’s death separated us from the world and the satanic power of darkness and has terminated our natural life, our old nature, our self, our flesh, and even our entire history.

Through faith and baptism, we are joined to Christ – we are identified with Christ in His death. This means that we are made one with Christ; through faith and baptism we are made one with Christ. Baptism identifies us with Christ by making us one entity with Christ.

Praise the Lord, we have been baptised into Christ and into His death, and we have been identified with Christ in His death so that it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us!

In Christ’s case, His death is history; in our case, His death is a present, living, and vivid experience.

We can and should experience Christ in His death day by day. We are identified with Christ in His death, and it is no longer we who live, for we died with Christ; now it is Christ who lives in us. This is the secret of our Christian life.

How can we live the Christian life? How can we express Christ? How can we fulfill the word of God? How can we be pleasing to God? It is not by our striving or trying. It is not by our doing our best to obey God’s word and keep His promises. It is not of our own effort or struggle.

It is by being identified with Christ in His death that we can live the Christian life, for Christ lives in us and we are crucified with Christ.

This matter of identification is crucial in our Christian experience; it is a spiritual experience that we need to enter into day by day. It is not because we have achieved something or we are better than others; it is not that we have arrived at something and we are somehow more advanced.

It is because we are identified with Christ in His death; we have been crucified with Christ. We are identified with Christ in His death in order that it may be no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us (Rom. 6:3-4; Gal. 2:20).

Whatever Christ passed through is now our experience; what He experienced is ours in spirit. We are in Christ. We are one with Christ. We identify with Him, and whatever He is, whatever He has passed through, is ours.

Every day we must stand on this position of being identified with Christ. To be identified with Christ means to be one spirit with Him and even to be one entity with Him (1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17; Phil. 1:20-21).

We should not try to be something or accomplish something by ourselves or in ourselves. Christ has already done everything for us.

He came to be the reality of every positive thing. He fulfilled all the law with its requirements. He is the reality of all the offerings. We don’t need to improve ourselves; we simply need to take Christ as the reality of all the offerings day by day.

When we wake up in the morning and we come to contact the Lord, we take Him as the reality of all the offerings. He is our sin offering, our trespass offering, and our burnt offering. We simply identify ourselves with Him; we lay our hands on Him and are one with Him.

We don’t need to work up something but simply lay our hands on Him. Our defects are transferred to Him and He takes them all away; all His attributes and virtues become ours, being transferred into us.

May we enjoy Christ and live Christ in this identification with Christ.

Lord Jesus, we believe that through faith and baptism we are one with You! Amen, Lord, we are identified with Christ in His death so that we no longer live but Christ lives in us! We love You, Lord, and we open to You. We just come to You as we are; we do not struggle or strive to improve ourselves but simply lay our hands on You. You are one with us and You made us one with You. We want to remain in this organic union. Praise the Lord, through faith and baptism into Christ we have been identified with Christ in His death! Hallelujah, we have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us! Amen, Lord, live in us today. We want to remain in the identification with Christ in our mingled spirit and let You live in us. We take You as the reality of all the offerings. We want to remain one with You in Your death so that it is no longer us who live but Christ who lives in us. Amen, Lord, live in us today!

No Longer we who Live but Christ Lives in us and we Live in the Faith of Christ

Galatians 2:20 is a wonderful verse giving us a window into what the Christian life is according to God’s economy. It is not a doctrinal verse, a verse telling us about the doctrine of living Christ; it is an experiential verse, a verse that can be applied to our daily living.

We believers in Christ have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer we who live but it is Christ who lives in us. We have been identified with Christ in His death, and it is Christ living in us today.

Yet we live; we have not been replaced by Christ, nor is our life and person exchanged with Christ’s life and person, but we still live. We still live a life in the flesh, yet this life is not in and by ourselves but by faith in Christ, even by the faith of Christ.

We need to take this verse and pray over it very much, taking every word and phrase before the Lord and mixing it with our spirit of faith, asking the Lord to make this real to us in our experience.

No longer I but Christ – oh Lord, what does this mean? Christ lives in me – Lord Jesus, make this real to us! We no longer live, yet we live in the flesh, and we live by faith in Christ – Lord, bring us into the reality of this fact today!

It is a fact that we have been crucified with Christ. This has been accomplished, for we are identified with Christ in His death.

Our old man has been crucified with Christ; this is an accomplished fact (Rom. 6:6). We need to exercise our spirit and stand on this spiritual fact.

Based on the fact that we have been identified with Christ in His death, we no longer live but Christ lives in us. And the life which we now live in the flesh, we live by Christ as our faith, even live in the faith of Christ.

It is not our faith – we don’t have faith in ourselves, but it is Christ living in us who becomes our faith.

We have faith when we see Christ, when we enjoy Christ, and when we appreciate Christ. When we come to the Lord and just touch Him, see Him, and enjoy Him, faith rises up in us, for faith is our reaction to His attraction.

Faith is nothing but Christ infusing Himself into us to become our ability to believe. The more we touch Christ, the more we enjoy Christ, the more He becomes our faith by which we live.

Our living as Christians is in faith and by faith, that is, we live in the faith of Christ, for Christ becomes our faith.

People around us still see that we live, we eat, sleep, study, work, and do all kinds of things. But our reality is that yes, we still live, but we don’t live by anything of ourselves but by Christ as our faith. We live in the faith of Christ, we live by the faith of Christ, and Christ lives in us.

Christ is the One who lives in us, for we are one with Him. So it’s actually not our living – it is Christ’s living, for we live no longer, but Christ lives in us.

We still have a living, for we need to do many things in our daily life, yet this living is not by ourselves or in ourselves but Christ living in us.

The more He lives in us, the more we realise His preciousness. We simply appreciate Him, and we have faith; we react to His preciousness by believing into Him and living by faith (2 Cor. 5:14-15; Heb. 12:2).

This is not a life by ourselves but by Christ; we are terminated, we no longer live, we are finished, for we have been crucified with Christ, yet we live, for Christ lives in us and we live Christ. We still live, yet we don’t live by something of ourselves but by Christ Himself as our faith. Hallelujah!

This is a fact. We need to pray much before the Lord over Galatians 2:20 so that the Lord would make this real to us.

The way for us to receive, enjoy, and experience Christ as the Spirit, the blessing of the gospel, is by being identified with Christ in His death and living by the faith of Christ, even by Christ as our faith.

How do we do this? We need to find many ways throughout the day to contact the Lord. We may have a time with Him in the morning, and we may take some verses to enjoy before Him in spirit. We may even write them down and keep them with us to consider and reconsider them throughout the day.

Then, we set some times of prayer and contact the Lord during the day. We call on His name to fan our spirit into flame. When we call on the name of the Lord, we live Christ (Rom. 10:13).

May we learn to contact the Lord throughout the day, standing on the fact that we have been identified with Christ in His death and we no longer live but Christ lives in us, and the life we live in the flesh we live in faith, in the oneness with the Lord!

Lord Jesus, bring us into the reality of no longer I but Christ who lives in me! Amen, Lord, we believe that we have been crucified with Christ. Hallelujah, we are identified with Christ in His death, and we no longer live! Amen, Lord, the life we now live in the flesh we live in faith, the faith of the Son of God! Wow, Christ the Son of God is so wonderful, so precious, and so enjoyable, and He has become our faith! We love You, Lord Jesus, and we thank You for loving us and giving Yourself up for us! Amen, we still live, but we don’t live by anything of ourselves – we live by Christ as our faith! Praise the Lord, Christ is the One who lives in us, and we live one spirit with Him! Live in us today, Lord Jesus. We no longer live but Christ lives in us. How precious and wonderful Christ is! We love You, Lord, and we appreciate You. You are our faith. We live by faith. Keep us contacting You throughout the day so that You may live in us and we may live Christ!

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 James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” ch. 13, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 20 (msg. 8), The Way to Receive, Experience, and Enjoy the All-inclusive Christ as the All-inclusive Life-giving Spirit— the Aggregate of the All-embracing Blessing of the Full Gospel of God.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – I am crucified with Christ, / And the cross hath set me free; / I have ris’n again with Christ, / And He lives and reigns in me. / Oh! it is so sweet to die with Christ, / To the world, and self, and sin; / Oh! it is so sweet to live with Christ, / As He lives and reigns within. (Hymns #482 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – What a wondrous fact, I’m crucified with Christ; / Of my flesh and passion I’m relieved; / What a glorious fact, with Christ, the Lord, I live, / Resurrection life in Him received. / On the Cross of Calvary the Lord and I / Were crucified, were crucified; / Now in resurrection life with Him I live / And in Him e’er abide. (Hymns #487)
  – I am crucified with Jesus, / And He lives and dwells with me; / I have ceased from all my struggling, / ’Tis no longer I, but He. / All my will is yielding to Him, / And His Spirit reigns within; / And His precious blood each moment / Keeps me cleansed and free from sin. (Hymns #564 stanza 2)