The life sense in the divine domain

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๐๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ. When we are saved and go through the first day of being reborn, we are introduced into a different way of living, values and feelings. We used to be very easily stirred and emotionally up and downโ€”either happy or sad, or having no feeling toward the people around us; that was the old life. The first lesson in our spiritual living is to be introduced into a different kind of sense. Since we were saved and came into the church life, everything changed: the values changed, the outward enjoyment changed, even the things that frustrate us changed. We still face the same people surrounding us, but a different kind of sense develops in us to see things differently. This sense is from the divine life living in us.

๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง๐ž, ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž. We can start to enjoy something much more attuned to the human core. For example, say you drive 20 hours to take your whole family to vacation in a mountain cabin. You and your whole family travel out of your comfort zone, your home, and create another kind of intimacy. It provides new ways to interact with one another that you probably would never see in your everyday life. It doesnโ€™t always require โ€œheavy spiritual talkingโ€ with your family or vigilant observations of them; the enjoyment, building and growth in life happens because we have simply become sensitive to the divine life and realmโ€”it is within us.

Letโ€™s say that in this cabin is a small pool. As an excellent swimmer who can swim a 50-meter-long pool, itโ€™s definitely no fun for you to jump into a shallow 5-meter-long one. But in a different senseโ€”the sense of lifeโ€”you should be the first one to jump in; the kids will be eager to follow you and jump in, too. There is a different kind of presence of being that is interacting with a different kind of need that you may rarely discover at home. When you engage this way, you cultivate a very specific type of life sense in between you and your family.

Many interactions like this donโ€™t even require speaking. For example, if your being is available, you wonโ€™t occupy the jacuzzi in the cabin aloneโ€”you will bring in a group of people and experience a different relationship or closeness that you usually donโ€™t have at home. These interactions require your ๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐งโ€”not your good speech, especially as a parent; the whole point of being a parent is to be parallel with your kids, to be alongside them on their journey of growth and developmentโ€”being a human being, a believer, to them. Thatโ€™s where true family life is.

Being saved into the divine life is just like entering this cabin; suddenly we are in a realm where we are able to be sensitive to life and cultivate life-relationships with one another. ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซโ€”๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ; ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ. So, on one hand, the church is spiritual, and on the other hand, the church has to be physical. But the physical things have to be in the nature of spiritual reality; otherwise our being together is missing the substanceโ€”that life sense.

When our relationships are involved with a very precise life sense, thatโ€™s where the realization of the truth happens. That life sense is the regenerated sense, a new life that ceases the old life and all its conditions and old things at once. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ โ€œ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐กโ€ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ. Just as the cabin hosts a specific atmosphere for living out the life sense together, the church is a divine domain, the base from which the truth is embodied and expressed in everyday living within the household. Truth without reality is just teaching and doctrineโ€”good theory, good ideas, good religion. What is the churchlife? It is nothing other than the base and pillar of the truth as the reality of the divine domain, a place where true life and its senses reign.

(Above are notes of fellowship taken from a gathering 06/14/2020, not reviewed by the speaker.)

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