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Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace! The Christ who’s all within me lives. With Him I have been crucified; This glorious fact to me He gives. Now it’s no longer I that live, But Christ the Lord within me lives. Now it’s no longer I that live, But Christ the Lord within me lives.
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Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest! Christ now is being formed in me. His very nature and life divine In my whole being inwrought shall be. All that I am came to an end, And all of Christ is all to me. All that I am came to an end, And all of Christ is all to me.
Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest!
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Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast! Christ shall in me be magnified. In nothing shall I be ashamed, For He in all shall be applied. In woe or blessing, death or life, Through me shall Christ be testified. In woe or blessing, death or life, Through me shall Christ be testified.
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Oh, what a prize! Oh, what a gain! Christ is the goal toward which I press. Nothing I treasure, nor aught desire, But Christ of all-inclusiveness. My hope, my glory, and my crown Is Christ, the One of peerlessness. My hope, my glory, and my crown Is Christ, the One of peerlessness.
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Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.
By Having Christ Formed
in Us through Travail
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The way to receive, experience, and enjoy Christ as the Spirit is also by having Christ formed in us through travail. Galatians 4:19 says, “My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you. ” In Galatians 1:16 Christ is revealed in us; in 2:20 Christ lives in us; and in 3:27 Christ is upon us, clothing us like a garment. Now, in 4:19 Christ is formed in us.
According to Paul’s usage in the New Testament, the form is the outward expression of the inner being (see Phil. 2:6 and footnote 2, Recovery Version). If we are full of the self and love the world in our inner being, our outward form will simply be the self and the world. In selecting a pair of shoes, a necktie, or a car, our choice will express the world and indicate that our emotions, our likes and dislikes, are full of the self and the world. But if Christ has invaded, conquered, and subdued us and has chased the self and the world out of our inner being and replaced the self and the world with Himself, we will express Him. What we are is expressed in our outward form. If Christ replaces the self and the world in our mind, emotion, and will, we will have the form of Christ. The Galatians were occupied by Judaism; thus, in their outward form they expressed Judaism. Therefore, Paul said, “My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you” (Gal. 4:19). Paul had to suffer like a mother, travailing for the Galatians until Christ replaced the self and the world in them with Himself.
The Central Line of the Divine Revelation
CHAPTER 14:
THE AGGREGATE OF THE ALL-EMBRACING BLESSING OF THE FULL GOSPEL OF GOD IN CHRIST FOR THE DIVINE DISPENSING ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE ECONOMY
Galatians 4:19 says, “My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you. ” Once a person is saved, he has Christ within him. However, at this point Christ has not yet been formed in him because he has too little of the element of Christ. Although we are saved, up to now we still may not have much of Christ in us. Some people may have been saved ten or twenty years ago. They are full of doctrines—they know about Adam, Eve, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When you ask them about Genesis, they say that it is about God’s creation. When you ask them about Revelation, they tell you that it is about the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls. They probably know more than you do. However, they do not have much of the element of Christ within them. Such ones are merely saved; Christ has not yet been formed in them.
Therefore, Paul told the Galatians, “My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you. ” The problem with the Galatians was not that they loved the world or lusted after sins. Their problem was that they turned their attention to things other than Christ. They paid attention to doing good deeds by themselves. Since they relied too much on themselves, they left very little room for Christ. This does not mean that it is wrong to perform good deeds but that when you rely on yourself, Christ has no place or opportunity to gain your time and space so that He can gain ground in you. As a result, He has still not been formed in you.
CHRIST BEING
MAGNIFIED ALWAYS
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Paul told the Philippians, “According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death” (Phil. 1:20). What Paul meant by saying this was that he always allowed Christ to be magnified in him in any circumstance, whether through joy or through sorrow, through light or through darkness. Christ was not only formed in him but also magnified in him. Paul allowed Christ to fill him continually so that whatever circumstance he encountered, whatever pain he suffered, and whatever hardship he experienced, Christ could be magnified in him, not just in any particular situation but always.
Therefore, we all need to know one thing. There is no way for Christ always to be magnified in us and in our Christian life except to allow Him to be our element within and to increase in us. If we do this, Christ will be expressed through us. Our insight will be Christ’s insight, our mind will be Christ’s mind, our expression will be Christ’s expression, our preference will be Christ’s preference, and our living will be Christ’s living because Christ will have been mingled with us.
The Crucified Christ
CHAPTER 2 GOD’S ETERNAL
PURPOSE AND GOD’S WORK
CWWL, 1952, (LSM)
Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace! The Christ who’s all within me lives.
Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest! Christ now is being formed in me.
Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast! Christ shall in me be magnified.
Oh, what a prize! Oh, what a gain! Christ is the goal toward which I press.
Praise the Lord! The life we live now in the flesh is in the faith of Jesus Christ who loved us and gave Himself up for us. Gal. 2:20 We have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer we who live – it is no longer I but Christ who lives in me! Hallelujah 😀
What a revelation that Christ lives in me. But even more I can live by Him, So it’s no longer I that live but Christ lives in me and the life I live I live by FAITH in the Son who loved me and gave Himself up for me! Not just a good life, but a new LiFE! This life we lead is based on the fact that our old man is crucified. Now our living is based on faith in Christ Jesus and His accomplishments not ours. We must be faithful to Him and this Life will be expressed. Our Christian life is based solely on faith.
Among those hymns related to Christ, the ones I like the best are hymn #501, "O glorious Christ, Savior mine"; hymn #499, "Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!"; and hymn #539, "O Lord, Thou art in me as life and everything to me!" After singing these hymns, I am full of enjoyment, touching the Spirit and receiving the life supply. Where can you find this kind of hymn among Christians today?
We will now learn how to use the hymns in the meetings with Hymns, #499. Stanza 1 says, "Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace! / The Christ who's all within me lives. / With Him I have been crucified; / This glorious fact to me He gives. / Now it's no longer I that live, / But Christ the Lord within me lives." According to our custom, when we call a hymn, we ask the sister at the piano to play the tune once before the saints sing the entire hymn. From now on, we should not remain in our old ways. If a brother senses that we should sing this hymn, he can call it. We do not have to sing all four stanzas. We may sing only stanza 1. The sister at the piano needs to be alert. If she waits for a brother to ask her to play the tune once and then plays the tune, the meeting will be deadened. Every saint needs to kindle the fire. If the sister serving at the piano is not quick enough to respond when a hymn is called, any saint in the meeting should begin to sing the hymn. Then everyone else will follow.
Hymns, #189 and #499 were composed not according to traditional, natural thought and logic but according to the divine revelation in the Bible. Hymns such as these are good for speaking. There are many different ways to speak the hymns. If the saints in a meeting practice to speak a hymn such as #189 or #499 for an hour or more, their speaking will equal a full message in content and will be better than one person giving a message.
I moved to the United States in 1962 to bring all the things concerning the Triune God, the all-inclusive Christ, the compound Spirit, the experience of Christ as life, our human spirit, and other scriptural truths to this country. These truths can be seen in the approximately two hundred hymns that I wrote in 1963, such as Hymns, #203, #499, and #501. These hymns represent the second age of the Lord's recovery. Some of my helpers who listened to my messages came up to the standard of the second age and responded by writing more hymns. For example, #1174 says,
What a victory! What a triumph!
God Himself became a man,
Clothed Himself in human nature
To fulfill His mighty plan.
He through death destroyed the devil;
Risen now, the Son of Man!
In the Lord's table meeting, there needs to be more praise. Instead of praising, the saints may merely read from the hymnal. They must learn to go beyond merely reading a hymn to digesting a hymn. Instead of merely reading, "Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest!" (Hymns, #499), we can say, "O Lord, in Your life we enjoy the rest. What a rest we enjoy!" We can digest the terms in a hymn and make them a living praise to the Lord.
First Corinthians 14:26 says, "What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up." According to Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs are not only for singing but also for speaking to and teaching one another. Hymns and spiritual songs are the cream—the best portion-of much speaking of the word of God. For example, Hymns, #499 begins by saying, "Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!/ The Christ who's all within me lives." This is not an ordinary speaking but the cream of Christian utterance. We need to practice speaking the hymns to one another.
Much of the terminology in the Old Testament psalms is good, but it is good in a natural realm. It has nothing to do with the Spirit. The New Testament is altogether in another field, in another world. It is altogether in the Spirit, who is the consummation of the Triune God. Thus, everything in the New Testament is altogether a matter in the Triune God. Our honesty, faithfulness, patience, endurance, kindness, and everything we are and do involves the Triune God. All of our virtues should be the expression of the Triune God, not of ourselves. The Christian life in the New Testament is not our doing, but is altogether a matter of our living Christ. To live Him in order to magnify Him is to enjoy Him. Thus, every day we should not do anything but enjoy Christ. Christ is our enjoyment.
This thought is in Hymns, #499, #501, and #841. These three songs were written absolutely according to the New Testament economy. Hymn #841 is concerning the building up of the church. Many Christians, however, still exalt the law, remaining in the Old Testament economy.
The hymns in our hymnal are arranged according to theological order and according to spiritual experience. Of the original 1080 hymns in our hymnal, approximately 700 were selected from many different hymnals. Among these hymns there was something lacking concerning the all-inclusive and all-extensive Christ, the compound life-giving Spirit of Christ, the divine life, and the church. To fill this lack, we composed more than 200 new hymns on Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church. Consider, for example, Hymns, #499:
1. Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!
The Christ who's all within me lives.
With Him I have been crucified;
This glorious fact to me He gives.
Now it's no longer I that live,
But Christ the Lord within me lives.
Peace is a condition that issues from grace, from the enjoyment of God our Father. When we enjoy God as grace, we are in a condition that is full of rest, satisfaction, and joy. This is peace. Grace is a substance, whereas peace is a condition. The substance of grace is God Himself, and the condition of peace is that which issues out of our enjoyment of God as grace. We all can testify of the peace we have when we enjoy God as grace. The first line of Hymns, #499 says, "Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!" Life is grace. When we truly enjoy Christ as our life, we participate in grace. Then we have peace. What a life! What a peace! Now we can also say, What a substance! What a condition! We have the divine substance as our enjoyment, and we have the heavenly condition. This is the peace that we enjoy.