Today we need to live in spirit to enjoy the Spirit and the reality of God, resurrection, and the Body of Christ.
As believers in Christ, we can experience, enjoy, and express Christ as the resurrection; in particular, we need to see the unveiled truth concerning Christ’s resurrection and live in our spirit to enjoy the Spirit as the reality of resurrection, the reality of the Triune God, and the reality of the Body of Christ! Hallelujah!
This week in our morning revival we come to the topic of, Christ as the Resurrection and the Grain of Wheat, mainly based on John 11 and 12 where we see these two nuggets concerning our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ did not only become flesh and die on the cross but was also resurrected; He was raised from the dead, for death was not able to hold Him.
He loosed the pangs of death and entered into resurrection; He even became resurrection, for He is resurrection and life.
When Christ was raised by God, the sudden, sharp feelings of pain or emotional distress or agony of death were terminated! Amen!
Many times in our experience we may not feel that high or joyful for we are not buoyant all the time.
But no matter how we feel, we can’t stand with our feelings; we stand with the fact that the Christ in us cannot be held by death but rather, He is in resurrection! Praise the Lord!
In Rev. 1:18 the Lord Jesus is introduced as the living One; He became dead and behold, He is living forever and ever.
We can be assured of His presence in our spirit all the time because He is living forever and ever in our spirit. Praise the Lord!
In 2 Cor. 1:8-9 Paul speaks of the affliction that befell him and his coworkers in Asia; he said they were excessively burdened, beyond their power.
We can testify that sometimes we have been in an environment or situation where we felt that it is beyond our power to deal with or get out of it.
In such situations, we need Christ as our resurrection power.
Paul testified that they despaired even of living; desperation is lower than depression, for it indicates that they lost all hope and were overcome by a sense of futility or defeat. Wow.
Both he and his co-workers had the response of death in themselves so that they would not base their confidence in themselves but on God, who raises the dead.
It is easy to say that we trust in God, but when it comes to certain situations where we see no way to escape or better our environment, we need to learn to trust in God who raises the dead.
As 2 Cor. 4:16 says, we do not lose heart but rather, though our outer man is decaying, our inner man is being renewed day by day. Amen!
We can testify that our outer man is decaying, and we want to cooperate with the Lord so that our inner man may be renewed.
Our outer man is composed of our soul as our person and our body as its organ; our inner man is composed of our spirit as our person with our soul as its organ.
May we all know and enjoy God as the God of resurrection by exercising our spirit to enjoy the Spirit of reality in our daily living so that we may be inwardly renewed and made the same as Christ in every possible way.
See the Unveiled Truth concerning Christ’s Resurrection: the three Major things that Happened in His resurrection
We can experience, enjoy, and express Christ as the resurrection (John 11:25). In order to live in resurrection, we first need to see the unveiled truth concerning Christ’s resurrection.
Resurrection follows death; for example, we may not know what kind of grain we have in our hand, but if we put it in the ground and it dies and comes forth in resurrection, we will know.
Christ came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, and He was designated the Son of God in power in the resurrection (Rom. 1:3-4).
He came up out of death and was designated, marked out, to be the Son of God, even the firstborn Son of God.
Before we can live in resurrection, we need to first see the unveiled truth concerning Christ’s resurrection.
![...that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers. Rom. 8:29 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Pet. 1:3 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/that-He-might-be-the-Firstborn-among-many-brothers-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "...that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers. Rom. 8:29 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Pet. 1:3 So also it is written, \"The first man, Adam, became a living soul\"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45")
Christ was not merely raised from the dead by the Father; there were three wonderful things that happened in Christ’s resurrection.
Resurrection itself is amazing, for a man was raised from the dead to live forever; but there were three major things that took place in His resurrection.
First, Christ in His humanity was begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God (Acts 13:33; Rom. 8:29).
He was the Only begotten Son of God from eternity to eternity, but in His resurrection Christ in His humanity was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God.
He was not the Son of God in His humanity; through incarnation, He put on humanity, and in His human part He was not God’s son.
Therefore, He was designated to be the firstborn Son of God in His humanity; this is the first major item of the unveiled truth of Christ’s resurrection.
Now He is the firstborn Son of God, and we are being conformed to His image.
Second, all the believers in Christ were regenerated by God the Father through the resurrection of Christ for the producing of the church as His Body, His reproduction (1 Pet. 1:3; John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17).
Not only was Christ begotten by God to be His firstborn Son, but we all as believers in Christ were regenerated at the same time in Christ’s resurrection to be the many sons of God. Praise the Lord!
He fell into the ground as the one grain of wheat and, in His resurrection, many grains were produced!
We believers in Christ are not just Christians, those who believe into Christ and are saved; we are sons of God, born of God, to be the many children of God, having Christ as our twin brother and our Elder brother. Wow!
We are the many sons of God to be the many members of the Body of Christ for Him to have a corporate expression.
Christ is the Head, we are the Body, and together we are the corporate expression of God in the flesh.
In Christ’s resurrection, there was a great delivery: Christ as the Firstborn Son and we as the many sons were begotten by God in the resurrection of Christ. Hallelujah!
Third, Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). Wow!
He was transfigured to be a Spirit who gives life. He was flesh, but this flesh became the Spirit; He was transfigured into another form.
When He came back to His disciples, He simply appeared among them in a locked room, and they could touch His body and see the place where the nails were driven into His hands and feet.
He now has a spiritual body, which is both flesh and the Spirit.
We cannot comprehend this, but this is what happened. And this One is a life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah!
Without these major items of the Lord’s resurrection (the firstborn Son as the Head of the Body, the many sons of God as the members of the Body, and the Spirit as the essence and reality of the Body), there would be no church, no Body of Christ, and no economy of God (Col. 1:18; 1 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 4:4).
Actually, without Christ’s resurrection and the three major things that happened in it, we cannot have a Christina life, there can be no church, and there’s no Body of Christ the economy of God.
Christ’s resurrection is very meaningful.
He not only rose from the dead but even more, He was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God, He regenerated us for His Body, and He became a life-giving Spirit.
By the Lord’s resurrection, He became the Head of the Body, we became the many members of the Body, and He is the essence of the Body by being the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. Praise the Lord!
Lord Jesus, we want to experience, enjoy, and express Christ as the resurrection today. Unveil us to see the truth concerning Christ’s resurrection so that we may realize the three major things that took place in this wonderful resurrection! Hallelujah, Christ was not only raised by God but even more, He was begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God! Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ was designated the Son of God in power in His resurrection! Thank You, Lord, we as believers in Christ were regenerated by God the Father through the resurrection of Christ for the producing of the church! Hallelujah, we were all regenerated in Christ’s resurrection to be the many sons of God and the many members of the Body of Christ! Amen, Lord, may we see that in Your resurrection You became a life-giving Spirit to impart the life of God into us and be the essence and reality of the Body of Christ! Hallelujah for Christ’s resurrection!
Live in our Spirit to enjoy the Spirit of Reality as the Reality of the Triune God, of Resurrection and of the Body of Christ
The Bible is clear concerning the three major things that took place in Christ’s resurrection, and it also tells us how can we enjoy or participate in these things: it is by means of the Spirit of reality.
The Spirit today is the reality of the Triune God, the reality of resurrection, and the reality of the Body of Christ.
How can we enjoy the Triune God? How can we enjoy and experience the resurrection of Christ? How can we live in the Body of Christ as members of the Body?
It has to do with the Spirit of reality.
![But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will not speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare [it] to you. All that the Father has is Mine; for this [reason] I have said that He receives of Mine and will declare [it] to you. John 16:13-15](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/But-when-He-the-Spirit-of-reality-comes-He-will-guide-you-into-all-the-reality-for-He-will-not-speak-from-Himself-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will not speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare [it] to you. All that the Father has is Mine; for this [reason] I have said that He receives of Mine and will declare [it] to you. John 16:13-15")
The reality of the Triune God, of resurrection, and of the Body of Christ are all in the Spirit of reality, whom Christ became through His resurrection (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 1 John 5:6).
The reality of resurrection is Christ as the life-giving Spirit (John 11:25; 20:22; 1 Cor. 15:45).
All that the Triune God has and is, all that He has done and has accomplished, and all His wonderful attributes which can be communicated to man are in the Spirit of reality.
The reality of the death and resurrection that God in Christ has passed through is also in this Spirit of reality.
The Spirit of reality was promised by the Lord Jesus to His disciples when He was on earth; He promised that He would go to the Father through death and, in His resurrection, He would return to them as another Comforter, the Spirit of reality, to be with them and in them.
This Spirit guides us into all the reality of what God is, making God real to us. The Spirit of reality makes everything of the processed Triune God a reality to us in the Body of Christ (John 16:13-15).
All that the Triune God is – holiness, righteousness, life, light, power, grace, joy, and all the divine attributes – are realized by us in the Spirit of reality in our spirit.
These divine attributes of the Triune God are made real to us in the Body of Christ to be the real attributes of the Body of Christ (Rom. 15:16; 14:17; Eph. 3:16). Wow!
The Body of Christ has God’s attributes continually transmitted into it by means of the Spirit of reality, and when we live in our spirit, we can have the divine attributes expressed through us! Hallelujah!
As long as we remain in the church as the Body of Christ and exercise our spirit, live in our spirit, and walk according to the spirit, the Spirit of reality applies to us and brings into us the divine attributes of God to make them our virtues. Praise the Lord!
Even more, all that the Triune God experienced in Christ’s incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection are realised by this Spirit of reality to be the real experiences of the Body of Christ.
Today we as members of the Body of Christ can experience Christ in His incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension simply by turning to our spirit and living in our mingled spirit.
When negative things befell us, we can deal with them simply by the capacity of the death of Christ in our spirit.
When we are mistreated by others and our temper rises, we will be able not to lose our temper, blame others, or rebuke them because the death of Christ is realized in us through the Spirit of reality.
Even more, we can forgive others and love them because the Spirit of reality in our spirit applies to us the resurrection of Christ with its power. Praise the Lord!
In our practical, daily situations, the Spirit of reality makes real to us, the members of the Body of Christ, all that God is, all He has, and all the processes He went through with their effectiveness.
All we have to do is turn to our spirit and walk according to the spirit, for the Spirit of reality is joined to our spirit as one spirit (Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:17).
We are one spirit with the Lord, and when we exercise to turn our whole being to this joined spirit, set our mind on our spirit (Rom. 8:6), and live according to the spirit (v. 4), we are able to live out the Body of Christ and become the corporate expression of God (Eph. 1:23). Hallelujah!
Without the Spirit, there’s no Body of Christ, no church (Eph. 4:4); when we’re in our spirit, when we live in the mingled spirit, we are the church, the Body of Christ, and we express Christ corporately in our daily living.
Lord Jesus, we turn to our spirit to enjoy the Spirit of reality as the reality of the Triune God, the reality of resurrection, and the reality of the Body of Christ! Hallelujah, the Spirit of reality is today with our spirit, and we are one spirit with the Lord! Praise the Lord, all the attributes of God are now made real to us and applied to us by the Spirit of reality in our spirit! Amen, Lord, may we see this secret: living according to the spirit so that the Spirit of reality would apply and make real to us all that God is, all He has, and all the processes He went through. Oh, Lord Jesus! We want to speak, do things, treat others, and deal with all matters according to our mingled spirit. We want to live in the joined spirit so that we may be able to live out the Body of Christ and become the corporate expression of God! May we all live in our spirit so that the Spirit of the reality of the Triune God may become the reality of the Body of Christ for God’s corporate expression!
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 Ed marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, vol. 2, “A Thorough View of the Body of Christ,” pp. 130-132, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2024 July Semiannual Training), week 9, Christ as the Resurrection and the Grain of Wheat.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– The high peak of the vision and the reality of the Body of Christ, article in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Spirit being the reality of Christ’s resurrection and its power, a portion from, The Christian Life, Chapter 10, by Witness Lee.
– Live with the Spirit as the Reality of Christ, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Baptized into Christ, putting on Christ, and all one in Christ, a portion from, Life-Study of Galatians, Chapter 21.
– What is resurrection? More via, Conversant faith.
– Exercising Our Spirit to Contact the Reality of the Bible and to Know Christ Practically, via, Living to Him.
– The reality of the Body of Christ, a portion from, The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– The Spirit of Reality Being the Reality of the Body of Christ, via, Church in Regina.
– Our Spiritual Remedy: The Spirit as an All-Inclusive Dose, via, Bibles for America blog.
– The Spirit being the reality of Christ’s resurrection and its power, a portion from, The Christian Life, Chapter 10, by Witness Lee.
– The Last Adam, Christ, Became a Life-giving Spirit, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– Dealing with the matter of resurrection – A Spiritual Body with Christ’s Heavenly Image, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 68. - Hymns on this topic:
– God’s Spirit is of Christ today, / The Spirit of reality, / He dwells in me with Christ as life / To make this Christ so real to me. / With Thy divine reality, / Lord, fill us by Thy Spirit now, / That we may all be full of Thee, / And all Thy riches thus avow. (Hymns #243 stanzas 1 and 7)
– The Spirit of God today / The Spirit of Jesus is, / The God-man who died and rose, / Ascending to glory His. / ’Tis from such a Jesus came / The Spirit of Jesus to us, / To make His reality / Experience unto us. / The Spirit of Jesus has / All elements human, divine, / The living of man in Him / And glory of God combine. (Hymns #242 stanzas 1-3)
– Jesus Christ the Lord is living now in us / As the wonderful Spirit within. / He has been transfigured, we enjoy Him thus, / As the life-giving Spirit within. / Now the Spirit of reality is here / As the wonderful Spirit within. / Now the things of Christ are all so real and clear / By the life-giving Spirit within. (Hymns #1113 stanzas 3-4)
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Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, vol. 2, “A Thorough View of the Body of Christ,” pp. 130-132
Praise the Lord for His resurrection!
By resurrection He was not just raised from the dead but even more, He was begotten as God’s firstborn Son, we were begotten to be the many sons of God, and Christ became a life-giving Spirit.
He is now the Spirit of reality to be the reality of all that God is, all He has, and all the processes He went through for us to enjoy and experience as the Body of Christ!
Amen, through the many sons enjoying the rich attributes of Christ in our human virtues, in the circumstances of our everyday normal living, we bring the processes He passed through into the reality of His Body. Amen
Aaaaameeen!
Wow brother, to live in resurrection we need to see the unveiled truth concerning Christ’s resurrection!
We need to see Christ as the Head as the firstborn Son of God!
We need to see Christ as His Body, the believers regenerated by God the Father to be Christ’s reproduction!
We must see Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit as the reality of resurrection!
Amen. Lord Jesus, make this our reality today!
Praise the Lord! 🙌🙋🏼
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Amen brother.
He paved the way to eternal life by passing through incarnation, human-living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. We are also called to follow the pattern so that we can experience, enjoy and express Him as His body.
The body cannot be separated from the Head.
Praise the Lord for the reality of the triune God through the resurrection by which three things happened:
Therefore, all sons of God need to keep growing by:
Let’s check and be sure that our heart is where God’s heart is! Amen.
Amen, the reality of the processed Triune God is His consummated Spirit of reality, which makes everything a reality in the Body of Christ.
Through the death of Christ we can deal with all negative situations and through resurrection we can love others.
The Spirit that dwells in us is joined to us, we just need to do everything via this mingled spirit.
Truly, to die is gain. In Christ’s crucifixion, God accomplished three big things:
Thus, all the divine attributes of the Triune God are realized by the Spirit of reality in the Body of Christ. It’s only because of this that we can live a proper human life on Earth.
The Spirit with the resurrection of Christ works in us to enable us to love, to forgive, etc.
The Spirit not only dwells in us; He is joined with our spirit to become one spirit with us.
We should speak, do things, treat others, and deal with matters according to this joined spirit.
When we live in the joined spirit, we are able to live out the Body of Christ and become Christ’s corporate expression.
How marvellous! How excellent!
Praise the Lord that He is the resurrection!
Today, He is the Spirit of reality. In His resurrection, He became God’s Firstborn Son, He produced us as His believers to be the church, His Body, and He became the life-giving Spirit!
Without the Lord becoming the Spirit, there would be no church, no body of Christ, and even no economy of God! Hallelujah for the Spirit!
According to the great mercy of our God and Father we were regenerated through the resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son.
In one divine act the only begotten Son of God became the Firstborn Son, we, as many sons, were brought forth in one delivery and Jesus Christ became a Life-giving Spirit to produce the church as the Body of Christ for the fulfillment of the economy of God!
Praise the Lord!
Without resurrection, there would be no church, no Body and no economy of God!
I was impressed to see
That God accomplished three big things…He begot not His only Son but His firstborn Son…
He begot His many sons in this one delivery…and He made this Jesus Christ, who had just been begotten of God, the life-giving Spirit.
Without these items, we wouldn’t have the Church or the economy of God!!
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Resurrection is one of the greatest events in the history of the universe! If there were no resurrection, Christ would not have been raised from the dead. He would be a dead Savior, not a living One who lives forever and is able to save to the uttermost. If there were no resurrection, there would be no members of Christ, no Body of Christ as His fullness, and no church as Christ’s bride. If there were no resurrection, no consummated Spirit, no reality and application of the triune God, and God’s New Testament economy would altogether collapse and God’s eternal purpose would be nullified.
Oh may we know resurrection in our experience.