When we believe into Christ and are joined to Him in life, His life in us produces a sense of life, which we who are joined to Him, who are one spirit with Him, and who experience Him must pay attention to and obey in our spiritual life.
In order to obey the sense of life, we must know the six items which we have once we are saved.
1) “He who has the Son has the life” (1 John 5:12); “The life was the light of men” (John 1:4).
The moment we receive the Son of God as our Savior, we have the Son of God and we have the life, because the life is in Him (1 John 5:11). This life is the light of men. Therefore, since we have this life, we also have the light of life illuminating us within.
1) “I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them” (Heb. 8:10).
In the Old Testament God’s laws were written on tablets of stone outside of man. In the New Testament, God imparts, or puts, His laws into our mind within us and inscribes them on our hearts. This is accomplished through God imparting His life to us and putting it inside of us, that the law within His life may become the law of our heart and of our mind. A law is not necessarily a life, but a life surely is a law with an innate ability and function. Furthermore, the higher the life, the higher the law of this life. Since the life of God within us is the highest life, this life in us is not merely a law, but the highest law with the highest innate ability and function. Once we are saved and have the life of God, we have this law of life inscribed on our hearts.
1) “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and of death” (Rom. 8:2).
The Spirit of life is the Spirit of God in our spirit. Since the Spirit of God is of life, His law must also be of life. This is the law of the Spirit of life. Hence, the law of the Spirit of life and the aforementioned laws written on our hearts are related and are one. That the laws are written on our hearts indicates that these laws are in life, the emphasis being on the function of life. The law of the Spirit of life indicates that the law of life within us is of the Holy Spirit, who is in our spirit, the emphasis being on the function of the Holy Spirit. As soon as we are saved, we have both.
1) “...God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13).
Once we are saved, God comes to live in us and to operate in us that we may will within and work without to fulfill His good pleasure.
1) “Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20).
Once we are saved, we also have Christ living in us as life. His living in us is both effectual and active.
1) “The anointing which you received from Him [the Son with the Father] abides in you” (1 John 2:27).
In the Bible the anointing oil refers to the Holy Spirit (Luke 4:18). As soon as we are saved God anoints us with His Spirit (2 Cor. 1:21-22). The anointing is the inward moving of the Holy Spirit, with whom we are anointed. The moving of the Holy Spirit is like an ointment anointing us within, causing us to sense God’s mind and teaching us in all things.