The Christian Life

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, on February 21 through June 19, 1992.

The Christian life being the life in which the believers of Christ live Christ and magnify Him. The Christian life being also the life in which the Christians live Christ and magnify Him corporately. The all-inclusive Spirit and Christ’s all-inclusive death and His all-inclusive resurrection becoming the three main elements of the life by which the believers of Christ live the Christian life for the church life.

Book Details – The Christian Life

Author	Witness Lee
Publisher	Living Stream Ministry
ISBN	978-0-87083-820-0
Pages	182
Language	English
Format	Paperback
Sold in India by	Amana Literature (formerly India Gospel Book Room)

Contents of The Christian Life

Chapter 1: The definition

• The Christian life being the life in which the believers of Christ live Christ and magnify Him
• The Christian life being also the life in which the Christians live Christ and magnify Him corporately

Chapter 2: The contents

• The processed and consummated Triune God
• All the contents having been consummated to be the all-inclusive Spirit of life through Christ’s death and resurrection
• The all-inclusive Spirit and Christ’s all-inclusive death and His all-inclusive resurrection becoming the three main elements of the life by which the believers of Christ live the Christian life for the church life

Chapter 3: The all-inclusive Spirit

• God being Spirit
• The third of the Divine Trinity being the Holy Spirit
• The second of the Divine Trinity in the flesh, which He had put on in His incarnation, becoming a life-giving Spirit
• The compound Spirit, typified by the compound holy ointment
• The seven Spirits, who are the seven eyes of God and the seven eyes of Christ

Chapter 4: The functions of the all-inclusive Spirit (1)

• Convicting sinners to repent and believe in Christ
• Regenerating the repentant and believing sinners
• Renewing the believers
• Transforming the believers
• Indwelling the believers
• Leading the believers

Chapter 5: The functions of the all-inclusive Spirit (2)

• Strengthening the believers
• Supplying the believers
• Mingling with the Spirit of the believers, making the two one spirit
• Being the essence of the divine life by which the believers live and walk
• Being the essence for the organic building up of the Body of Christ

Chapter 6: The all-inclusive death of Christ

• The death of Christ being different from the death of Adam
• The death of Christ being the redeeming and life-releasing and life-imparting death
• The symbols of the two aspects of Christ’s all-inclusive death

Chapter 7: The all-inclusive resurrection of Christ

• Resurrection conquering death
• The believers of Christ being raised up with Christ in His resurrection
• The life-giving Spirit as the resurrected, pneumatic Christ being the reality of Christ’s resurrection
• The believers of Christ knowing Christ through the experience of the power of His resurrection

Chapter 8: The compounding of the Spirit

• The divine titles of the Spirit in the Old Testament
• The Spirit being not yet before Christ’s resurrection
• The Spirit being a compound Spirit, typified by the compound anointing ointment

Chapter 9: The Spirit’s application of Christ’s death and its effectiveness

• The real history of the universe
• The compounded Spirit dwelling in our spirit to dispense Christ’s death and its effectiveness from our spirit to our soul and even to our mortal body
• Cooperating with the operating Spirit and accepting the environment in our spirit, soul, and body

Chapter 10: The Spirit’s application of Christ’s resurrection and its power

• What resurrection is
• Experiencing resurrection
• Cooperating with the resurrecting Spirit

Chapter 11: Living and walking by the Spirit

• Living and walking by the mingled Spirit
• Living by the Spirit
• Walking by the Spirit

Chapter 12: Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (1)

• Our identification, union, and mingling with Christ
• Regenerated crucified and dying to live

Chapter 13: Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (2)

• Bearing the cross of Christ as our cross in dealing with our soul-life — our self
• Crucifying our flesh with its passions and its lusts in dealing with our body of sin

Chapter 14: Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (3)

• Under the killing of Christ’s death that His life may be manifested in our Body in the renewing of the inner man

Chapter 15: Living and walking under the crucifixion of Christ (4)

• Being conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection in the fellowship of His sufferings

Chapter 16: Conformed to the death of Christ

• The old man and the new man of a believer
• Our old man (the outer man) to be consumed, but our new man (the inner man) to be renewed day by day
• In the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ

Chapter 17: The living of the processed Triune God as the consummated Spirit

• The Christian life being the living of the processed Triune God as the consummated Spirit in the believers
• The Spirit and the bride
• The Christian life

Related: The Tree of Life by Witness Lee — how to enjoy Christ as the life supply.