The Indwelling Life of Christ

I finished yesterday Romans 7 as I am taking the church through the entire book of Romans over a three-year period. The Lord willing, I will begin Romans 8 in January.

One of the many resources that I have used is a classic book by Major W. Ian Thomas "The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me." I want to share some of the quotes from this book:

This means encouraging the risen living Lord who shares His life with us on earth on our way to heaven..so that He may accomplish through us what He began to do in His own physical body two thousand years ago. (pages 8-9)

...only Christ is capable of living the Christian life... (page 9)

The Christian life is nothing less than the life which He lived then....lived now by Him in you. (page 10)

...whatever influence controls our mind and emotions will ultimately control our will. (page 24)

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!" (page 31)

Share the nature of Christ and you share His victory. You do not achieve it; you receive it, ... (Page 40)

The crucified, risen and living Lord Jesus alone can put the noose around the neck of your flesh and keep your flesh where it belongs, and this He does by His Holy Spirit. You cannot carry out the execution, but to you alone belongs the moral responsibility of confirming the sentence of death. (page 41)

Repentance means stepping out of independence back into dependence, and the measure of your repentance will be the measure of your dependence. (page 49)

Since Adam fell, only one person has been normal. (page 50)

Eternal life is neither an inward feeling nor an ultimate destination after you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment...in this world today. (page 56)

The simplest possible explanation and definition of the person of the Holy Spirit is this: Through the Holy Spirit, man can make himself available to God, and through the Holy Spirit, God is prepared to make Himself available to man. (page 76)

God's DNA - Divine Nature from Above (page 81)

Christ gave Himself for us to give Himself to us. His presence puts God back into the man. (page 87)

Christian rest is not inactivity. Christian rest is rest because He carries the load. To "let go and let God" is not inactivity, but Christ-activity - God in action accomplishing divine purposes through human personality. (pages 98-99)

...They are taught in prayer to beg "Please" instead of saying "Thank you" as they relax and rest in Christ. (page 102)

To be crucified with Christ is to be executed judicially with Him, to expire. To those who expire in this way, God has given the very Life that He restored to the Lord Jesus when He raised Him from the dead...That is to inspire. (page 119)

You must act on what you have come to know and believe before it will ever become real in your experience. (page 134)

The resurrection of Christ is at the very heart of the gospel. (page 169)