We Depend on Christ as our Husband and we Take Him as our Head, Life, and Person

As believers in Christ, our old man has been crucified to the law through the body of Christ so that we might marry another husband, Christ, who has been raised from the dead; Christ is our Husband, and we have an organic union with Him, taking Him as our Head, life, person, and everything. Praise the Lord!

This is what we see in Romans chapter 7. Romans five through eight are the kernel of the Bible. In these four chapters, we see two contrasting matters: life and death.

The whole Bible talks in its essence about these two matters: life and death. The crystallisation of the whole Bible and the kernel of the Bible is life and death. Life and death result in two lines – the line of life and the line of death.

What line are we on today? Right now, what line are we on? We may have been regenerated to have God’s life, but do we live by His life? Do we set our mind on our spirit?

In Deut. 30:19 Moses put before the children of Israel a choice: life and death, blessing and cursing, and he advised that they would choose life so that both they and their seed may live.

Today we have life and death before us: may we choose life, may we choose the tree of life, and may we choose to be on the line of life today! If we choose life, if we eat Christ as the tree of life and depend on Him as life day by day, even moment by moment, we will enjoy the blessing, both us and our family.

The line of life will consummate in the city of life, the New Jerusalem; today we need to be on the line of life until we become the New Jerusalem.

But if we don’t set our mind on our spirit, if we don’t choose to be on the line of life, we remain on the line of death, even though in name we are Christians. Oh Lord!

If we are in the flesh, we bear fruit unto death, but if we are in the spirit, being joined to Christ as our Husband, we bear fruit unto God.

We need to realise that sin is in us, operating in us, and always defeating us; the only way we can overcome sin is by realising that the old man was crucified with Christ and now we’re joined to Him as our new Husband.

We have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that we may be joined to Christ as our Husband.

He is in resurrection, and when His death is applied to our old man, we can live with Christ and in Christ in resurrection as a new creation. Praise the Lord!

May we choose to turn to our spirit day by day, realising that the old man has been crucified and buried with Christ, and may we live and walk in newness of life!

Christ is our Husband, and we Depend on Him and take Him as our Head in All Things

The first part of verse 4 in Romans 7 tells us that our old man has been crucified to the law through the body of Christ so that we might marry another husband, Christ, who has been raised from the dead.

Hallelujah, this is a spiritual fact, and we stand on this fact in faith! We exercise our spirit of faith to believe the word of God and stand on the word of God, even to claim this in our experience.

We need to tell the Lord, tell ourselves, and also tell the enemy that we have been made dead to the law so that we may be joined to Christ as our husband! Amen!

This is possible because, as Romans 6:6 says, our old man has been crucified with Christ so that the body of sin might be annulled. We no longer serve sin as slaves; we are no more debtors to our old man through the law because our old man is dead and buried with Christ.

We used to be married to our old man, for he assumed the position of a husband; however, he is now dead, and we are joined to Christ, our new Husband.

We are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). The fact that we’re joined to Christ indicates that we have a new status as the wife of Christ, and we have an organic union with the Lord.

We have an organic union in person, name, life, and existence with Christ in His resurrection, for we are married to Christ, our new Husband (2 Cor. 11:2).

Through the gospel and the ministry of the word, we have been betrothed to Christ as our Husband, and we love Him and live a married life with Him. Hallelujah!

Since Christ is our Husband, we must depend on Him and take Him as our Head (Eph. 5:23).

He is now our Head; we are no longer the head, we no longer do things in ourselves, by ourselves, or of ourselves, but we check with Him as the Head.

We take Christ as our Husband, being terminated in all that we are, have, and do, and trusting in the Lord for everything.

Just as a wife takes her husband as the head, even as his head is Christ, so we take Christ as our Head today, depending on Him in all things.

To take Christ as our Husband means that we depend on Him and we take Him as our Head. It means to terminate all that we are, all that we have, and all that we can do, and to trust in Him for everything.

To take Christ as our Husband is to believe into Christ, being joined to Him organically, and living in the organic union with Him at all times.

This is what God desires: to bring us back to the organic union with the Lord so that we may live one spirit with Him and put our full trust in Him.

May we no longer live by ourselves but by Christ. May we let Christ live for us and in us. May we learn to no longer live by ourselves, act by ourselves or be anything in ourselves; may we keep turning to our spirit and allow the Lord to live in us.

We need to be completely terminated and we need to take Christ as our Head, for we’re no longer the husband – Christ is now our Husband.

In big decisions and in small decisions, we need to learn to take Christ as our Head. We need to depend on Him for everything.

As we get ready to go to work, as we take care of things during the day, as we do our house chores, and as we take a rest, we need to cling to the Lord, remain in the organic union with Him, and take Him as our Husband.

This requires a continual exercise, for our old man needs to be kept on the cross, even buried with Christ, for us to live in resurrection, joined to Christ as our husband.

If we are not careful, if we don’t remain in the organic union with the Lord, we will be in the old man, and we will be under law. Whenever we sense that we do things out of obligation for the Lord or for the church, we need to turn to our spirit.

No matter what we do, no matter where we are, and no matter what is happening around us, we need to take Christ as our Husband, taking Him as the Head and depending on Him in all things.

He is our Head; we are not the Head. He is our life and person, and we have Him as our new source.

This will terminate us in our natural man and will cause us to live one spirit with Him. Oh, Christ is our Husband, and we are His wife! He is our Head and we are His Body! Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, we love You as our Husband! You are our Husband and we are Your wife! Hallelujah, we have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that we may be joined to Christ! Amen, Lord, You are the ever-living One, the resurrected One, and we are joined to You in spirit! Hallelujah, he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit! Amen, Lord, we are joined to You in spirit, and we are no longer joined to the old man! Praise the Lord, the old man has been crucified with Christ and he is buried with Christ. We no longer serve sin as slaves. We are no longer bound by the law to the old man, for the old man is dead! Amen, Christ is our Husband! Oh Lord, we take You as our Head today. We depend on You in all things. We believe into You. We trust in You for everything. Bring us back to You and cause us to place our full trust in You! We no longer want to live by ourselves but by Christ! We let You live in us and for us. We love You, Lord Jesus, our dear Husband, and we take You as our Head in all things!

We are Involved with Christ, our Husband, and we take Christ as our Life and Person

Even though we did not realise this when it happened, through our faith in Christ and our baptism into Him, we were cut off from the old man and we became involved with Christ, our new Husband.

The Bible is clear concerning this, especially in Romans chapter 7. When a person believes and is baptised into the Triune God, he becomes involved with Christ as his Husband.

Before he believed and was baptised, he was involved with his old man, having himself as his person. But through faith and baptism, the old man was buried and put to death, and now he is involved with Christ as the new Husband. Praise the Lord!

When we heard the gospel and were convicted of our sins, we repented before the Lord and opened to Him; we opened to this wonderful Person to save us and impart His life into us.

Through our faith in Christ and our baptism into the Triune God, we became involved with another person – the divine person who is our Redeemer, our Reconciler, and our Life-Saviour!

He is the most wonderful One, and we became one with Him as our Husband!

On the negative side, our old man died with Christ in His death through our faith and baptism. On the positive side, we were regenerated to be a new man as we were made one with Christ in His resurrection!

The old man was involved with all kinds of negative things, and the law of God condemned him; however, now the old man is dead and buried, and we are no longer involved with him but we’re involved with Christ!

Oh, we believers in Christ are now involved with Christ, our new Husband, and we take Christ as our Husband! We take Him as our Head and depend on Him. We take Him as our life and as our person.

We through law have died to law (Gal. 2:19), and we take Christ as our life, for now Christ is our life (Col. 3:4).

May we all realise that Christ is our Husband, our Head, our person, and our life.

Our old man has been terminated, we have become nobody, and now Christ lives in us and for us.

We are no longer under the law, which was given to expose the old man; we are now under grace, enjoying Christ and being alive to God! Now we live to God.

What a wonderful change happened in our being! We all can testify that, even though we did not realise this at the moment it happened, through faith in Christ and baptism into Him, we were made into a different person, a new person, and now Christ is our Husband!

Every regenerated and baptised believer can testify to this change. He used to be his own person, living by his old man under the law, but immediately after he believed into the Lord and was baptised, he realised that Christ is in him as his life, and he is involved with Christ as his Husband.

We all can testify that Christ is within us as our life, and something within us regulates us. Christ is a living person living within us, dwelling in us, and regulating us from within.

As He moves in us, speaks to us, and regulates us, death is applied to our old way of living, and we live in a new way, in the regenerated man, for now Christ lives in us.

Our old man is put to death and remains in the death of Christ, and we are a new person who lives no longer to ourselves or to the law but to God.

We are dead to the law and living to God. We take Christ as our life and person, for we are involved with Christ, our new Husband. Oh, may this be our reality in our daily living today!

Lord Jesus, we love You! You are our beloved Husband, and we are Your loving wife! We take You as our Husband today. We take You as our Head in all things. We take You as our life and as our person. Lord, You are our life. Praise the Lord, we through law have died to law so that we may be living to God! Amen, Lord, now in grace we are alive to God, and we live one spirit with You! May we see this, Lord, and may we remain in this reality today. May we realise that we have become involved with Christ, our Husband. May we see that through faith and baptism into Christ, the old man was put to death and buried, and we are now involved with Christ. Lord Jesus, we love You as our Redeemer, our Reconciler, our Life-Savior, and our dear Husband! We love to turn to You. We love Your indwelling. Live in us today. Speak to us from within. We want to heed Your inner speaking, leading, and guiding. Regulate us from within so that the old man may remain in death, the old way of living may be terminated, and Christ would live in us!

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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 300, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans – the Kernel of the Bible (2025 ICSC), week 4, The New Husband.
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