Christ as our pattern is not only objective but also subjective and experiential in our daily living, for He is both in the heavens on the throne and in our spirit as the inward pattern for us to live out and express today. Amen, Lord, thank You for being both objective and subjective for us […]
Christ is our Pattern: He Humbled Himself to the Uttermost and God Highly Exalted Him
In order for us to experience Christ and live Christ, we must know Him as our pattern and take Him as our pattern; we need to let His mind be in us – He emptied Himself, humbled Himself, and was obedient unto death, and God exalted Him to the uttermost. What a wonderful pattern we […]
No longer Walk in the Vanity of our Mind but Live the Life of the New Man: Reality is in Jesus
Human life under the sun is vanity, but we as believers should no longer walk in the vanity of the mind but live the life of the new man as the reality is in Jesus. Hallelujah, reality is in Jesus, and we have Jesus living in us to be our reality! We human beings are […]
Our Standard of Living must be According to the Reality in Jesus as we Learn Christ
Our standard of living as believers in Christ must not be according to our culture but according to the reality in Jesus, the reality lived out by the Lord Jesus when He was on earth, for the living of the new man should be the way that the Lord lived on earth. This week in […]
We Experience a Constant Salvation by taking Christ our Pattern in our Daily Life
In Phil. 2:12 Paul tells us to work out our own salvation; this is not the eternal salvation from God’s condemnation but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person. After seeing the wonderful pattern of Christ in Phil. 2, Paul tells us, as beloved ones, to work out our own […]
When we Live Christ, we live the One who is the Pattern of a Crucified Life
In Phil. 2 we see Christ crucified as our pattern, and this pattern is the crucified life within us; when we live Christ, we live the One who is the pattern of a crucified life. Christ as our pattern is not something only objective, something that we should follow outwardly, but also something subjective and […]
As our Pattern, Christ Emptied Himself, Humbled Himself, and was Glorified by God
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 – the mind of Christ, the same […]