If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him; praise the Lord, Christ became a life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, and we are joined to the Lord as one spirit so that we may enjoy and experience all that Christ is in our spirit! Hallelujah!
When we set our mind on our spirit, live according to the spirit, and walk according to the spirit, we live on the line of life, taking Christ as the tree of life.
May we be saved from living and serving in the realm of knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil; may we be saved from mere outward activities for Him without depending on Him as our life.
God doesn’t merely want us to do things for Him; He wants us to depend on Him as life, even to take Him as our life and live because of Him so that He may live in us for His corporate expression.
This doesn’t mean that we don’t need to serve the Lord or work for God; rather, as we serve the Lord, as we live the Christian life, and as we work for the Lord, we need to take Him as our source and supply.
Our service is not the goal; our service is not the centre, but God’s heart’s desire is the goal, for we want to have Him wrought into us for Him to gain a corporate expression on the earth.
God’s desire is to work Himself into man to be man’s life and everything; as we live the Christian life and serve the Lord, we want to be tree-of-life-men, those depending on the Lord and allowing Him to live in us! Praise the Lord!
May we be saved from remaining in the realm of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong; may we see the urgent need to turn back to the tree of life.
In a practical way, may we realise that Christ today is the life-giving Spirit joined to our spirit, and we are one spirit with the Lord; it is in this spirit that we can live, work, and do all things to be one with the Lord in all things.
He came to be our life. He is our life. We are grafted in Him, and He is our source. We abide in Him and He abides in us.
He is the tree, the vine tree, and He is also the life; He is the tree of life, and as such a One, He’s the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. His words are spirit and life; we come to Him in His word to partake of His riches and live because of what He is!
We depend on the Lord, and He works Himself into us so that He may constitute us and express Himself through us.
As the living Father sent the Son and the Son lived because of the Father, so we today as believers in Christ, can eat Christ by eating His words and depend on Him, even live because of Him, as He lives in us. May this be our reality today!
We Have the Spirit of Christ, so we are Of Christ, belonging to Christ! Hallelujah!
Romans 8:9 is a wonderful and mysterious verse, containing a very deep truth in the Bible. It says that we are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in us; yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him. Very mysterious!
On the positive side, we are in the spirit, for the Spirit of God dwells in us; if we allow the Spirit of the Triune God to dwell in us and make His home in us, we are in the spirit!
Hallelujah, this is a fact, and this is translated into our experience as we set our mind on our spirit and allow the Lord as the Spirit to spread in every part of our mind, emotion, and will throughout the day! Praise the Lord!
On the negative side, however, if we don’t have the Spirit of Christ, we are not of Him. Do we have the Spirit of Christ? Yes, we do; so we are of Christ. Hallelujah!
We might have read this verse many times, but we just read it and do not have a deep impression of what Paul is talking about.
In the first part, Paul says that the Spirit of God dwells in us, so we’re not in the flesh but in the spirit.
Then he continues by saying, Yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him. What does it mean that if the Spirit of Christ is not in us, we are not of Him?
We need to not only understand this in our mind but also exercise our spirit to apprehend this spiritual fact in our spirit. If the Spirit of Christ is not in us, we are not of Christ.
To be in the spirit is not a matter of struggling to not be in the flesh; it is a matter of allowing the Spirit of the Triune God to make His home in us; when we do this, we spontaneously are in the spirit.
If we love the Lord, seek Him, and set our mind on Him, we’re not in the flesh but in the spirit.
And if we have the Spirit of Christ, which we do, we are of Him. To be of Him means that we belong to Him. This is something unchanging, a fact; it is an unchanging source and standing.
We who are genuinely saved are of Christ; we are of Christ, we belong to Christ, for the Spirit of Christ is in us! It’s impossible to say that we’re of Christ if we don’t have the Spirit of Christ.
Paul didn’t say if we don’t have the Spirit of God but if we don’t have the Spirit of Christ. These two titles of the Spirit are used interchangeably, indicating that the indwelling Spirit of life in Rom. 8:2 is the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit of the Triune God!
In this verse we see God, the Spirit, and Christ, the three of the Godhead; they are three, yet one, and they are all in us, yet as one Spirit – the Spirit of God as the Spirit of Christ. What we have in us is the triune Spirit of the Triune God (John 4:24; 2 Cor. 3:17; Rom. 8:11).
When Paul speaks of the Spirit of God, this implies that this Spirit is of the One who was from eternity past, who created the universe and is the origin of all things.
When he mentions the Spirit of Christ, however, this implies that this Spirit is the embodiment and reality of Christ, the incarnated One! Oh, what a Spirit!
Christ accomplished everything necessary to fulfil God’s plan; the Spirit of Christ includes divinity and humanity.
The Spirit of Christ in resurrection is Christ Himself dwelling in our spirit (Rom. 8:19) to impart Himself into us as resurrection life and power to deal with any death that is in our nature (v. 2).
We have the Spirit of Christ, so we are of Christ. Our being in Christ depends on His Spirit, who is in us today.
Hallelujah, the Spirit of Christ is in us, so we are of Christ! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ belong to Christ, for the Spirit of Christ dwells in us, is mingled with us, and is one with us in spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today to be one spirit with You and to live in our spirit. How we thank and praise You that You came into us as the Spirit of Christ to mingle Yourself with us. Oh Lord, we want to be in You today. Thank You that we are of You; we now want to be in You! We want to remain in the mingled spirit and live one spirit with You. Praise the Lord, he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit! Oh, what an organic union we have with Christ! We are one with the Lord as the Spirit with our spirit! Amen, no matter how we feel, no matter what our situation is, and no matter how low our condition may be, we are joined to the Lord in spirit, and we are of Christ! Amen, Lord, keep us in our spirit today!
Christ became the Life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, with our spirit for us to Enjoy and Experience Him!
The fact that the Spirit of Christ is in us (Rom. 8:9) shows us that Christ became the Spirit. If Christ did not become the Spirit after His death and resurrection, He could not be experienced by us.
People in the world cannot understand how we Christians love someone who lived many years ago and whom we cannot see with our physical eyes. How can we believe into someone based on their teachings in a book?
What the unbelievers do not understand is that God can be experienced and enjoyed today because He is the Spirit!
If there were no Spirit of Christ or if Christ were not the Spirit, there would be no way for us to be joined to Him and to belong in Him! However, God was incarnated to become a man, Jesus Christ, and through death and resurrection, He became a life-giving Spirit.
In John 14, we see this clearly revealed. John 14:17 says that the Spirit of reality will abide in us and will be in us; in the next verse, the Lord said, I will not leave you as orphans – I am coming to you.
So Christ came through incarnation, and then He went to the Father through death and, in His resurrection, He both sent the Spirit from with the Father and came as the Spirit to the disciples to be with them and even in them! Hallelujah!
The Christ who was in the flesh went through death and resurrection to become a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).
As such a Spirit, He came to the disciples on the day of His resurrection and breathed Himself into them saying, Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:22).
He is now in us and with us; it is by being the Spirit that the Lord can enter into us and abide in us. Praise the Lord!
Christ now dwells in us as the Spirit, for the Spirit is in our spirit, even one with our spirit (1 Cor. 6:19; Rom. 8:9-11).
The Lord Jesus told His disciples that He’s going away and He is coming to them (John 14:28); this means He’s going to the cross as a man in the flesh, and He is coming back to them as the Spirit, the life-giving Spirit.
It is only by Christ being the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, that we can enjoy and experience Christ. God cannot be real and enjoyable to us unless He is the Spirit.
Today the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). Even more, we believers in Christ have Christ with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). Hallelujah!
We need to see that Christ is the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, who is joined with our spirit to be one spirit with us.
This is the secret to being in Christ and of Christ. A genuine Christian is one who has Christ as the Spirit joined to him, and he is one spirit with the Lord.
The Spirit of God dwells in us, and the Spirit of Christ is in us, for we are joined to the Lord as one spirit.
We need to exercise our spirit as we come to the Word of God to see a revelation of the fact that Christ came back to us in His resurrection as the Spirit of Christ to be mingled with us and dwell in our spirit.
As such a One, He is imparting Himself into us as resurrection life and power to deal with any death in our nature and to dispense all that God is into our being.
As long as we turn to our spirit, enjoy the Lord in spirit, and contact Him by fellowshipping with Him in all things, we enjoy the rich supply of the Spirit of Christ, and He lives in us as we express Him.
May we live in the mingled spirit today. May we choose to turn to our spirit, live in the mingled spirit, and allow Christ to live in us.
The Christ who lived on the earth two thousand years ago now dwells and lives in us as the Spirit of Christ, and we can live one spirit with Him.
Positionally, because we have the Spirit of Christ, we are of Him; dispositionally, when we live in the mingled spirit and walk according to the spirit, we are in Christ, for He has a way to live in us.
According to the source, the new birth, we have the Spirit of Christ, and we are of Christ and belong to Him! Praise the Lord!
In our present experience and spiritual condition, however, we need to be not only of Christ but also in Christ, and we are in Christ by being in our mingled spirit.
When we turn to our spirit and declare that Christ is the life-giving Spirit, we are beside ourselves with our enjoyment of Christ, and we allow Christ to live in us! Amen!
Lord Jesus, thank You for going through the processes of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah, the Lord is the Spirit! Praise the Lord, Christ, as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit! Amen, Lord, may we see this, may we declare this, and may we enjoy You as the life-giving Spirit with our spirit! How we thank You for not leaving us as orphans but coming to us as the Spirit in Your resurrection! Praise the Lord, Christ as the Spirit of reality, the Spirit of Christ, is with us and even in us, dwelling in us and living in us! Amen, the Spirit is with our spirit, and we are joined to the Lord as one spirit! How wonderful it is that we today can enjoy and experience Christ as the Spirit with and in our spirit! Amen, Lord, keep us in our spirit today. We want to not only be of Christ by having the Spirit of God in us, but even more, be in Christ by living in our spirit, one spirit with the Lord!
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. 302 (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 5, The Indwelling Christ.
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The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3078-3079, by Witness Lee
Footnotes from, Recovery Version Bible.
Dear brother, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him!
Thank the Lord that we are of Christ, for we have the Spirit of Christ!
Christ went through a process to become the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, and as such a Spirit, He is in us to be with our spirit, even to be one spirit with us.
We are united with Him organically, and in the organic union with Him, what He is is what we also are. Apart from Christ being the Spirit, we cannot enjoy and experience Him.
Brother, now the Lord is the Spirit. He did not leave us as orphans, after His death and resurrection He became the Life- giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ.
Praise the Lord, Now He is in us. We are from the same unchangeable source and position, we enjoy Him by calling on His name and turning our heart to Him.
Amen. Christ is the life-giving Spirit. If there were no Spirit of Christ or if Christ was not the Spirit, then there would be no way for us to be joined to Him and belong to Him.
The Lord went through a process of death and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit, so that He can abide in us as the life-giving Spirt.
Now we can enjoy and experience Him in our mingled Spirit.
Dear brother, By of our new birth in the resurrection of Christ, we have our birth source in Christ and of Christ Who is the life-giving Spirit. We have received His Spirit into our spirit, and not only of Christ, are joined to Him in spirit, we belong to Him! Our being of Christ is depnds on His Spirit!
Oh, what a blessed fact! Christ lives in us!
(Ref. Rom. 8:9, 1Cor.16:17, 2Cor. 3:17, 2Tim. 4:22. Jn. 14:17-18, 20:22).
Christ is the life giving Spirit joined to our spirit, hallelujah amen. In our organic union with His, he is what we are.
Aaaaameeen!
Apart from Christ being the life-giving Spirit, it is impossible for Him to enter into us and we cannot enjoy Him!
Praise the Lord, the Lord is the Spirit and the Lord is with our spirit!
Amen brother
Now Christ is the life-giving Spirit!
Now we can, we must and we will experience, enjoy and express Christ as members of His Body!
Praise the Lord for His passing all the way through.
If He were not resurrected as the life giving Spirit, He could not enter into us.
If He were not entered into us, we could not exercise and enjoy Him to express.
brother, we are of Christ positionally and this is unchangeable.
However, we also to need to be in Christ according to our present experience and condition.
The Christ who passed through the processes of incarnation, death and resurrection is now the life-giving Spirit, indwelling us as the Spirit of Christ, the Lord Spirit for us to experience and enjoy Him according to God’s original intention! Praise the Lord!
Christ is now the life-giving Spirit so we turn to our spirit and say ‘O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!
Our being of Christ depends on His Spirit.
What Christ is we must become, and this can only be realised because Christ is now the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. We must minister the truth that Christ is the life-giving Spirit.
There is the crucial need of the recovery of the truth that Christ is the life-giving Spirit.
Hallelujah, bro, Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit so He can reach us, touch us, enter into us and indwell us!
And where this Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom to free us from the law of sin and of death through the steps of God’s organic salvation carried out by the indwelling Spirit in and with our spirit.
Oh how we need this truth to be recovered both in revelation and in our experience and enjoyment of this all-inclusive Spirit. We also need to minister this reality to the saints and the ones around us.
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The theme of Romans 8:7–13 is living a crucified life in resurrection—not by striving in the flesh, but by the power of the indwelling Spirit. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” “No longer I” means the old self has been crucified; “but Christ” means that the resurrected Christ now lives in me and has become my life.
In John 20, the Lord breathed Himself—the reality of resurrection—into the disciples. Then in John 21, He trained them to live according to their new man, the regenerated part. This is what we often call living and walking by the Spirit, which results in the putting to death of the practices of the body.