‹‹ WEEK 2 — DAY 3 ›› Morning Nourishment 1 Cor. 1:24 ...To those who are called,...Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Cor. 1:30 ...Christ Jesus...became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption. John 14:6 Jesus said..., I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. The expression “to us from God” [in 1 Corinthians 1:30] indicates something present, practical, and experiential in the way of transmission....The words “to” and “from” indicate that a present, living, and practical transmission is taking place from God to us. Paul composed verse 30 in the way he did...to indicate to the believers in Corinth that Christ should continually become wisdom to them from God. Christ as wisdom should unceasingly flow from God to them....Paul does not say, “Christ is God’s wisdom,” or “Christ is your wisdom.” He says, “Christ became wisdom to us from God.” This indicates that Christ should continually flow from God to us and be our present and practical wisdom in our experience. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, p. 83) Today’s Reading In 1 Corinthians 1:24 and 30 the wisdom of God denotes the divine way. If we have wisdom, we shall know the proper way to do things....In order to have the best way, we must have wisdom. Wisdom in these verses is equal to the way in John 14:6....Apart from Christ as the way, we do not have access to the Father....If we would enjoy Him and participate in Him, we must have a way, and this way is God’s wisdom....As wisdom to us from God as God’s way, Christ is righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Actually, these are three steps of the way. Righteousness, sanctification, and redemption are the materials used in the construction of the freeway in our Christian life. Have you ever realized that wisdom is our way, our freeway, and that righteousness, sanctification, and redemption are the materials used in making this freeway?...Whenever we enjoy Christ and experience Him, we first have God as our righteousness. This means that when we exercise our spirit and call on the name of the Lord Jesus, we become righteous. We are also sanctified....The more we exercise the spirit to call on the name of the Lord Jesus, the more we are separated from what is common and from being common ourselves. Day by day and hour by hour, we should not live in the soul, in the self, but live in the spirit, exercising the spirit to call on the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Christ will become our enjoyment, nourishment, support, and supply in a very practical way. The result is that we become righteous. Instead of condemning others and blaming them, we know only to condemn ourselves and blame ourselves. We see that we are wrong with others in many ways. Hence, we become righteous and fair....We are no longer common; instead we are separated, sanctified, and even special. This is sanctification. [First, to be redeemed is to be brought back to God; second, it is to be terminated by the Lord.] Redemption...includes termination. The Christ who dwells in us, who supplies us, and who becomes our nourishment also terminates us. The more we call on the Lord’s name, the more we shall gradually come to realize how much we are still in the old creation. We shall hate ourselves and confess that we need to be terminated. Redemption also includes being replaced by Christ. When Christ terminates us, He replaces us with Himself. This is transformation; it is also transfiguration. This is more than sanctification, which separates us and makes us different from others. This is the actual process of transformation in which our old element, our old constitution, is terminated and replaced with a new element, a new constitution—Christ Himself in resurrection. When we are replaced, we are transformed and reconstituted of Christ....When we experience Christ as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, we truly have Him as wisdom to us from God. Lee, Witness (2014-10-18). The Holy Word for Morning Revival - The Vision, Practice, and Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ (Posición en Kindle755-762). Living Stream Ministry. Edición de Kindle.
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