Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

The function of the law of the divine life in us is to take away, to kill, the old element of Adam and to impart, or supply, the new element of Christ. When the law of the divine life works in our inward parts, it kills and takes away the old things of our natural being. The law of the divine life has the power to reduce all the negative things in our natural man. At the same time, it adds in and supplies the divine element of the new creation, bringing the risen Christ into our being. While it reduces the old element of Adam in us, it supplies the new element of Christ to us. While it takes away the old, it replaces it with the new. It performs a kind of metabolism in the Christian life and accomplishes the transformation of life for us.

- "Crucial Points in the Epistile to the Hebrews" PP8-9

Ephesians 3:2

Ephesians  3:2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

Because our stewardship is the stewardship of the grace of God, we need to receive grace, even the abundance of grace. Yes, we all can be God's sent ones and God's spolesmen, but in order to fulfill such a function, we must have grace. 

Perhaps you are wondering how you can receive grace in a practical way. For this, we must get into the Word and pray with the Word. To get into the Word is to receive grace, and to pray with the Word is to touch reality. After getting into the Word and praying with the Word, we need to walk in spirit according to the Word. If we do these three things daily, we shall receive a continual supply of grace. With this grace, we shall be enlightened and shall experience the reality of God as grace.

- "Life Study of Ephesians" PP 338-339

Numbers 27:1

Numbers 27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah and Tirzah.

In the Bible inheritance is determined according to genealogy, according to the souorce of life and the fellowship of life. The fact that the daughters of Zelophehad were of one of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph indicates that they were in the life and the fellowship of life of the proper origin. This indicates that in order to inherit Christ as our good land, we must have the proper origin of life; ie. we must be born of God to be His children.

the father's family signifies the church. If we would enjoy Christ as our inheritance, participating in His riches, we must also have the church life. If we give up the church lifewith the fellowship of life, we will spotaneously lose our right to inherit the enjoyment of Christ.

Ephesians 3:16

Ephesians  3:16 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man,

The inner maan is our regenerated spirit with God's life as its life. It is our spirit regenerated by the Spirit of God, indwelt by the Spirit of God, and mingeld with the Spirit of God. In order to experience Christ unto all the fullness of God, we need to be stregthened into the inner man. This implies that we need to get into our spirit, where we can be stregthened through the Holy Spirit.

- "Life Study of Ephesians" P279

Leviticus 23:2

Leviticus 23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, As to the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, these are My appointed feasts.

A convocation is a special assembly called for a special and particular purpose. The feasts appointed by Jehovah as holy convocations signify the gathering of God's redeemed people to have a festival with God for His joy and enjoyment that the redeemed may participate in it with Him and with one another. A festival, therefore, was for nothing except rest and enjoyment. This rest and enjoyment were not individual but corporate.

- "Life Study of Leviticus" PP 465-466

Ephesians 1:23

Ephesians 1:23 Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.

The experience of the riches of Christ resultrs in the fullness of Christ, the Body as Christ's expression. 

All the aspects of the riches of Christ do not become the fullness of Christ until they are eaten, enjoyed, digested, and assimilated by us. By absorbing these riches in such a way, we become the Body of Christ as His fullness to express Him. Thus, the Body of Christ is constituted of the rices of Christ that have been enjoyed and assimilated by us. Therefore, the Body is the result, the issue, of the experience of Christ.

Galatians 6:8

Galatians 6:8 For he who sows unto his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh, but he who sows unto the Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal life.

To sow unto the flesh is to sow the flesh is to sow with a view to the flesh, or for the flesh, or for the flesh, with the purpose of the flesh in view, fulfilling what the flesh covets. To sow unto the Spirit is to sow for the Spirit, with the aim of the Spirit, accomplishing what the Spirit desires. To sow for the fulfilling of the purpose of the flesh issues in corruption; to sow for the accomplishing of the aim of the Spirit issues in life, even eternal life. Corruption is of the flesh, indicating that the flesh is corrupted; eternal life is of the Spirit and is the Spirit Himself. 

- "Life Study of Galatians" PP257-258

Ephesians 3:2

Ephesians 3:2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

The stewardship of the grace is the dispensing of the grace of God into God's chosen people for the producing and building up of the church. Out of this stewardship comes the ministry of the apostle, who is a steward in God's house, ministering Christ as God's grace to God's household.

- "Life Study of Ephesians" P241

Ephesians 2:22

Ephesians  2:22 In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.

Verse 22 says that we are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit. The spirit here refers to the believers' human spirit indwelt by God's Holy Spirit. God's Spirit is the Dweller, not the dwelling place. The dwelling plce is in the believers' spirit. God's Spirit dwells in our spirit. Therefore, the dwelling place of God is in our spirit. 

- "Life Study of Ephesians" P238

Colossians 3:10

Colossians  3:10 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

on the cross Christ has slain the ordinances in order to produce the one new man in resurrection. Hence, in the resurrection of Christ, the new man was created and brought forth. When we believed in the Lord Jesus, the life-giving Spirit came into our spirit, bringing with Him the new man as a finished product. In this way the new man was born into our spirit. Therefore, since the time of our regeneration, the new man has been in our spirit. Now the new man must saturate every part of us. This spreading is both the putting on of the new man and the renewing. As Colossians 3:10 says, we need to put on the new man, which is being renewed. How much of the new man we put on depends on how much we are renewed.

- " Life Study of Ephesians" P215