Christ’s Humanity bears the Aroma of His Resurrection – He lived a Crucified Life

To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. Phil. 3:10

The humanity of Christ bears the aroma of His resurrection, for He lived a crucified life to express God. Christ's Spirit-filled and resurrection-saturated living was a satisfying fragrance to God, and Christ always lived a life under the cross, … [Continue reading]

Enjoy the Fine, Balanced, and Perfect Humanity of Jesus mingled with the Holy Spirit

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit... Luke 4:1

We can enjoy the fine, balanced, and perfect humanity of Jesus mingled with the Holy Spirit today. The meal offering typifies Christ in His God-man living, in particular the humanity of Jesus which is fine and balanced, and the Spirit of God as … [Continue reading]

Inner Experience of the Indwelling Christ and Pray-reading for the Genuine Church life

That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love. Eph. 3:17

The genuine church life is through the inner experience of the indwelling Christ, especially His making His home in our heart; to have the genuine church life, we need to experience and enjoy the riches of Christ by pray reading the word of God. … [Continue reading]

Experience Christ as Everything and Taking up our Cross for the Genuine Church Life

For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection. Rom. 6:5

The way for us to realize the genuine church life is to experience Christ as everything to us; furthermore, the genuine church life requires us to take up our cross and follow the Lord, for only when the self is crossed out can Christ come to be … [Continue reading]

Enjoying and Experiencing the Riches of Christ issues in the Genuine Church Life

To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel. Eph. 3:8

The issue of our being brought back to Christ Himself is the genuine church life; the genuine church life is the issue of the enjoyment of the riches of Christ so that we may become His fullness, and it is Christ realized, experienced, and … [Continue reading]

We need to Pray for Christ to be Everything to us and Apply Christ in our Daily Life

...Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize... Phil. 3:13-14

We need to pray for Christ to be everything to us and apply Christ in our daily life so that we may live Christ and express Him for the genuine church life. As believers in Christ who love the Lord and want to pursue Him to gain Him, we need to … [Continue reading]

Have the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ to Gain Christ and be Found in Christ

But what things were gains to me, these I have counted as loss on account of Christ. Phil. 3:7

In Phil. 3:3-16 we see that Christ is the goal of our pursuit; we need to have the excellency of the knowledge of Christ and pay the price to enjoy Him, be found in Him, experience Him, gain Him, and experience Him in His death and resurrection … [Continue reading]