The Believers (1)
Message One
Disciples, Believers, Saints, and Christians
THE EXTRACT OF THE OUTLINES
Scripture reading:
Matt. 9:9 And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man sitting at the tax office, called Matthew, and He said to him, Follow Me. And he rose and followed Him.
I. We are the disciples of Christ, those who learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus, so that He may have His own corporate expression and be glorified in the church and in the New Jerusalem—Matt. 5:1; Eph. 3:21; Rev. 21:11: (Monday, Tuesday)
A. We are trained from natural men to be God-men, denying the natural life and living the divine life according to the pattern of Christ as the first God-man; this is to learn Christ—Eph. 4:23; Deut. 17:18-20.
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B. We learn Christ by eating Christ so that we may be replaced by Christ, enjoying Him as our supply so that we may have the power to choose and practice the will of God—John 6:57; Eph. 3:20-21. (Wednesday)
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II. We are believers in Christ, those who have life and live by the faith of the Son of God; faith annuls us and causes us to live God and express God—Rom. 1:17; Heb. 11:6; Gal. 2:20: (Thursday)
A. The believers in Christ have been transferred out of Adam into Christ, regenerated to be a new creation, and are now joined to Christ as one spirit—1 Cor. 15:22; 2 Cor. 5:17; 1 Cor. 6:17.
B. Faith comes from hearing the word; when we hear Christ, He becomes the applied word, dispensed into us as the Spirit to become our faith—Rom. 10:17; John 6:63.
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III. We are the saints of God, who have been positionally sanctified by His redeeming blood and are being dispositionally sanctified by His holy nature—Rom. 1:7; Heb. 13:12; 1 Thes. 5:23-24. (Friday)
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IV. We are Christians, who are one with Christ, having Him as the content of our bountiful supply so that we may live Him in our daily life, that He may be magnified—Acts 11:26; 1 Cor. 6:17; Phil. 1:19-21a: (Saturday)
A. The goal of being a Christian is that we walk by the Spirit to live Christ so that God may be glorified, that is, expressed—Gal. 2:20; 1 Cor. 10:31.
B. Every Christian has a particular journey ordained by the Lord for him, which he must walk himself; no one can replace him, nor can he replace anyone—Acts 13:22, 25, 36; 2 Tim. 4:7-8.
