We Experience a Constant Salvation by taking Christ our Pattern in our Daily Life

Experiencing Christ as Our Constant Salvation

In Phil. 2:12 Paul tells us to work out our own salvation; this is not the eternal salvation from God's condemnation but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person. After seeing the wonderful pattern of Christ in Phil. 2, … [Continue reading]

When we by the Spirit live the Crucified Life, Christ is Exalted in our daily life

Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name. Phil. 2:9

When we live a crucified life, we can experience the power of resurrection; Christ is exalted in our daily life as we, by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, take Him as the crucified life to be the pattern of our life. Our need is … [Continue reading]

When we Live Christ, we live the One who is the Pattern of a Crucified Life

For I did not determine to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and this One crucified. 1 Cor. 2:2

In Phil. 2 we see Christ crucified as our pattern, and this pattern is the crucified life within us; when we live Christ, we live the One who is the pattern of a crucified life. Christ as our pattern is not something only objective, something that … [Continue reading]

Our Urgent Need is to Experience Christ as our Pattern of Living a Crucified Life

There is an urgent need among us in the Lord’s recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern.

There is an urgent need among us in the church life in the Lord's recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern; we need to live Christ in His human living, especially in emptying Himself and humbling Himself and in not grasping equality with … [Continue reading]

Christ is the Representation of Submission to Authority; His Life of Submission is in us

Even though He was a Son, learned obedience from the things which He suffered. Heb. 5:8

Christ, the Son of God, willingly emptied Himself to become a created man; He learned obedience through the things which He suffered, and He became the representation of submission to authority (Phil. 2:6-8). Our pattern in our Christian life is not … [Continue reading]

As our Pattern, Christ Emptied Himself, Humbled Himself, and was Glorified by God

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men. Phil. 2:6-7

For us to experience Christ, we need to know Him as the pattern; we need to have Him as the pattern infused into us, realising that Christ emptied Himself and humbled Himself, and later He was exalted and glorified by God. Oh, may this mind be in us … [Continue reading]

To Know Christ as the Pattern we need to Let this mind be in us, the Mind of Christ

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Phil. 2:5

If we would know Christ as the pattern, we should let the mind which was in Christ Jesus be in us; we need to let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. This week we are focusing on, Knowing and Experiencing Christ as the Pattern, as … [Continue reading]