“For
we have become partakers of Christ”. Christian life is not an imitation of
Christ; it is a participation in Christ, becoming “partakers of the divine
nature”. We must transcend the natural realm, immersing ourselves in His
supernatural nature dwelling within, to experience the power of His resurrected
Christ-Life, and, relinquishing our own Self-Life, become ever more fully
possessed by His Divine-Life until “I (Self) no longer live but Christ lives in
(and through) me.” Smith Wigglesworth said it best: “Be filled with the Spirit,
that is, be soaked with the Spirit. Be so soaked that every thread in the fabric
of your life will have received the requisite scent of the Spirit. Then when you are misused and squeezed to the
wall, all that will come out of you will be the nature of Christ.” “Christian” is not a label, but a lifestyle of
oozing Christlikeness!
At salvation the
divine nature of our Lord, His Character, Virtues, Values, and Attitudes, is implanted
in our inner being, becoming the source of our new nature – what scripture
calls our New Man – providing both the desire and power to do God’s will. It is
the Holy Spirit’s job to manifest – release – this New Nature in us as we
submit to the Lordship of Jesus and willfully put Self, the ruler of our carnal
fleshly nature, to death, making way for Christlikeness to emerge and take
control. This is how we “become partakers of Christ”, by sharing in… participating
in, His divine nature. Notice the “Become”: We have “begun to be” and will
continue to be partakers of Christ’s nature. And, we shall never fully partake
of His infinite fullness, it is a lifelong process of transformation. Saints, we
are participators in the Christ-Life, vessels who willfully and progressively
empty ourselves allowing His DNA to progressively live through us as our life!
AND THIS IS HOW WE
OOZE…
(Heb.
3:14; 2 Peter 1:4; Gal. 2:20)
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