THE EXPERIENCE OF
GOD’S ORGANIC SALVATION EQUALING REIGNING IN CHRIST’S LIFE

MESSAGE FOUR

REIGNING IN LIFE

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IN DYING WITH ADAM AND LIVING WITH CHRIST,
IN BEING OVERCOMING IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES,
AND IN LIVING A GRAFTED LIFE WITH CHRIST

OUTLINE

1. In dying with Adam:
   1. Our natural life needing to be terminated with Adam in our co-death with Christ—Rom. 6:3, 4a, 5a, 6-8a; Gal. 2:20a; Eph. 4:22.
   2. Our natural life needing to be annihilated with Adam in our co-death with Christ.
2. In living with Christ—Rom. 6:4b, 5b, 8b; Gal. 2:20b:
   1. Our natural life needing to be raised with Christ in His resurrection.
   2. Our natural life needing to be renewed with Christ in His resurrection—Eph. 4:23-24; 2 Cor. 4:16; 5:17.
3. In being overcoming in all circumstances—Rom. 8:31-39; cf. 1 Cor. 15:54-57:
   1. Needing to be more than conquering in our overcoming with Christ in all circumstances:
      1. The love of God (Rom. 8:39) is the source of His salvation. In His salvation this love to us has become the love of Christ (v. 35), which will accomplish God’s complete salvation in us through the grace of Christ.
      2. God’s enemy attacks us with all kinds of sufferings and calamities (Rom. 8:35-36); however, because of our response to the love of God in Christ, these attacks have become benefits to us (v. 28). Hence, we more than conquer in all these calamities (v. 37).
   2. Needing to be all-transcending in our overcoming with Christ in all circumstances:
      1. Christ’s resurrection was His victory, which will accomplish the ultimate and complete victory in resurrection for us who believe in Him and participate in His resurrection—1 Cor. 15:54.
      2. Christ’s victory should not only be an accomplished fact for us to receive; it should also become our daily experience in life through the union of the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b) with our spirit as one spirit (6:17) that we may be all-transcending in our overcoming with Christ.
4. In living a grafted life with Christ—Rom. 11:17-24:
   1. To live the life of the new creation in our being grafted with Christ:
      1. Becoming a new creation in Christ—2 Cor. 5:17.
      2. Walking by the Spirit according to the rule of being a new creation—Gal. 6:15-16; 5:25.
      3. Putting on the new man—Eph. 2:15; 4:23-24.
      4. Experiencing the renewing of the new man— Col. 3:10.
   2. To reign in eternity in our being grafted with Christ—2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 20:4, 6; 22:5.