Live in Christ’s Death and Resurrection to be Constituted into New Jerusalem

New JerusalemRomans 6:3-6 speaks about our inclusion in the death and resurrection of Christ. Verse 5: “If we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection.” The subjective experience of His death and resurrection decreases our natural life and increases His element within us.

The reality of the death and resurrection of christ is in the Spirit, who dwells in our spirit (Rom. 8:9-10). To stay in the death of Christ and to be brought into His resurrection is to live and have our daily walk in spirit.

The divine nature was given to us by God, but pearls are produced through the secretion of Christ’s resurrection life from the time that we entered into Christ. When we stay in the death of Christ, Christ’s resurrection life secretes itself over us, making all of us pearls….When you stay, remain, and abide in Christ’s death, then it is no longer you who live but Christ who lives in you. His living and moving in you is the secretion of His resurrection life over you to make you a pearl.*

This is what Paul describes in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me…” Christ wants to live in us to impart more of Himself into us every day in order to prepare us for New Jerusalem.

* From chapter 40, Witness LeeGod’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.

Posted by Don on August 23, 2023

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