We Enjoy the Spirit out of the Hearing of Faith and by being Baptised into Christ

We can receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving spirit by receiving Christ out of the hearing of faith, by being born according to the Spirit and by being given the Spirit of God’s Son in our hearts, and by being baptised into Christ to put on Christ. Hallelujah!

We believers in Christ are blessed people, for we are under God’s blessing today. Christ not only died for us on the cross to redeem us and bring us back to God, we are now enjoying the promised blessing. God promised the blessing to Abraham when He called him, and we are all sons of Abraham in spirit, by virtue of our faith in Christ.

Abraham’s descendants are as many as the stars in the heaven and the sand on the seashore; the stars in the heaven refer to his spiritual descendants, the believers in Christ, while the sand on the seashore refers to the earthly descendants, the Jewish people.

By believing into Christ, we become sons of Abraham, and he is our spiritual father; we are not walking in his steps of faith. Actually, it is Christ who is first the seed of Abraham, and in Him all the nations are blessed.

We are the seed of Abraham by virtue of being joined to Christ through faith. Praise the Lord! All the nations of the earth are blessed in us, the believers in Christ, for we are one with Christ who is the seed of Abraham, and we bring in God’s blessing wherever we go.

Day by day we believers in Christ need to come to the Lord in His word and know Him, enjoy Him, and participate in His riches by first dropping our concepts, turning our heart to the Lord, and exercising our spirit to receive His shining.

When we come to the Lord’s word with our heart turned to Him and our spirit exercised, the Lord has a way to reveal Himself into us. Our Christian life depends on the fresh revelation of Jesus Christ in us.

Some Christians seem to behave the same way as the people in the world do, participating in the same things they do, simply because they do not have the fresh revelation of Christ, the Son of God, in them.

How much we need to come to the Lord and enjoy Him day by day! How much we need to exercise our spirit, drop our concepts, and simply turn our heart to Him to behold Him face to face!

Seeing the Lord in a fresh way to have a revelation of God’s Son in us is the prerequisite for our Christian life, for our Christian life issues out and is according to the Christ we have seen.

Receive the Spirit as the Blessing by Receiving Christ out of the Hearing of Faith

In Gal. 3:2 Paul asks the Galatian believers, who have been deceived by the Judaizers, whether they received the Spirit out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith.

The way for us to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is by our receiving of Christ out of the hearing of faith.

Faith here is not so much our subjective faith, our action of believing, but the objective faith, the things we believe in. Our faith, the objective faith, refers to the things concerning Christ’s person and His redemptive work.

We receive the Spirit out of the hearing of faith; this Spirit is the indwelling, life-giving, compound, sevenfold intensified Spirit.

The faith of the believers is Christ entering into them to be their faith, making their spirit a spirit of faith (Heb. 12:2a; Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:22; 2 Cor. 4:13).

On God’s side, He is revealing Christ to us, and He is speaking, dispensing, and flowing. On our side, we simply need to be open to Him to receive His divine dispensing, His revelation.

We have received Christ originally at the time of our regeneration out of the hearing of faith.

When someone spoke to us concerning the wonderful person of Christ and His redemptive work, we were touched, our heart was pierced, and we repented and believed into the Lord Jesus.

The faith we heard is Christ Himself in His person and in His word. All the wonderful truths we read in God’s word and we hear in the meetings are Christ Himself.

As we remain under the hearing of faith, we are infused with the Lord, and our faith increases; we receive the Spirit out of the hearing of faith. Faith comes out of the hearing of the Word (Rom. 10:17).

We don’t believe simply because we see a supernatural person appearing to us, and suddenly we have faith; faith doesn’t come out of nowhere. Rather, we need the word of God.

When we read the Bible, when we hear the gospel being preached, and when we’re in the meetings of the church and the saints are faithful to speak Christ as the word of God, we are under the hearing of the word, which becomes the hearing of faith.

Faith is infused into us when we hear the word of God, and by receiving the word, we receive the Spirit. The Word of God transmits faith into us.

Faith is to believe that God is and we are not; faith always annuls us and reveals Christ to us (Heb. 11:6; Gen. 5:24; John 8:58; Gal. 2:20). When we believe into the Lord Jesus out of the hearing of faith, we are annulled, for we are crucified with Christ, and Christ is everything to us.

When we see the lovely and wonderful person of Jesus Christ and the redemptive work He has done for us, we realise we are nothing and He is everything.

Day by day as we come to the Word of God and exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and turn our heart to Him, the Lord infuses us with Himself as our faith.

By hearing the word of God and by being in the Word of God, we are filled with faith. Every time something of God is transfused into us, there’s a reaction generated within us, a response – that is our faith.

When we respond to the Lord’s word, we realise that we are not but God is.

Faith is everything of God being infused into us. When we are a person strong in the faith doesn’t mean that we are very assertive and assured of what we are doing; a person of faith, one who is full of faith, is one who trusts in God for everything.

We do not trust in ourselves; we trust in the Lord. When we speak the word of God to others, this becomes the hearing of faith to them, and the Spirit is infused into them to become their life and everything.

May we be those who come to the Lord in His word to have His fresh speaking and His revelation. May we be filled with God’s word and allow the Lord to send us so that we may go and speak His word (Isa. 6:8; Rom. 10:14, 17).

Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are the members of the family of faith, the household of faith; this faith house is a house that believes in God through His word (Gal. 6:10).

We are believers, members of the household of faith, and we believe by having the hearing of faith; by this hearing, we receive the Spirit as the blessing of the gospel.

Lord Jesus, thank You for Your speaking to us in Your word. Thank You for infusing us with Yourself as our faith. We open to You again and again. We come to You as we are. We want to be unveiled so that we may receive the hearing of faith today. Infuse us with Yourself, dear Lord Jesus, as we exercise our spirit and turn our heart to You. May You shine on us and dispense the Spirit into our being day by day. Hallelujah, we have received the Spirit out of the hearing of faith! Praise the Lord, we can daily receive the Spirit out of the hearing of faith! Amen, Lord, keep us under the hearing of the word of God. Keep us in Your word and in the meetings of the church so that we may be infused with the Spirit! Hallelujah for Christ’s person and His redemptive work, the contents of our faith! Amen, Lord, we believe into You and we are members of the household of faith! Praise the Lord, we are the faith house, a house that believes in God through His word!

Enjoy the Spirit as the Blessing by Being Born According to the Spirit, Being Given the Spirit in our Hearts, and being Baptised into Christ to put on Christ

In Gal. 4:29 and 6 we see that the way for us to enjoy the Spirit as the blessing of the gospel is by being born according to the Spirit and by being given the Spirit of God’s Son into our hearts.

By faith in Christ as a result of the hearing of faith, we are born according to the Spirit.

Hallelujah, every genuine believer in Christ is born of God, born in Christ, and born of the Spirit, and we all have the Spirit of God’s Son into our hearts!

At the time of our regeneration, we were born according to the Spirit, for our regeneration was according to the Spirit. Someone spoke the word of God to us, we were under the hearing of faith, and we were born according to the Spirit.

The Spirit moved in us not only to sanctify us positionally and bring us to hear God’s word but even more, to regenerate us and cause us to be born again. Hallelujah!

Gal. 3:27 tells us of the fourth way for us to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ – by putting on Christ through the baptism that puts us into Christ.

Being born of God through regeneration is the first step; the second step in order for us to be saved is to be baptised.

When we are not baptised yet, we are naked, for we are not put on Christ, and Christ is not our clothing to cover us. Being naked is a shame. However, when we believed and were baptised, we were put into Christ.

Matt. 28:19 says, Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptising them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. When we were baptised, we were put into the Triune God, into Christ, into the death of Christ, and into the Body of Christ.

We were not just put into the physical water; we were put into Christ. Hallelujah, we were baptised into Christ and we have put on Christ!

Our baptism was not a kind of formality or outward practice; our baptism is full of spiritual significance.

When we were baptised, we were put into the Triune God, into Christ, into the death of Christ, and into the Body of Christ; we were put into Christ Himself! Hallelujah!

By being baptised into Christ, we have put on Christ. Christ is now our clothing, our covering. We need to be aware of this as we go and preach the gospel today.

On the one hand, those who hear the gospel are under the hearing of faith, and Christ as the Spirit is infused into them to become their believing ability, their faith.

On the other hand, all those who repent and believe need to be baptised, that is, they need to be put in Christ and to put on Christ!

When they are baptised, they are no longer naked; they are clothed and covered with the processed and consummated Triune God.

We need to have this realisation as we are being baptised, and we need to pray this in faith for those whom we baptise. When we baptise someone, we need to exercise our spirit of faith for them and help them exercise their spirit to enter into the reality of their baptism.

On the negative side, through baptism they are terminated and cut off from the old man with all everything related to it, and they leave the world behind them. On the positive side, they are baptised into Christ and they put on Christ! Praise the Lord!

This is the way for us believers in Christ to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit, who is the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we want to enjoy Christ as the Spirit to be our blessing today! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ can receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit! Wow, the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God is the Spirit, and we can enjoy the Spirit by being born of the Spirit! Praise the Lord, we are born of the Spirit and we were given the Spirit of God’s Son into our hearts. Thank You, Lord, for coming into us as the Spirit to regenerate us and make us sons of God. Hallelujah, through baptism we have put on Christ and we were put into Christ. Amen, Lord, the old man has been terminated, the world is finished, and we are in Christ, for we were baptised into Christ. We want to live in this reality today. Keep us in the organic union with You so that we no longer live but Christ may live in us, and Christ may be expressed through 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 brother James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” pp. 458-561, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 20 (msg. 8), The Way to Receive, Experience, and Enjoy the All-inclusive Christ as the All-inclusive Life-giving Spirit— the Aggregate of the All-embracing Blessing of the Full Gospel of God.
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