Section 16
times the incarnation of Christ had not yet taken place. The incarnation is a matter of God com ing into man and being one with man. In the birth of Jesus, God accomplished the incarna tion of Himself in man. Through Christ's death and resurrection we who believe in Christ may share in the principle of incarnation. This means that through regeneration, Christ is born into our being and becomes one with us. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:17, "He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit." This means that as long as we have been born again, we are one spirit with the Lord. Now we all have the ground to declare that we are one spirit with Christ. On the day we be lieved, we were not only saved, but we were also married to Christ in spirit, and a union between us and Him took place. As we continue to con tact Him, the superior elements of the divine life swallow up the inferior elements of our human life. Then what we say and do is sponta neously also the saying and doing of Christ. Therefore, there is no need for us to use the ex pression, "Thus saith the Lord." Because we have been grafted into Christ and are living in one ness with Him, our speaking is spontaneously His speaking.
First Corinthians 7 illustrates this. Verse 25