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says, "Now concerning virgins I have no com mandment of the Lord, but I give my opinion as having received mercy of the Lord to be faith ful." Paul had no commandment of the Lord re garding this matter, but he spoke as one who loved the Lord and lived out the Lord in a prac tical way. Then he proceeded to give his opinion. After doing so, he said, "I think that I also have the Spirit of God" (v. 40). As we read 1 Corinthi ans 7 today, we receive the whole chapter as the oracle of God, as part of God's holy Word. Thus, Paul's speaking became God's oracle because Paul was one with the Lord. According to the princi ple of incarnation, Christ had been incarnated into Paul, and Paul lived not an exchanged life but a grafted life. This enabled him to speak in oneness with the Lord.

GOD'S REVELATION AND OUR EXPERIENCE

May we all be impressed with the fact that the Christian life is not a matter of exchange, but a matter of grafting. A lower life, our human life, is grafted into a higher life, the divine life. The higher life swallows the defects and infirmities of the lower life. As this takes place, the higher life spontaneously enriches, uplifts, and transforms

the lower life. How marvelous! This is not our doctrine or opinion; it is the divine revelation in the Word of God. Furthermore, this revelation can be supported by our Christian experience. There fore, according to God's revelation and accord ing to our experience, we see that as Christians today we have a wonderful grafted life.

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