Acts 27-28 shows us Paul’s life of living Christ, magnifying Christ, doing all things in Christ, and being found in Christ, for here we see Jesus living again in a member of His Body; today we’re the Lord’s continuation, for Jesus lives in us as His many members until He obtains the New Jerusalem, His […]
Enjoy and Experience Christ as our Objective and Subjective Righteousness Today
In order for us as believers in Christ to be awarded with Christ as our crown of righteousness in the next age, we must experience and enjoy Him as our subjective righteousness, as our lived-out righteousness in this age. We need to have not only Christ as our objective righteousness for our justification before God […]
Live a Life of Gaining Christ in His All-Inclusiveness: Forget and Stretch Forward!
The Christian life is a life of gaining Christ in His all-inclusiveness; for this, we need to forget and even forsake the past experiences of Christ and stretch forward to gain Him in a fresh way, paying the price to gain Christ right now, today. We want to be such ones; we want to […]
Have the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ to Gain Christ and be Found in Christ
In Phil. 3:3-16 we see that Christ is the goal of our pursuit; we need to have the excellency of the knowledge of Christ and pay the price to enjoy Him, be found in Him, experience Him, gain Him, and experience Him in His death and resurrection for the Body. What a Christ we […]
Being Found in Christ, having Christ as our Subjective Righteousness Lived out in us
As those who have the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, we desire to be found in Christ, not having our own righteousness but the righteousness of God, taking Christ as our subjective righteousness. Our pattern in the Lord is the apostle Paul; he used to be for the law and in the law, but […]
Rejecting any Mixture of the Law and Old Testament Practices with God’s New Testament Economy
We must receive the Lord’s mercy to learn the lessons in the book of Acts in the spreading of the church, and in particular we need to practice the Body life and take the word of the Spirit through the members of the Body, and reject any mixture of the old testament practices with God’s […]