Bible Truth - Christian

To reign in life over so many rebellious things, we must first be obedient and submissive to the Lord. If we are not submissive to the Lord, who is our Master and our God, no one will be submissive to us…When we have this sense of abundant grace, this is a sign that we are submissive to the Lord. At such a time, we reign in life. (WL)

A great majority of the regenerated ones were regenerated through the word of God. The word of God as a “gene” entered into us and operated in us. In this way we were regenerated...Through regeneration the believers have the spiritual life of God in addition to their natural life (John 3:15). The spiritual life of God is divine and eternal (v. 36). Such a divine life is the basis and means of the believers’ spiritual life and living. (WL)

By his recommendations and greetings in Romans 16:1-24, Paul was blending together many saints and many churches under his ministry for the practical living of the Body of Christ in the universal fellowship of the Body…Today there is the need for all the believers who have received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to practice the restriction and limitation in the divine life. (WL)

Doctrine, teaching, and exhortation are of no avail. In a sense, not even our prayer is effectual in enabling us to reign in life by grace. The only thing that works is to come to the divine source and open ourselves from the depths of our being to be filled with God as grace. In order to be filled, we must ask the Lord to remove all insulation and frustration. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 509- 510)

How does God achieve [regeneration]? It is through His Spirit. After we repented and believed in the Lord, our sins were forgiven and we were reconciled to God. Then this God who loves us and who is the life-giving Spirit comes into us to regenerate our spirit. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation,” pp. 392-393)

Nothing of the old creation can be brought into the New Jerusalem. Since the New Jerusalem will be constituted with the believers, they need to be thoroughly and absolutely renewed...The believers should live and walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 25) and walk according to the mingled spirit (Romans 8:4b), that the divine life of Christ may have the way to regulate them and transform them into the image of the Lord in glory. (WL)

We must follow in the footsteps of the apostle. He brought us into the blending life of the entire Body of Christ by recommendations and greetings in order that the God of peace may crush Satan under our feet and we may enjoy the rich grace of Christ…It is by the churches’ fellowship in the Body that the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet and we will be able to enjoy the rich grace of Christ. (WL)

To present our bodies a living sacrifice is a matter of reigning in life. Without reigning in life, no one can present his body a living sacrifice. When we reign in life, we are not being fashioned according to this age but are being transformed by the renewing of the mind, proving what the will of God is...Our thinking about ourselves is like a wild horse. But by reigning in life, our thinking is bridled. (WL)

By reigning in the divine life of Christ, we are saved from all kinds of insubordination. To be saved in life causes us to reign as kings. According to Romans 5:17, those who receive the abundance of grace and the abundance of the gift of righteousness, those who are justified, will reign in life. A justified person should reign because he has the divine life, a kingly life, with which to reign. Without the kingly life, no one can reign. (WL)

The glorification of the matured believers is the top portion of their divine sonship in God’s organic salvation, which sonship they received at the time of their regeneration…The day is coming when our body will be redeemed, and we will enter into the full enjoyment of the divine sonship. The redemption of the believers’ body is the transfiguration of their body at the Lord’s coming back. (WL)

The initial feeding is to feed the newborn babes, the new believers. We feed them through cherishing them to pray-read the Word and call on the Lord by exercising their spirit…If the new believers are cherished, they will be willing to exercise their spirit to pray-read the Word...When we are cherished by Christ, first we feel happy, and then spontaneously we exercise our spirit to pray, calling on the Lord…When we call on the Lord, we enjoy His riches. (WL)

What Christ carried out in His earthly ministry was a procedure of the complete salvation of God for the believers to participate in God’s organic salvation as the purpose of the complete salvation of God…The procedure is judicial, and the purpose is organic…One who has experienced God’s judicial redemption may be considered saved by being redeemed only, but he still needs to be saved more by God’s organic salvation in the accomplishing of God’s economy. (WL)

God has accomplished a salvation with two aspects: the redeeming aspect and the saving aspect. Redemption is accomplished judicially, and saving is carried out organically...The eight items in the organic aspect issue in the church of God to constitute the Body of Christ, which will consummate the New Jerusalem, which is the ultimate goal of God’s eternal economy. (WL)

Although you may be new in the church life,…Christ has been constituted into you, and this becomes the constitution of Christ in your spiritual life. This is what gives you the burden to take care of others. This is shepherding. The constitution of Christ in our spiritual life has a shepherding aspect…The part of our being that has been constituted of Christ is the part that shepherds others…We cannot shepherd anyone, but Christ constituted into us is the Shepherd. (WL)