Reigning in Life Issues in the Real and Practical Body Life with the Highest Virtues

I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service. Rom. 12:1

The issue of our reigning in life by living under the ruling of the divine life, is the real and practical Body life expressed in the church life; for the Body life, we need to live a life of the highest virtues by reigning in life. Amen! The … [Continue reading]

Reigning in Life is the Key to our Rich Experience of God’s Organic Salvation

And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind... Rom. 12:2

Reigning in life is the key to our rich experience of God's organic salvation, for reigning in life in Rom. 5 is the key to everything spoken of in Rom. 6-16. We may have never thought about this, but if you prayerfully consider the matter of … [Continue reading]

Experience Reigning in Life by being Under the Ruling of the Divine Life Inwardly

In order that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 5:21

As believers in Christ, we need to enter into the experience of reigning in life; we need to be under the ruling of the divine life, subdue all kinds of insubordination, have our hearts directed by the Lord, and become the same as the Lord is in … [Continue reading]

Receive the Abundance of Grace and be Restricted in the Divine Life to Reign in life

...those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Rom. 5:17

We need to keep our being fully open to the Lord to enjoy His dispensing, for God's complete salvation is for us to reign in life by the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, as we practice the restriction and limitation in the … [Continue reading]

Building up, Conformed to Christ’s Image, and Glorified in God’s Complete Salvation

...those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified. Rom. 8:30

As believers in Christ, we experience building up as the joining and knitting together in the divine life in the Body, we are conformed to the image of Christ in the maturity of the divine life, and we will be glorified to enter into the full … [Continue reading]

We’re being Renewed by the Spirit and Transformed Metabolically into Christ’s Image

...be transformed by the renewing of the mind... Rom. 12:2

As part of God's organic salvation, we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and through the consuming of the outward environment to become God's new creation and we are being transformed metabolically into the glorious image of Christ as we live … [Continue reading]

Feeding in Shepherding to Nourish us and Dispositional Sanctification to make us Holy

Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love. Eph. 1:4

In the organic aspect of God's complete salvation, feeding in shepherding (even mutual shepherding) is the nourishment of the divine life for us to grow unto maturity, and dispositional sanctification constitutes us with God's divine nature for us … [Continue reading]