In Resurrection Christ became the Spirit for us to Receive Him as the Holy Breath!

Hallelujah, in His resurrection Christ became the Spirit for us to receive Him as the holy breath simply by calling on His name day by day!

God’s intention is to gain a corporate God-man for His corporate manifestation in this universe; what He desires is not a good man but a God-man, a man of God with the breath of God, and for this, He became the Spirit to breathe Himself into us to be our breath, our life, and our everything! Hallelujah!

This week in our morning revival we come to the topic of, Being a Fully Equipped Man of God by Inhaling and Exhaling the Word of God as the Breath of God. Hallelujah!

We need to prayerfully open to the Lord to shine on us and unveil us, even more, to bring us into a deeper oneness and fellowship with Him.

We need to know in a personal way how to contact the Lord, breathe Him in, and partake of His riches.

Before we can serve the Lord or minister the Word to others, we ourselves need to be filled with the Lord as the holy breath, the Holy Spirit.

We need to see what is the practical way for us to day by day enjoy the Lord, partake of His riches, and breathe Him in.

Just as we physically have to breathe moment by moment so that we may continue our human life, so we daily need to have a way to handle the Word of God in such a way that it becomes Spirit and life to us (John 6:63), not mere knowledge or doctrine.

What we need is not more teachings or doctrines; what we need is not more Scriptural knowledge but more of God being dispensed into us.

When we come to the Lord in His word, the veils need to be rolled away from our eyes.

We need to come to the Lord and ask Him to remove any veils from our eyes so that we can see Him in His word, partake of His riches in His word, and be infused with him through His word.

Then, when we meet with the saints, we will have something rich from the Lord infused into us in our time with Him for us to breathe out to them, dispense to them, and for them to enter into the enjoyment of Christ.

May we come to the Lord again and again and ask Him to remove any veils from our eyes so that we may see Him, be infused with Him, and gain Him.

The whole Bible is the breathing out of God, and every word in the Bible is profitable to us for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that we as men of God would be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

As we come to the Lord in His word day by day, as we allow the Lord to infuse us with what He is in His word, we will gain a rich deposit of Christ and we will have something of Him to minister to others also.

God wants to Gain a Corporate God-man to Manifest Him – we have a Human Spirit to Enjoy, Contact and be One with God for His expression!

According to the divine revelation in God’s word, God’s ultimate intention is to gain a corporate God-man for His corporate manifestation on the earth (John 1:1, 14).

What God desires is not to have many good men but to have a God-man, a man of God with the breath of God (1 Tim. 3:15-16; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).

It is for this that God created us in His image and according to His likeness.

God’s ultimate intention is to gain a corporate God-man, the Body of Christ, for His corporate manifestation.

What God wants is not many good men, even many good Christians; He wants a God-man, a man of God who is filled with the breath of God.

The problem is that many times we want to be good men, good people, and good Christians.

But as we enjoy the Lord in His word, open to Him day by day to breathe Him in His living word, we become not just good men but God-men.

As we call on the name of the Lord daily, we breathe the Lord in, and He will make us the same as He is.

We need to do this continually.

We need to continually call on the name of the Lord and read and pray over His word.

If we stop calling on the name of the Lord, the natural man will come out and be expressed. So we need to keep coming to the Lord to enjoy Him.

For this, our spirit is of utmost importance.

We human beings have been created by God in His image and according to His likeness.

God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul (Gen. 2:7). Amazing!

This breath of life which was breathed by God into man became the spirit of man, the human spirit (see Job 32:8; Prov. 20:27).

God did not breathe His Spirit into man at man’s creation; rather, He breathed the breath of life into man, and this breath of life became man’s spirit.

We human beings have an inward organ, the spirit, for us to contact God, receive God, contain God, and assimilate God into our entire being as our life and our everything.

The human spirit was formed by God and is ranked in importance with the heavens and the earth, as seen in Zech. 12:1.

Thank the Lord for our human spirit. By means of our spirit we can worship God, God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness (John 4:24).

Our spirit is for us to be regenerated with God’s life; when we receive God as life into our spirit, we are born of the Spirit in our spirit to be children of God (3:6).

By means of our spirit, we are joined to God, for we can be one spirit with the Lord, and the Lord is with our spirit (1 Cor. 6:17; 2 Tim. 4:22).

Praise the Lord for our spirit!

By our spirit, we can walk and live so that we may be and remain in an organic union with the Lord (Rom. 8:4) for the fulfilment of God’s purpose.

Because God is Spirit and we have a human spirit to correspond to God, there can be a transmission between God the Spirit and our spirit; our human spirit is able to contact God and be one with God. Hallelujah!

We are so thankful to the Lord that we can know this fact and experience this wonderful reality today!

We are joined to the Lord as one spirit. We can live one spirit with the Lord.

We are in an organic union with the Lord in spirit, and we can live in our spirit and do all things in our spirit. Praise the Lord!

God’s ultimate intention is to gain a corporate God-man for His corporate manifestation; this can be done only when we know our spirit and live in our regenerated spirit.

God’s desire is not to gain good men but to gain a God-man, even a corporate God-man.

How can we be a God-man? It is by exercising our spirit and being in our spirit, for in our spirit we can live one with the Lord for the fulfilment of His purpose.

Hallelujah, we were created by God and He breathed into us the breath of life! Praise the Lord, we human beings have an organ, our human spirit, by means of which we can contact God, enjoy God, and worship God! Wow, we believers in Christ are not just men but God-men, for we have been regenerated by God the Spirit to be spirit, and we can live, walk, and do all things in our spirit today! Amen, Lord, we open to You today. Thank You for not only creating us with a human spirit but even more, coming into our spirit to regenerate us and fill us with Your life. Thank You that today there’s a transmission between God the Spirit and our spirit. We come forward to You today to contact You and be one with You. Amen, Lord, we want to be not just good men but even more, God-men, men of God with the breath of God who are filled with God and who live God! Amen, Lord, make us Your corporate expression and manifestation on the earth!

Christ became the Spirit in Resurrection so that we could receive Him as the Holy Breath, the Holy Spirit!

The revelation concerning the human spirit is crucial for our Christian life; unless we know we have a spirit, we cannot cooperate with God in His economy, and all the things of God are in the spiritual realm.

Further to seeing that we have a spirit, we need to realize that God in Christ became the Spirit so that He could breathe Himself into us as the holy breath, the Holy Spirit, and be joined to us as one spirit.

How can God in the heavens be related to us on earth? How can the infinite God be related to the finite man?

How can the immeasurable and almighty God be related to the limited man? It seems to be impossible.

But in His economy, God went through a process in order to be related to us.

God became a man; the infinite God became a finite man.

Even more, He went through death and resurrection, and in resurrection, He became the Spirit, even the life-giving Spirit.

This Spirit was mentioned in John 20:22, where the Lord came on the evening of His resurrection to breathe Himself into His disciples saying, Receive the Holy Spirit (lit, Receive the Holy breath).

This is the Spirit expected in John 7:39 and promised in 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; and 16:7-8, 13.

The Lord promised He would come as another Comforter to be with His disciples; this another Comforter is the Spirit, which He became through His resurrection.

He also promised He would come as power upon them, see Luke 24:49, which was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost where the Lord came a mighty, rushing, violent wind as power upon the disciples for their work (Acts 2; 1:8).

In John 20:22 we see that the Spirit as breath, in Greek pneuma, was breathed into the disciples as their life.

When the Lord Jesus breathed the Spirit into His disciples, He imparted Himself into them as life and everything; in this way, all He spoke of in chs. 14-16 could be fulfilled.

Through His death and resurrection, the Lord was transformed, transfigured, into another form; He is no longer just the flesh but the Spirit, even the life-giving Spirit, which contains the element of humanity but has much more than that.

Just as the grain of wheat is transformed and becomes something else in the process of life, so the Lord Jesus as the last Adam in the flesh went through the processes of death and resurrection and was transfigured from the flesh into the Spirit.

He became a life-giving Spirit in His resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45).

It is as the Spirit that the Lord Jesus can come into us, His disciples, to be received and enjoyed by us.

It is as the Spirit that the Lord Jesus can breathe Himself into us. It is as the Spirit that we can drink Him, be filled with Him, and flow Him out as rivers of living waters (John 7:38-39).

It is as the Spirit that the Lord can be with us, His followers and disciples, after His death and resurrection, to be the Comforter who abides with us and is with us all the time (14:16-17).

Praise the Lord, He is now the Spirit! It is as the Spirit that the Lord can live in us and can enable us to abide in Him (v. 20; 15:4-5).

It is as the Spirit that the Lord Jesus can come with the Father to us, His loving seekers, to make an abode with us (14:23).

It is as the Spirit that the Lord Jesus can cause all that He is and has to be fully enjoyed and realized by us, His believers (16:13-16).

For us to participate in God’s economy, God went through two steps: first, He became the flesh, and then, He became the Spirit.

Through incarnation, Jesus Christ became a man in the flesh (John 1:1, 14) to be the Lamb of God to accomplish redemption for us (v. 29), to declare God to us (v. 18), and to manifest the Father to us (14:9-11).

Then, He took another step; He went through death and resurrection to be transfigured into the Spirit so that, as the Spirit, He might impart Himself into us, the believers in Christ, to be our life and our everything.

It is as the Spirit that He brings forth the many sons of God, His many brothers, for the building up of the Body of Christ, the church, the habitation of God, to express God for eternity!

How we thank and praise the Lord for becoming the Spirit!

Now we need to call on Him. He is rich to all those who call on the name of the Lord.

The Word became flesh to accomplish judicial redemption and then resurrected to become the Holy Breath indwelling us and supplying us for our organic salvation (John 1:14, 29; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 5:10; 10:12-13; cf. Lam. 3:55-56).

How thankful we are to the Lord that He didn’t end His journey with redemption, which solves man’s problems, but He went on to become the Spirit in His resurrection to be breathed into us as the holy breath, the Holy Spirit, to be our life and everything!

Now we can enjoy this rich Lord by calling on His name all the time and in every place together with those who call on His name out of a pure heart!

Lord Jesus, thank You for not only redeeming us through Your death but even more, becoming the life-giving Spirit in Your resurrection to come into us as our life and everything! Praise the Lord, God became a man in the flesh through incarnation, and He also became a life-giving Spirit in His resurrection to come into us as the holy breath, the Holy Spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today to call on Your name and be saved. We exercise our spirit to breathe You in. You breathed Yourself out as the Spirit, and now we breathe You in. We want to drink You as rivers of living waters flowing in and out of our innermost being! Amen, Lord, You are the Spirit today, and You are our Comforter, always being with us to comfort us and guide us. We open to You and we breathe You in. We exercise our spirit to love You, contact You, and abide in You so that You may abide in us and live in us. May all that You are become our enjoyment and experience today as we contact You through the exercise of our spirit by calling on Your name!

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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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, John 20:22, footnote 1, Recovery Version Bible, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by being Empowered in the Grace which is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy (2024 April ITERO), week 5, Being a Fully Equipped Man of God by Inhaling and Exhaling the Word of God as the Breath of God.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – The Spirit today is the air that we breathe; / Our spirits rejoice in this living inflow. / For just as our body the breath does receive, / So also in spirit to live it is so. / The Spirit today is the air that we breathe; / What thing more important than breathing to do? / For breathing each moment, new life we receive, / And God’s living freshness is constant and new. (Hymns #1114 stanzas 1-2)
  – O Lord, breathe Thy Spirit on me, / Teach me how to breathe Thee in; / Help me pour into Thy bosom / All my life of self and sin. / I am breathing out my sorrow, / Breathing out my sin; / I am breathing, breathing, breathing, / All Thy fulness in. (Hymns #255 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Breathe Thou, O Lord, on me / Till filled with Thee, I plead, / No longer I that live, but Christ / In thought, and word, and deed. / Breathe Thou on me and touch / My independency, / That in Thy Body I’ll be built / With all the saints in Thee. (Hymns #842 stanzas 4-5)