III.　The second item of a walk worthy of God's calling is for us to grow up into Christ the Head in all things—Eph. 4:15:

A.　In order to grow up into Christ in all things for the building up of His Body, we need to enjoy Christ as our all-inclusive, universal replacement for the produc-ing of the one new man; therefore, we must "hear Him" and see "Jesus only"— vv. 15-16; Mark 9:7-8:

1.　Whatever or whoever is not Christ God "fires"; God has replaced every-thing in His Old Testament economy with Christ—1:1-8; 9:2-8; Col. 2:16-17; Heb. 10:5-10; 11:5-6; cf. Isa. 22:15-25.

2.　When God created us, He "hired" us; when He put us on the cross, crucify-ing us with Christ, He "fired" us; when He resurrected us together with Christ, He "re-hired" us by making us a new species, God-men, a new inven-tion of God as His corporate masterpiece, bringing us back to His original intention of creating us for His glory, His corporate expression—Gen. 1:26; 1 Cor. 11:7a; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 2:6, 10, 15; Isa. 43:7.

3.　The real church life is a life in which all the saints are fired and replaced with Christ, making Christ everything in the church as the reality of the one new man for the glory of the Triune God—Col. 3:10-11; 1 Cor. 10:31.

B.　In the New Testament, Christ's replacing us is altogether a matter of a grafted life—Rom. 11:17, 24:

1.　We are united with Christ, and in this union Christ replaces us; replac-ing demands union, whereas exchanging annuls union with Christ (John 15:4-5); because Christ joined Himself to us, uniting Himself with us, when He died on the cross, we died with Him and were terminated (Rom. 6:6).

2.　Now in our organic union with Christ through our faith in Him, He replaces us by living in us, with us, by us, and through us; we live, yet not we, but Christ lives in us, and we live by the faith of the Son of God; this indicates an organic union with Christ—Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:19-21a.

IV.　The third item of a walk worthy of God's calling is for us to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus—Eph. 4:20-24:

A.　John 6:57 reveals how the reality that is in Jesus, the God-man living of Jesus, can become the reality of the Body of Christ, the corporate God-man living of the new man as the duplication of the God-man living of Jesus; the purpose of God in sending the Lord Jesus to be a man was for Him to live a God-man life by the divine life; this kind of living issues in a universal great man who is exactly the same as He is—a man living a God-man life by the divine life.

B.　John 6:57a says, "As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father"; this is the reality that is in Jesus, the God-man living of Jesus:

1.　The Lord Jesus lived because of the Father, enjoying the Father continually as the "heavenly butter," typifying the richest grace, and as the "heavenly honey," typifying the sweetest love, to be the supplying factor of His living the Father and the empowering factor of His obeying the Father to choose the Father's perfect will—Isa. 7:14-15; Exo. 3:8; John 1:14-17; 5:19-20; 8:29; 16:32; 17:26; Luke 2:12; Phil. 2:8.

2.　The power of His obedience to the Father was His being a man of prayer to enjoy the Father as His richest grace and sweetest love for Him to be absolutely submissive to the Father for the carrying out of the Father's perfect will—Matt. 11:25-30; 14:22-23; Mark 1:35; 10:45; 14:36.

C.　John 6:57b says, "So he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me"; this is the reality of the Body of Christ, the corporate God-man living of the many members of the Body of Christ, who are learning Christ, living because of Christ, as the reality is in Jesus:

1.　We do not live by Christ, taking Christ as our instrument; we live because of Christ, taking Christ as the supplying factor of our living; to live because of Christ as our food, we must eat Him so that He can be the supplying and energizing factor to live in us and through us for the building up of His Body as the perfect will of God—v. 63; Jer. 15:16; Rom. 8:2; 12:1-2.

2.　We must contact the Lord as our living pattern in our spirit in order to eat Him daily as the "heavenly butter," typifying the richest grace, and as the "heavenly honey," typifying the sweetest love; this is to enjoy Christ as the good land "flowing with milk and honey" for the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, as the house of God and the kingdom of God—Exo. 3:8; 1 Pet. 2:2; Psa. 119:103.

V.　The fourth item of a walk worthy of God's calling is for us to live in love and light—Eph. 5:2, 8:

A.　We need to be partakers, enjoyers, of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4); the divine nature is what God is—God is Spirit (John 4:24), God is love (1 John 4:8, 16), and God is light (1:5); Spirit is the nature of God's person, love is the nature of God's essence, and light is the nature of God's expression.

B.　We all need to spend an adequate amount of personal time with the Lord to privately fellowship with Him in our spirit so that we can be filled with His loving essence for Him to shepherd others through us and so that we can be filled with His shining element for others to see Him in us—John 4:24; Luke 15:20; Matt. 5:15-16.

VI.　The fifth item of a walk worthy of God's calling is for us to live by being filled in spirit to overflow with Christ—Eph. 5:18:

A.　Speaking, singing, psalming, giving thanks to God, and subjecting ourselves to one another in the fear of Christ are not only the outflow of being filled in spirit but also the way to be filled in spirit—vv. 19-21.

B.　To be filled in spirit is to be filled with the riches of Christ to become the full-ness of Christ, the overflow of Christ; by calling on the Lord and pray-reading His word, we can continually receive Him as grace upon grace to become His fullness, His overflow—3:8; 1:23; 3:19b; Rom. 10:12-13; Eph. 6:17-18; John 1:16.

C.　We can live a life of being filled in spirit by praying at every time in spirit so that we may become Christ's bride for His satisfaction and become His warrior for the defeat of the enemy—Eph. 5:18, 25-27; 6:10, 17-18.