«　WEEK 5　DAY 3　»

　　Rom. 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death."

　　Rom. 8:4-6 "That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who…walk…according to the spirit. For…those who are according to the spirit, [mind] the things of the Spirit. For…the mind set on the spirit is life and peace."

　　Due to the ignorance and blindness of the Christians throughout the centuries, Romans 8 has remained closed. For this reason there has been very little Body life.…Even up to this day there is little Body life because the secret of how to have the Body life has not been unveiled. It has been under the cover here in Romans 8. We must see how this law is just the processed all-inclusive God as the all-inclusive Spirit indwelling us. This is the law. We also must see how this law works scientifically through all the ingredients that are incorporated in this wonderful being. As long as this wonderful being exists in us, He Himself as a law works through all that He has and all that He is. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “p. 332)

　　In our daily life we cannot say strongly that we live Christ.…The issue of our daily life is not much for the building up of the Body of Christ.…Although we may pray, we may pray-read, we may love the Lord, we may live outside of the world, we may not sin, we may be quite godly and pious, yet we have to check how much Christ is really there. You may attend meetings and have the church life, …but…how much of Christ is there in your daily life, and how much of the building of the Body has issued out of your daily life?

　　What we call the Body life may be just a kind of spiritual, communal, or social life. We may be Christian brothers standing on the proper ground, meeting together into the name of the Lord, and handling some spiritual things.…These are not the Body life. Actually, this is some kind of church life without that much of Christ and without that much of the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is just the issue of the experience of Christ. It has to be altogether Christ. We need to pray, “Lord, as You have opened up Your Word to me and as You have opened up my eyes to see Your Word, I need Your mercy and I need Your grace to be brought into this reality. I need to live You for the issuing out of the Body. I need such a reality. Lord, would You give me the grace that I could forget everything else? I would forget every problem, and I would not care for anything else except for Christ and the issue of Christ, the Body.” We need such a prayer, a desperate prayer.

　　The very God who is triune and who has been processed and who has become the indwelling Spirit is first installed into our spirit. Then from our spirit He spreads into our mind, and from our mind He eventually saturates our body. The very God installed into us is the law of the Spirit of life. Today this God does everything for us not by activity but always by law.…[Today] we just need to walk according to the spirit. That means we set our mind on the spirit. When we walk according to the spirit, many wonderful doings are going on within us by the law. That is God working within us.

　　According to the traditional Christian concepts, when we pray to God for certain things, then God comes in to do something as an activity. But according to Romans 8, in God's New Testament economy He does not work that way. That was the Old Testament economy.…But in the New Testament…God as the Triune God has been processed to be the indwelling, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit. And the Spirit today, according to Romans 8, is a law. This means that it is the spontaneous automatic principle of the processed Triune God working within us. In the New Testament economy, God works for His redeemed people not by activities but by the automatic principle. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, ” pp. 140-143, 354-355, 367-368)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “chs. 12, 32-37; CWWN, vol. 9, pp. 253-262