A normal believer in Christ, loving Him and enjoying Him
If we as members of the Body of Christ have the consciousness of the Body of Christ and see others suffer or being blessed, we will identify with them and feel the same hardship or blessing (see 1 Cor. 12:26-27). When we were regenerated by God with … [Continue reading]
As members of the Body of Christ, we need to have the consciousness of the Body and a feeling for the Body, that is, we need to exercise and cultivate the sense of Christ's life within us until it becomes the universal sense of the Body of … [Continue reading]
As believers in Christ and members of the Body of Christ, we need to live in the reality of the Body of Christ by taking Christ's feeling for the Body as our own feeling for the Body, having the consciousness of the Body and a strong feeling for the … [Continue reading]
The apostle Paul was a pattern of one who lived Christ in His inward parts, remaining in the inward parts of Christ and allowing Christ to remodel, reconstitute, and remake his inner being with Himself. Initially Paul was one who persecuted the … [Continue reading]
If we would live in the reality of the Body of Christ we need to live in the inward parts of Christ Jesus, knowing His inward parts and living one with Him. This means first that we allow Him to make His home in our heart. The Lord Jesus came into … [Continue reading]
If we would have the reality of the Body of Christ, we must allow Christ to make His home in our hearts, for only by the inner experience of Christ as life can we have this reality of the Body. Today the universal Body of Christ is expressed on … [Continue reading]
The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men who live by the divine life in resurrection, and this reality is the mingling living of the believers in union with the Triune God. Wow! The reality of the Body of … [Continue reading]