Remain in the Organic Union with Christ to Grow with Him and Enjoy all His Riches

In our organic union with Christ, all that Christ passed through has become our history; we have been grafted into Christ, we are organically joined to Him, and in this organic union all our negative elements are discharged and our God-created faculties are uplifted, enriched, and saturated so that we may be transformed. Praise the Lord!

We believers in Christ are not only those who believe that God is real and that Christ died for us to be saved from eternal perdition. Rather, through our faith in Christ, which faith was initiated by the Lord and infused into us at the time of our repentance, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit organically. Praise the Lord!

Everything related to our relationship with the Lord after the time of our regeneration has an organic aspect. Even the matter of baptism, for we need to believe and be baptised, has an organic aspect in the spiritual realm.

Romans 6:5 speaks of us having grown together with Christ in the likeness of His death; this refers to the previous verse, which mentions baptism.

When we were baptised into Christ and into His death, we grew together with Christ in the likeness of His death. How about that!

We may not have realised this at the time of our baptism, but even our baptism was a matter of growing with Christ and Christ growing in us, in particular in the aspect of His death.

Through baptism, we were cut off from the old source, the old Adam, with anything of the old man, and we were attached to a new source, Christ as the new man with all the positive things in Him. And this is a matter of growth.

God in Christ wants to grow in us. He doesn’t want to just fellowship with us or have us do His will for His satisfaction; He wants to come into us and grow in us.

In Himself, God doesn’t grow nor does He need to, for He is eternally perfect, all-inclusive, and complete. But in us, in His people, He needs to grow, and He is growing.

He came into us as the seed of life at the time of our regeneration, and He grows in the soil of our heart. As He grows in us, we grow with the growth of God.

As He grows in us, we also grow with Him, for He increases in us and we have the increase of the measure of the stature of Christ. May we allow the Lord to grow in us day by day.

May we grow with Him in the likeness of His resurrection, even as we have grown with Him in the likeness of His death! Amen, more growth of God in us today!

We have been Grafted into Christ, we have an Organic union with Christ, and now He grows in us and we Grow in Him

The fact that we have grown together with Christ in the likeness of His death through baptism (Rom. 6:5) denotes an organic union in which the growth takes place.

First of all, when someone preached the gospel to us and there was an opening in our being, we believed into the Lord Jesus, and Christ came into us. Christ came into our spirit to regenerate us through our repentance and faith in Christ.

Then, He continued to grow in us, and one aspect of His growth is our baptism. Through faith in Christ, we were joined to Him as one, and we are now one spirit with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17).

One of the famous expositors of the New Testament, Frederic Louis Godet, has suggested in his Commentary on Romans that the growth spoken of in Rom. 6:5 is related to the notion of grafting.

He even went so far as to translate this verse as, For if we have become one and the same plant [with Him] through the likeness of His death, we shall also be partakers of His resurrection. Hallelujah!

The word grown here denotes “the organic union in virtue of which one being shares the life, growth, and phases of existence belonging to another” (according to Godet).

This is very interesting and also very true. We believers in Christ are not just baptised to fulfil an outward regulation left by the Lord Jesus; rather, we are joined to Him organically and, in the organic union with Christ, we grow together with Him.

We have been grafted into the “tree” of Christ; by faith and baptism, we have been grafted into the embodiment of the Triune God so that we may grow together with Him.

This is an organic matter, for only what is organic and living grows. Our relationship with the Lord is a matter of life and growth.

Once we were dead, which is negative, and we were also in the wrong tree – we were in the uncultivated, wild olive tree; however, we were cut off from it and were grafted into Christ (Rom. 11:24).

We were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree, Christ.

In grafting, there is both death and resurrection, that is, both the cutting and the grafting. Christ was cut on the cross, for He died for us and there was an opening in Him for us to be grafted into.

He lived a crucified life throughout His living, for even though He was capable and talented, He didn’t live by His good human life but He lived by the Father’s life, did the Father’s works, and spoke the Father’s words.

Then, He died physically for us on the cross, and He was cut; there’s now an open wound in Christ into which we all can be grafted.

Through faith and baptism, we are grafted into Christ to be in an organic union with Christ, where we can grow together with Him. We were cut, on our side, through our repentance and baptism.

The gospel brought Christ to us and we repented, believed into the Lord, and were willing to be baptised.

Through faith and baptism, we are attached to Christ, joined to Him organically, and now we have an organic union with the Lord for us to grow together with Him. Praise the Lord!

We need to see and appreciate the organic union with Christ in our spirit.

Apart from this organic union, we have no way to enjoy, experience, and express Christ; it is only in the organic union with Christ that we can partake of all that God is for us and we can express Him corporately.

As we live in the organic union with Christ today, we are cut off from the old man, we put the flesh to death, and we deny the self, and on the positive side, we enjoy the riches of Christ, we experience all that He is, and we express Him corporately. Praise the Lord!

Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for grafting us into Yourself. Hallelujah, through faith and baptism, we were cut off from the old source, the old Adam with all that he is, and we were grafted into Christ. Amen, Lord, we want to remain here, in the organic union with You in our spirit. We want to remain in the mingled spirit, the joined spirit, so that we may enjoy all that You are, experience all Your riches, and express You! Hallelujah, in the organic union with Christ we share the life, growth, and all that God in Christ is to us, and we grow together with Christ! Oh Lord, thank You for our mingled spirit where we are joined to You as one spirit. Grow in us today. May we grow in You and with You. May we abide in You today, even remain one spirit with You, so that we may grow together with You. We want to grow together with Christ in the likeness of His death so that we may also grow together with Him in the likeness of His resurrection!

Remain in the Organic Union with Christ and Grow with Him in His Death and Resurrection

When we exercise our spirit to read and pray the Word of God, we will be enlightened to see that we believers in Christ have an organic union with Him.

He and us have been joined as one. In the organic union with Christ, whatever Christ has, is, and has passed through has become ours. Whatever He has, in, and has accomplished, has become ours for our enjoyment and experience.

His death and resurrection are now ours because we are in Christ and we are organically joined to Him.

We were once branches of the wild olive tree, but through faith and baptism, we were grafted into Christ, the cultivated olive tree. In order for us to be grafted, we must die; if we don’t die, we cannot be grafted.

The Lord on His side died on the cross, for He was cut on the cross. Now there’s a wound on Him to which we can be joined. And we are cut whenever we turn to our spirit and contact the Lord.

We opened to the Lord initially when we repented and called on His name, and now we continue to contact the Lord for Him to grow in us.

Praise the Lord, we have an organic union with Christ and now we can enjoy the fatness of the root, all the riches of Christ!

In such a grafting, all our negative elements are discharged, and our God-created faculties are uplifted, enriched, and saturated so that we may be transformed into His image. Praise the Lord!

Our Christian life is a life in this organic union with Christ.

As we remain in our mingled spirit and walk according to the spirit, the divine life in us saturates us with what Christ is, applies all the riches of Christ to our being, and causes us to grow together with Christ in the likeness of His death and resurrection.

In this organic union with Christ, we have victory, life, power, light, and all the divine attributes.

We were created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26), and Christ came to be the tree of life (John 15:1-5; 11:25).

He was cut on the cross to open Himself to us, and we are cut through faith and baptism. Now these two cuts are joined in spirit, and the Lord and us are grafted together, for we are grafted into Christ. Praise the Lord!

In this wonderful organic union with Christ, all our negative elements are discharged, and all that Christ is with all His riches are being dispensed into us.

Even more, our God-created faculties are uplifted, enriched, and saturated. Not only are we saved from eternal perdition; we are also sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed and glorified, Hallelujah!

Eventually, we and Christ, Christ and us, become one; He lives in us and we express Him by remaining in the organic union with Him.

Day by day we need to set our mind on our spirit (Rom. 8:6) and enjoy the Lord’s living word, which becomes spirit and life in us (John 6:63). As we enjoy the Lord and contact Him in our spirit, we remain in the organic union with Christ, and He grows in us.

In the grafted life, we grow together with Christ; we grow with Him in the likeness of His death and also in the likeness of His resurrection. He supplies us, and He also puts to death in us anything that is negative.

We grow with Christ in the likeness of His resurrection by living and walking in newness of life as we remain in the organic union with the Lord.

We don’t just wait for a resurrection in the future, which will come and will resurrect our entire being; we now remain in the organic union with Christ and we grow with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. Hallelujah!

Oh, may we see this spiritual reality of our Christian life! May we realise that, after we repented and believed into the Lord Jesus, we grow with Christ first in the likeness of His death and then in the likeness of His resurrection!

We grow with Christ in the likeness of His death through baptism (Rom. 6:4-6), and then we grow with Him in the likeness of His resurrection through living and walking in newness of life. Hallelujah!

May we daily remain in the organic union with Christ in our living until He transforms us into His image and everything negative in our being is eliminated and discharged.

Thank the Lord that, when we were baptised, we grew together with Christ in the likeness of His death, and now, through His death, we’re growing into His resurrection.

He Himself is resurrection and life, we have been grafted into Him, and all the nutrients of what He is become our supply with unsearchable riches.

May we continue to grow in Christ in the organic union with the Lord until we become the same as He is!

We have been grafted into Christ as the tree of life, we absorb His riches, and we grow with the growth of God (John 3:30; Col. 2:19).

Lord Jesus, we want to remain in the organic union with Christ today. Grow in us. Have a way to remove and discharge all the negative elements in us. Add more of what You are to our being. May we grow with Christ in the likeness of His death and also in the likeness of His resurrection. Amen, Lord, keep us in the organic union with You today so that we may partake of all that You are and we may also express You! Hallelujah, Christ’s life in us uplifts the original functions given to us at creation and enriches, strengthens, and even saturates our whole being! Praise the Lord, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit! Amen, Lord, may we grow together with You today. May Your divine life grow in us a little more today. Give us the experiences we need for us to grow in Christ, even grow with the growth of God in us! Praise the Lord for the grafted life! In the grafted life we can enjoy all that Christ is and we can partake of all His riches!

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, The Conclusion of the New Testament (pp. 3055-3058) by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans – the Kernel of the Bible (2025 ICSC), week 3, The Likeness of the Death and Resurrection of Christ.
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