Our Urgent Need is to Experience Christ as our Pattern of Living a Crucified Life

There is an urgent need among us in the Lord’s recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern.

There is an urgent need among us in the church life in the Lord's recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern; we need to live Christ in His human living, especially in emptying Himself and humbling Himself and in not grasping equality with … [Continue reading]

Christ is the Representation of Submission to Authority; His Life of Submission is in us

Even though He was a Son, learned obedience from the things which He suffered. Heb. 5:8

Christ, the Son of God, willingly emptied Himself to become a created man; He learned obedience through the things which He suffered, and He became the representation of submission to authority (Phil. 2:6-8). Our pattern in our Christian life is not … [Continue reading]

As our Pattern, Christ Emptied Himself, Humbled Himself, and was Glorified by God

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men. Phil. 2:6-7

For us to experience Christ, we need to know Him as the pattern; we need to have Him as the pattern infused into us, realising that Christ emptied Himself and humbled Himself, and later He was exalted and glorified by God. Oh, may this mind be in us … [Continue reading]

To Know Christ as the Pattern we need to Let this mind be in us, the Mind of Christ

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Phil. 2:5

If we would know Christ as the pattern, we should let the mind which was in Christ Jesus be in us; we need to let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. This week we are focusing on, Knowing and Experiencing Christ as the Pattern, as … [Continue reading]

Thinking the Same Thing, the Subjective Experience of Christ for the Church Life

Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing. Phil. 2:2

For us to have the same mind and the same love toward one another in the Lord, we need to think the same thing, that is, we need to think and consider the enjoyment and experience of Christ, and have the subjective knowledge and experience of … [Continue reading]

Being Joined in Soul to both Experience Christ in Spirit and Enjoy Him in our Soul

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Phil. 4:4

It is possible for us to have the experience of Christ without the enjoyment of Christ, that is, it is possible that we experience Christ in spirit without enjoying Christ in our soul; the problem is our soul. Oh Lord Jesus! Paul wrote the epistle … [Continue reading]

We need to Stand Firm in one Spirit with one Soul Striving Together for the Gospel

...I have no one like-souled who will genuinely care for what concerns you; for all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus. Phil. 2:20-21

We need to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that is, we need to stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together along with the faith of the gospel (Phil. 1:27); this is to experience Christ. When we enjoy … [Continue reading]