Live a Human Life in Resurrection to have the Presence of the Triune God and Magnify Christ

We need to live a human life in resurrection so that we may have the presence of the Triune God and magnify Christ.

As believers in Christ and disciples of Jesus, we need to live the same kind of life that He lived, a life of denying ourselves and living by the divine life in resurrection; we need to be discipled by the Lord to be divine and mystical persons who live the divine life in our human life to magnify Christ.

To live with the Divine Trinity – to have the Lord abide with us and to live with Christ, is to have the resurrected Christ living in us.

We need to not only abide in the Lord but also let Him abide in us; we need to not only live in Christ but also live with Christ by having the resurrected Christ living in us.

Christ today is in resurrection; He passed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, and resurrection, and the reality of Christ today is the life-dispensing Spirit, the Spirit of reality mingled with our spirit.

Resurrection is a person; resurrection is not just an event that took place more than two thousand years ago, but resurrection is a person – the Spirit of reality.

Everything that God is, has been expressed and manifested in Christ; everything that Christ is, has done, and has accomplished and attained through all the processes He went through, is now in the Spirit.

The Spirit is the consummation of all that God has and is, and of all that Christ has done and has accomplished.

The Spirit that has come into us to be mingled with us as one spirit is a rich, compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit; when we contact the Lord with the exercise of our spirit, we receive an all-inclusive, rich, compound dose in which we have all that we need.

We may not know what we need, but as long as we contact the Lord, we receive this bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; in this supply is all we need.

On His side, God arranges the environment to tear down and put to death our natural man; on our side, we need to contact the Lord in spirit to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit.

God has arranged a particular environment for each one of us, and if we try to escape it, we have no jor or peace; however, if we stay in this limited environment and contact the Lord, we can experience resurrection.

We may not be in Ukraine today, experiencing the constant shelling of the Russian army and being in fear for our life, but right there where we are, we need to contact the Lord and receive the bountiful supply.

And we do pray for all the saints and people in Ukraine, so that the Lord may richly supply all His believers to magnify Christ even in this situation, and so that the gospel may prevail and many would be transferred into the kingdom of God.

May the Lord really gain what He is after in us, and may our eyes be set on Him so that we may live not our human life but the divine life in the human life, thus being divine and mystical persons who live in resurrection.

Living a Human Life in Resurrection to have the Presence of the Triune God and Magnify Christ

The Lord Jesus was God incarnated to be a man; the One who created Adam became a man and lived a human life in resurrection.

Even though He was a perfect man with perfect and sinless humanity, Christ didn’t live by His human nature but constantly denied Himself and lived by the divine life to express the Father.

He didn’t do anything out of Himself but rather, what He saw the Father doing, that’s what He also did; what the Father did, the Son also did, and what the Father spoke, that’s what the Son said also (John 5:19, 30).

In other words, the Lord Jesus didn’t live by Himself, by His human life and nature, but He lived in resurrection by the divine life to express the Father.

As the Lord’s believers and disciples, we also need to not do anything in our natural life but in Christ’s resurrection life.

We have been regenerated with the divine life of God, and we need to live not by ourselves but in resurrection to have the presence of the Triune God and magnify Christ.

Just as Jesus lived and walked on this earth by rejecting His flesh and natural life and living by the divine life, so we need to live by this other life in our spirit.

Some people are naturally good, attractive, and charming; they seem to be such nice people.

However, if you contact such ones and spend time with them, you will realize that in reality, they are not that charming, for no naturally charming and nice person can remain like that forever.

The Lord Jesus was now outwardly attractive or charming, no matter how the religious paintings describe Him to be; He didn’t have a beautiful outward appearance, but He was charming, attracting, and cherishing toward man.

Men were flocking to Him to hear Him, touch Him, and be with Him, and especially sinners were drawn to Him, for He lived not by Himself but in resurrection, by the divine life, and God in Him was so attracting.

As we contact people, as we live our Christian life, we need to live not by ourselves but in resurrection so that we may live Christ and magnify Christ; in this way, we will have the presence of the Triune God.

It is not genuine for us to cherish people in our natural humanity; we need to cherish them in the humanity of Jesus.

Our shepherding others, cherishing them and nourishing them, should be by the Lord’s resurrection life in humanity.

May we learn from the Lord Jesus, the One who not only lived two thousand years ago but who lives in us today to be our life and everything; may we learn from Him to live a human life in resurrection today.

He lived not by Himself but by another source – by the Father; what He spoke and did was the Father working and speaking within Him (John 14:10), for He was one with the Father.

For us to live such a life today is for us to live a life in humanity by resurrection, and the result is that others will see something different about us.

When we live a human life in resurrection, we will have the Lord’s presence as we contact them and visit them.

It is His presence that is the charming, attracting, and cherishing factor, not our natural being.

We must be a person on the cross and in resurrection so that we may have the real presence of the Triune God with us; when we do this, we will live a human life in resurrection to magnify Christ.

Lord Jesus, we want to learn from You to not live by our natural life but live a human life in resurrection. Amen, Lord, we turn to You and take You as our pattern inwardly to walk in Your footsteps in our daily life. Save us from living in our nice, gentle, charming, or attractive natural humanity; keep us depending on You and living one spirit with You! Make us those who do not do anything in our natural life but in Christ’s resurrection life. Keep us denying ourselves, putting ourselves aside and allowing You to cross out our natural man, so that we may live a human life in resurrection! Amen, Lord, we want to live such a life to have the presence of the Triune God with us and magnify Christ!

Being Discipled by the Lord to be Divine and Mystical Persons Living Christ to Magnify Christ

If we read the record in the Gospels concerning the Lord’s human living, we will be quite impressed to see what kind of life He had, how He lived, and how He behaved.

Yes, the Lord Jesus was a Jew who no doubt bore a Jewish countenance, had Jewish blood and flesh with the human life and nature, and dressed like the rest of the Jewish people in that time.

But He lived not in a Jewish way or in a Roman way – He lived by another life in His human life.

What distinguished Him from all human beings was that He didn’t live by His human life and nature, though these were perfect, yet He lived by the divine life in resurrection.

This made Him a mysterious person, and those around Him could not understand or apprehend Him; His human life became mystical, a mystery.

Because Christ lived by the divine life, living a human life in resurrection, everything that He did during His earthly ministry of three and a half years was a sign that signifies something (see John 2:11 and footnote 2 in RcV Bible).

Yes, He performed miracles by the Spirit, but every miracle was a sign with spiritual significance.

For example, the Lord fed five thousand with five loaves and two fish; this was a miracle, and the disciples were amazed and excited when they saw such a great thing.

After this, however, the Lord asked them to pick up all the fragments that were left over; this was also a sign (see Matt. 14:20 and the footnote in the Bible, RcV version).

The Lord’s living was divine and mystical. In John 8 the Jews brought a sinful woman to Him to see if He would condemn her, but He didn’t; though He was the only One without sin and therefore was qualified to throw the first stone at this sinful one, He did not condemn her (v. 10).

Rather, He let her go and told her to go and sin no more (v. 11). What kind of a Person He was!

He didn’t just do the right thing and rejected the wrong thing; He didn’t just behave according to what the law of God said and rejected the evil – He lived a human life in resurrection, living by the divine life in His daily living.

The Lord Jesus expressed God in His human living; He was a divine and mystical person living in the divine and mystical realm, doing everything in a divine and mystical way.

When he saw all these, Peter reacted one time by saying, Where shall we go, for You have the words of eternal life!

We need to be discipled by the Lord as our pattern to be divine and mystical persons living Christ and magnifying Christ.

Our living today shouldn’t be merely in ourselves, doing the best we can according to what we know and are; we need to live a human life in resurrection, living the divine life in the human life.

We need to contact the Lord, again and again, living one spirit with Him in all the details of our human life.

The Lord as the One who lived God and expressed God is in us as the Spirit to bountifully supply us and to live the same kind of life in us today.

Those around us should have the feeling that, though we are men of flesh and blood like them, there’s something different about us, even something extraordinary, something divine and mystical.

We need to be discipled by the Lord to be divine and mystical persons.

As the disciples of the Lord were with Him on earth, they were discipled through His human living, and the way He lived revolutionized their concept concerning man.

As we read the gospels and have a praying attitude, opening to the Lord as the One who lives in us to impart Himself more into us as such a One, we will be revolutionized in our concept concerning man and the human life.

We will no longer live in and by ourselves, by our natural man, or by what we are in our nature; we will allow the Lord to live in us and thus live by another life, the divine life.

We will not try to do this or that; we will simply live by another life and thus be divine and mystical persons who live Christ and magnify Him.

Lord Jesus, we open to You to be discipled through Your human living on earth to be God-men, those who live God by denying themselves. Amen, Lord, revolutionize our concept concerning man and the human life; bring us into the divine and mystical realm to be one with You in our daily living. We want to live not by our human life but by the divine life in our spirit. Amen, Lord, live in us today. May we live with Christ and by the divine life, living a human life in resurrection for the magnification of Christ. Gain a group of people who live Christ and magnify Christ corporately today. Amen, Lord, gain a group of people who live in the divine and mystical realm as they live by the divine life in their human life! Make us such ones, dear Lord!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ed Marks, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” chs. 2, 10, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living In and With the Divine Trinity (2021 Thanksgiving Day Conference), week 4, entitled, Living with the Divine Trinity (1) Living with Christ as Emmanuel and Having the Resurrected Christ Living in us, by Living Christ for His Magnification, and by the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in Our Spirit.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Each time when of heavenly blessings I think, / O let my heart long to be raptured to Thee; / My only hope here is Thy coming again, / My only joy there, Lord, Thy presence will be. / Lord, teach me each day in Thy presence to live, / From morning to evening my one world Thou art; / O let not my heart be contented or rest / When loving or seeking what with Thee doth part. (Hymns #389)
  – He lives for me that I may live / As spotless e’en as He; / Savior, to me Thy nature give, / And live Thy life in me. / He lives for me that I may give / His love to hearts that pine; / Let me like Him for others live, / And trace His steps divine. (Hymns #362)
  – Thru my death with Christ, from Adam I am free, / Thru my life with Christ, new life is given me! / Minding not the flesh, old Adam cannot move, / Minding just the spirit, life divine I prove. / Minding just the spirit is God’s saving way, / Minding just the spirit, Christ we will display; / Minding just the spirit, we can overcome, / Minding just the spirit, we the race may run. (Hymns #593)