Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are being transformed in our soul so that we may live a God-man life by allowing Christ to live in us, and we are becoming Christ’s reproduction!
When the Lord Jesus saves us, He comes into us as the One with the human virtues filled with the divine attributes to live in us; the Christian life is Jesus living again in us as He regenerates us in our spirit and transforms us in our soul.
The Gospel of Luke records the history of the God-man living of the first God-man, Jesus Christ; now this history needs to be written in our being and lived out in us.
Being a Christian is not merely knowing about God and trying to please God according to what the Bible tells us; being a Christian is having Jesus Christ living in us and allowing Him to live a God-man life in us day by day.
On His side, the Lord came as the first God-man and achieved in His living the greatest thing in the universe – He expressed God in humanity.
Never before has a man ever lived such a life; He lived a life not by His perfect human life but by denying Himself and taking the Father as His source and life.
Christ didn’t do His own work, He didn’t speak His own words, He didn’t do His own will, and He didn’t seek His own glory. Rather, He accomplished the Father’s work, He spoke what He heard from the Father, He did the will of the Father, and He sought the glory of the Father.
Such a man is what God wants; God created us in His image and according to His likeness so that we may take Him as our life and person, and we would express Him and represent Him with His image and dominion.
Christ’s God-man living constituted Him to be a prototype of the man that God desires to have; now He may be reproduced in us, the many believers in Christ, so that He may live again in us.
Paul became a reproduction of Christ; he declared that to him to live was Christ and to die is gain (Phil. 1:20-21), and he realised that he was crucified with Christ and it is no longer him who lived but Christ who lived in him.
This should be our realisation and experience day by day – no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me; no longer I who works but Christ who works in me; no longer I who speaks but Christ who speaks in me!
Christ is the prototype, and by being regenerated with His life, we have been put into His mold to be conformed to His image; this doesn’t happen by the Lord outwardly perfecting us and conforming us, but by inwardly regenerating us and transforming us into His image until we live like Him, talk like Him, and do everything as He does in us and through us.
Oh, may Christ live again in us all, and may we cooperate with Him for Jesus to live again in all the members of His Body!
Christ came into us to Live a God-man Life in us with the Human Virtues filled by the Divine Attributes
Christ lived a God-man life, and now that living has to be engraved into our being and lived out in us.
Today we need this Christ, in particular His living, to be written in us and on us, to be re-written in us, so that we may be the living letters testifying Christ to others in our daily living (2 Cor. 3:3). This is the living of the new man for the fulfillment of God’s purpose in making man.
When the Lord Jesus saves us, He comes into us as the One with the human virtues filling the divine attributes (Luke 2:10-11, 25-32; 19:9-10).
He came into us as the life-giving Spirit, and this Spirit is a compound of all that Christ is, has done, has passed through, and has accomplished.
In the Spirit with our spirit there’s the Lord’s humanity, His divinity, His wonderful human life, and all the human virtues that have been rescued, restored, recovered, improved, polished, sanctified, strengthened, empowered, and uplifted.
The all-inclusive life-giving Spirit that is mingled with our spirit contains the element of Christ’s uplifted human virtues, and He came into us to live a God-man life with the human virtues filled by the divine attributes.
He came into us as “the whole package” including His divinity, His humanity, His incarnation, His human living, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, and His human virtues filled with the divine attributes.
As the life-giving Spirit, Christ enters into us to bring God into our being and to fill our virtues with God’s attributes; we who are joined to the Lord are one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17).
Such a life saves us from within and uplifts our human virtues, sanctifying and transforming us (Rom. 5:10; 12:2).
The Christian life is simply Christ living in us again, growing in us again, and spreading into every part of our being – mind, emotion, will – and even filling our human virtues with His virtues that are filled with the divine attributes.
By this we are transformed and sanctified, and we are being conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son. The Christ who lives in us is still the One who possesses the human virtues strengthened and enriched by the divine attributes (Gal. 2:20).
He told us that, even as He lives, we also shall live; this means that, even as He lived a God-man life when He was on earth, we also shall live a God-man life as His continuation and duplication on the earth.
Our Christian life is not an outward imitation of Christ or perfecting an ethical behavior; our Christian life is to live Christ in our daily living.
The Christ who is being dispensed into us is a composition of the divine nature with its divine attributes and the human nature with its human virtues; this Christ is now seeing to live in us the kind of life that He lived on earth.
Christ in us today is still living a life that is the composition of the divine attributes and the human virtues (John 14:19; 2 Cor. 10:1; 11:10).
He seeks to live in us all the time; He longs to live this kind of life in us, in each one of His believers, even in the smallest details of our life. We simply need to let Him live in us and through us; we may even tell Him,
Lord Jesus, live Thyself through us today! We open to Your inward filling, Your saturating, and Your living in us. We put ourselves aside, Lord, and we take You as our life and person; live in us today! Oh Lord, You are seeking to live in us the same kind of God-man life that You lived when on earth – do it in us, in each one of us! May the Christ who is a composition of the divine attributes with the human virtues be dispensed into us and live in us a God-man life for the expression of God!
We are Reborn in our Spirit and Transformed in our Soul to be Christ’s Reproduction
How can we, human beings, become the reproduction of Christ, the first God-man?
If we would become a reproduction of the first God-man and live Christ as the God-man, we must be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit and be transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul (John 3:3, 6; 2 Cor. 3:18).
First, we must be reborn with the divine life and nature in our spirit to become a child of God, a God-man; regeneration is the first step in becoming the reproduction of Christ as the first God-man.
God intends to reproduce Christ, to mass produce this prototype with His God-man living into many human beings through regeneration and transformation.
Through regeneration and transformation we become the reproduction of the God-man for the corporate expression and representation of God.
Praise the Lord, as believers in Christ we have been regenerated once for all, and we are now in the process of being transformed!
In Philippians we see how Christ lived our from Paul and became his life to make him the duplication of Christ; all Christians should be duplicates of the unique God-man.
Now that we have been regenerated by the pneumatic Christ in our spirit, that is, we have been born again of God with His divine life and nature through the Spirit in our spirit, we need to be gradually transformed by the Spirit in our soul.
As we are beholding the Lord with an unveiled face, we are inwardly being transformed into the same image from glory to glory even as from the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18).
As we are being transformed, we shall spontaneously live Christ, the God-man, by the bountiful supply of His Spirit; we will take His mind as our mind and we will shine forth the word of life as luminaries reflecting His brightness.
As we are being transformed, we will be found in Christ with Him as our surpassing righteousness, in the power of His resurrection, and conformed to His death.
Our virtues will be saturated with His divine attributes, and we will express God in our human virtues filled with the divine attributes.
In our daily living, a very practical way to be transformed and filled with the Lord is to turn to Him and call on His name.
We may realise that we are about to lose our temper, and we can simply call on the name of the Lord, O Lord Jesus…we may call inwardly, and as we call, He moves in us, shines in us, saturates us, and transforms us into His image.
In ourselves we cannot change our temper or our disposition; we have absolutely no way to deal with ourselves or to deliver ourselves from any bondage.
But as we call on the name of the Lord, the life-giving Spirit moves in us, mingles Himself with us, and transforms us metabolically into the image of the Lord.
We may be used to ask for the Lord’s help, and that’s not wrong, but it may lead us to wait for the Lord to change something in someone else or in our environment, instead of allowing Him to inwardly change us.
When we call on the name of the Lord and pray over His word, He has a way to shine on us and transform us into His image to make us the same as He is, that is, to make us the reproduction of Christ.
Thank You Lord for regenerating us with Yourself as the life-giving Spirit in our spirit to make us part of the reproduction of Christ, the church as the one new man. We give ourselves to You, Lord, to be gradually transformed into Your image so that we may become Your reproduction in our daily living. Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us calling on Your name and praying over Your word so that You may move in us, saturate us, renew us, sanctify us, transform us, and conform us to Your image to make us the reproduction of Christ! Yes, Lord, live in us today! Live in all Your believers a God-man life for the expression and glorification of the Father!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Luke, msgs. 62-63 (Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The One New Man Fulfilling God’s Purpose in Creating Man (2019 fall ITERO), week 2, Christ as the Son of Man, the Second Man, and the Last Adam Fulfilling God’s Intention in Creating Man.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Jesus, Thy life is mine, / Dwell evermore in me; / And let me see / That nothing can untwine / Thy life from mine. / Thy life in me be shown, / Lord, I would henceforth seek / To think and speak / Thy thoughts, Thy words alone, / No more my own. (Hymns #365)
– Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, / For my very life art Thou; / Thee I take to all my problems / As the full solution now. / Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, / In all things Thy will be done; / I but a transparent vessel / To make visible the Son. (Hymns #403)
– God hath us regenerated / In our spirit with His life; / But He must transform us further- / In our soul by His own life. / Lord, transform us to Thine image / In emotion, mind, and will; / Saturate us with Thy Spirit, / All our being wholly fill. (Hymns #750)
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