This song is one of my favorites! This is a beautiful song! I love it! Beautiful melody and beautiful words in this hymn. I highly recommend this hymn! Praise the Lord that Christ Liveth in Me!!
Praise our Lord Jesus Christ for making a way for Christ to live in all the members of His Body! He is the way, life and reality!!! Jesus Christ is Lord!!!
O truth above all truth, above all philosophy, all religions or religious founders, To whom could Buddha, or Confuscious, or Muhammad make such a claim as the claim that they will live in their worshippers, and their worshippers in them. How wonderful that we, who believe the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead, have His gift of salvation; and that gift is not predicated by reading about him, or just reverencing the remembrance of His teachings. We have this exceeding and precious truth, that He lives in us and we in Him.
III. EVEN WHEN WE WERE
DEAD IN OFFENSES
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God’s mercy reached us even when we were dead in offenses (v. 5). We did not deserve anything from God, but God had mercy upon us in our miserable situation.
IV. MAKING US ALIVE
TOGETHER WITH CHRIST
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Verse 5 says that we have been made alive together with Christ. The book of Ephesians does not consider us sinners as does the book of Romans; it considers us dead persons. As sinners we need God’s forgiveness and justification, as revealed in the book of Romans. But as dead persons we need to be made alive. Forgiveness and justification bring us back to God’s presence to enjoy His grace and participate in His life, whereas making us alive enables us, as the living members of the Body of Christ, to express Him. God made us alive by imparting His eternal life, which is Christ Himself (Col. 3:4), into our deadened spirit through His Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2). He has enlivened us with Christ. God enlivened us together when He enlivened the crucified Jesus. Therefore, He made us alive with Christ.
III. BECOMING A CRUCIAL ANCESTOR IN THE GENEALOGY TO BRING IN THE ROYAL HOUSE OF DAVID FOR THE PRODUCING OF CHRIST
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Another aspect of Ruth’s reward is that she became a crucial ancestor in the genealogy to bring in the royal house of David for the producing of Christ (Ruth 4:13b-22 ; Matt. 1:5-16). This indicates that she had an all-inclusive and all-extensive gain with the position and capacity to bring Christ into the human race. She is thus a great link in the chain that is bringing Christ to every corner of the earth. We all are indebted to Ruth, for without her Christ could not have reached us. But wherever we may be on earth, Christ has reached us through Ruth.
The burden of this ministry is to produce Christ in the believers. This means that the goal of this ministry is not to teach you to be humble or merely to glorify God in your behavior. Rather, the goal of this ministry is to “inject” you with Christ, to impart Christ as an “antibiotic” to you. The more we receive such an injection, the more we will be able to sing, “Christ liveth in me, / Christ liveth in me; / Oh! what a salvation this, / That Christ liveth in me” (Hymns, #507). On the one hand, this injection of Christ will kill our old man; on the other hand, it will make us producers of Christ, those who minister Christ to others.
The more we deny self, die to self, the more Christ will manifest himself through us. What is this "Christ liveth in me"? We being dead and his life showing through us. We see though his eyes, love through his heart. the Spirit is against the flesh and the flesh against the Spirit. May we be fit for the Master's use.
This hymn came to me this morning. It is like my testimony. Once I was far from God. It is quite profound. I believe I had a little inspiration from this hymn.
We would all like to be more like Christ. To be like Him is the result of an organic process. When we first believed we received the seed of eternal Life. Within this seed of faith is Christ. But this seed must grow. This seed of Christ will grow in us and make us like Him. It is the very Spirit planted in us as a seed. As our faith grows He grows in us and we become more like Him. So life, light, and love grows in us. This is how we grow to be like Him and express Him. It’s not what I do outwardly to conform myself. It is obedience to that living Christ within. So now I praise Him because He lives in me. Isn’t this a wondrous thought? But this is truth and reality brought to us by God’s grace. Oh what a salvation we have. Christ lives in us.
"Oh! what a salvation this,
That Christ liveth in me!"
“Jesus Christ is in you” – 2 Corinthians 13:5
“Christ in you” – Colossians 1:27
“Christ lives in me” – Galatians 2:20
“Christ makes His home in your hearts” – Ephesians 3:17
“Christ be formed in you” – Galatians 4:19
“For to me to live, is Christ” – Philippians 1:21
In the church meetings, we may enjoy singing, "Christ liveth in me, Christ liveth in me." However, when the meeting is over, we are the ones who live, not Christ. Instead of Christ living in us, our inward being is occupied with ourselves. But if we see the vision of Christ living in us, we shall stop all our doing. How blessed it is to do nothing and to let Christ live in us! The Lord does not want us to try to improve our behavior. He does not want us to try to be a good husband or wife. The Christian life is Christ living in us. In such a life, we and Christ have one life and one living. Christ lives in our living. Oh, we desperately need to see this vision! We need to pray, "Lord, show me the vision that God only wants one Person. He wants Christ to live in me." This vision will spontaneously terminate all of our efforts and doings. It will turn us from our trying to the indwelling Christ.
I appreciate the fact that Christ lives in us. There is even a hymn in our hymnal with this chorus:
Christ liveth in me,
Christ liveth in me;
Oh! what a salvation this,
That Christ liveth in me.
However, simply to say that Christ lives in us is to be too objective. We also need to experience living in Christ and doing all things in Him. What a salvation it is to live in Him! If we live in Him, we shall enjoy His salvation day by day. This salvation can be compared to riding in a car. As long as we remain in the car, we enjoy salvation. When I ride in a car, I am not worried about what direction I am going or anything else. I may rest, pray, or enjoy sight-seeing. I simply rest and enjoy myself. In like manner, when we are in Christ, we should simply rest and enjoy ourselves. We should enjoy the life in Christ.
The burden of this ministry is to produce Christ in the believers. This means that the goal of this ministry is not to teach you to be humble or merely to glorify God in your behavior. Rather, the goal of this ministry is to "inject" you with Christ, to impart Christ as an "antibiotic" to you. The more we receive such an injection, the more we will be able to sing, "Christ liveth in me,/Christ liveth in me;/Oh! what a salvation this,/That Christ liveth in me" (Hymns, #507). On the one hand, this injection of Christ will kill our old man; on the other hand, it will make us producers of Christ, those who minister Christ to others.