Zoe, Zoe, Zoe (Life, Life, Life)

One of the greatest truth in the Bible is God’s creation of man with a human spirit, God becoming the Spirit, man believing into the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God regenerating the human spirit and indwelling his spirit that the regenerated man lives and expresses God. This is God’s mysterious yet wonderful deed. What a blessing to be one of such a regenerated man!

The divine life of God is Zoe which He imparted when we first believed into the Lord Jesus Christ, resulting in our spirit becoming life, making our spirit Zoe. Since then, as we live by the spirit, gradually even our mind will become life, making our mind Zoe. And finally, as we grow, we will transform unto maturity even to give life to our mortal bodies. The best way to turn to the spirit and live by the spirit is to pray; to absorb God and express God, which will issue in the building up of the Body of Christ. 

“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6, RecVer)

“But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.” (Romans 8:10-11, RecVer)

In this way, our entire tripartite being will become life; life in the spirit, Iife in the soul, and life in the Body. Zoe, Zoe, and Zoe!

However, we need to be continually under the law of the Spirit of life.

“For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.” (Romans 8:2, RecVer)

The secret of living a Christ life is to live according to the spirit. Only in such a living in the spirit, we can live a normal Christian life and fulfill the righteous requirement of the law.

“That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.” (Romans 8:4, RecVer)

The crucial exercise required of a Christian is to set our mind in the spirit. It is in what we set our mind on, that we live out. Setting our mind on the flesh will result in fleshly living, setting our mind on the spirit will result in a living by the spirit, the mingled spirit.

“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6, RecVer)

Therefore, we must take heed to our spirit and exercise our spirit to live a godly life according to the spirit.

“If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:25, RecVer)

“But did He not make them one? And the remnant of the Spirit was His. And why the one? He sought the seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one be treacherous to the wife of his youth.” (Malachi 2:15, RecVer)

“But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse, and exercise yourself unto godliness. For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life and of that which is to come.” (1 Timothy 4:7-8, RecVer)

This is the wonderful life God has planned for man. Living the normal Christian life with our entire tripartite being filled with the life; Zoe in the spirit, Zoe in the soul, and Zoe in the body. Life, life, and life!