The Truth and Experience of God’s Salvation

Lesson Twenty Two

GOD’S SALVATION - CHRIST’S LIFE-GIVING RESURRECTION (3)

III. God’s Salvation

C. The provision of Christ’s life-giving resurrection

3. Christ becomes the life-giving Spirit in order to enter into us as life – 1 Cor. 15:45b; John 20:22

Burden to Impart:

After resurrection and through resurrection, the Lord Jesus, who had become flesh (John 1:14), became the Spirit who gives life. It is as the life-giving Spirit that He can be life and the life supply to us. When we receive Him as the crucified and resurrected Savior, the Spirit who gives life comes into us to impart eternal life into us. We receive the Lord Jesus, but we get the Spirit who gives life.

Memory Verse: “And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.” (John 20:22)

Facts to Teach:

1. As falling into the ground to die and growing out of the ground transform the grain of wheat into another form, one that is new and living, so the death and resurrection of the Lord transfigured Him from the flesh into the Spirit.

2. As the last Adam in the flesh, through the process of death and resurrection Christ became a life-giving Spirit.

3. As Christ is the embodiment of the Father, so the Spirit is the realization, the reality, of Christ.

4. It is as the Spirit that Christ was breathed into the disciples.

5. It is as the Spirit that Christ is received into His believers and flows out of them as rivers of living water (John 7:38-39).

6. It is as the Spirit that through His death and resurrection Christ came back to the disciples, entered into them as their Comforter, and began to abide in them (John 14:16-17).

7. It is as the Spirit that Christ can live in the disciples and enable them to live by and with Him (John 14:19).

8. It is as the Spirit that Christ can abide in the disciples and enable them to abide in Him (John 14:20; 15:4-5).

9. It is as the Spirit that Christ can come with the Father to His lover and make an abode with him (John 14:23).

10. It is as the Spirit that Christ can cause all that He is and has to be fully realized by the disciples (John 16:13-16).

11. It is as the Spirit that Christ came to meet with His brothers as the church to declare the Father’s name to them and to praise the Father in their midst (Heb. 2:11-12).

12. It is as the Spirit that Christ can send His disciples for His commission, with Himself as life and everything to them, in the same way that the Father sent Him (John 20:21).