As believers in Christ who love the Lord and pursue Him daily, we should live a grafted life, a life in which we’re one spirit with the Lord and we live in an organic union with Him, for the Bible reveals that the relationship God desires to have with man is that He and man become one. Amen!
This week we come to the second week in our morning revival on, The Christian life, and the topic for this week is, A Grafted Life.
Many of us think we understand what the Christian life is, for we have been a Christian for many years.
However, the more we think we understand and we know, the more we face the danger of the church in Laodicea, which was a degraded recovered church.
On one hand, this church was recovered, but on the other hand, because she knew so many things and had so much knowledge yet not much experience, she was degraded.
It is easy to accumulate knowledge and think that we know, but be devoid of reality and have no experience.
Throughout the years we may accumulate much knowledge without the necessary experience, without having the subjective reality of the things that we learn. Oh, Lord Jesus!
As we prayerfully consider the matter of the Christian life and also the matter of the grafted life, we need to come to the Lord afresh, ask Him to unveil us and show us something fresh from what is in His heart concerning these matters.
We may have a certain amount of knowledge of what the Christian life is and we may be familiar with the grafted life, but we very much lack the experience of living the Christian life according to God’s standard and we do not continually abide in the Lord to live a grafted life.
We need to have a revelation.
We need to be unveiled by the Lord so that the scroll of God’s eternal economy may continually be unrolled and unravelled before us so that we may see more and more of God’s economy.
We want to see more concerning the Christian life and we want to go deeper with the Lord to live a grafted life.
We should not think that, since we’re Christians and have some knowledge concerning what it means to be grafted into Christ, now we live a life of abiding in the Lord.
Abiding in the Lord is a continual matter, something that we learn to do throughout our Christian life; we can never graduate from abiding in the Lord.
How wonderful salvation is! How amazing is God’s judicial redemption and how deep is His organic salvation!
May we have our veils removed so that we may see and enter into the reality of living the Christian life by living a grafted life in our daily life today.
We Believers in Christ should Live a Grafted Life by Living one Spirit with the Lord
What is the nature of our relationship with God? In the Old Testament God was in the heavens and man was on earth; God spoke to man, inspired man, and moved man to do this and that, but He did not get inside man.
The Holy Spirit came upon certain ones and they did mighty things for God or spoke the word of God, but His Spirit could not dwell in man.
But in the New Testament, we see something very different.
1 Cor. 6:17 says that he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
As believers in Christ, we need to live a life of being one spirit with the Lord, living in the organic union with Him.
Being joined to the Lord refers to the believers’ organic union with the Lord through believing into Him (John 3:15-16).
When we believed into the Lord, we were joined to Him organically in our spirit.
Such a joining, such a union, is illustrated by that of the branches with the vine (John 15:4-5).
We are joined to the Lord as one spirit even as the branches are joined to the vine to be part of the vine, even to be one with the vine.
Such a union with our resurrected Lord Jesus can only be in our spirit; we are not joined to Him in our mind or emotion but in our spirit, for He as the Spirit came into our spirit to join Himself to us as one spirit. Praise the Lord!
We are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and today we need to live a grafted life, that is, live a life in the mingled spirit, being joined to the Lord as one spirit.
This “one spirit” in 1 Cor. 6:17 indicates that the Lord as the Spirit is mingled with our spirit.
When we were regenerated by the Lord, the Lord as the Spirit came into our spirit, and now He is one with our spirit (Rom. 8:16).
Praise the Lord, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit!
The Spirit is the realization of Christ, who became a life-giving Spirit in resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17), and He is joined to us as one spirit.
The Lord today as the Spirit is with our spirit, in our spirit, even one with us in spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). Wow!
When we realize this, when we see that we believers in Christ are one spirit with the Lord organically, for we have an organic union with Him in spirit, we will praise the Lord!
All we need to do now is live in this mingled spirit so that we may live a grafted life – a life in which our life and the Lord’s life are one, grafted together!
The Lord Jesus spoke concerning this in John 15:4-5 when He said that He’s the vine and we are the branches, and we need to abide in Him so that He may abide in us.
Praise the Lord, He is the vine, and through believing into Him we were grafted into Him to be one of His many branches!
This vine, Christ Himself, with the branches, the believers in Christ, is the organism of the Triune God in God’s economy.
God today is a vine, which is Christ the Head and the Body of Christ with all the members as the many branches in the vine.
This vine is the organism of the Triune God in God’s economy, and this vine grows with God’s riches to express God’s life and bear fruit for His glory. Praise the Lord!
Today we as believers in Christ should live a grafted life – not a life of conduct, ethics, or morality, but a grafted life in which we’re one spirit with the Lord!
We should live in an organic union with Him. Everything is in this organic union with the Lord.
When we want to serve God, our service should be in this organic union with the Lord.
When we want to pursue Him, we can do it only in this grafted life. May we remain here and live here, in the organic union with the Lord in our spirit!
Hallelujah, he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit! Praise You, Lord, for coming as the Spirit into our spirit to regenerate us and make us one spirit with You! Hallelujah, we are one spirit with the Lord, for He as the Spirit is joined to our spirit, even mingled with our spirit! Lord Jesus, we praise You for grafting us into Yourself so that we may be the many branches abiding in Christ as the vine! Hallelujah, the Spirit is mingled with our spirit and we are one spirit with the Lord, for we are grafted into Christ as the vine! Amen, Lord, thank You for coming into our spirit to make Yourself one with us. We want to live in our spirit today. We want to live a grafted life. May our daily living today be in our mingled spirit. We want to live one spirit with the Lord, living in the organic union with Him in all things. We just want to abide in You so that You can abide in us. We want to live, do everything, and have our being in the organic union with You today!
The Bible Reveals that the Relationship God Desires to have with Man is that God and Man Become One in an Organic Union
If we come back to the divine revelation in God’s word and return to the pure word of God concerning God’s relationship with man we will see that God wants to be one with man organically.
The Bible reveals that the relationship God desires to have with man is that God and man become one in an organic union (1 Cor. 6:17).
God wants to have a far deeper relationship with us than Him being our Creator and we being His creature.
He wants to be more than the Almighty God and the Master; He wants to be one with us.
This is beyond our human concept; we may think that God wants and desires our worship and respect, and we should fear Him, for He is almighty and He does all things by the word of His power.
It is true that God is almighty and all-sufficient, and it is very true that He can do all things.
But at the same time, the Bible reveals that God wants to be one with man, that is, that God wants God and man, man and God, to be one organically. Wow.
The desire of God’s heart is that He wants to be one with man; may the desire of His heart become the desire of our heart today.
In John 15:4-5 the Lord said that He is the vine and we are the branches.
In Rom. 11:17 and 24 Paul further expounds on this to show that, when we were unbelievers, we were in a wild, uncultivated olive tree, but by believing into Christ, we were grafted into Him to be partakers of the root of the fatness. Wow!
We were part of a tree that was inferior and with many problems, but through repentance and faith in Christ, we were cut from that tree and were grafted into Christ.
This is the real nature of our Christian life; the Lord Jesus is the vine tree and we are the many branches grafted into Him, and we live a grafted life.
Our life now is two lives grafted into one – the divine life and the human life were grafted into one to become one life! Hallelujah!
God desires that the divine life and the human life be joined together to become one life (John 15:1, 4-5).
Now we live a grafted life, for we realize that God is not only our Creator and the almighty God but He is also joined to us as one spirit, and we are organically joined to Him.
We are most privileged persons, for we are joined to God as one spirit!
This oneness is an organic union – a union in life, a grafted life.
In the core of our being right now, we have a grafted life; we don’t have only a human life but even more, there’s the divine life in us.
The divine life and the human life have been grafted together; the source is now the divine life, and we draw all our life and life supply from this rich source.
By faith through grace, we were grafted into Christ; we now enjoy Christ as the root of fatness, and our poorer life is subdued and Christ is being manifested and displayed in us, for we’re richly supplied.
The concept of the divine life and the human life being grafted into us is mysterious; it is something beyond the natural concept, and it is even foreign to our human thought.
This is not a matter of horticulture or landscaping or family; it is a depiction of the nature of our relationship with the Lord.
Every believer in Christ, every genuine Christian, is grafted into Christ, and he should live a grafted life.
Every genuine believer in Christ is joined to the Lord as one spirit, and the Christian life is simply living in this joining with the Lord, in the organic union with Him.
The Bible tells us that God’s desire is to be one with us. Praise the Lord!
May we not miss this deeper concept in the Bible.
May we not despise the matter of grafting but rather, may we treasure the grafted life and live a grafted life in our Christian life today.
May we be deeply impressed that, as saved ones, the life we live is that of two lives grafted into one.
Christ as the Spirit is in our spirit, joined to our spirit, and we are organically united with the Lord in spirit.
It is here, in the joining of the two spirits, that we need to live daily and have our being, even do all things.
As we are grafted into Christ, we grow in Him, He grows in us, and the divine life is supplying us day by day. Praise the Lord!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that God desires to be one with man! Hallelujah, our relationship with God is not only that of a creature with a Creator but even more, we’re one with the Lord in spirit! Praise the Lord, God desires that the divine life and the human life be joined together to become one life. Amen, Lord, we want to remain in this organic union with You to live a grafted life. Cause us, by Your grace, to be one with You today. May our life and daily living with all its activities and details be in this grafted life, in the joining of the divine Spirit with our spirit. We want to live one spirit with you today. Hallelujah, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit. We are one with You, dear Lord, in our spirit. Live out through us today. Live in us today. Supply us with all that You are as we remain in our mingled spirit. Be expressed through us. We want to live a grafted life. We allow You to saturate our inner being with all that You are so that You may be expressed through us today!
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, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” chs. 58-59, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Christian Life (2024 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, The Grafted Life.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– What is the Believers’ Organic Union with Christ? More via, hearing of faith.
– The Tree of Life, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– One Body in Christ: the organic union in the Epistles to the Romans, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
– A grafted life, a portion from, The Secret of Experiencing Christ, Chapter 5, by Witness Lee.
– We Have the Life Supply for the NT Building, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Israel In God’s Economy (4) – Israel and God’s Economy in the Present Age, via, Shepherding Words.
– The Reality of the Body of Christ, via, The Church in Regina.
– The Second Great Pillar in the Lord’s Recovery—Life, via, Living to Him.
– Christ as the life-giving Spirit regenerating the believers in their spirit, a portion from, The Secret of Experiencing Christ, Chapter 5, by Witness Lee.
– The Crystallization – Organically Joined to the Lord, via, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Christian Life – Week 2, a Grafted Life, via, Church in New York City.
– The grafted life, a portion from, The Experience and Growth in Life, Chapter 4, by Witness Lee. - 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. (Hymns #152 stanza 1)
– Jesus called me one day to the Holiest Place, / To live in His presence divine; / Hallelujah, I’ve heard an encouraging word: / “Abide—you’re a branch in the vine.” (Hymns #1191 stanza 3)
– Abide in Christ—this highest blessing gain; / Each day sweet fellowship with Him maintain. / Abiding, He and we are joined as one; / In constant fellowship, all barriers gone. / Abide in Him, anointing then will flow; / In fellowship, the Spirit’s lead we’ll know. / Obeying, we His riches apprehend; / Led by the Spirit, we will be His friend. (Hymns #1352 stanzas 1-2)
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