“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17 )
God desires to have with man is that He and man become one.
Our Christian life is not a matter of exchange but a matter of grafting.
When we are grafted to the tree, the divine life will swallow up the defects and shortages of our human life. In Christ's life there is the killing power of His crucifixion.
Romans 11:17 tells us. “...and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the olive tree.”
Christ swallows up our defects, but He does not eliminate our own life. He uplifts our humanity, mind, will, emotion, and all our virtues. We may prefer simply to yield up our human life and have it be replaced with Christ's life. We may feel that our life is full of germs and would therefore like it replaced by the divine life.
This may be our way, but it is not God's way in His economy. His way is for Christ's life to swallow up all the defects, shortages, and "germs" within us. The more we tell the Lord Jesus that we love Him and that we want to be one with Him, the more we shall experience the killing power in the spiritual antibiotics.
All the elements we need are available in Christ's life. In His life there is the killing element as well as the nourishing element. We may be discouraged about our disposition. But Christ's life will kill the negative element in our disposition and then, instead of casting our disposition away, He will uplift it and use it.
Hallelujah! Our human life was made in the image of God and according to the likeness of God, it can be joined to the divine life. After we have been grafted together with Christ, we should no longer live by ourselves; rather, we should allow the pneumatic Christ to live in us.
Praise the Lord for the tree of life, the embodiment of God as life, to be eaten and enjoyed by us to make us men of life!
1. I'm gonna praise God unceasingly
Because He lives in me,
He's everything to me,
Gives life continually.
I'm gonna praise God unceasingly
Because He lives in me,
And He will never leave.
Chorus:
Now in our spirit we can feed,
Jesus Christ is all we need,
Call His name and He becomes reality.
Open up your mouth and you will see,
Just how rich our Lord can be.
He's the very life supply, complete is He.
2. Now I live by the tree of life,
His fruit does nourish me,
O, how it strengthens me,
I'll live eternally.
Now I live by the tree of life,
Him daily I apply,
He is my food supply.
3. There's a river of life in me,
Flowing so livingly,
Moving continually,
He just keeps flooding me.
There's a river of life in me,
He's always filling me,
His name is Jesus Christ!
Online: http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/131
Because He lives in me,
He's everything to me,
Gives life continually.
I'm gonna praise God unceasingly
Because He lives in me,
And He will never leave.
Chorus:
Now in our spirit we can feed,
Jesus Christ is all we need,
Call His name and He becomes reality.
Open up your mouth and you will see,
Just how rich our Lord can be.
He's the very life supply, complete is He.
2. Now I live by the tree of life,
His fruit does nourish me,
O, how it strengthens me,
I'll live eternally.
Now I live by the tree of life,
Him daily I apply,
He is my food supply.
3. There's a river of life in me,
Flowing so livingly,
Moving continually,
He just keeps flooding me.
There's a river of life in me,
He's always filling me,
His name is Jesus Christ!
Online: http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/131
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Scriptural base & additional references
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were 1grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the 2aolive tree,
3) Life-study of Romans, pp. 660-664. (ref: http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?id=%23%222K%3B%0A)
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