The New Man is the Christ Constituted into us through our Enjoyment and Experience of Him

The one new man was created in Christ on the cross, and this new man is actually Christ constituted into us through our experience and enjoyment of Him.

The one new man is a corporate God-man, the aggregate of all the God-men. We believers in Christ are the many God-men, and the one new man is the aggregate of all the God-men.

This one new man was already created by Christ on the cross, for He broke the middle wall of partition and made us all one in Him, making peace, and creating the new man in His body on the cross.

The death of Christ was not only for our redemption, for the termination of everything negative, and for releasing the divine life, but also for the creating of the one new man.

On the cross of Christ many wonderful things happened, and the Bible mentions that it is here, in the Body of Christ in the cross, that Christ created the one new man with the redeemed humanity and the divine element.

The divine life which Christ has released when his human shell was broken on the cross reached us and “glued” us together to be the one new man. Hallelujah, in the world we do not have peace or oneness, but in Christ we the believers were created as the one new man, and today as we take Christ as our person, we are the one new man in reality!

Here in the one new man Christ is all and in all, which means that He has to become me and you, and we need to become Him.

How can Christ become us and how can we become Him? It is by enjoying and experiencing Christ that He is constituted into us and becomes us, and we become Him, and the Christ constituted into us is the one new man.

When we all enjoy and experience Christ, and when we all are constituted with Him, there will be no comparison or criticism, no jealousy or differences, but Christ will be all and in all. When Christ is being constituted into us, He in us becomes the one new man, and we live out the one new man.

The only way for us to organically become the one new man is to have Christ constituted into us through our eating of Him, drinking of Him, enjoyment of Him and experience of Him.

The one new man has already been created in Christ with Himself as the element, and now we need to be slowly and gradually constituted with Christ daily so that we may be the full-grown man, the one new man in reality.

May we give ourselves to the Lord daily to enjoy Him, experience Him, and be constituted with Him, so that He may gain the church as the one new man in reality.

The One New Man was Created in Christ – we need to be In Christ and become Christ for the One New Man

On the cross Christ terminated everything of the old creation, the old man, Satan, the flesh, the self, the devil, and the world, and in resurrection He put us into Himself, creating us in Himself with His divine essence into one new man.

The one new man was created “in Himself” – this is an emphatic expression in Eph. 2:15.

Apart from being IN CHRIST, we cannot be created or be part of the one new man. In ourselves we don’t have the divine essence – we only have the human essence, which is full of corruption, sin, death, and division; in ourselves we can never be the one new man. But in Christ we are the one new man, for in Himself we have the element of Christ which makes us one.

In Christ we were created as the one new man. The creation of the one new man was not done by man with his skill or element; it was done with Christ – with His divine life, and in Christ – in Him as the sphere and realm.

In our natural being this is impossible – only in the divine essence and with the divine essence were we created into the one new man.

The divine essence is actually the divine life released through Christ’s death and imparted in His resurrection to be the spiritual all-effective glue to join us together. In the one new man Christ is all because He’s the essence with which the new man was created; therefore, the one new man is Christ (Col. 3:10-11).

The basic element of the one new man is the divine essence; Christ Himself created the one new man in Himself, and in this new man Christ is all.

Christ being all refers to Him being all the persons in the one new man – He is in all the persons and He is all these persons, He Himself is the unique person in the one new man. This means that, for us to be in the one new man, we must be Christ and Christ must be us.

Are we Christ? We may not dare to say such a thing, for we consider ourselves as weak members of the Body and believers in Christ.

But Paul said, To me to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), and then he said that in the new man Christ is all and in all (Col. 3:10-11). If Christ is me and Christ is you, then I am Christ and you are Christ.

If Christ is bold enough to say that He is us, are we bold enough to say that we are Christ? We must see the vision of the one new man and have the boldness to say that Christ is us and we are Christ, realizing that the only element of the one new man is Christ Himself.

We need to be in Christ and Christ needs to be in us for the one new man to exist practically.

Lord Jesus, work Yourself into us a little more today for the church as the one new man. Thank You for creating the new man in Yourself as the element, sphere, and realm, and in the one new man Christ is all and in all. Amen, Lord, may You become us and may we become You for the one new man. Be wrought into us and constituted into us for the church as the one new man. We admit that in ourselves it is impossible to have the one new man, but in You we are the one new man. Keep us in Christ today, abiding in Christ and being one with Christ until we become Christ!

The New Man is Christ Constituted into us through our Enjoyment and Experience of Him

On the one hand, the one new man was created in Christ two thousand years ago; on the other, we need to put on the new man daily. Putting on the new man is a lifelong matter – it is a gradual process that goes on throughout our Christian life.

The new man was created in Christ and with Christ as the intrinsic element; now day by day we need to put on the new man by allowing the spirit to control our entire inner being and renew our mind. All the inward parts of our being need to be renewed by our having Christ constituted into us.

The new man is Christ constituted into us through our enjoyment and experience of Him. The more we allow the mingled spirit to spread into our mind and renew our mind, the more Christ is constituted into our mind, and we are renewed in the spirit of our mind for the practical existence of the one new man.

In the one new man Christ is all and in all; this means that Christ must be wrought into us and constituted into our being so that He may be all the members of the one new man and in all the members. The Christ who indwells us is the constituent of the one new man (Col. 1:27; 3:11).

As we experience and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ, He is constituted into us, and we become the one new man (Col. 1:12-13; 3:10).

How can we be constituted with Christ, so that the Christ constituted into us may be the one new man? It is by enjoying Christ, experiencing Christ, eating Christ, and drinking Christ; as we do this, He is organically wrought into our being to constitute us with Himself.

Christ wants to be constituted into us and become our constituent, our constituting element and essence.

In Colossians Paul presents an all-inclusive Christ, the One who is the fullness of the invisible God; then, in ch. 3 he speaks of the one new man. As we experience Christ and enjoy Him as the all-inclusive One, we become the church as the one new man.

The issue of our experience and enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ is the church as the one new man; the one new man is the Christ constituted into us.

As we enjoy Christ daily, He’s being wrought into our being to be constituted into us; He becomes our constituting element, and eventually we will be thoroughly constituted of Him. As a result, we become the one new man, where there is no room for any natural person – here there’s room only for Christ, for Christ is all and in all.

The only way Christ can be all and in all in the new man is for Him to constitute Himself into us through our experience and enjoyment of Him.

As we call on the name of the Lord, praise Him, thank Him, worship Him, and pray-read His word, we are being filled with Christ and constituted with Him. Through such an enjoyment of Christ and experience of Him, we are gradually being constituted of Christ, and the Christ constituted into us becomes the one new man.

As we call on the name of the Lord, He is rich to us, and He is both theirs and ours – there’s no distinction between us, but He becomes our constitution for the one new man. In the one new man Christ is all the members and in all the members.

Christ needs to be revealed in us, He needs to live in us, He wants to make His home in our heart, and He wants to be formed in us (Gal. 4:19; Eph. 3:17). Day by day He is growing in us and being formed in us, until we become like Him, and the Christ constituted into us becomes the one new man.

If we all take Christ as our life and our person, and if we all enjoy Him and experience Him as the all-inclusive One daily, then the one new man will be brought forth and will be here.

In the one new man there will be no distinction between our skin color, our tongue, or our race, but only Christ will be formed in us and expressed through us.

Here in the one new man there’s neither Jew nor Gentile, no slave nor free man, no cultured nor uncultured; there’s no American, no British, no Japanese, no German, no French, no Chinese, etc, but Christ is all and in all!

Lord, may You become all in all in the one new man through our experience and enjoyment of You! Hallelujah, the one new man is Christ constituted into us through our experience and enjoyment of Christ! Lord, we want to daily enjoy You, experience You, and be filled with You, so that You may be wrought into us and become the very constituent of our being for the one new man. May we be renewed in the spirit of our mind through the spirit controlling our mind. Amen, Lord, may we put on the new man every day so that Christ may be all and in all in the one new man!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by James Lee for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Colossians, msg. 28 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery – to Bring Forth the One New Man (2018 ICSC), week 1, Our Urgent Need to See the Vision of the Church as the One New Man.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # New man of new creation, / Born through her risen Lord, / Baptized in God the Spirit, / Made holy by His Word; / Christ is her life and content, / Himself her glorious Head; / She has ascended with Him / O’er all her foes to tread. (Hymns #824)
  # The Lord doesn’t need more individuals, / He’s got too many now, it’s plain to see; / All He wants is One New Man forever, / And that doesn’t leave any room for you and me. / The only way that we’ll be one is Jesus! / The only way for Him to gather us, / Is by our EATING, DRINKING, BREATHING JESUS! / Until His riches overflow in us! (Song on, The Lord has put me in the Body)
  # God hath us regenerated / In our spirit with His life; / But He must transform us further- / In our soul by His own life. / Spreading outward from our spirit / Doth the Lord transform our soul, / By the inward parts renewing, / Till within His full control. (Hymns #750)