Walk in Christ by Walking according to the Spirit and by the Spirit to Enjoy Grace

As believers in Christ, we have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, and now we need to walk in Him; to walk in Christ is to walk according to the spirit and by the Spirit, for the all-inclusive Spirit dwells in our spirit to be our enjoyment today. Hallelujah!

This week in our morning revival we come to the topic of, Governing Principles That We Need to See and Experience in Order to Possess Christ as the Good Land.

God promised the good land to Abraham and to his seed, and he had to walk in the land, for every part of the land that he walked on, became his.

We need to walk in Christ and enjoy Christ, experience Christ, and partake of Christ, for every portion of Christ that we enjoy and partake of becomes ours as our inheritance.

Just as God gave the land to Abraham and to his seed, so today we as the seed of Abraham inherit all that Christ is and has by exercising our spirit and living in the mingled spirit.

First, we need to see the land; we need to ask the Lord to grant us a vision of the all-inclusive Christ as our portion of the good land.

What we see, we will also enter into, and we will possess. The more we see Christ, the more we see the all-inclusiveness of Christ, the more we partake of His riches.

After seeing the all-inclusiveness and extensiveness of Christ, we will walk in Him. See Him and walk in Him.

We have been rooted in Christ, and now we need to walk in Him. Hallelujah!

As believers in Christ, it is our privilege and responsibility to partake of the rich Christ that has been allotted to us.

Day after day we can spend time with the Lord and behold Him, be infused with Him, and partake of His riches.

Then, after being filled with Him, we can take possession of Him, and what He is becomes ours in spirit.

May we realize that the good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ who today is the life-giving Spirit with our spirit, and may we be those who daily choose to live in the mingled spirit and walk by the spirit in our daily living.

Brothers and sisters, what we see of Christ becomes ours, and we need to walk in Him.

He is the good land that has been allotted to us, to each one of us, for us to partake of and enjoy in our spirit.

Now we simply need to take possession of Him by walking in Him, for every step that we take in Christ will bring us into the enjoyment of our allotted portion.

What a rich Christ we have!

He is exhaustless and all-inclusive, and we can see Him, walk in Him, and take possession of the good land in our spirit!

Walk in Christ by Walking according to the Spirit to Enjoy His Riches Daily

Thank the Lord that we, the believers in Christ, have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord; He has been given to us at the time of our regeneration, and now we simply need to walk in Him (Col. 2:6).

On one hand, Christ has been given to us as our God-allotted portion (Col. 1:12); on the other hand, we need to walk in Him to take possession of the good land.

What does it mean to walk in Christ?

To walk is to live, act, behave, and have our being; we need to live, act, behave, and have our being in Christ.

Just as the children of Israel were allotted a portion of the good land and had to live there, do everything there, have their being there, work there, and just be there, so we have been allotted a portion of Christ and we need to enjoy Him!

Today the good land is Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit (Gal. 3:14) who dwells in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22; Rom. 8:16) to be our enjoyment and our everything.

The good land today is in our spirit, for the Lord as the Spirit is in our spirit and with our spirit.

We need to know this and see that Christ as the Spirit is with our spirit to be the reality of the good land.

Also, we need to walk in this land, walk in Christ, by walking according to the spirit in order to enjoy the riches of Christ and take possession of our allotted portion of the good land.

Christ is all-inclusive, rich, and extensive; we need to walk in Christ by walking according to the spirit so that we may enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Gal. 5:16 speaks of walking by the Spirit so that we may by no means fulfil the lust of the flesh.

When we walk by the Spirit, we spontaneously enjoy Christ and not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.

This Spirit is the Holy Spirit mingled with our spirit. When we turn to the Lord and exercise our spirit, we contact the Holy Spirit mingled with our spirit.

We need to walk according to the mingled spirit day by day, having our being and our walking regulated by the Holy Spirit from within our spirit.

If we do not do this, by default we walk according to the flesh and in the flesh.

The flesh is the totality of our fallen being and the uttermost expression of the fallen tripartite man (Gen. 6:3).

The Spirit, however, is the ultimate realization of the processed Triune God (John 7:39), and this Spirit is with our spirit today.

We daily have a choice of either walking in the flesh or walking by the Spirit, walking according to the spirit, that is, the mingled spirit.

We have been redeemed and regenerated by the Lord, and we are now under the divine dispensing day by day so that we may walk by the Spirit, by the consummation of the processed Triune God, instead of walking by the flesh, our fallen being.

We need to be rescued and delivered from walking according to the flesh or the law and be brought into a daily walk in Christ by walking according to the spirit.

On the negative side, we need to be delivered from walking in the flesh and according to the law; on the positive side, we need to realize that we have the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit in our spirit so that we may live, walk, and have our being in this Spirit.

We can pray this matter to the Lord and, throughout the day, come to Him again and again to contact Him, opening to Him and walking according to the Spirit simply by uttering short and living prayers to Him. We can tell the Lord,

Lord Jesus, we want to walk in Christ by walking according to the spirit today. Thank You for coming into our spirit to be the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit as the reality of the good land. Hallelujah, we have received Christ, Jesus the Lord, and now we can walk in Christ by walking according to the spirit! Amen, Lord Jesus, we exercise our spirit to contact You. Cause us to see and realize that the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is with our spirit. We want to live, walk, and have our being in the Spirit. Save us and deliver us from walking in the flesh and according to the law. Bring us into our spirit again and again. Oh Lord, we want to live, act, behave, and have our being in our spirit so that we may enjoy the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ who is the life-giving Spirit in and with our spirit!

Walk by the Spirit to Enjoy the Grace of God and have the Righteous Requirements of the Law Fulfilled in us

Rom. 8:4 is another verse speaking of the need to walk according to the spirit and by the Spirit. If we walk by the Spirit, we will no longer fulfil the lusts of the flesh but even more, the righteous requirements of the law are fulfilled in us.

It doesn’t say here that, if we walk by the Spirit we fulfil the requirements of the law but that these are spontaneously fulfilled in us if and when we walk by the Spirit.

It is like saying that, if we get in an airplane, we will spontaneously overcome the law of gravity, for the airplane does everything for us.

When we are in our mingled spirit, when we walk in Christ by walking by the Spirit, the righteous requirement of the law is unconsciously fulfilled in us by the inward working of the Spirit of life.

The Spirit of life is in us, working and operating, and as long as we turn to Him and walk by the Spirit, He will fulfil in us the righteous requirement of the law.

This is what God’s original intention is; He has a purpose to fulfill, but He doesn’t want us to consciously fulfill this purpose but rather, come to Him, be filled with Him and walk in Christ by walking according to the spirit, and His purpose will be fulfilled in us.

It is Christ who lives in us as the Spirit, and He fulfills His requirements as long as we walk by the Spirit.

To walk is to daily walk in our living in a general way; as long as we walk by the Spirit, the Lord lives in us and fulfils the righteous requirements of the law.

According to Romans 8, the requirements we need to fulfill in order that the law of the Spirit of life may work are: (1) to walk according to the Spirit (v. 4); (2) to mind the things of the Spirit—to set the mind on the spirit (vv. 5-6); (3) to put to death by the Spirit the practices of the body (v. 13); (4) to be led by the Spirit as sons of God (v. 14); (5) to cry to the Father in the spirit of sonship (v. 15); (6) to witness that we are the children of God (v. 16); and (7) to groan for the full sonship, the redemption of our body (v. 23).

May we be those who walk by the Spirit today so that we may enjoy the grace of God with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and spontaneously have the righteous requirements of the law being fulfilled in us!

Our spirit is very important, especially as we live in the grievous days of the worsening of the degradation of the church.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit.

On one hand, we have a strong, loving, and sound spirit given to us by God, a spirit by which we can fan the gift of God into flame and suffer evil with the gospel according to the power of God and the Lord’s life-imparting grace (Phil. 1:6-10).

On the other hand, the Lord is with our spirit so that we may enjoy Him as grace in order to stand against the downward current of the decline of the church and carry out God’s economy through His indwelling Spirit (1:14) and equipping word (3:16-17). Amen!

Thank the Lord that the grace of God is with our spirit!

This eternal grace of God was given to us in eternity (2 Tim. 1:9) and can be enjoyed and appropriated by us in this age.

This grace is nothing less than Christ Himself, who is the very embodiment of the divine life, dwelling in our spirit and living in our spirit.

Day by day we need to exercise our spirit to enjoy the riches of this all-inclusive Christ (Eph. 3:8) as the sufficient grace (2 Cor. 12:9).

As we do this, as we contact the Lord and live in spirit, we may live Him out as our godliness (1 Tim. 4:7-8) for the building up of the church as His testimony, bearing all the divine realities according to God’s economy.

To walk according to the spirit and by the Spirit (Gal. 5:16, 25) is the central and crucial point in the New Testament.

In our time with the Lord, personally and intimately, we need to open to the Lord and ask Him to make this real to us.

We need to cooperate with the Lord in prayer and by exercising our spirit to live Christ by walking according to the spirit so that we may walk in Christ in our daily life.

When we exercise our spirit and walk by the Spirit, we enjoy the riches of Christ, we spontaneously have the righteous requirements of the law fulfilled in us, and we have a life of godliness lived out of us. Praise the Lord!

Thank You, Lord, for giving us a strong, loving, and sound spirit so that we can fan the gift of God into flame and suffer evil with the gospel according to the power of God and the Lord’s life-imparting grace. Hallelujah for our spirit, a spirit that is mingled with the Lord as one spirit! Amen, Lord, we want to enjoy You as grace with our spirit. We want to enjoy You as grace to stand against the downward current of the decline of the church and carry out God’s economy through Your indwelling Spirit and equipping word! Amen, Lord, we come to You to contact You and enjoy You as grace with our spirit. Wow, grace is in the indestructible life to be everything to us for our enjoyment! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy your riches as the sufficient grace for us in our daily life. We want to live in spirit and walk by the Spirit today!

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, 1973-1974, vol. 1, “The Vision and Experience of the Corporate Christ,” ch. 1, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 10, entitled, Governing Principles That We Need to See and Experience in Order to Possess Christ as the Good Land.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – O Lord, Thou art the Spirit now / Who in my spirit makes His home; / He mingles with my spirit too, / And both one spirit thus become. / Lord, teach me how to exercise / My spirit now to contact Thee, / That in Thy Spirit I may walk / And live by Thy reality. (Hymns #493 stanzas 4-5)
  – In daily walk and in our meetings too, / Christ is the center, Christ is everything; / ’Tis not for form nor doctrine good and true, / But ’tis for Christ alone we’re gathering. / Christ is the way and Christ the light of life, / In Him we walk and by Him we are led; / Christ is the living water and the food; / Of Him we drink and we with Him are fed. (Hymns #863 stanzas 1-2)
  – By the cross discern the spirit, / Put the soul to death alway; / Bear the cross, deny the self-life, / Walk in spirit day by day. / By the cross discern the spirit, / Through the living Word of God, / Separating soul from spirit, / That the right path may be trod. (Hymns #748 stanzas 1-2)