Scripture Reading: John 15:4-5; Rom. 12:4-5; 8:4; 1 Cor. 6:17; 12:12-13, 27; Phil. 3:10

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«　WEEK 3　DAY 1　»

　　Rom. 6:4-5 We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of 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.

　　To be living unto God is to be obligated to God in the divine life, to be responsible to God in the resurrection life. In the organic union with Christ, we experience resurrection life. In this resurrection life we are held to God spontaneously and are obligated to Him. This also depends on the organic union.

　　Because we have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer we who live, but Christ lives in us. We no longer live in the old man, the natural man. Rather, Christ lives in us. Then in resurrection we live in the faith of the Son of God. To live in the faith of the Son of God means to live in the organic union with the Son of God, which comes through our believing in Him.

　　We live to God with Christ (Rom. 6:8, 10) and through the Spirit (Gal. 5:16, 25). This is the enjoyment of the processed Triune God in our experience. (Life-study of Galatians, p. 83)

　　Anything we do independently of the Lord is of the flesh. It is crucial that we realize that we have been joined organically to the Triune God. He and we, we and He, are mingled together as one. Such an organic union has taken place in our spirit. Therefore, we should walk according to the Spirit in our spirit. This is God's New Testament economy, the way in which His eternal purpose is carried out. (Life-study of Galatians, p. 144)

　　In botany, grafting means to unite two trees...[such as] a branch of a sweet tree into that of a sour tree....Eventually, these two lives are joined together to become one life. The fruit produced thereafter is the expression of the sweet tree through the sour tree. To the sour tree, the sweet tree is its life, so it is no longer the sour tree that lives, but it is the sweet tree that lives in it. If the sour tree could speak, it would declare, "As always, even now the sweet tree will be magnified in my body, whether through wind and frost or through rain and snow." This is the life of a Christian. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 5, "The Mystery of the Universe and the Meaning of Human Life," p. 351)

　　The very salvation that we have received and that is being experienced by us day by day is in the organic union of the Divine Trinity.... When we call upon the name of Jesus, an organic union transpires within us....There is a union in life, an organic union, between us and the Lord....Before we believed in the Lord Jesus, we were just ourselves apart from the Lord. When we were saved, however, something wonderful transpired within us.

　　Another One is with us regenerated Christians. We have an organic union with Him. We are united with the Lord Jesus organically. This organic union is accomplished and transpires within us when we believe in our hearts and when we call on His name with our mouths (Rom. 10:9). (CWWL, 1988, vol. 3, "The Organism of the Triune God in the Organic Union of His Divine Trinity," pp. 473-475)

　　Romans 12 speaks of the Body from the angle of the organic union, that is, from that of the uniting life, a life that unites us together, not only with Christ but with all the other members of Christ. Formerly, we had been born in Adam, but God took us out of Adam and transplanted us into Christ by rebirth. It is rebirth, or regeneration, that has brought us into an organic union with Christ, thus making us a part of Christ. To be organic in the Body means that we must be organically united with Christ and thereby planted into His Body. Then we will have an organic union with the Body of Christ and become a part of the Body. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3106)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Galatians, msgs. 9, 16; CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Organic Union in God's Relationship with Man," chs. 5-6

«　WEEK 3　DAY 2　»

　　John 15:4-5 Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

　　It is altogether right to say that Romans is a sketch of the Christian life, but most of the teachers of the Bible did not see the focus of the Christian life. The focus of the Christian life is not justification or sanctification but the Body. If you miss the Body, you do not have the center of the Christian life; you do not have the goal; you do not have the aim; you do not have any direction. For what are you sanctified? You are sanctified so that you can practically be a member of the Body. The Body is the focus, the center, of the Christian life. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," p. 259)

　　Have you ever considered what is the top item produced by God in this universe? The heavens were produced, the earth was produced, man was produced, and even thousands of items were produced. God worked in creation, and God has been working through all the generations. God is still working,...but eventually what will be the ultimate item that comes out of God's working? We have to see that it is the Body.... What will ultimately come out of God's working through all the centuries and all the generations will be a Body. Who is the Head of this Body? Christ is the Head....The Body is the ultimate item of God's continual working, so the Body is the top point of God's entire revelation. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," pp. 250-251)

　　We are one Body in Christ, having an organic union with Him. The phrase in Christ always implies that we are organically united with Christ. This union makes us one in life with Him and with all the other members of His Body. The Body is not an organization or a society but is altogether an organism produced by the union in life that we have with Christ. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3105-3106)

　　To be properly organic in the Body does not mean that you simply get baptized and that you get into a so-called church, and then you become a member of the Body of Christ; rather, it means that you must be organically united with Christ. You must be a part properly planted into Christ's Body organically. Then you will have a proper organic union with the Body of Christ. Then you will become a part of the Body. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," p. 252)

　　The Body of Christ is altogether a matter of life and a matter of remaining in our organic union with Christ. When we remain in this organic union, we are in the Body. When we do not remain in this organic union, we are practically and experientially out of the Body. The actuality of the Body is to remain in this organic union with Christ. In order to actually live in the Body life, we must remain in the organic union with Christ. This is simply to remain in Christ. In John 15 the Lord Jesus tells us that He is the vine, we are the branches, and we should abide in Him (vv. 4-5). To abide in Him means to remain in an organic union with Him. When we remain in this organic union with Christ, we are actually living in the Body. But if we do not remain in this organic union, for all practical purposes we have left the Body. For instance, when we speak by ourselves and apart from Christ, we have left the Body. Our gossip, our free talk, and our loose conversation are all signs that we have left the Body.

　　The Body is not merely a group of Christians coming together. The Body is something that is held together in the organic union with Christ....In order to realize the Body of Christ, we need to fully experience the organic union with Christ with a thorough realization that we are organically one with Christ in life. If we do not realize the organic union in Christ, in practicality we are outside of the Body and apart from the Body. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3106)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Romans, msgs. 63-65; CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," chs. 23-24

«　WEEK 3　DAY 3　»

　　Rom. 8:4 That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

　　1 Cor. 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

　　God's unique purpose in this universe is to work Himself into man so that man may have His life and nature and that through His life and nature, man may be transformed inwardly (2 Pet. 1:3-4; 2 Cor. 3:18). Ultimately, God and man will be mingled together, and man will have the image of God (Rom. 8:29). The inward being of God will be the inward being of man, and God's glorious, outward appearance will be man's glorious appearance (cf. Rev. 4:3; 21:11). As a result, God and man will be exactly the same both outwardly and inwardly. (The Way for a Christian to Mature in Life, p. 36)

　　The church is the enlargement of Christ, the God-man, the One who is God mingled with man. When the church is in a normal condition, we can see God and man mingled together. On the day of Pentecost those in the church were uneducated, insignificant men, but we can see that they were mingled with the almighty God. When Peter and the eleven apostles stood up to speak, although it was Peter's voice, God was speaking. God was not merely among them; even more, He was mingled with them. They were inseparable from God. This is the church, the enlargement of Christ, the enlargement of the mingling of God with man and man with God.

　　Formerly, this mingling could be seen in only one person, but now it can be seen in millions of people. Formerly, this mingling involved only the Head, but now it has been enlarged to become the Body. With respect to time, this enlargement is extending; with respect to space, this enlargement is spreading.

　　If there is no mingling of God with man and man with God, there can be no church. Though many believers have God's life in them, this mingling is not seen in their living; the practical expression of the mingling of God and man is not among them. I believe it is easier for us to understand the Body of Christ from the perspective of the mingling of God and man. If there is the mingling of God and man, there is the Body and there is the reality. This reality is the expression of the Body.

　　God came to the earth to be mingled with man, in the man Jesus Christ. Hence, Jesus Christ is the beginning of the mingling of God and man. This mingling made the production of the Body of Christ, which is the church, possible. Christ is the Head of the Body, the church. The church is the enlargement of the principle of God being mingled with man. This enlargement results in the Body of Christ.

　　In the Gospels the mingling of God and man produced the Head, Christ. In Acts the enlargement of the mingling of God and man produced the Body of Christ. God mingled with the man Jesus, a Galilean, and this Jesus became the Head of the Body; God also mingled with many Galileans, and they became the Body of the Head.

　　The book of Acts is a record not merely of the activities of the apostles, but it is a record of the activities of the Body of Christ on earth. We need to connect Acts with the Gospels to see a complete man, the Head and the Body. This man is a mysterious, universal man, who is God yet man and man yet God. (The Church as the Body of Christ, pp. 39, 60-61, 59)

　　One of the most positive items in the New Testament revelation is the genuine oneness of the Body. This genuine oneness is just the processed Triune God, who mingles Himself with us, the redeemed and transformed Christians. The genuine oneness of the Body is nothing less than the Triune God.... This consummated, processed Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen people in their humanity, and this mingling is the genuine oneness. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, "Elders' Training, Book 10: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2)," p. 359)

　　Further Reading: The Church as the Body of Christ, chs. 3, 5; CWWL, 1963, vol. 3, "The Building of God," chs. 1-2

«　WEEK 3　DAY 4　»

　　Eph. 4:15-16 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

　　Please remember that the church is not a matter of name, position, or stand; neither is the church a matter of belief or organization. The church is a group of people who allow God to be mingled with them and who are mingled with God. This was the situation with the early apostles....They had the appearance of Galileans, but they also had the expression of the God of heaven. The glory of the God of heaven was expressed in uneducated, common people. Uneducated, common people were still present, yet the glory of the God of heaven was also expressed. This is the church. The ignorance disappeared, and common people were broken. A glorious and great God was now mingled with common people, shining forth and being expressed through them. The church had the authority and image of God. (The Church as the Body of Christ, p. 46)

　　The principle of the Body is that our person is broken, defeated, and torn down by God and that we are giving God the opportunity to mingle with us and shine forth from within us. This is Christ being born again in the world; this is Christ being multiplied among us; this is the church, the enlargement of Christ. Whenever this is practiced, wherever this is present, there is the expression of the church on the earth—a church that is real, practical, actual, and powerful. Thus, the church with authority and image is a reality. (The Church as the Body of Christ, p. 47)

　　What is the Body of Christ practically speaking? It is the mingled spirit.... If we would see this, we would say, "Lord,... the reality of the Body is right within me. The regenerated spirit and the indwelling Spirit are now one, mingled together right within me. I do not need to pray; I do not need to wait....Everything is within me. I just walk according to this mingled spirit. I just set my mind on the spirit. Life is here, and peace is here." (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," p. 310)

　　We have used this term union quite much, but concerning the union of God and man, we do not have adequate knowledge. The union of God and man is altogether a matter of the union of the two spirits, the Spirit of God and the spirit of man. God is Spirit and man has a spirit; thus, these two spirits can be united together as one. But how does the union of these two spirits occur? This is the deepest mystery in the Bible, and it is difficult for man to comprehend. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, "The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers," p. 198)

　　Actually, to walk according to the spirit means to walk according to both the divine Spirit and the human spirit, according to the two spirits mingled as one....This is the focus of the divine economy. Whatever God intends to do or accomplish is related to this focus. If we would have certain basic spiritual experiences, we must have a clear understanding that the focus of God's economy is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit. We live not only according to the conscience but according to the mingled spirit....Here, on this [highest] level, we have the Christian life and also the church life.... We should walk according to this, that is, according to the mingled spirit. We should be a person in such a spirit as was the apostle John in Revelation (1:10). (CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, "Basic Training," pp. 314-315)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, "The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers," chs. 2-4; CWWL, 1963, vol. 1, "Experiencing the Mingling of God with Man for the Oneness of the Body of Christ," chs. 4-5

«　WEEK 3　DAY 5　»

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

　　Rom. 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

　　One of the greatest verses in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 6:17, says, "He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit." The implications of this verse are marvelous and far-reaching. We, the believers, are one spirit with the Lord. How tremendous! This implies that we are in Him and that He is in us. It also implies that we and He have been mingled, blended organically, to become one in life. To be one spirit with the Lord implies that we and He are a living entity. We simply do not have words to explain the significance of this verse. (Life-study of Colossians, p. 457)

　　Today the Spirit of God and the human spirit are mingled as one within us so that we can live a God-man life, a life that is God yet man and man yet God. Hence, the God-man life is a living of the two spirits, the Spirit of God and the spirit of man joined and mingled together as one. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, "The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers," p. 193)

　　To be conformed to the death of Christ [Phil. 3:10b] denotes that the believers need to take Christ's death as a mold for their living. The mold of Christ's death refers to His putting to death His human life continuously so that He might live by the life of God. Unless the believers are conformed to the death of Christ, they cannot be conformed to the image of Christ. Therefore, when the believers experience the process of transformation and conformation, they are being conformed to the death of Christ. The death of Christ was present in Him throughout His entire life; therefore, the believers also must daily experience being conformed to Christ's death. (Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 3, p. 62)

　　Conformation is the end result of transformation. It includes the changing of our inward essence and nature, and it also includes the changing of our outward form, that we may match the glorified image of Christ, the God-man. He is the prototype and we are the mass production. Both the inward and the outward changes in us, the product, are the result of the operation of the law of the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2) in our being. (Rom. 8:29, footnote 3)

　　We need to take the death of Christ as the mold of our life. The mold of Christ's death refers to the continual putting to death of His human life so that He might live by the life of God. Christ's death is now a mold to which we are being conformed. As our human life is conformed to such a mold, we die to our human life in order to live the divine life.

　　Unless we are conformed to the death of Christ, we cannot be conformed to the image of Christ. Christ's death is a mold in which we are being shaped into His image as the firstborn Son of God. As we are undergoing the process of transformation and conformation, we are being conformed to the death of Christ.

　　Christ's death took place throughout His life. As He was living, He was also dying. Daily He was molded by the cross, even when He was a child, living in a carpenter's home in Nazareth. He was continually being crossed out—crossed out by His mother, by His brothers, and by His disciples, who had no ear to hear what He spoke to them concerning His suffering and death on the cross. Day by day Christ died to the old creation in order to live a life in the new creation.

　　Being conformed to Christ's death should be our daily experience as believers. The more our natural life is put to death, the more the divine life within us will be released. Then in our experience we shall be conformed to Christ's death. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1613-1614)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1989, vol. 3, "The Experience and Growth in Life," chs. 3-4, 12, 25; CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "A Living of Mutual Abiding with the Lord in Spirit," chs. 4-5

«　WEEK 3　DAY 6　»

　　2 Cor. 4:10-11 Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

　　Paul lived a crucified life continually, a life under the cross, just as Christ did in His human living. Through such a life the resurrection power of Christ is experienced and expressed. The mold of Christ's death refers to Christ's experience of continually putting to death His human life that He might live by the life of God (John 6:57). Our life should be conformed to such a mold by our dying to our human life to live the divine life. Being conformed to the death of Christ is the condition for knowing and experiencing Him, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings. (Phil. 3:10, footnote 4)

　　The way of the Christian life is the way of the cross. Christ's cross is the centrality and universality of our way to live the Christian life. The way to live the Christian life is composed of and constituted with Christ's death.

　　To say that I have been crucified with Christ is certainly right, but I also must live. I still live and do things, but I no longer do them by myself; I do them with Christ who lives within me. In this way I live a grafted life.

　　In our experience the turning point in living a life with Christ is the cross. Without the cross we live, but not Christ. With the cross we still live, but we no longer live by ourselves; Christ now lives with us. When [we] prepare to speak,...we must always realize that we have been crucified and that we should no longer live by ourselves but by Christ who lives within us. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, "The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man," pp. 327,316-317)

　　If we practice this life, then in our experience we will be crucified and conformed to the death of Christ. Then we will be able to say with Paul that we have been crucified with Christ and that we no longer live but Christ lives in us (Gal. 2:20). When Paul was in prison, he could declare that for him to live was Christ (Phil. 1:21). He was one with Christ, and he lived Christ and magnified Christ by the bountiful supply of the Spirit (vv. 19-20).

　　When Christ lived on earth, His life was pure and holy. Yet He never did anything by Himself nor spoke anything of Himself or from Himself. Whatever He did and spoke was by the Father (John 5:19, 30; 7:16; 8:28; 12:49-50). For thirty-three and a half years He lived a crucified life, always living by the Father. Now we are Christ's continuation, and we should live a crucified life every day. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Kings, p. 154)

　　Such a life of dying to ourselves and living to God is for Christ, the first God-man, to be formed in His many brothers, the many God-men, for the building up of His organic Body that the eternal economy of God might be carried out. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, "The Practical Way to Live a Life according to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures," p. 56)

　　We must be those who live a crucified life continually by taking Christ's death as the mold of our life. It is only by living this kind of life that we can have the reality of the Body of Christ. May the Lord have mercy on us so that we can live a life of being conformed to the death of Christ through the cross. May the Lord open our eyes to see this vision. Only those who have passed through death and resurrection can have their eyes opened; they live and walk by the revelation that they have seen. Only such a living is the God-man living, and only such a living can live out the reality of the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "A General Outline of God's Economy and the Proper Living of a God-man," p. 514)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, "The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man," chs. 8, 10-11, 19; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "A General Outline of God's Economy and the Proper Living of a God-man: A Fellowship with the Elders from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia," ch. 3