Christ today is the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of reality, coming to us to reach us, touch us, unite Himself with us, saturate us, mingle us with Himself, fill us, constitute us, and build us up into His habitation (see 2 Cor. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:45). The Spirit is not “a power” or “a ghost”, […]
Christ Makes His Home in our Heart until We are Filled unto All the Fullness of God
When someone believes into the Lord Jesus, Christ comes into his spirit to regenerate him with the divine life. This is the beginning of the Christian life. God is Spirit, and when we open to Him we receive Him as Spirit into our spirit. But God wants to spread into all the parts of our […]
Allowing the Indwelling Christ to Make His Home in Our Heart and Feel at Home in us
The highest point and the most profound aspect of Christ dwelling in us is found in Eph. 3:16 – Christ making His home in our heart. Why does God want to dwell in man? The desire of God’s heart is to have a house, a habitation, a dwelling place, and for this He comes to […]
Letting the Peace of Christ Arbitrate in Us and Letting His Word Richly Abide in Us
The all-inclusive Christ revealed in the book of Colossians is our life and our daily enjoyment for our supply and experience. He is the First in everything – in the old and the new creation, in the Body, in the church, and in the new man. Christ is all and in all, and He wants […]
We Worship the Enthroned Christ but we Enjoy the Indwelling Christ as our Everything
In Colossians we see a high revelation of Christ as our life and our everything. In his completing ministry, Paul shows us an all-inclusive Christ as the reality of all the positive things, and especially in Colossians we see that this Christ is our life. Somehow, the Christ who fills all in all, the one […]
The Secret of our Christian Life and the Treasure in our Earthen Vessel: Christ in us!
Being a Christian is not adhering to some religious doctrines and set of teachings, neither is it “joining a Christian church” and so now you’re a person who does his best to behave better. Being a Christian is a matter of having Christ dwelling in you. One becomes a Christian when he opens to the […]
Subjectively Knowing Christ as the Indwelling One, the Life-Giving Spirit
The central element of Paul’s ministry, the most important matter in our Christian life, and the most missed thing in Christianity today is the indwelling Christ, Christ living in us (Col. 1:27; Gal. 2:20). The Lord Jesus spoke about it before He went to the cross and the apostles emphasized it very much in the […]