Experience Christ as our Redemption to be Transfigured in our Body with His Divine Life

We believers in Christ need to experience Christ as our redemption to be transfigured in our body with His divine life.

To those who believe Christ became the wisdom of God as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, Christ is our redemption, for He brings us back to God, He terminates us, and He replaces us, and He even redeems our mortal body to make it the same as His glorious body! Hallelujah!

How wonderful it is to spend time exploring prayerfully what it means for us to enjoy and experience God’s power and wisdom, which is Christ crucified! Amen!

In 1 Cor. 1:24 Paul says that Christ crucified, who to the Jews is a stumbling block and to the Greeks, foolishness, to us who believe He is the power of God and the wisdom of God!

The Christ Paul preached was the crucified Christ; many of the smart ones among the Greeks thought that this was foolishness, and many among the Jews thought He was a stumbling block, for He was willing to be crucified.

But to those who believe, that is, to us believers in Christ, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

In the cross of Christ, we see God’s power, for through the cross God destroyed and defeated Satan, the world, sin, fallen man, the flesh, the natural man, the old creation, and the ordinances. Amen!

The crucified Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. On the one hand, Christ crucified is the power for God to do all things, and on the other hand, this crucified Christ is the wisdom of God, the way of God to do things.

And today we can know, apply, and experience the crucified Christ.

In our daily life, as believers in Christ, we can experience the crucified Christ.

This Christ is in our spirit, and whenever we call on the name of the Lord and exercise our spirit to touch Him, we can enjoy the crucified Christ.

When we experience the crucified Christ, we are terminated; the crucified Christ terminates all that we are, all that we have, and all that we can do.

May we all call on the name of the Lord and remain in this calling throughout the day so that we may be terminated in our natural being so that Christ may live in us.

May we not only know that Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God but even more, enjoy and experience this Christ in our daily life.

As the wisdom of God to us, Christ is our righteousness for the past, our sanctification for the present, and our redemption for the future.

This is Christ as wisdom from God to us, continually being transmitted into us for our enjoyment and experience.

Praise the Lord, we are called by God, we are saved, we are the called ones, and we can enjoy the crucified Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God!

Christ became Wisdom to us from God: Christ is our Redemption, bringing us back to God, Terminating us, and Replacing us

For our past, Christ is wisdom to us from God to be our righteousness.

For our present, Christ is wisdom to God from us to be our sanctification.

And for our future, Christ became wisdom to us from God to be our redemption (1 Cor. 1:30).

Christ is our redemption. On the positive side, Christ is our redemption for the redeeming of our mortal body to transfigure it and make it glorious like His glorious body.

On the negative side, Christ as our redemption includes us being brought back to God, terminated in our natural being, and replaced by Christ.

Christ doesn’t redeem us in our body and that’s it; there is a process of being redeemed, a process of us enjoying Christ as our redemption.

There are many natural things in our being – there’s the natural man, the flesh, the self, the world, the sin, the old creation, and Satan.

Through His death on the cross, Christ terminated all the negative things.

This is an accomplished fact. However, in our experience, we need to experience this fact.

We need to experience Christ as our redemption, that is, we need to be brought back to God, terminated in our natural man, and replaced by Christ.

How can we be redeemed by Christ if we still live in the natural man and express ourselves with the self and the flesh at the forefront?

We need first to experience the crucified Christ so that we may be terminated in our natural man.

We need to take the judgment of the cross so that we can receive Christ as our redemption and be qualified to enjoy God’s glory.

On the one hand, Christ is our righteousness for our past, and He is also our sanctification for our present so that we may be transformed inwardly.

On the other hand, we need to experience the crucified Christ so that we may enjoy Christ as our redemption and be terminated in our natural man.

When we enjoy Christ as our portion, we will experience Him as our redemption and thus we will be brought back to God.

Thank the Lord that He brought us back to God through our experience of Him as our redemption.

Now that we have come back to God through the redemption of Christ, we continue to enjoy Christ, and He is our righteousness both objectively and subjectively.

Also, we enjoy Him in the word, and we are sanctified (John 17:17; Rom. 12:2) and we are transformed (2 Cor. 3:18).

As we enjoy the Lord day by day, the Christ who dwells in us supplies us and becomes our nourishment, and He also terminates us.

On the positive side, He adds Himself to us and renews us, sanctifies us, and transforms us.

On the negative side, Christ terminates us, for as He grows in us, He increases and we decrease.

The natural element is eliminated, and the divine element grows in us.

There’s a constant growth of Christ, the element of God, in our being, and there’s a constant termination of our old man, the old element, as we contact the Lord. Amen!

This leads to Him replacing us; He terminates us and He replaces us.

This is more than sanctification, which separates us and makes us different from others.

To experience Christ as our redemption, our old element, our old constitution, is terminated and replaced with a new element, a new constitution.

Our new element is Christ, even Christ in resurrection.

As His element increases in us and our element decreases, our body will be transfigured to become the same as HIs glorious body. Praise the Lord!

May we daily be brought back to God, terminated by Christ, and replaced with Christ.

In the church life, we also need to experience Christ as our redemption because we are still so much in our natural man.

May we open to the Lord concerning this and tell Him,

Lord Jesus, we want to experience You as wisdom from God to us to be our redemption! Hallelujah, Christ is our redemption! Amen, Lord, may we experience You as our redemption today. Thank You for being our redemption initially, for us to be brought back to God. Hallelujah, we are saved through our faith in Christ and based on the redemption of Christ. Amen, Lord, we want to further experience You as our redemption by being terminated in our natural man and replaced with Christ! We come to You, dear Lord, to enjoy and experience You as our redemption so that our old man, our natural man, may be terminated, and Christ may grow in us! Yes, Lord, grow in us today. May the element of Christ increase in us and may our old element decrease. Have a way to terminate our old man and constitution and replace us with Yourself until even our body is transfigured to match Your glorious body! Praise the Lord, when Christ becomes wisdom to us from God, eventually He will be our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption!

Experience Christ as our Redemption to be Transfigured in our Body with His Divine Life

Christ is our redemption for our future, and we can experience Christ as our redemption today so that we may be transfigured in our body with His divine life. Hallelujah!

In Phil. 3:21 we are told that Christ will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory, according to His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

As we enjoy Christ as wisdom to us from God, He is our righteousness for our past, our sanctification for our present, and our redemption for our future.

On the one hand, Christ is wisdom to us from God to be our righteousness for us to be saved when we believe in Christ, and He justifies us and regenerates us in our spirit.

Also, Christ is wisdom to us from God to be our sanctification to transform our soul, making us holy.

But what about our body? Our spirit is saved by Christ as our righteousness, our soul is saved by Christ as our sanctification, and our body is saved by Christ as our redemption.

We need to experience Christ as our redemption so that our body may be redeemed, even to be transfigured in our body with His divine life to have His glorious likeness (Rom. 8:23).

Praise the Lord, one day our body will be transfigured into the same body of glory as Christ’s!

As we enjoy the Lord day by day, partaking of HIs riches in spirit, and experience Him as our redemption, even our body will be redeemed, for we will enjoy the full sonship! Hallelujah!

Redemption is not something that we enjoy or experience only initially; it is something we partake of and experience continually.

We are travelling into the Holy of Holies, where even our body is redeemed and transfigured; we pass through the processes of regeneration, renewing, sanctification, transformation, and conformation to reach the stage of glorification.

When we reach the realm of glory, there is no more self, no more flesh, no more world, and no more Satan.

We are now in the process of experiencing Christ as our redemption until one day our body will be redeemed and we will enter into the Lord’s glory in full.

We will enter into a realm of glory in which we are fully redeemed!

We all will be changed; in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, we will be redeemed, and our body will be transfigured. Praise the Lord!

Today we are in the process of enjoying and experiencing Christ as our redemption, for He is the One who is glorifying us. He is making us the same as He is in life and nature.

We will become the same as He is – we will be one with Him, so one that we are indistinguishable.

It is of God that we participate in such a complete salvation, which makes our entire being – spirit, soul, and body – organically one with Christ and makes Christ everything to us.

Day by day, Christ as the power and wisdom of God is being transmitted from God the Giver to us the enjoyers (Eph. 1:19-22). Wow!

As long as we remain under the divine dispensing and enjoy the divine transmission going on continually from God to us in Christ, we are in the process of being redeemed by God in full.

God doesn’t give us a package or burst of wisdom, redemption, sanctification, or righteousness; He gives us a continual transmission of Christ.

Without being under the divine transmission of Christ as our wisdom and power, we have no power or wisdom.

If there’s any insulation between us and the Lord, if there’s any sin or weakness, or we live in darkness, we are cut off from the divine transmission.

But when we turn to the Lord, confess our sins, and contact the Lord, we are connected again to receive the divine transmission.

Under the divine transmission, day by day we enjoy and experience Christ as wisdom from God to us for us to experience Him as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

May we remain in the divine transmission all the time.

This is altogether of God and not of ourselves; it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, and there’s no boast or glory in or of ourselves.

We can boast and glory in Him, not in ourselves (Eph. 3:20-21). Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, keep us open to the divine transmission of Christ as power and wisdom from God to us! Amen, Lord, dispense more of Yourself into us day by day! Hallelujah, every day Christ as the power and wisdom of God is being transmitted from God the Giver to us the enjoyers! Amen, Lord, we want to be Your top enjoyers today. Even though we fail and sin or have weaknesses, we want to come back to You and repent, confess our sins, and remain in the divine dispensing! Hallelujah, Christ became wisdom to us from God, and we can enjoy and experience Christ as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption! Praise the Lord, it is of God that we can participate in a complete and perfect salvation which makes our entire being organically one with Christ! Hallelujah, we are one with Christ, and God makes Christ everything to us! Amen, Lord, this is altogether of God, not of ourselves, that we may boast and glory in Him and not in ourselves!

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, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 307 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 15, God’s Power and God’s Wisdom.
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