Experiencing and Enjoying Christ

As we were gathered together to receive the Lord’s speaking through our brother Ron Kangas, I was so enlightened by this particular point of experiencing and enjoying Christ. Though I have been using this phrase many many times, this time the matter became very clear to me. 

Experiencing Christ is in the spirit, and absolutely of the Spirit as the Lord Spirit,  it is the exercise of our spirit. Enjoying Christ is in the soul, an organ of enjoyment, and it happens by the Lord shepherding of our soul. 

Our Christian life must be full of experiencing and enjoying Christ. It is very possible to experience Christ without enjoying Christ. All our experiences of Christ must lead us into the enjoyment of Christ. 

As brother ministered on 1 Corinthians 1:9, God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, I was further enlightened to see a deeper and finer point on this verse. 

"God has called us," implies we were in a realm out of which we were called. What is that realm? It basically is the realm of the world into which we were born, a world that is usurped by Satan. So the need for the calling out: Called out of something demonic, idolatrous, dark, violent,  deadly, inhuman, destructive.. 

If indeed we were called out of a realm, we must be called into another realm. For "into" implies, to enter into, to be one with it, to be baptised into it, and immersed into it... 

We are all called into the enjoyment of the all inclusive Christ! The fellowship in this verse implies communion, sharing something in common. The fellowship into which the Lord called us is the all-inclusive Christ, who is the rock, the bread, the water, the Head, the Body, the second man, life giving Spirit, and so many items. And He has called us into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ, as fellowship means that we have become one with Christ. 

Above all, God is faithful to do this: Calling us out of the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God, into Christ, into the Spirit. But the enemy always try to bring us out of the Spirit and he is busy roaming like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Nevertheless,  the Lord calls us inwardly, preserving us in the spirit to be one with Him.  

An encouraging verse in the book of Revelation of John is in chapter 22, and verse 14. Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. This verse implies that it is likely possible to be soiled in our garment, but that that we be washed by the blood of the Lamb. Washing would not have been needed had we not been soiled ever. The fact is, as still human being, we may be soiled now and then, but we must always come back again and again to the Lord, to Him who is faithful and who has called us into the fellowship of His Son. As such, we are those who wash our robes, and therefore, have the right to the tree of life. Blessed are those who wash their robes, not those who are not soiled in their robes!

The fellowship of God's son is carried out by the Spirit and is also the fellowship of the apostles. The fellowship of the cross deepends the fellowship of life, our experience of the divine fellowship. There are hindrances in our inner being that needed to be dealt with by the cross. Fellowship frees us from sinful self through the cross and brings us into the fellowship of the Body of Christ. 

Out relationship with the Head is that of obedience, and our relationship with the Body is that of fellowship. We must be brought to a point where we can do nothing without fellowship. 

These are some precious lessons the Lord has taught me as brother ministered the word. May the Lord grace me to learn all these lesson thoroughly well: To experience and enjoy Christ and be in the fellowship of the all-inclusive Christ!