CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE COMPLETE SALVATION OF GOD
IN ROMANS

MESSAGE FOUR

REIGNING IN LIFE

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OUTLINE

1. In the spiritual, practical, and experiential union—Rom. 8:16a.
2. By the mingled spirit—8:11b.
3. Through the abundance of grace and the abundance of the gift of righteousness—5:17b:
1. In being sanctified in the Spirit—6:19, 22; 15:16.
2. In being renewed by the mingled spirit in our mind—12:2b; Eph. 4:23.
3. In being transformed—12:2b:
1. To the image of Christ from glory to glory—2 Cor. 3:18a.
2. By the Lord Spirit—2 Cor. 3:18b.
4. In being conformed—8:26-29:
1. To the image of God's firstborn Son—v. 29b.
2. Through the Spirit's interceding—vv. 26-27.
3. That all things may work together for the conformation of those who love God—v. 28.
5. In being glorified—8:30:
1. To be redeemed in our body—8:23c.
2. To participate in our divine sonship ultimately—8:23b.
3. Through the sealing of the indwelling Spirit—Eph. 4:30.
6. In more than conquering the environmental hardships and sufferings—8:31-39:
1. By having God being for us, who did not spare His own Son, who gives us freely all things with Him, and who has chosen us and justified us—vv. 31-33.
2. By having Christ who died for us, who was raised, and who is sitting at the right hand of God interceding for us—v. 34.
3. By being captivated by the love of Christ and by the love of God in Christ from which we are inseparable—vv. 35-39.
4. By being faithful to Christ and God unto death—v. 38.
7. In gaining the righteousness of God which is the subjective Christ—9:18-33; Phil. 3:9; 1 Cor. 1:30:
1. Out of faith to faith—1:17a.
2. According to His mercy in order to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy—9:18-23.
8. In enjoying the riches of God—10:12-15:
1. By calling on the name of the Lord—v. 13.
2. By believing in the Lord's word—v. 14.
3. By announcing the glad tidings—v. 15.
9. In living a grafted life—11:17-24; Gal. 2:20a:
   (Not living an exchanged life: the good life replaces the bad one, and the bad one becomes functionless.)
1. Being the branches of the wild olive tree—vv. 17, 24.
2. Grafted into Christ, the cultivated olive tree, who is one with Israel—v. 24; Psa. 80:15-17; Matt. 2:15.
3. Standing by faith to partake of the root (which bears us—v. 18) of fatness of the olive tree—vv. 20, 17.
4. We, as the grafted branches, and Christ, as the cultivated olive tree, live together one mingled life in one mingled living.