Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of September
Verses:
Rom. 12:2 “And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind…”
Excerpts:
In regeneration the divine life is added to our natural life, causing these two lives to become one. In sanctification our distorted, crooked, and perverted nature is adjusted by God’s holy nature. In renewing the mingled spirit penetrates our troublesome mind, causing it to be changed and even to become the mind of Christ. We, the regenerated saints, as God’s new creation should walk in the newness of the divine life in resurrection. Renewing takes place through the consuming by the believers’ environmental suffering. God arranges our environment so that little by little and day by day our outer man will be consumed and our inner man will be renewed. The believers must be thoroughly and absolutely renewed so that they may be practically the genuine new creation of God and for God.
Transformation is a kind of metabolism, by the addition of the element of the divine life of Christ into the believers’ being, to be expressed outwardly in the image of Christ. Transformation is accomplished by the Lord Spirit (the pneumatic Christ) transforming the believers into the image of the glory of Christ. The metabolism involved in transformation eventually transforms us into the image of the glory of Christ. The believers should live and walk by the Spirit and walk according to the mingled spirit, that the divine life of Christ may have the way to regulate them and transform them into the image of the Lord in glory. (The Secret of God’s Organic Salvation—the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit, ch. 3)
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