Les comparto lo que llenaba mi espíritu al concluir la lectura del libro de Watchman Nee titulado: La Vida que Vence. Disfruté de este maravilloso libro cuando estaba comenzando con mis tratamientos para atacar el cáncer. Leí la versión en inglés así que mi compartir fue en inglés. Espero que lo disfruten. Al mismo tiempo que disfrutaba el libro también disfruta de un estudio sobre la epístola a los Gálatas en el Nuevo Testamento. Lo que escribí fue el resultado de lo que el Señor me mostró en ese tiempo.
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"To consecrate ourselves to the Lord is like getting married to Him. From there on we are one. He is our Head.
How wonderful to be in the ministry of the age! The ministry that will bring Christ back. This ministry brings us to live Christ, to live by the Spirit (the processed, consummated, intensified Spirit of the Triune God). Firstly, we enter into an experience of walking and living by the Spirit as one spirit with Christ. In this way we partake of all that Christ is and has. We enjoy Him. He becomes our wonderful supply day by day, moment by moment. This kind of living in Christ, enjoying His riches, and walking (peripateo) by the Spirit in our general daily living leads to a second kind of walk (stoicheo) by the Spirit in which Christ becomes our way. This is a regulated and restricted kind of walk that leads us to the fulfillment of God's goal; to build up His Bride. The Bride prepares herself by walking this walk. So this walking by the Spirit is a Corporate walk, while the first walk is our individual christian walk. Both walks lead us to take the way of the cross (Galatians 2:20). They lead us to crucify our flesh (Galatians 5:24).
But Galatians 2:20 shows us that the way os the cross is sweet and powerful. We take the cross with Christ and the Lord applies His sweet , efficacious, all-inclusive death to us. We experience the negative yet releasing aspects of the cross, which include death to sin, to the flesh, to the law, to our old man and to the old creation. These things transpire in us through the wonderful application of Christ's death on the cross. I love the cross of Christ!! Because while these negative aspects are transpiring there are positive aspects of Christ's death that are also applied to me: the release of His resurrection life (so that I can live Christ) and the power of His resurrection. While our old nature and old creation are being terminated, a new creation is being generated in us.
The process of transformation and the renewing of the mind take place to make us Christ, in life, and nature, but not in the Godhead. So on the one hand we are experiencing the cross: "I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who lives, but Christ that lives in me" - Galatians 2:20. So there is a new I. A new I that is one spirit with Christ. A new I that is a new creation. The life of this new I is Christ. The living of this new I is Christ. On the one hand, we surrender, we let go, to the work of the cross in us. We do not struggle with it or against it and accept that our need is to be terminated. On the other hand, we need to believe that Christ dwells in us and that He is living. We need to believe that although we are not able, He is able. God is not counting on us to fulfill His goal, but on Christ in us. We need to believe that Christ can live out His victorious life through us. We need to allow Him, but we also need to believe into Him and live "in the faith of the Son of God" as the apostle Paul did. This living in Christ eventually has the two walks. We are enjoying Christ as our life and we are taking Him as our way.
This walk is a walk with a goal, a walk with direction, with an aim: the buildig up and the preparing of the Bride. So we take Christ as our road, as our street. This street consumates in the New Jerusalem as the golden street. The street of pure gold that comes out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. The golden street that has the river of living waters in the middle and which also comes out of the throne of God. The street also has the Tree of Life on the one side and the other side. So in this street we are in the Triune God, walking in God (Father), eating of the Tree of Life (Son), and drinking of the river (Spirit).
So we see how important is that book of Galatians in revealing the practical way to fulfill God's desire. We need to surrender and take the way of the cross and allow Christ to make us a new creation. We need to live in the faith of the Son f God, believing that He is able! These things spontaneously yet little by little bring us into the two kinds of walk by the Spirit. First, we take Christ as our all, we partake of Him in our daily living. Second, we walk by the Spirit with a goal. We take the Spirit as our road towards Christ's goal, the Bride, and eventually the New Jerusalem. Eventually, (Galatians 6) Paul brings us into taking the Spirit as our goal so that our living becomes a sowing unto the Spirit, which reeps into eternal life. When you have a goal your life is regulated, restricted and your living has the aim of sowing unto the Spirit. Your living becomes a sowing, a spreading of seads. But what kind of seads. If we live by the flesh, by taking the way of the law and not the way of the cross, our sowing becomes a sowing unto the flesh, which reaps corruption. But if we take the way of the cross, crusifying our flesh, and the way of the Spirit as our life, way, and goal, then our living becomes a sowing of seads to others, seads that reap unto eternal life. So this is a matter of propagation. This is the way toward Christ'sgoal, the Bride.
This way is the way of the New Jerusalem. This is the way of the Triune God enjoyed and partaken by us t be our everything. Praise the Lord! He is wonderful! How wonderful are Your mercies Father! How wonderful is your love!
The result of entering into this experience is that we consecrate ourselves to Him. This consecration will bring us to know God's good, well pleasing, and perfect will (Romans 12). So let us present our bodies as a living sacrifice to Christ so that He may live out His life in us and produce His Bride, which will eventually consummate in the New Jerusalem. Amen.
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"To consecrate ourselves to the Lord is like getting married to Him. From there on we are one. He is our Head.
How wonderful to be in the ministry of the age! The ministry that will bring Christ back. This ministry brings us to live Christ, to live by the Spirit (the processed, consummated, intensified Spirit of the Triune God). Firstly, we enter into an experience of walking and living by the Spirit as one spirit with Christ. In this way we partake of all that Christ is and has. We enjoy Him. He becomes our wonderful supply day by day, moment by moment. This kind of living in Christ, enjoying His riches, and walking (peripateo) by the Spirit in our general daily living leads to a second kind of walk (stoicheo) by the Spirit in which Christ becomes our way. This is a regulated and restricted kind of walk that leads us to the fulfillment of God's goal; to build up His Bride. The Bride prepares herself by walking this walk. So this walking by the Spirit is a Corporate walk, while the first walk is our individual christian walk. Both walks lead us to take the way of the cross (Galatians 2:20). They lead us to crucify our flesh (Galatians 5:24).
But Galatians 2:20 shows us that the way os the cross is sweet and powerful. We take the cross with Christ and the Lord applies His sweet , efficacious, all-inclusive death to us. We experience the negative yet releasing aspects of the cross, which include death to sin, to the flesh, to the law, to our old man and to the old creation. These things transpire in us through the wonderful application of Christ's death on the cross. I love the cross of Christ!! Because while these negative aspects are transpiring there are positive aspects of Christ's death that are also applied to me: the release of His resurrection life (so that I can live Christ) and the power of His resurrection. While our old nature and old creation are being terminated, a new creation is being generated in us.
The process of transformation and the renewing of the mind take place to make us Christ, in life, and nature, but not in the Godhead. So on the one hand we are experiencing the cross: "I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who lives, but Christ that lives in me" - Galatians 2:20. So there is a new I. A new I that is one spirit with Christ. A new I that is a new creation. The life of this new I is Christ. The living of this new I is Christ. On the one hand, we surrender, we let go, to the work of the cross in us. We do not struggle with it or against it and accept that our need is to be terminated. On the other hand, we need to believe that Christ dwells in us and that He is living. We need to believe that although we are not able, He is able. God is not counting on us to fulfill His goal, but on Christ in us. We need to believe that Christ can live out His victorious life through us. We need to allow Him, but we also need to believe into Him and live "in the faith of the Son of God" as the apostle Paul did. This living in Christ eventually has the two walks. We are enjoying Christ as our life and we are taking Him as our way.
This walk is a walk with a goal, a walk with direction, with an aim: the buildig up and the preparing of the Bride. So we take Christ as our road, as our street. This street consumates in the New Jerusalem as the golden street. The street of pure gold that comes out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. The golden street that has the river of living waters in the middle and which also comes out of the throne of God. The street also has the Tree of Life on the one side and the other side. So in this street we are in the Triune God, walking in God (Father), eating of the Tree of Life (Son), and drinking of the river (Spirit).
So we see how important is that book of Galatians in revealing the practical way to fulfill God's desire. We need to surrender and take the way of the cross and allow Christ to make us a new creation. We need to live in the faith of the Son f God, believing that He is able! These things spontaneously yet little by little bring us into the two kinds of walk by the Spirit. First, we take Christ as our all, we partake of Him in our daily living. Second, we walk by the Spirit with a goal. We take the Spirit as our road towards Christ's goal, the Bride, and eventually the New Jerusalem. Eventually, (Galatians 6) Paul brings us into taking the Spirit as our goal so that our living becomes a sowing unto the Spirit, which reeps into eternal life. When you have a goal your life is regulated, restricted and your living has the aim of sowing unto the Spirit. Your living becomes a sowing, a spreading of seads. But what kind of seads. If we live by the flesh, by taking the way of the law and not the way of the cross, our sowing becomes a sowing unto the flesh, which reaps corruption. But if we take the way of the cross, crusifying our flesh, and the way of the Spirit as our life, way, and goal, then our living becomes a sowing of seads to others, seads that reap unto eternal life. So this is a matter of propagation. This is the way toward Christ'sgoal, the Bride.
This way is the way of the New Jerusalem. This is the way of the Triune God enjoyed and partaken by us t be our everything. Praise the Lord! He is wonderful! How wonderful are Your mercies Father! How wonderful is your love!
The result of entering into this experience is that we consecrate ourselves to Him. This consecration will bring us to know God's good, well pleasing, and perfect will (Romans 12). So let us present our bodies as a living sacrifice to Christ so that He may live out His life in us and produce His Bride, which will eventually consummate in the New Jerusalem. Amen.
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