Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of August
Verses:
Eph. 4:21 “If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus.”
Excerpts:
Before Christ was there in the physical crucifixion, He was being crucified every day. Was not Jesus a human being, a genuine man? Yes. But He did not live by that genuine man. Instead, He kept that genuine man on the cross. Then, in the sense of resurrection, He lived God’s life. God’s life with all its attributes was lived within this God-man Jesus and expressed as this God-man’s virtues.
Such a life was there originally just in an individual man, Jesus Christ. But this life has now been repeated, reproduced, in many men who have been redeemed and regenerated and who now possess the divine life within them. All of them have been nourished, sanctified, transformed, and perfected not just to be matured Christians but to be God-men. The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes have been expressed through their virtues. To be perfected is to be matured by continually exercising to reject the self and live by another life. Paul lived by dying to live. He was dying to his natural man and living by his new man with the divine life. So he said that by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, he lived and magnified Christ. ( CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 128-129)
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