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2 Timothy 4:22, “The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.”
We are joined, organically united, to Christ in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22).
This organic union is revealed to us in John 15, where we are the branches connected to the vine, sharing the life of the vine.
This means that the righteousness of the vine becomes my righteousness!
Everything that the vine is, is for me as a branch to participate in.
That is why my righteousness is not a matter of prayer, Bible reading, or what I do or do not do.
My righteousness is a matter of the vine and of my being a branch supplied by participating in all the riches of the vine.
The organic relationship between the branch and the vine means “grown together” in Romans 6:5.
It is that the existence, prosperity, and decay of the branch are bound up with the state of the stem.
In other words, how is the stem doing?
That is the question.
It is not about how the branch is doing, because the state of the branch is bound up with the state of the stem.
So you ask me, “How are you doing today?”
My answer is, “How is He doing today?”
That is the real issue.
My life is joined to this One.
My life is a life of participation in His Person.
This is the sense and meaning of something organic.
In regeneration we have a new “I,” an organic “I,” that is joined to the Lord.
It is from this union that the Lord is building His church.
So His words, “I will build” (Matt. 16:18), become exceedingly practical.
The Lord will build, but He is not going to build apart from the organic union in our spirit.
The “I” who will build the church is now the resurrected Christ joined to our spirit.
It is from this spot that He will build.
The building is a habitation of God in spirit (Eph. 2:22).!
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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