The Gradual Secretion of Resurrection Life
Recent posts (list below) touched our entering as a grain of sand into Christ as the oyster with the outcome being a pearl. This is our entrance into New Jerusalem.
Christ was wounded for us in order to have us imprisoned in His wound so that He might carry out His secretion over us again and again throughout our entire life to make us pearls for the building of God’s eternal habitation. This is for the entry (Matt. 13:45-46; John 3:5). The more we are made pearls, the more we are in the New Jerusalem, and the more we are in the kingdom. We were regenerated to enter into the kingdom of God. To use the allegory of a pearl, however, to illustrate the entering into the kingdom of God by regeneration is much more significant.*
The gradual secretion of Christ’s resurrection life is our slow, progressive growth into Him. Our spiritual growth is like the growth of a human being. In the first year growth is easy to see but the development slows as the person approaches twenty years old.
However, our spiritual growth does not stop if we seek the Lord in prayer, in calling on His name (Rom. 10:12-13), in praising Him, in reading His word, in singing, and more. Second Corinthians 4:16, follows words about experience of the death of Christ (v. 8-12) and promises, “our inner man is being renewed day by day.” Resurrection life is a renewing life in us.
Thus we “walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4) and this renewing constitutes us with the newness of New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 33, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Stay in the Death of Christ, Walk in Newness of Life
In the Likeness of His Death to be in the Likeness of His Resurrection
Enjoy the Life-Secreting Resurrection of Christ
Remain in the Death of Christ to Receive More of His Life for a Fuller Entrance into New Jerusalem
Posted by Don on February 10, 2023
