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same way that dough is put in a cake mold and conformed to it. Paul continually lived a cruci fied life, a life under the cross, just as Christ did in His human living. Through such a life, the res urrection power is experienced and expressed. The mold of Christ's death refers to the contin ual putting to death of His human life that He might live by the life of God (John 6:57). Our life should be conformed to such a mold—dying to our human life in order to live the divine life. Being conformed to the death of Christ is the condition for knowing and experiencing Him, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings.
LIVING THE DIVINE LIFE
BY THE HUMAN LIFE
When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He lived a crucified life. Christ had two lives—the divine life and the human life. It was God's desire that the man Jesus live the divine life by means of His human life. God did not want Him simply to live out the human life. Rather, it was God's intention that the Lord Jesus live the divine life through the channel of the human life.
When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He always put His human life to death so that the divine