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

MESSAGE FIVE

REIGNING IN LIFE

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IN ESTABLISHING NOT OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TAKING CHRIST AS
GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS; IN PRESENTING OUR BODIES
TO LIVE THE BODY LIFE AND RECEIVING
THE BELIEVERS TO LIVE THE CHURCH LIFE

OUTLINE

1. In establishing not our own righteousness but God’s righteousness—Rom. 9:14—10:4:
   1. Being exceptionally strengthened in establishing not our own righteousness but God’s righteousness in our reigning with Christ.
   2. Being exceptionally radiant in establishing not our own righteousness but God’s righteousness in our reigning with Christ.
2. In taking Christ as God’s righteousness—Rom. 10:4; Phil. 3:9; 1 Cor. 1:30:
   1. Being exceptionally extolling in taking Christ as God’s righteousness.
   2. Being exceptionally successful in taking Christ as God’s righteousness.
      Notes:
      
      1. God’s righteousness is the way of His acts (Psa. 103:6-7); it is revealed in the gospel of God as its foundation, solid and steadfast as the foundation of God’s throne—Rom. 1:17; Psa. 89:14.
      2. The lawkeepers attempt to keep the law for the building up of their own righteousness (Rom. 9:31). But “out of the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him [God]” (3:20).
      3. Christ is the end of the law by fulfilling all the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory, and is made the righteousness from God to the believers (Rom. 10:4; 1 Cor. 1:30; Phil. 3:9) in two aspects—objectively and subjectively.
3. In presenting our bodies to live the Body life—Rom. 12—13:
   1. Being exceptionally practical in presenting our bodies to live the Body life.
   2. Being exceptionally abounding in presenting our bodies to live the Body life:
      1. To present our bodies—12:1.
      2. To be renewed in our mind—vv. 2-3.
      3. To exercise our gifts—vv. 4-8.
      4. To live a life of the highest virtues—vv. 9-21.
      5. To be subject to authorities—13:1-7.
      6. To practice love—vv. 8-10.
      7. To live a watchful life—vv. 11-14.
4. In receiving the believers to live the church life— Rom. 14:1—15:13:
   1. Being exceptionally general in receiving the believers to live the church life:
      1. According to God’s receiving—14:1-23.
      2. According to Christ’s receiving—15:1-13.
   2. Being exceptionally smooth and orderly in receiving the believers to live the church life:
      1. Living the kingdom life not for eating and drinking, but for righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, pursuing peace and the building up of one another—14:17-19.
      2. Being of the same mind toward one another according to Christ Jesus so that with one accord we may glorify God—15:5-7.