Lay Hold on Eternal Life to Which we are Called to Fight the Good Fight of the Faith

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses. 1 Tim. 6:12

As believers in Christ who love Him and pursue Him both personally and corporately, we fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life; we lay hold on eternal life by living by this life so that we may be able to fight the good fight of the faith.

As we are preparing ourselves for the Lord’s coming, we need to first fight the good fight, second, run and finish the course, and third, keep the faith.

When we live such a life, we prepare ourselves for the Lord’s coming, and He will reward us at His return.

When we speak of keeping the faith, we need to realize that faith has an objective aspect and a subjective aspect.

When the Bible speaks of “the faith”, it refers to the objective aspect, the things we believe in for us to be saved; this is the faith we are keeping and holding to, for this is God’s economy.

Faith is the entire contents of God’s economy, and all genuine believers in Christ hold to this faith to be saved.

We may differ in our practices and we may have certain doctrines that differ from others, but as long as we hold to the faith, the objective faith related to the person and work of Christ, we are saved, and we are brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Faith has also a subjective aspect; in the New Testament, it is mainly translated as belief or believing.

How can we have this subjective faith? How can we believe?

The subjective faith is produced by the objective faith.

When we hear, see, and receive the objective faith, this objective faith produces a reaction in us, an ability that we call faith, our believing.

When we say that we need to keep the faith, we don’t mean that we need to only keep the objective faith but even more, we let the objective faith become the subjective faith in us as our ability to believe.

One way to illustrate this is by watching TV; when we watch something on TV, it is being infused into us, and the scenery we watch is imprinted in our being.

When we come to the word of God and attend the meetings of the church, we watch the heavenly television.

We have the eternal economy played before us, and we are infused with the divine scenery.

What we watch in the Word of God and in the meetings of the church is the divine opera, the divine entertainment, and the heavenly divine television, having God’s economy displayed before us.

We are watching the divine television of God’s complete salvation being played before us, and this infuses us with the divine reality of all that Christ is.

As a result, we simply believe into the Lord, for the Lord Jesus with His preciousness is being televised into our being.

The objective faith we see produces faith in us, for Christ infuses us with Himself as our faith.

We all can testify that many times, as long as we “drag our bones” to the meetings of the church, we are infused with the divine and heavenly television and, when we leave the meetings, we are vital, refreshed, and filled with faith, for Christ has been infused into us to become our believing ability. Hallelujah!

We Fight the Good Fight of the Faith by Laying Hold on the Eternal Life, to Which we were Called

But because of this I was shown mercy, that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might display all His long-suffering for a pattern to those who are to believe on Him unto eternal life. 1 Tim. 1:16 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus...But now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who nullified death and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel. 2 Tim. 1:1, 10We believers in Christ treasure our faith very much; it is our speciality in the church life, and we do not deny it but rather, we hold to it, treasure it, exercise it, and fight for it.

Paul told Timothy to fight the good fight of the faith (1 Tim. 6:12); we need to fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life, to which we were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

What does it mean to fight for the faith? What is this good fight of the faith?

To fight for the faith is to fight for God’s New Testament economy, which is the contents of the faith.

We do not fight for doctrines, practices, and teachings; we fight for the faith.

We may hold very dear the practice of calling on the name of the Lord audibly, and we get so much life and supply by practicing to pray-read the word of God.

But we do not fight for calling on the Lord with other believers, neither do we fight for pray-reading the word.

Rather, we fight for the faith, which is the content of God’s New Testament economy.

We fight for Christ as the embodiment of God and for the church as the Body of Christ.

Some may disagree with us concerning the matter of having one local church in one city, but as long as they keep the faith, they are our dear brothers and sisters in the Lord.

We may have discovered so many deeper truths in the Bible, but we don’t fight with others for them; we fight the good fight of the faith – we fight for the faith.

We have realized how much life and life supply we get when we have life practices such as calling on the Lord, singing, praying over the Word of God, prophesying, musing on God’s word, declaring the hymns, and exercising our spirit to speak for the Lord.

We treasure these practices, but we do not fight for any life practices – we fight for the faith.

As long as a Christian believes in the person and work of Christ and as long as they believe that the Body is one both universally and locally, we fight for the faith together, for they are brothers and sisters in the Lord.

We may feel that many believers are lacking today, for they do not have a way to enjoy and experience Christ as life as we do; however, as long as they hold to the faith, they are our dear brothers and sisters in the Lord.

In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the times of the ages. Titus 1:2 In order that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:7The faith is something specific in the church life, and we fight for nothing else but the faith.

We fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life.

This means that we don’t fight for the faith by standing on a pedestal and arguing with everyone about the faith; rather, we fight for the faith by enjoying, partaking of, and living by the divine life.

We fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life, to which we were called.

We were called to the eternal life; we were called to enjoy and partake of the eternal life.

This is not only an objective fight by standing on the side of the truth in God’s eternal economy; this is also a subjective fight, a fight by laying hold on the eternal life.

We believers in Christ have received another life in addition to our human life; we have the divine life of God, and we need to live by this life, enjoy this life, and express this life.

Especially today, in the age of the degradation of the church, eternal life is very important, even vital, to our Christian life and church life.

For us to carry out God’s economy concerning the church, confront the process of the church’s decline, and maintain a good order in the church life, the eternal life is a prerequisite (1 Tim. 1:16; 6:19; 2 Tim. 1:1, 10; Titus 1:2; 3:7).

Lord Jesus, we want to fight the good fight of the faith today by laying hold on the eternal life. Hallelujah, we have received the life of God, the eternal, uncreated, divine life of God in us, and we can live by this life! Oh Lord, we want to stand one with You and one with our fellow believers in Christ to fight the good fight of the faith. We do not fight for doctrines, teachings, or practices, no matter how good and spiritual they are; we fight for the faith. Amen, Lord, we want to fight for the faith by laying hold on the eternal life and not trusting in our human life. We exercise our spirit to be one spirit with You. We want to live one spirit with You today. We put ourselves aside and we want to live by the eternal life in our spirit. Amen, Lord, may Your life flow in us, grow in us, and be expressed through us. May Your life within us strengthen us and empower us to fight the good fight of the faith together with all the genuine believers in Christ.

Lay Hold on Eternal Life by Enjoying and Living this Life, Not Trusting our Human Life

Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life. 1 Tim. 6:19

We believers in Christ were called into the eternal life of God (1 Tim. 6:12). This life is that which is really life (1 Tim. 6:19).

There are many kinds of life, including the vegetable life, the animal life, and the human life, but the divine life is the life that is really life.

We were born of our human parents to have the human life, and we were reborn to have the divine life of God; that which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6; 1:12).

Now we are those who live by this eternal life which we have received.

But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness. Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses. 1 Tim. 6:11-12We are learning to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and meekness, and we fight for God’s New Testament economy and lay hold on eternal life (1 Tim. 6:11-12).

We are pursuing Christ with those who love Him and call on Him out of a pure heart (2 Tim. 2:22).

As the Timothys of today, we are those who lay hold on eternal life, that is, we don’t trust our natural human life but live by the divine life.

When we received God’s life into us, we became a God-man, and now we are learning to live by this life.

By default, we are in the natural life and live by it, but we are learning to live by the divine life and express it.

To lay hold on eternal life to which we were called is to exercise our spirit to live by this life, express this life, and allow this life to be manifested in us.

The fact that we are called to the eternal life doesn’t mean that we have been called to blessings in heaven; rather, it means that we have been called to enjoy and live by the divine life.

The eternal life doesn’t mainly refer to the blessings we will receive in the future; it refers to our daily living today.

We are called to eternal life for us to live by the eternal life, that is, to live in our daily living a life not by our natural life but by the divine life.

We fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life to which we are called.

On one hand, we fight for the faith by declaring the truth and speaking the truth of God’s eternal economy.

On the other hand, we fight for the faith by living by the eternal life in our spirit.

Even when we speak to our spouse and our children or when we do some shopping, we fight the good fight of the faith when we lay hold on eternal life to live by this life.

We need to exercise our spirit all the time, throughout the day, to live by the divine life and not by our human life.

To fight the good fight of the faith in the Christian life, we need to lay hold on eternal life and not trust in human life.

This seems to be impossible, for we are natural, human, and fallen, and by default, we trust in ourselves and in our human life.

The whole world teaches us and encourages us to live in ourselves, by ourselves, for ourselves, and to express ourselves.

The more “yourself” you are, the more they appreciate you and uplift you. Oh, Lord.

We believers in Christ are here to live by another life. We are here to lay hold on eternal life and live by this life.

Indeed, we must be human, but we are Jesusly human, not human in a natural way. We live by the life of Jesus in our spirit.

Eternal life should be our life today, a life for our present daily living. By our first birth, the physical birth, we received the adamic life. But because we have been called to eternal life, we should no longer live the adamic life, the natural life. Yes, we must be truly human, even Jesusly human, but not in our natural life. On the contrary, we need to live a human life by the eternal life. We have been called to this life, and now we need to live it. I am deeply burdened concerning this matter of being called to the eternal life. I am especially concerned for those dear saints who have been distracted from the eternal life to which we have been called and who have become preoccupied with other things. We have been called uniquely to eternal life. This life, the divine life, is actually the Triune God Himself. Having been called to eternal life, we now should lay hold on this life, live this life, and have our whole being according to this life. Life-study of 1 Timothy, 2nd ed., pp. 101-102, by Witness LeeWe live a human life by the eternal life; we have been called to this life, and now we live by this life.

Even though there are so many distractions today and there are many things, persons, and situations that may preoccupy us, we need to keep turning to our spirit and live by the divine life in our spirit.

We have been called uniquely to the eternal life, which is the Triune God Himself being our life.

As those called to eternal life, we should now lay hold on this life, live this life, and even have our whole being according to this life.

And this is not something theoretical or doctrinal; this is something we practice and live in our daily living.

We daily contact the Lord, We daily check with Him about all things.

And we constantly call on His name, learning to live by Him, with Him, and live Him out.

He is life in us. Christ is our life (Col. 3:4), and He is also the hope of glory in us (1:27).

We take Him and live by Him, even live because of Him and one with Him (John 6:57; 1 Cor. 6:17).

It is good to check with the Lord in this matter and be before Him concerning this, telling Him,

Lord Jesus, thank You for calling us to eternal life. Hallelujah, we have the eternal life of God in our spirit, and we have been called uniquely to this life. Amen, Lord, we want to live by Your life, not trusting our natural life but allowing Your life to live in us and be expressed through us. We come to you again and again, Lord. You see how many things are trying to distract us and preoccupy us. Cause us to see our calling: we have been called to eternal life, to live by this life and express this life. Amen, Lord, we want to live by the eternal life today so that we may fight the good fight of the faith. We take You as our life. Keep us checking with You in all things so that we may allow You to live in us. May we be not just human in our living but Jesusly human, human in a divine way by allowing the divine life to be expressed in us. Keep us coming back to You, dear Lord, concerning all things, so that You may be expressed through us.

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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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of 1 Timothy, msg. 12, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course, Keeping the Faith, and Loving the Lord’s Appearing in Order to Receive the Reward of Christ as the Crown of Righteousness (2024 ICSC), week 3, Keeping the Faith.
  • Similar articles on this topic:
    Eternal Life and New Jerusalem (3), via, New Jerusalem blog.
    Our faith, testimony, and history, via, An Open Letter.
    Laying hold on eternal life, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon, Chapter 12, by Witness Lee.
    The Error of Denying That the Infinite God Became a Finite Man through Incarnation, via, Contending for the Faith.
    The charge to a man of God, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon, Chapter 12, by Witness Lee.
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  • Hymns on this topic:
    – The myst’ry of the common faith, / A conscience pure requires; / A holy, separated life / For us the Lord desires. / This outline of the healthy words, / In faith and love we’ll hold; / All different teaching, fruitless talk, / Reject with spirit bold. (Hymns #1285 stanzas 3-4)
    – Given us, given us, God has given us / Precious faith, power divine, greatest promises. / We believed, we received, now we have all three; / By these we may grow unto maturity. / Precious faith in each saint, precious equally, / Precious faith holding us, holding ceaselessly. / Disagree or agree, still it holds us fast, / Day by day, eternally this faith shall last. (Hymns #1211 stanzas 1-2)
    – Ever tender, quiet, restful, / Inclinations put away, / That Thou may for me choose freely / As Thy finger points the way. / Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, / For my very life art Thou; / Thee I take to all my problems / As the full solution now. (Hymns #403 stanza 4)
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A God-man is a normal believer in Christ; the author of this article is one who is learning to be a normal Christian, a daily enjoyer of Christ, a living and functioning member in the Body of Christ. Amen, Lord, make us such ones for the building up of the Body of Christ!

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brother L.
brother L.
3 months ago

In 1 Timothy 6:12 Paul specifically says that we have been called to eternal life. No other book in the New Testament speaks of “the eternal life, to which you were called.”…Do you realize that you have been called to eternal life? This eternal life does not mainly refer to blessings in the future. To be called to eternal life does not mean that we have been called to enjoy blessings in heaven. Eternal life should be our life today, a life for our present daily living. By our first birth, the physical birth, we received the adamic life. But because we have been called to eternal life, we should no longer live the adamic life, the natural life. Yes, we must be truly human, even Jesusly human, but not in our natural life. On the contrary, we need to live a human life by the eternal life. We have been called to this life, and now we need to live it. I am deeply burdened concerning this matter of being called to the eternal life. I am especially concerned for those dear saints who have been distracted from the eternal life to which we have been called and who have become preoccupied with other things. We have been called uniquely to eternal life. This life, the divine life, is actually the Triune God Himself. Having been called to eternal life, we now should lay hold on this life, live this life, and have our whole being according to this life.

Life-study of 1 Timothy, 2nd ed., pp. 101-102, by Witness Lee

Stefan M.
Stefan M.
3 months ago

We fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on eternal life.

Our good confession today is that we do not trust in ourselves but live by the divine life, the eternal life, in our spirit.

We have been called to this life, and we need to live it.

May we be saved from any distraction and frustration and simply turn to the Lord again and again so that we may live by His life, not by our natural life.

Lord Jesus, we turn to You. Oh Lord Jesus! We want to be in our spirit today. We want to live by the eternal life in our spirit, not by our natural life or by the flesh. Amen, may we fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on eternal life!

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S. A.
S. A.
3 months ago

Amen, thank You Lord for the eternal life!

We no longer live by our natural life but have been called to live by the eternal life.

Our whole being should be by the eternal life, we no longer need to live by our human life, we should not be distracted.

Lord may we live by the eternal life in this present day, amen. Amen Lord, may we turn away from the flesh

Moh S.
Moh S.
3 months ago

Amen!

The good confession in 1 Tim 6:12 refers to the good faith, the full gospel that Christians believe.

Lord Jesus may we confess such a good confession and may we live by the eternal life to which we were called!!

Christian A.
Christian A.
3 months ago

Amen brother. Some attempt to live a Jesusly-human life by their natural adamic life.

We on the contrary should live a human life by the eternal life.

We have been called to eternal life and we should trust in this life and reject our natural life.

Eternal life should be our life today; a life for our present daily living.

Only by the eternal life can we truly fight for God’s New Testament economy.

K. P.
K. P.
3 months ago

1 Tim. 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

1 Tim. 6:19 Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.

Praise the Lord! 😃🙌🙋🏼

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Richard C.
Richard C.
3 months ago

Dear brother, we were born of Adam with its natural, human life but we have been reborn with the divine, eternal life that we may live the Christian life.

Now we must live our human life by laying hold of the etermal life with its divine nature.

Our living, even our speaking and our shopping, should be according to this eternal life.

In so doing we our fighting the good fight of the faith subjectively to carry out God’s New Testament economy, confront the decline of the church and maintain the order in the church.

Lord deepen our subjective our experiences of laying hold of this life!

A. K.
A. K.
3 months ago

Amen, Lord we lay hold on the eternal life and we fight for the faith. May we never compromise the truth.

Mario V.
Mario V.
3 months ago

To fight for the faith means to fight for God’s New Testament economy, in particular, it is to fight for Christ as the embodiment of God and for the church as the Body of Christ.

It is also to lay hold on the divine life in order to carry out God’s economy concerning the church, to confront the process of the church’s decline, and to maintain good order in the church life.

Lord Jesus thank You that in the divine economy, You have been processed in order for You to become our life. Thank You that we have been called to this eternal life.

Grace us to take the eternal life to be our life today, a life for our present daily living. Grow in us unto maturity.🙏🙏🙏

Alan T.
Alan T.
3 months ago

07/03/24 Keeping the Faith (Week 3, Day 3)

“In 1 Timothy 6:12b, Paul Goes on to Say, “Lay Hold on the Eternal Life, To Which You were Called””

On the one hand, we must fight the good fight for the objective faith, which concerns Christ as the embodiment of God and the church as the Body of Christ. On the other hand, we must also fight subjectively by laying hold on eternal life because the eternal life is a prerequisite:

a.) to carry out God’s economy concerning the church, as seen in 1 Timothy,

b.) to confront the process of the church’s degradation, as seen in 2 Timothy, and

c.) to maintain good order in the church life, as seen in Titus.

1 Tim. 6:12 says, “Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.” We, the believers in Christ, are the called-out ones to form the church, the called-out assembly of God. On the one hand, Christ is the embodiment of God. On the other hand, the church is the Body of Christ, as the enlargement of Christ and the dwelling place of God for His corporate expression. This is made possible by Christ, as the embodiment of God, dispensing Himself as the Spirit of life into His believers.

Through regeneration, the believers received the divine life of God. This divine life is eternal, uncreated, and incorruptible. It is through this eternal life that God can eventually accomplish His eternal economy. Therefore, in order for us to cooperate in the carrying out of His divine economy, we must lay hold on the eternal life that we have already received when we were called by God in Christ and were regenerated.

To be called to eternal life does not mean that we have been called to enjoy the spiritual blessings only in the future, but it should be our life today, a life of enjoyment of the spiritual blessings, revealed in the New Testament, for our present daily living.

In 1 Timothy 6:19, Paul urges us to “lay hold on that which is really life.” This life is the eternal life. To lay hold on eternal life means that in everything—in our daily life, in our ministry, and in our jobs—we need to attach ourselves to the divine life and to apply the divine life to every situation, not trusting in our human life.

In 1 Timothy 6:14, Paul continues, “That you keep the commandment spotless, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The commandment must refer to the charge in 1 Timothy 6:11-12. The word appearing refers to the Lord’s second coming. Paul charges Timothy to live the life of a “man of God” until the coming of the Lord Jesus. A “man of God”, a man who lives out God, should:

a.) pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and meekness

b.) fight for God’s New Testament economy

c.) lay hold on eternal life

As such, the Lord could then speak well of Timothy as one who lived on earth as the continuation of Himself.

We must be like Timothy, receiving Paul’s charge to lay hold on eternal life so that at the time of the Lord’s appearing, He will be able to say to us, “Faithful child, you have been part of My continuation. I lived on earth as a man of God. You were My continuation because you also lived the life of a man of God. You did not live by the natural life, but you lived by the eternal life.”

“Lord Jesus, we thank You for calling us unto eternal life, which we must lay hold, by enjoying the New Testament blessings today in our present living. Amen.”

J. C. A.
J. C. A.
3 months ago

In 1 Timothy 6:12 Paul specifically says that we have been called to eternal life. No other book in the New Testament speaks of “the eternal life, to which you were called.”…

𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚? 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚. 𝙏𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣. 𝙀𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜.

By our first birth, the physical birth, we received the adamic life. But because we have been called to eternal life, we should no longer live the adamic life, the natural life. Yes, 𝙬𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. 𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮, 𝙬𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩.

[Excerpt from HWMR-Wk. 3 Day 3]

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Len I.
Len I.
3 months ago

In 1 Timothy 6:12b Paul goes on to say, “Lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called.” To fight the good fight of the faith in the Christian life, we need to lay hold on this life—the eternal life, the divine life—and not trust in human life. We fight the good fight of the faith not only objectively but also subjectively by laying hold on the eternal life. We need to lay hold on the eternal life then we will be able to fight the good fight of the faith. We should not be those who have been distracted from the eternal life to which we have been called and who have become preoccupied with other things. We have been called uniquely to eternal life. This life, the divine life, is actually the Triune God Himself. Having been called to eternal life, we now should lay hold on this life, live this life, and have our whole being according to this life. Amen. Praise the Lord!

🙏🏼💖✨

agodman audio
agodman audio
3 months ago
Pak L.
Pak L.
3 months ago

Amen! We must fight for Christ by laying hold on eternal life. Remind us moment by moment to turn to this life. Save us from our naturalness and expressing ourselves. Lord, we want to be expressing You. Thank you Lord, we are called unto eternal life. Lord, we want to touch this today! Save us from being distracted from this eternal life. Keep us turning to You. Lord Jesus!

RcV Bible
RcV Bible
3 months ago

The faith here, as in 1:19 and 2 Tim. 4:7, is objective, referring to the things we believe in, the things that constitute the gospel. The mystery of the faith is mainly Christ as the mystery of God (Col. 2:2) and the church as the mystery of Christ (Eph. 3:4). A deacon in a local church should hold the mystery of the faith with full understanding in a pure conscience for the Lord’s testimony.

1 Pet. 3:9, footnote 1 on “mystery”, Recovery Version Bible

Len I.
Len I.
3 months ago

In 1 Timothy 6:12b Paul goes on to say, “Lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called.” To fight the good fight of the faith in the Christian life, we need to lay hold on this life—the eternal life, the divine life—and not trust in human life. We fight the good fight of the faith not only objectively but also subjectively by laying hold on the eternal life. We need to lay hold on the eternal life then we will be able to fight the good fight of the faith.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C88z_9EJ0Kx/

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Divine Grace
Divine Grace
3 months ago

We have been called uniquely to eternal life. This life, the divine life, is actually the Triune God Himself. Having been called to eternal life, we now should lay hold on this life, live this life, and have our whole being according to this life. ✨️

https://instagram.com/thedivinegracee?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Jon H.
Jon H.
3 months ago

Amen Lord 🙏🏼 may we be those who live by this eternal life!

R. C.
R. C.
3 months ago

Amen. O Lord Jesus we want to live in our spirit to fight the good fight.