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　　John 5:19 …The Son can do nothing from Himself except what He sees the Father doing, for whatever that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

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

　　The One who created Adam came to be a man and lived a human life in resurrection. He denied His natural humanity. He never did anything out of Himself (John 5:19,30)….We also should not do anything in our natural life but in Christ’s resurrection life. Jesus was living and walking on this earth in His flesh, but He rejected this flesh. He rejected His natural life.

　　Some people are charming, attractive, and cherishing in their natural humanity by birth….Those who are charming in their natural humanity, however, are not real….When you get close to a charming man, you will find out that he actually is not that charming….To cherish people in our natural humanity is not genuine. This is why we must cherish people in the humanity of Jesus. The Lord’s charming and cherishing are not natural but are by His resurrection life in humanity. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” pp. 142-143)

　　Jesus was in resurrection before He was resurrected. He was a person living a human life in resurrection, not by Himself but by another source, that is, His Father. Thus, He could say that when He spoke, that was the Father working within Him (John 14:10). He was one with the Father. If we live such a life today, a life in humanity by resurrection, everyone will realize that there is something different about us. We will be sweet, charming, and attractive, without deception or hypocrisy. When we visit people, we must have the Lord’s presence. His presence is the charming factor, and that presence comes from the cross plus resurrection. We must be a person on the cross and in resurrection. Then we will have the real presence of the Triune God with us, and that presence is resurrection.

　　[The Lord Jesus] was a Jew, who no doubt bore a Jewish countenance. He had Jewish blood and Jewish flesh with the human life and nature. But He lived by another life in His human life. This other life is the divine life. Because He lived the divine life in His human life, His human life became mystical, a mystery. Out from His human life came something divine.

　　Whatever the Lord did on earth in those three and a half years was a sign, signifying something (John 2:11, footnote 2). Every miracle was a sign. The Lord’s feeding of the five thousand with five loaves and two fish was a miracle. The disciples must have been excited when they saw such a great thing, but afterward the Lord directed them to pick up all the fragments that were left over. That was also a sign (Matt. 14:20, footnote). The Lord was divine and mystical.

　　In John 8 a sinful woman was brought to the Lord. Eventually, He said to her, “Has no one condemned you?” (v. 10). “She said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more” (v. 11)….The Lord Jesus was God expressed, yet He would not condemn a sinner…. He was a divine and mystical person living in the divine and mystical realm, doing everything in a divine and mystical way. We should be such persons….Those around us should have the feeling that there is something extraordinary about us. This extraordinary thing is divine and mystical. We all need to be discipled by the Lord to be divine and mystical persons. The followers of Christ were discipled through Christ’s human living on the earth, as the model of a God-man—living God by denying Himself in humanity (John 5:19, 30), revolutionizing their concept concerning man (Phil. 3:10; 1:21a). (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” pp. 145-146, 74-76)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” chs. 2, 10