«　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