Section 7
our organic relationship with Him in John 15:5: "Apart from Me you can do nothing."
DOING ALL THINGS IN HIM
WHO EMPOWERS US
In Philippians 4:13 Paul refers to Christ as the One who "empowers me." To be so empowered is to be made dynamic inwardly. Christ dwells in us (Col. 1:27). He empowers us, makes us dynamic, from within, not from without. By such inward empowering Paul could do all things in Christ.
In Philippians 4:13 we find the secret to which Paul refers in 4:12. Here Paul says that he is in Christ, in the One who empowers him. In chapter three Paul testified that he pursued Christ in order to gain Him and be found in Him. Now in 4:13 Paul says that he is in Him. In Christ as the One who empowers him Paul could do all things.
To appreciate Paul's word, we need to join the phrase "in Him" in 4:13 to the same phrase in Philippians 3:9. In 3:9 Paul aspired to be found in Him; in 4:13 Paul declared that being in Him he could do all things in the One who empow ered him. This is the secret.
Have you seen the secret? Do you have this