We and Him are one, He is in us and we are in Him in this organic union with Christ, as we remain under the rich infusion of what He is, we are justified by God. Through believing into Christ (John 3:15-16), we enter into an organic union with Him in which all that He is becomes ours and all that we are becomes His. In our daily life, we need to realize that we are one spirit with the Lord, and simply by being one with Him in spirit, we are justified by God.Īs we remain in our organic union with Christ, we are infused with His preciousness, and we are justified by God.īeing justified by God involves that we are in Christ, for through faith in Christ, we are put in Him and He is put in us we are now in Christ and Christ is in us. This is something we need to realize and experience every day. However, we need to realize that we are joined to Him organically, for through faith in Christ we’re joined to be one spirit with the Lord. Yes, Christ is the just One, and He is the righteous One on the throne in the presence of God. Many Christians have quite a doctrinal understanding of justification by faith they think that, when we believe in Christ, He is the righteous One, so God reckons Christ to be our righteousness.īut justification by faith is much more than this: it involves and implies an organic union with the Lord. In the organic union with Christ, we are justified by God through our faith in Jesus Christ. We don’t merely have to read the Bible to know what God wants from us we need to read the Bible because we are joined to the One who is revealed in the Bible, and we want to know Him in an intimate and personal way.īecause we are joined to the Lord as one spirit, we share in whatever He has and has accomplished. This is crucial for our Christian life and church life. 6:17) and we have an organic union with Him. We need to realize that we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. As we Remain in the Organic Union with Christ to be infused with His preciousness, we are Justified by God In the realm of our mingled spirit, we live by faith, and we exercise our will not to believe what we see outwardly but live one spirit with the Lord in all things, living a life by faith. Yes, the world has its riches and enticements, and the world has its worries and fears, but we believers in Christ live in another realm, the realm of being one with the Lord in the mingled spirit. We Christians are ruled not by what we see but by what we believe we believe into Christ, and our faith in Him causes us to overcome the one who is in the world. This is how we can live a life by faith: by realizing we are in Christ and Christ is in us, and by remaining in the organic union with the Lord.īecause we are one spirit with the Lord, we refuse to be ruled by fear we refuse to allow the situation around us, the pandemic raging all over the earth, to rule over us through fear.īecause we are intimately joined to the Lord and abide in the organic union with Him to live by faith, we are ruled by the Lord and His word, not the things that are seen. To believe into Christ means we are organically joined to Him by faith faith is our link, or organic link, to God. We believe not only in Christ but into Christ (John 3:15-16), for we believe ourselves into Christ, out of ourselves and into Him. Now as believers in Christ, we are organically joined to Him, and we learn to live a life in this organic union with the Lord. When we believed into Christ, we entered into Him when we believed into the Lord, we became one spirit with Him (1 Cor. Through faith in Christ, we entered into an organic union with Him. It is our right as believers in Christ to enjoy and partake of the life and nature of God. John 1:12-13 speaks of those who receive Christ, that is, believe into His name, these were given the authority to be called children of God.īeing a child of God is not something symbolic, something that is a type of our relationship with God being a child of God means we’re born of God with His life and nature. We have faith in Christ because we have seen something of Christ, we heard something about Christ, and we spontaneously love Him and want to know Him more. The reason we have faith in Christ is not that we were convinced that the Bible speaks the truth, so we believe. As believers in Christ, we live in faith – the faith of the Son of God this is the faith of Jesus Christ in us which becomes the faith by which we believe in Him and by which we live, for our faith is of and in Christ.įaith in Jesus Christ denotes an organic union with Him through believing.
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