Section 6
that they would live this crucified life and then experience the power of resurrection.
EXALTING CHRIST IN OUR EXPERIENCE
My burden in this booklet is to relate the exaltation of Christ to our spiritual experience. God has already exalted Christ, but have you exalted Him? Christ has been exalted in the uni verse, but has He been exalted in you? The prob lem is that Christ has been exalted everywhere except in you. This is the reason that I do not care to talk about the exaltation of Christ in an objective way, but to apply this to our subjective experience. Christ cannot be exalted in us unless we take Him as the crucified life to be the pat tern of our daily life.
We should not forget that Philippians is a book on the experience of Christ. Hence, even the exaltation of Christ in this book is related to our experience. When I was young, I was taught about Christ's exaltation. However, I did not see much of Christ's exaltation in the lives of believ ers. This was primarily just a teaching from the Bible. We need to experience Christ to such a high degree that in our life He is exalted. Do not consider Christ's exaltation merely in an objec tive way. Just as we need to experience the Christ