In Romans 5 we are in Adam, in Romans 6 we are in Christ, in Romans 7 we are in the flesh, and in Romans 8 we are in the spirit; we experience the reality of the divine transfer out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the spirit by setting our mind on the spirit and walking according to the spirit. Amen!
May the Lord have mercy on us and show us what the flesh is so that we may hate it, repudiate it, and run to our spirit.
We believers in Christ have been regenerated by God with His life and nature, and our spirit is life. Wow, our human spirit doesn’t just have God as life in it but even more, our spirit is life (Rom. 8:11)!
And when we set our mind on our spirit, which is life, our mind also becomes life (v. 6). Eventually, the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies to make even our body life! Praise the Lord!
God’s intention in His economy is to come into us as life and start spreading from our spirit into every part of our soul until our mind, emotion, and will become life, and eventually, even our body will be swallowed up in life. How wonderful!
However, even though there’s such an amazing positive process going on in our being, we also need to be aware of the flesh.
Our body was corrupted and transmuted by the enemy at the time of the fall, and it is now the flesh of sin. Our body is the body of sin and death, being completely impotent when it comes to doing things to please God and full of energy to do things that are not pleasing to God.
God today uses the flesh, this ugly and sinful flesh, to make us desperate to turn to our spirit.
There’s no way for us to change our flesh to be better, nor is there any way to perfect it to make it more pleasing to God. Even worse, the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. Wow!
May we not be deceived by the enemy into believing that, now that we’re believers in Christ, we have no more flesh; rather, may we be warned that the flesh is still with us and may we run to the Lord in our spirit!
So many times in our daily experience, we fail; we have outbursts of anger, we fall into sin, we fail, and we make mistakes.
God allowed the flesh to remain so that it may help us and even force us to turn to Christ in our spirit, having no more confidence in the flesh.
May we see what the flesh is and may we turn to our spirit. May we have no confidence in the flesh but rather, exercise our spirit and learn to live in spirit in our daily life.
We were Transferred out of Adam into Christ and out of the Flesh into the Spirit
![Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin, death; and thus death passed on to all men because all have sinned..And [it is] not [that] as through one who sinned, [so also] the free gift is; for the judgment was out of one [offense] unto condemnation, but the gracious gift is out of many offenses unto justification. Rom. 5:12, 16](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Therefore-just-as-through-one-man-sin-entered-into-the-world-and-through-sin-death-and-thus-death-passed-on-to-all-men-because-all-have-sinned.jpg?resize=399%2C499&ssl=1 "Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin, death; and thus death passed on to all men because all have sinned..And [it is] not [that] as through one who sinned, [so also] the free gift is; for the judgment was out of one [offense] unto condemnation, but the gracious gift is out of many offenses unto justification. Rom. 5:12, 16")
The kernel of the Bible is seen in Romans chapters 5 through 8; in each of these chapters, we are in a different place, and there’s a transfer that we experience.
In Romans chapter 5 we are in Adam; in Romans chapter 6 we are in Christ. In Romans 7 we are in the flesh, and in Romans 8 we are in the spirit. Hallelujah!
Here we see two divine transfers: first, we are transferred out of Adam into Christ; this is a factual and positional transfer (Rom. 6:3-8). We were born in Adam, but through repentance and faith in Christ, we were transferred out of Adam and into Christ.
Hallelujah, we are no longer in Adam – we are now in Christ! This is a matter of fact, a positional matter; whether we feel like it or not, when we believe into the Lord Jesus and remain in the organic union with Him, we are no longer in Adam but in Christ! Hallelujah for this divine transfer!
Second, we were transferred out of the flesh into the Spirit of life; this is a practical and experiential transfer (Rom. 7:1-6; 8:16). We are no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit, for the Spirit is in us and we are one spirit with the Lord.
The flesh is the practical and experiential Adam; to be transferred from Adam into Christ translates in our experience as being transferred out of the flesh into the Spirit.
Praise the Lord, when we set our mind on our spirit and walk according to the spirit, we are no longer in the flesh but in the spirit, for we experience the divine transfer!
We believers in Christ have a factual and positional transfer out of Adam through Christ’s death and into Christ through His resurrection.
In Adam, we inherited sin that constitutes us (Rom. 5:12, 19); we are constituted sinners simply by being in Adam.
In Adam, we inherited death that, on the one hand, weakens us, disabling us from doing things pleasing to God, and on the other hand, it reigns over us (vv. 12, 14, 17).
In Adam, we inherited condemnation under the law unto death. Simply by being born in Adam, we inherited sin, death, and condemnation; when we live in Adam, when we live in the flesh, we have sin, death, and condemnation. Oh Lord Jesus!
![For if, by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. So then as [it was] through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also [it was] through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men. Rom. 5:17-18](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/For-if-by-the-offense-of-the-one-death-reigned-through-the-one-much-more-those-who-receive-the-abundance-of-grace-and-of-the-gift-of-righteousness-will-reign-in-life-through-the-One-Jesus-Chri-1.jpg?resize=400%2C500&ssl=1 "For if, by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. So then as [it was] through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also [it was] through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men. Rom. 5:17-18")
But we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ through His death and resurrection! Now we are in Christ!
By faith in Christ, we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ. In Christ we have been gifted with righteousness, life, and justification under grace unto life, in which we reign over all things with grace (Rom. 5:17-18, 21).
So then, as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men!
We were justified unto life in Christ, and we now enjoy righteousness, life, and justification under grace unto life!
Praise the Lord, now we are joined to the Lord, and we reign with grace over all things, for grace reigns in us!
This is our reality today. We should not look at our condition and situation, which fluctuate; we should look at the divine facts, and we should stand on the divine facts.
We have been transferred out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the Spirit.
We simply need to set our mind on the spirit to be in the reality of the divine transfer, and we will enjoy life and peace! Praise the Lord!
Lord Jesus, thank You for transferring us out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the Spirit! Praise the Lord! Wow, by faith into Christ we have been transferred out of Adam and into Christ today! Thank You for this factual and positional transfer. Oh Lord, we were constituted sinners, filled with death, and under condemnation, but we have been transferred into Christ! Hallelujah, we in Christ have been gifted with righteousness, life, and justification under grace unto life! Praise the Lord, in Christ we now reign with grace over all things! Amen, Lord, bring us into the reality of the divine transfer out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the Spirit! We set our mind on our spirit today. We exercise our spirit to contact You and remain in the organic union with You. Praise the Lord, the law of the Spirit of life has freed us in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death! Hallelujah, we are now in Christ and we are in the Spirit, enjoying life and peace!
Experience the Reality of the Divine Transfer into the Spirit by being in the Mingled Spirit
The gospel tells us clearly that we were born in Adam, and in him we inherited the nature of Satan (sin) to be sinners in essence and element.
Also, we inherited death, which made us passive, weak, and impotent with respect to the things of God. This death reigned in us – first in our spirit to mortify and deaden in, then through our soul, and eventually over our body.
Furthermore, the gospel clearly shows us that we are in sin and in death, thus being subject to the condemnation of the righteous law of God.
![Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [Him] in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves. Rom. 6:6 I am crucified with Christ; and [it is] no longer I [who] live, but [it is] Christ [who] lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal. 2:20](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Knowing-this-that-our-old-man-has-been-crucified-with-Him-in-order-that-the-body-of-sin-might-be-annulled-that-we-should-no-longer-serve-sin-as-slaves-3.jpg?resize=400%2C500&ssl=1 "Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [Him] in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves. Rom. 6:6 I am crucified with Christ; and [it is] no longer I [who] live, but [it is] Christ [who] lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal. 2:20")
But praise the Lord, through faith in Christ we are joined to Him, and through baptism into Christ and into His death, we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ!
Hallelujah, we all were regenerated at the time of Christ’s resurrection, and in that rebirth, we were transferred into Christ (1 Pet. 1:3).
Through faith in Christ, God made Christ righteousness to us (1 Cor. 1:30). Now, when God looks at us, He sees us as righteous as Christ is!
Also, God gave Christ to us to be our life; we have Christ as life in us, we are children of God, and we have God as our Father.
How wonderful it is that God is our Father, and we have the same life as God! Wow, we can call God our Father, for we have an organic relationship with Him in life!
Even more, we believers in Christ have a practical and experiential transfer out of the flesh through our being crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20) and into the Spirit through our organic union with Christ as the law of the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2, 16; 1 Cor. 6:17).
Factually, we were transferred out of Adam into Christ at the time of our regeneration and baptism. In experience, however, we can be in the reality of this divine transfer by being crucified with Christ and by being in the spirit in our daily experience.
The application of the divine transfer to us in our experience is the Spirit; today the Spirit is Christ in application, Christ coming to us for our experience. Only when we are in the spirit are we in the reality of the divine transfer out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the Spirit.
Where are we now? Are we in Christ or are we in Adam? Are we in the flesh or are we in the Spirit?
God’s first question to man is, Where are you? (Gen. 3:9) Today He still asks us the same question, Where are you?
Our daily living depends entirely on where we are; if we are in the flesh, we cannot please God, but rather, we are in sin, death, and under condemnation. But when we are in Christ, when we set our mind on our spirit and remain in the organic union with the Lord, we enjoy life and peace!
Paul’s desire was to be found in Christ (Phil. 3:9); our desire should be the same today. We need to be found in Christ.
We need to pay attention to our spirit, set our mind on our spirit, and live in our spirit. What God wants from us is not that we behave in a certain way but to be found in Christ by being found in the Spirit through our union with the Lord.
Hallelujah, we are one spirit with the Lord, and we can remain in the organic union with Him in our daily life!
Every day we need to experience the divine transfer; we need to be transferred again and again out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the Spirit!
Through our being crucified with Christ and baptised into the Spirit, we remain in the organic union with the Lord, and we enjoy Him as the law of the Spirit of life operating in us to liberate us from the law of sin and of death! Praise the Lord!
May we daily have a move out of ourselves and into God. May we daily be transferred out of the flesh into the Spirit until one day we don’t need to be transferred anymore!
When we set our mind on our spirit (Rom. 8:6), we are found in Christ, for we are one with the Lord organically.
Thank the Lord that our spirit deep within is one with the Spirit, who is the consummation of the processed Triune God.
The all-inclusive Spirit is joined to our spirit (1 Cor. 6:17); the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is in us by means of the Spirit with our spirit.
The Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God (Rom. 8:16) so that we may live together with the Lord, exist together with Him, work together with Him, and speak together as one spirit! Praise the Lord!
By being in the mingled spirit, by being one spirit with the Lord, we are in the reality of the divine transfer in our experience today.
Lord Jesus, we want to be in our spirit today so that we may be in the reality of the divine transfer! Hallelujah, the mind set on the spirit is life and peace! Amen, Lord, may we experience the practical transfer out of the flesh and into the Spirit by remaining in the organic union with You! Thank You for coming into us as the Spirit to mingle Yourself with our spirit. Amen, Lord, mingle Yourself more with us today. Keep us in the reality of the mingling by being in our mingled spirit. Hallelujah, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and His Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God! Amen, Lord, today we want to live together with You, work together with You, and speak together as one spirit! May we do all things in the mingled spirit today so that we may be in the reality of the divine transfer! Hallelujah, we are organically joined to the Lord to be one spirit, and in the organic union with Him the law of the Spirit of life frees us from the law of sin and of death! Praise 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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994- 1997, vol. 5, “The Crystallization-study of the Complete Salvation of God in Romans,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans – the Kernel of the Bible (2025 ICSC), week 1, The Line of Life and the Line of Death in Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans.
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– With our spirit, a portion from, Crystallization-Study of the Complete Salvation of God in Romans, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– Colossians (Program #4) – Delivered out of the Authority of Darkness And Transferred Into The Kingdom Of the Son Of His Love, via, Bible study radio.
– The Law of the Spirit of Life – Nuggets and Gems from the Bible (#9), audio version.
– What Does It Mean to Walk According to the Spirit in Romans 8? More via, Bibles for America blog.
– The factual and positional transfer, a portion from, Crystallization-Study of the Complete Salvation of God in Romans, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
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– The ministry of Christ in the stage of inclusion, article in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Glory of God (2): Released through Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection, via, Living to Him.
– What is the Flesh? More via, The hearing of faith.
– Discovering the Indwelling Christ as the Spirit by Calling on Him, via, Holding to Truth in Love. - Hymns on this topic:
– God’s complete salvation / Is based upon His righteousness and through our faith. / By the two divine transfers: / Out of Adam into Christ / And out of the flesh into the Spirit. / In the one spiritual union of the / Spirit of Life with our spirit / Forming a mingled spirit. / For us to reign in life by the abundance of grace / and of the gift of righteousness. / For us to reign in life by the abundance of grace / and of the gift of righteousness. (Song on, God’s complete salvation)
– Minding just the spirit, we the cross will know, / And His resurrection pow’r thru us will flow; / Minding just the spirit, Christ will live thru me, / And His life within will reach maturity. / In the spirit Christ is life and all to me, / Strengthening and blessing all-inclusively; / Living in the spirit, holiness I prove, / And the triune God within my heart doth move. (Hymns #593 stanzas 6-7)
– There are three laws in Romans seven, see— / The law of God; the mind, the good old me; / The sinful law indwelling bodily; / Yet from these all the Lord has set us free, / To live by Him. / In Romans eight the law of Spirit is, / Where we’re in Christ, and we are fully His, / The law of life has set us wholly free / And Christ becomes our life eternally, / Hallelujah! (Hymns #1140 stanzas 5-6)
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Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994- 1997, vol. 5, “The Crystallization-study of the Complete Salvation of God in Romans,” p. 426
We believers in Christ were in Adam, but we were transferred into Christ; in experience, we are transferred from the flesh into the Spirit!
For us to enjoy the reality of this transfer, we need to exercise our spirit, set our mind on our spirit, and walk according to the spirit, which results in reigning in life.
The Lord still asks us, Where are you, in the flesh or in the spirit?
Amen. Hallelujah, we are in Christ. Our daily living depends on where we are; we need to be found in the spirit.
We have been transferred from Adam to Christ and from flesh to spirit, may we turn to the our spirit in all things today and strengthen the union
Amen, brother! Romans 5:18 tells us that justification is unto life! We can be saved in life to the extent that the life that saves us enthrones us as kings!
What a glory to the Lord and what a shame to the enemy that people such as we can reign in life! Hallelujah!
Our being transferred out of Adam (Romans 5) and into Christ (Romans 6) is factual and positional; to be transferred out of the flesh (Romans 7) and into the Spirit (Romans 8) is practical and experiential.
Only by being in our mingled spirit are we practically in Christ, to be found in Him. Only when we are in the Spirit are we in the reality of this divine transfer.
Hallelujah, we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ. Now, we need the experiential & practical transfer out of the flesh into the Spirit of life.
We need to set our mind on the spirit and learn to walk and have our being according to our mingled spirit. The result of doing so is our reigning in life.
The goal of being justified is to have life and to reign in life.
Only when we are in the Spirit are we in the reality of the divine transfer.
Our need isn’t to behave in a certain way but to be found in Christ by being in the Spirit.
God’s desire is that His Spirit and our spirit may live together, exist together, work together and speak together as one spirit.
To be one spirit with the Lord is to be in the reality of the divine transfer.
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Footnotes from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version
Ameeen!!!
God’s complete salvation
is based upon His righteousness and through our faith. It is by the two divine transfers: out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh- the practical and experiential Adam into the Spirit- the practical and experiential Christ. It is in
the one spiritual union of the
Spirit of Life with our spirit forming a mingled spirit that not only we are saved but we also reign in life as kings by the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness.
Praise the Lord!!!
Thank the Lord for our mingled Spirit that we may exist together, live together, and work together as one.🙏🙏🙏
Eph. 6:17-18
17 And receive the helmet of salvation and THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which Spirit IS THE WORD OF GOD,
“…Our daily living depends almost entirely on where we are. “WHERE ARE YOU?” (Gen. 3:9) was the first question that God addressed to the human race, and TODAY HE IS STILL ASKING…” brother Lee
“…Our need is not to behave in a certain way but to be found in Christ by being found in the Spirit through our union with the Spirit.” brother Lee
Hallelujah! For the TWO divine transfers and ONE spiritual union:
• First transfer (Factual & Positional): out of Adam into Christ (Rom. 6:3–8)
• Second transfer (Practical & Experiential): out of the flesh into the Spirit of life (Rom. 7:1–6; 8:16a)
When we set our mind on the mingled spirit and not on the flesh (Rom. 8:4–6), we are out of the flesh—our experiential Adam—and enter into the Spirit of life—our experiential Christ.
What a marvelous experience!
Through these two transfers, we are brought into a spiritual union with the processed Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Our human spirit is mingled with the processed Triune God, making us organically one with Him in life.
God has been given to us as our life, making us His children in life and in essence!
WHERE ARE YOU?
We should not be content with merely being forgiven—we must eagerly seek to be justified unto life (Rom. 5:18), to reign in life (Rom. 5:17, 21), and to live daily in the Spirit, who is Christ applied to us.
We must be one spirit with the Lord, reigning in life—to the glory of God and the shame of the enemy.
ARE WE IN THE SPIRIT?
WHERE ARE YOU? He still asking us this question every day.
Amen!
Yes — we were once in Adam, but now we are in Christ. The practical transfer from the flesh into the Spirit happens daily, moment by moment, as we set our mind on the spirit and walk according to the Spirit.
I’ve realized more and more that the answer is not just in solving the outward situation, but in bringing our whole family before the Lord. We need to come to Him in simplicity and openness — to stay in spirit, to set our mind on the spirit, and to let Him be our supply. It’s in this atmosphere that we can reign in life and experience Christ as everything.
We are learning to treasure not only the spiritual vision, but the practical, moment-by-moment enjoyment of Christ in every detail.