Christ, Our Only Life

By Tammy Lacock

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman’s objective is for us to see that not only is Christ life, but He is our only life.

He explains that, as believers, being born again means that we are a brand-new creation, a new creation race. Our old lives, our old identities, no longer matter. Only Christ matters. And as we move on in Christ, we come to realize He is the only life we now live.

As believers, we may see Christ as life, but the Holy Spirit revealed to the Apostle Paul that Christ is our only life!

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20, KJV)

The role of the Holy Spirit is to continually reveal to us, as we allow Him, the things of Christ (John 14:26). Although, the Word of God and our understanding of it is endless, the Holy Spirit has revealed to us, through the Apostle Paul, that Christ now lives in us in spirit. He is our new life, the only life we now live. There is no separation. Christ briefly revealed this to the woman at the well that there will come a time, and even that time is now, that we need not worship Him in a building, but in truth and in spirit (John 4:24). We can worship Him where we are and as we are because He lives in us. We are just now understanding what Jesus meant by this.

Yet the Apostle Paul wrote about this “mystery” revealed to him throughout all of his epistles. John, outliving Paul at least 30 years, grasped this understanding as well.

In fact, his gospel is very different from the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. While theirs recounted the historical account of Christ, John’s message of Christ speaks of Him in a spiritual context.

He wrote very little about Christ historically. He realized the true gospel, that if we wanted to know God and what he’s doing today, we need to go back to the beginning, starting at the Father level.

“In the beginning was the Word [Christ] and the Word [Christ] was with God, and the Word [Christ] was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:1-3)

John spoke of Christ as spirit. We no longer are to know Him in the flesh. We are to know Him as life, our only life.

“He that hath the Son hath life; and He that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1 John 5:12 KJV)

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 5:15 KJV)

And Paul said it precisely in 2 Corinthians 5: 16-17 (KJV):

“Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

As believers, we are born again into a new life in Christ.

May we continue to grow in Him and our understanding of Him by the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds.

May we see Christ as life, our only life., for “all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3).