God’s Life vs. the Difficulties Encountered in Man
Colossians 3:4 When Christ is the life, you also will appear with him in glory.
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Luke 9:23 Then Jesus said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Galatians 2:20 For I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live in faith with the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Item |
God’s Life |
The Difficulties Encountered in Man |
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Meaning |
God Himself as life, Christ living out from within man |
Man’s concepts, natural disposition, self, ability, and rebellion become obstacles |
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Cause |
God imparts His life into man through regeneration |
Man still lives in the natural man and does not take Christ as life |
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Metaphor |
Water flowing through a pipe |
The pipe is blocked by stones, mud, and iron |
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Explanation |
Christ operates, moves, and leads within man |
Man does not know the way of life but practices religion |
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Way |
Obeying the inner sense of life |
Acting according to one’s own ideas, zeal, temperament, and ability |
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Result |
Christ gains a way out and life is expressed |
Only religious activity remains, without the reality of life |
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Relationship |
Life needs a free passage to be manifested |
Difficulties are the “blockages” of life |
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Example |
Being inwardly moved by the Lord to confess to others |
Refusing to confess but zealously preaching the gospel |
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Application |
In everything ask: What does the Lord want within me? |
In everything ask: What do I think should be done? |
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Burden |
To give Christ ground and a way out |
To identify and deal with what restricts life |
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Prophesying Direction |
Declare that Christ is life, not behavior |
Expose the natural man, hypocrisy, rebellion, and natural ability as hindrances |
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Conclusion |
A real Christian is one who lives Christ |
Most Christians merely do Christian work |
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Related Verses |
Col. 3:4; Gal. 2:20; John 10:10 |
Luke 9:23; Rom. 8:7; 2 Cor. 4:10–11 |
✨ Spiritual Integrated View (Key Points)
1. The problem is not mainly sin, but what is not Christ.
2. The greatest hindrance is man’s own concepts and natural ability.
3. The way of life is not what we do, but who lives in us.
4. The only way out is the breaking of the cross.
📣 One Prophetic Summary Sentence
For God’s life to have a free way in me, my concepts, disposition, and abilities must be broken by the cross so that Christ may live out.
🏁 Ultimate Conclusion
The greatest difficulty to God’s life within us is not sin or the world,
but ourselves.
Only through the breaking of the cross
can life have a way out and Christ be
expressed.
*Please refer to the 2025 Winter Training: Experience, Enjoy, and Manifest Christ (Part 4), Week 5: Tree of Life.
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