CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD
in the Epistle to the Romans

Message Six

The Structure of the Gospel of God—
the Righteousness of God, the Life of Christ,
and the Faith of the Believers
(2)

The Essence of the Life of Christ

Scripture Reading: Rom. 1:16-17

OUTLINE

2. The life of Christ:
   1. Romans 5:10 says, “For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled.” This is also a key word of the book of Romans concerning God’s dynamic salvation. It unveils to us that the full salvation of God is of two sections:
      1. The first is the section of foundation:
         1. By the redemption of Christ judicially.
         2. As the initiation of God’s salvation.
      2. The second is the section of consummation:
         1. By the life of Christ organically.
         2. As the completion of God’s salvation.
   2. The accomplishments by the life of Christ in God’s dynamic salvation:
      1. Giving the believing sinners life, who have been justified by God in Christ as the righteousness from God to them that they may live in this life before God—Rom. 1:17.
      2. Making the God-justified believers the many sons of God (Rom. 8:14; Heb. 2:10), who are the many brothers of Christ (Rom. 8:29) through regeneration (1 Pet. 1:3) by the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2) with Christ’s producing and multiplying life.
      3. Imparting life to the dying believers that they may grow in Christ out of death unto maturity— Rom. 8:11.
      4. Moving in them by the Spirit of life that they may enjoy Christ’s life with its peace—Rom. 8:5-6.
      5. Sanctifying them (Rom. 6:19-20) with the holy nature of God as the holy element.
      6. Renewing them, by the Spirit of life, based upon the washing of regeneration, from the old element of their old man into the new constitution of their new man—Rom. 12:2b; Titus 3:5.
      7. Transforming them metabolically by the Spirit of life with the element of Christ’s divine life, from their old constitution to their new constitution, for the building up of Christ’s organic Body—Rom. 12:2b, 5; 2 Cor. 3:18.
      8. Conforming them to the image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God that they may be the full-grown God-men for the Triune God’s expression—Rom. 8:29.
      9. Glorifying them through the redemption of their body that they may enter into the freedom of glory and their full sonship—Rom. 8:21, 23, 30.
      10. Making them reign as kings mainly over the negative things such as Satan, sin, the world, the flesh, etc.
      11. All the above ten items are for the producing and building up of the organic Body of Christ expressed as the local churches; this is covered in the last five chapters of the book of Romans.