Christian Life, The

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, on February 21 through June 19, 1992.

The definition _ch.1

The Christian life being the life in which the believers of Christ live Christ and magnify Him
Christ being the center of the Divine Trinity
This Christ being the life
Christ being the eternal life
Christ being life to His believers in resurrection
Christ being in the believers as the Spirit of life
Christ living in the believers so that they may live by Him
The believers who live Him as such a one being His living members, constituting His organic Body
The Christian life being also the life in which the Christians live Christ and magnify Him corporately

The contents _ch.2

The processed and consummated Triune God
Comprising the divinity of God and the humanity of the God-man
Compounded with
Christ’s all-resolving and all-terminating death
Christ’s all-producing resurrection
Christ’s all-transcending ascension
Typified by the compounded holy ointment in Exodus 30:22-31
All the contents having been consummated to be the all-inclusive Spirit of life through Christ’s death and resurrection
The all-inclusive Spirit and Christ’s all-inclusive death and His all-inclusive resurrection becoming the three main elements of the life by which the believers of Christ live the Christian life for the church life

The all-inclusive Spirit _ch.3

God being Spirit
The third of the Divine Trinity being the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God
The second of the Divine Trinity in the flesh, which He had put on in His incarnation, becoming a life-giving Spirit
The Lord (Jesus Christ) being the Spirit
The Lord Spirit
The Spirit of Christ
The Spirit of Jesus
The Spirit of Jesus Christ
The Spirit of reality
The Spirit of life
The Spirit of power
The compound Spirit, typified by the compound holy ointment
The seven Spirits, who are the seven eyes of God and the seven eyes of Christ
The Spirit

The functions of the all-inclusive Spirit (1) _ch.4

Convicting sinners to repent and believe in Christ
Sanctifying sinners in the process of their repentance and their believing in Christ before their regeneration
Giving life to the believing ones all the time
Regenerating the repentant and believing sinners
Sanctifying after the believers’ regeneration
Renewing the believers
Transforming the believers
Sealing the believers
Pledging in the believers
Indwelling the believers
Leading the believers
Witnessing
Being the reality of Christ
Comforting the churches
Being the joy in the believers for the kingdom of God

The functions of the all-inclusive Spirit (2) _ch.5

Strengthening the believers
Supplying the believers
Distributing the gifts to the believers
Filling the believers inwardly
Filling the believers outwardly
Casting out the demons
Oneness-keeping within the believers for the Body of Christ
Revealing the depths of God to the believers
Applying the death of Christ to the believers
Applying the resurrection of Christ to the believers
Mingling with the Spirit of the believers, making the two one spirit
Being the essence of the divine life by which the believers live and walk
Bringing forth the fruit of the virtues of the believers
Being the aim of the believers’ sowing
Circulating, in His fellowship, God the Father’s love and Christ the Son’s grace within the believers for their enjoyment
Being the essence for the organic building up of the Body of Christ
Speaking as the Lord
Shining and burning as the seven lamps of fire before God’s throne
Observing and transfusing as the seven eyes of God
Speaking with the church as the bride

The all-inclusive death of Christ _ch.6

The death of Christ being different from the death of Adam
The death of Adam having come in through sin
The death of Christ coming to His believers through His redemption
The death of Christ being the redeeming and life-releasing and life-imparting death
On the negative side
Dealing with sin
To put away sin in our nature
To bear our sins
To take away sin in totality
Dealing with Satan
To destroy the devil, who has the might of death
To judge the world and to cast out the ruler of the world
To strip off the rulers and the authorities of the rebellious angels
Dealing with the old man
To crucify our old man
To terminate the old creation, which is related to the world
To kill the natural life with its natural ability
To crucify the flesh with its passions and its lusts
To make the body of sin of no effect
Dealing with the law of the commandments
To abolish its ordinances
To slay the enmity between Israel and the Gentiles
On the positive side
To release the divine life
To impart the released divine life into the believers
The symbols of the two aspects of Christ’s all-inclusive death
The blood symbolizing the redeeming death of Christ
The water symbolizing the life-releasing and life-imparting death of Christ

The all-inclusive resurrection of Christ _ch.7

Resurrection conquering death
Before His death Christ being not only life but also resurrection
Christ having authority to lay His life down of Himself and having authority to take it again
In this sense, Christ’s resurrection being His rising from the dead by Himself
But in the sense that He was killed by lawless men, His resurrection was His being raised up by God
Christ going to proclaim to the fallen angels the victory achieved by God through Christ’s death on the cross
By His resurrection power Christ conquering death and coming out of death that He may die no more
The believers of Christ being raised up with Christ in His resurrection
In such a resurrection three marvelous matters transpired
Christ as the last Adam being made a life-giving Spirit
Christ in His humanity being begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God
All the believers of Christ being regenerated by God the Father through the resurrection of Christ
The life-giving Spirit as the resurrected, pneumatic Christ being the reality of Christ’s resurrection
The resurrection of Christ being an element of the compounded all-inclusive Spirit as the compound ointment
The compound Spirit being the reality of Christ’s resurrection and applying the resurrection of Christ to Christ’s members through the dispensing of the divine anointing
The believers of Christ knowing Christ through the experience of the power of His resurrection

The compounding of the Spirit _ch.8

The divine titles of the Spirit in the Old Testament
The Holy Spirit concerning the initiation of God’s New Testament economy related to the conceptions of John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus
The Spirit being not yet before Christ’s resurrection
The Spirit being particularly called the Spirit of life, the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Spirit of the Lord, and the Lord Spirit
The Spirit being a compound Spirit, typified by the compound anointing ointment
For the anointing of the things related to the worship and service of God and His serving ones, typified by the tabernacle and its utensils and the serving priests

The Spirit’s application of Christ’s death and its effectiveness _ch.9

The real history of the universe
Christ’s death and its effectiveness, with which the Spirit has been compounded, become prevailing in the Spirit
The compounded Spirit dwelling in our spirit to dispense Christ’s death and its effectiveness from our spirit to our soul and even to our mortal body
The putting to death of Jesus in our environment cooperating with the indwelling Spirit to kill our natural man
Cooperating with the operating Spirit and accepting the environment in our spirit, soul, and body

The Spirit’s application of Christ’s resurrection and its power _ch.10

What resurrection is
Experiencing resurrection
The Spirit being the reality of Christ’s resurrection and its power
The Spirit, compounded with Christ’s resurrection and its power, indwelling our spirit
Cooperating with the resurrecting Spirit
Christ’s resurrection with its power in the life-giving Spirit being the sufficient grace of the processed and consummated Triune God

Living and walking by the Spirit _ch.11

Living and walking by the mingled Spirit
Living by the Spirit
Equaling to have Christ living in us, that is, to live Christ, the pneumatic Christ in resurrection, that Christ may be magnified in us
Taking the Spirit — the realization of the resurrected Christ — as our person
Walking by the Spirit
The two aspects of the Christian walk
The general walk in our daily life, implying a common, habitual daily walk
The walk according to rules, referring to a walk that takes God’s unique goal as the direction and purpose of the Christian life
To walk in Christ’s resurrection, through His crucifixion, and by the compound Spirit

Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (1) _ch.12

Our identification, union, and mingling with Christ
Regenerated crucified and dying to live

Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (2) _ch.13

Bearing the cross of Christ as our cross in dealing with our soul-life — our self
Crucifying our flesh with its passions and its lusts in dealing with our body of sin

Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (3) _ch.14

Under the killing of Christ’s death that His life may be manifested in our Body in the renewing of the inner man
The death of Christ in the compound Spirit
The killing of Christ’s death through our environment

Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (4) _ch.15

Being conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection in the fellowship of His sufferings

Conformed to the death of Christ _ch.16

The old man and the new man of a believer
Our old man (the outer man) to be consumed, but our new man (the inner man) to be renewed day by day
Through our putting to death the practices of our Body by the Spirit
Bearing about the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested
In the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ

The living of the processed Triune God as the consummated Spirit _ch.17

The Christian life being the living of the processed Triune God as the consummated Spirit in the believers
God being Spirit — the substance of God’s being
The Spirit of God — God in His move
The Spirit of Jehovah — God in His relationship with man
The Holy Spirit — God in sanctifying, separating man unto Himself
The Spirit of Jesus — the Holy Spirit becoming the Spirit of the incarnated Jesus
The Spirit of Christ — the Spirit of God becoming the Spirit of the resurrected Christ
The Spirit of Jesus Christ — the Spirit of the processed and consummated Triune God becoming the all-inclusive Spirit of the incarnated Jesus and the resurrected Christ
The compound Spirit — the Spirit of God compounded with Christ’s divinity, humanity, death and its sweet effectiveness, and resurrection and its fragrant power
The anointing spirit — the compound spirit with all His ingredients (elements) becoming the anointing ointment for the anointing of all the things and persons that are of God and for God
The Spirit — the consummated Spirit of the processed and consummated Triune God as the consummation of the Triune God
The Spirit and the bride
The Christian life

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