LORD JESUS CHRIST  
                              by J W LUMAN 
 
I want to address some questions that have been posed by some in the 
Lord's Body. The reason we titled this lesson "Lord Jesus Christ" is that 
we want to affirm that Jesus Christ is Lord and He only is our Lord. The 
first thing I want to look at is Galatians 4. We want to look at what He 
became for us and who He now is for us. You know, all these names - LORD, 
JESUS and CHRIST. All of these titles and names addressing the Son of God 
are unnecessary in the Godhead. In the beginning it is just Elohim. But 
when God began to formulate within Himself this plan to include you and 
I, that there may be, not only an increase of Himself, but an express 
increase of Himself, then there became the necessity for certain 
distinctive terms to be applied to the Godhead. The Father, the Son, and 
the Holy Spirit, each carrying out as God a certain part of this eternal 
plan, so as to bring forth the increase of God Himself. On behalf of the 
Son, it behooved Him to become JESUS, and CHRIST and LORD. For God's Plan 
for you and I these titles became necessary, and only for that reason did 
they become necessary. For us He became JESUS. For our relationship to 
God and to one another, He became and is the risen CHRIST. And for 
redemption and all it stands for, the forgiven, the restored, the 
reconciled, He is LORD. I do not know that we understand all of these 
terms as terms that are applied to Him. None of them totally describe the 
Son of God, and yet He is the absolute fullness of each of these terms.  
 
I want to look first at what He became, what it was necessary that He 
become to carry out God's Plan of Salvation, which includes absolute and 
total redemption, but goes so far beyond what most of us understand 
salvation to be. For, in the beginning God saw one glorious Son made up 
of many, One New Man, One New Creation, which would set forth the 
exactness and fullness of Himself for all to see. And on behalf of that 
eternal plan, and because that plan involves you and I, the many sons who 
are gathered up in the one Son, for the purpose of being conformed into 
His Image and coming forth in His exactness. On our behalf, it was 
necessary that the Son become certain things. What the Son first had to 
become in order to carry out the eternal plan of God is Adam. The very 
Son of God had to become the very Adamic creation. Here is where our 
understanding of salvation must begin; and if it does not, we do not have 
and cannot have a true comprehending of full salvation. Except we first 
in our heart embrace what He became, what He was made, we can never be at 
liberty in  our hearts to embrace and be partakers of in knowledge, all 
that He eternally is.  
 
So, I want us to look at that in Galatians 4. "Now, I say that an heir as 
long as he is a child differeth nothing from a servant though he be lord 
of all, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the 
Father. Even so, when we were children, were in bondage under the 
elements of the world." But now, notice this. "But when the fullness of 
time was come, God sent forth His Son..." Now, notice how God marks time. 
Whether the time relates to the heavens, or whether the time related to 
the earth, God marks that time in the sending forth, in the revealing, in 
the appearing, in the manifesting of HIS OWN SON. Now, the time referred 
to here in Galatians is the time that refers to the fullness of Adam, or 
Adam's time coming to a fullness. But, what we are interested in right 
now, is God's answer to this fullness of time, this time which is an 
answer to the statement that is made, "In the day that ye eat thereof, 
thou shalt surely die", is an answer to that appointed time of man, a 
time appointed to die. "For it is appointed unto man once to die." God's 
answer to that time was the sending forth of His Son.  God's answer to 
that time was also the beginning of His redemptive plan. Now, notice 
something about this Son. Notice what this Son had to be made in order to 
come out from the Godhead, out from the beginning and become a partaker 
of the redemptive plan of the Father and bring it forth in Himself. 
Notice what He had to become. "Sent forth His son made of a woman, made 
under the law..." Made of a woman, made under the law. For what purpose? 
Verse 5, "To redeem them that were under the law...." What we are looking 
at is what Christ had to become.  
 
The question that arises is did the Son of God actually become the Adamic 
man? Did He actually become sin? If He did not, then there is no 
redemption. If He did not become as Adam, then how did He die as Adam? 
And, the Scriptures clearly say, "In that one died, all died with him." 
If he did not become Adam, how did He take on Himself the sins of Adam? 
And the Scriptures are clear that He did that. If He did not become Adam, 
how is it that He was hanged upon a tree, because the Scriptures say, 
"Cursed is everyone who is hanged upon a tree", and we know that He was 
hanged there. In fact, the death of the cross is a death that was 
specifically designed of God for His Son, even before the world was. "For 
He is counted as a lamb slain from before the foundation of the world." 
If we do not understand this, then we are only going to see salvation as 
getting rid of some of our sins, not as what it really is, the 
crucifixion of the old man himself. What you and I must come to 
understand is that when He died, I died with Him, you died with Him. If 
we did not, then His death has released us from nothing. His death counts 
for nothing. His death would count for no more than that of a bull, or a 
goat or a sheep. It would be only ceremonial. But, His death is not 
ceremonial. He dies the death of Adam, and to do that He had to become 
that Adam.  
 
Let us look at that in the Scripture as we go on. Turn with me to Hebrews 
9:23, "It was therefore necessary that the pattern of these things in 
heaven should be purified  with these." Notice verse 22. "And almost all 
things are by law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood there 
is no remission..." This is talking about Jesus. "...It was therefore 
necessary that the patterns of these things in the heavens should be 
purified with these things...." That is the animal sacrifices. "...but 
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." In the 
Old Testament, the pattern...the Tabernacle, the altars, all that the 
Tabernacle stands for. It was purified with the shedding of animal blood. 
But there is now a better Tabernacle, an eternal Tabernacle, the Church 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Body of Jesus Christ, established in the 
heavens. And it took more than animal blood to purify and bring forth 
that Tabernacle. That is what he is saying. "For Christ is not entered 
into the holy places made with hands, which are a figure of the truth, 
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor 
yet that He should offer Himself often as the High Priest entered into 
the holy place every year with the blood of others. For then must He 
often have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once in 
the end of the world He hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of 
Himself.." Listen to me. Jesus did not give a sacrifice. He became the 
sacrifice. He did it PERFECTLY.  
 
You see, the Old Testament sacrifices were not perfect. Though they were 
exact, they were not perfect. One had to take the sacrifice that he would 
offer for himself and keep it up for a period of time. Then he would have 
to lay his hands upon that and fully identify with that...all his sins, 
his transgressions, all that he was, with that sacrifice; so that lamb, 
or whatever it was that he was sacrificing, depending upon whatever feast 
it was that he was observing. That sacrifice actually then stood, not 
only in his place, but stood as him. God actually looked at the sacrifice 
as the man. Then that man participated in the killing of that sacrifice. 
Then the priest cut the sacrifice up and then burned it up on the altar, 
the brazen altar. Now, that was imperfect, even at its best. It was 
exact, but imperfect. But Jesus, sanctifying a perfect tabernacle, which 
is His own body, offered then a perfect sacrifice, which was Himself. 
That means He absolutely fulfilled what the old sacrifice could not do. 
He did not just die for man; He died as man. It is, as it were, that all 
of us laid our hands upon Him, all of us were gathered up in His body. 
Which is what the Bible says, "He made us one, Jew and Gentile, made us 
both one in the body of His death, in the body of His Cross, in the body 
of his flesh." He gathered us up in Himself. And He became the first man. 
He became the Adamic man in order that as that Adamic man, He may DIE. 
Else there was no point at all in Him dying. So the Word says, (verse 26) 
"...by the sacrifice of Himself, and as it is appointed unto man once to 
die, but after that the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear..." 
You have to understand that the word "bear" means that He became the 
exactness of. He became the express image of the sins of many. "...and 
unto them that look for Him, He shall appear a second time without sin 
unto salvation." He became that man of sin.  
 
That is the agony of the death of the Cross. We think the agony is the 
fact that someone spit on Him. Many have been spit on. Paul was stoned 
and left for dead a number of times. We think the agony was that they 
mocked Him. They ran upon Stephen and gnashed him with their teeth then 
stoned him to death. It was not these little things that Jesus went 
through, the scourging that every one who was crucified went through. It 
was not those things. The agony of the Cross was that He fully, and 
totally became man for whom He was dying. He became the culmination of 
the whole Adamic race...Jew, Gentile, black, white, yellow, red. In order 
to become the exactness of the sins of many, in order that He might bear 
the sin, and take away the sin, He became the man, the first man, the 
Adamic man. Only as the Adamic man could He die; because the appointment 
was for the Adamic man. "In the day that you eat, you will die." Now, He 
fulfilled that appointment for the Adamic man by becoming sin for us, by 
becoming the man of sin. Else, I say again, His death would not do you or 
me any good whatsoever, except that He died as us. Neither could we say, 
"When He died, I died with Him". Or that when He died, I died. We could 
not say that, except in the light of the understanding that He died AS 
ME. So, the Scriptures teach that he was once to die. Who was to die? Man 
was to die. "So Christ was once offered."  
 
Now look at Romans 6:6, "Knowing this. That our old man is crucified with 
Him..." This does not mean that He was there and the old man was there 
too. Do some word searching. The old man was crucified with Him as being 
one with Him. The old man was crucified with Him.  We can look at some 
other translations of this. "Let us never forget that our old selves died 
as Him on the Cross. "We know that the man we once were has been 
crucified as one with Christ." Do you understand what that is really 
telling us? It is not as though He died and we died along with Him; but, 
as us He died, therefore, with Him, in Him, by Him, as Him, the old man 
died. "...for he that is dead is freed from sin..." There is no way we 
could be freed from sin except that we died. And there is no way that we 
have died except Christ died as us. "Now if we be dead with Christ, we 
believe that we shall also live with Him." Do you understand that now in 
Christ,  "It is not I that liveth, but Christ who lives in me" ? Do you 
understand that He has not merely given us life, but that He is the very 
life Himself, that He is life? Not just the life-giver, but He says, "I 
am the resurrection, I am the life. Because I live, ye shall live." Do 
you see what that means? It means it is not I who lives, but Christ who 
lives in me. That life can be no more significant than the death. When He 
died, I died, so that now He may live in my stead. He may actually live 
in me, His very Spirit actually living in me, the very Spirit of life 
Himself. Why? Because He died as me, therefore I died with Him, that by 
Him I might have new life. Not an old life made better, but new life. He 
became that old man.  
 
Look at verse 9, "Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth 
no more. Death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He 
died to sin ONCE...." This is what we just read over in Hebrews. "It is 
appointed unto man ONCE to die." So Christ was ONCE manifested in the end 
of the world to take away sin. So Christ ONCE died. Do you see that in 
Hebrews 9? "For in that He died, He died unto sin ONCE. But in that He 
liveth, He liveth unto God." "Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be 
indeed dead unto sin..." How can I do that except for the fact that He 
died as me. "...but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.." How 
can I do that except in the understanding that as He liveth, He now 
liveth unto God, and He is my very life, therefore by Him I am alive unto 
God. Unless we accept the death, we cannot be participators, partakers in 
understanding of His Life. If our idea of salvation is that He just 
became as little less than God, or that He just became a little less than 
something and died for some sins; if that is our idea of salvation, where 
does that leave us as New Creatures? Where does that leave us as a New 
Creation? It still leaves us as needing salvation. He did not just become 
a little less than God. No! He laid aside that whole heavenly form.  
 
Turn to Philippians 2:5 "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
Jesus, who being in the form...." Now this word "form" means "the 
exactness of God". It is not merely a likeness or an image, it is the 
exactness of God. It means just that. Here is the Greek definition of the 
word "form". It is the Greek word "morphe". In the Strong's Concordance 
it is #3444. None could be in the form (morphe) of God who was not God. 
Morphe is the reality which can be externalized. Not some shape which is 
the result of pure thought. It is the utterance of the inner life, the 
life which bespeaks of the existence of God. He who has been from 
eternity in the form of God. This word does not simply mean some kind of 
a likeness, something like God. But it means that He has the very form of 
God, and He laid it aside. In verse 7 the word is used again. "But He 
made Himself of no reputation and took upon Himself the form of a 
servant, was made in the likeness of man." Both "form" and "likeness" is 
used here. He became the exactness. He became the exactness of man. Not 
just something like man. Not just a reasonable facsimile. He literally 
emptied Himself out. He was made of a woman, made unto the law, given a 
body like as man, for the purpose of dying as man. But He not only took 
on the body of man in the likeness of man, but He took upon Himself the 
very form of man. He became the Adamic race. He summed it up in Himself. 
"Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient 
unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore, God hath also highly 
exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name, that at the 
name of Jesus...." Jesus is someone the Son of God became. I am not 
making two different people out of Him. Do not misunderstand me.  
 
Had He retained His Godship, had He retained His place in the Godhead, He 
would never had needed to be called "Jesus". The name "Jesus" links Him 
with Adam. The name "Jesus" links Him with sacrifice. The name "Jesus" 
links Him with death. The name "Jesus" links Him with the curse. The name 
"Jesus" links Him with the Cross. That is precisely why God hath exalted 
Him and decreed that every knee would come to realize the fullness of the 
name Jesus. All mankind will bow their knee and confess that, when He 
died, they died with Him. There are those today who think they have a 
life outside of Him. They think they are still alive. Their heart beats, 
their blood pumps, their lungs expand, but they are as dead as a 
doornail. Because, "when one died, all died with Him". You could never 
have come to life except you die first. You could never have known Him 
Who is the resurrection except you died first. I do not mean someone 
throwing dirt in your face, putting you in a casket. It is talking about 
that death that God designed and purposed for mankind and said, "in the 
day that ye eat you will surely die." And through the very blood of Jesus 
Christ, through the very sacrifice of Jesus Christ, through the very 
death of Jesus Christ, you have died. Not that one died so you would not 
have to die, but that one left off the form of God, took upon Himself 
your form, my form, became you, became me, and then as you and me as 
indeed the whole Adamic race, that One died once and for all.  
 
So, we are just fooling ourselves if we say we still have a life. We are 
fooling ourselves if we say there are still nations. We are fooling 
ourselves if we say there is still a first mankind. Oh, he stumbles along 
out there in the imagination of his own heart, but he does no longer 
exist. Because, when Jesus died, I died, you died, all men died. Not all 
have come to know Him as LIFE, but nobody can reverse what He did at the 
Cross. He did not just bump Himself, wound Himself, bruise Himself. No. 
He died. And, except He become the Adamic man, He could not have died. 
Because, the promise was not unto the Son of God "thou shalt die". The 
promise was to Adam "thou shalt die". The Son of God, in carrying out the 
Father's plan, became the very love of God made manifest. This is God's 
love made manifest. He became the very Adamic man, the very cursed man, 
and He as that man in obedience to the Father, went to the Cross and 
killed, crucified, put to death the Adamic man, so that you and I may 
come forth in the newness of His own life.  
 
Turn to II Corinthians 5:14, "For the love of Christ constraineth us 
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all 
dead."(KJV) Let me read several other translations. "Since we have thus 
concluded that one died for all and hence all died." "Convinced that, as 
one has died for all, then all have died." "Because we are of the opinion 
that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death." 
"And this is the conviction we have reached. If one man died as all, then 
all thereby became dead men." "We look at it like this. If one died as 
all men, then in a sense they all died with Him." Do you understand here 
what the Scriptures are saying and what the translators are trying to 
make clear to us? It is simply that when He died as all men, then in Him 
all men suffered death. Can you see the ignorance? Can you see the 
stupidity of mankind, stumbling along today thinking that they have life 
outside of Christ, thinking that they are white and black, thinking that 
there are races, one better than another, when in fact two thousand years 
ago when the fullness of their time was come up before the very throne of 
God, God's answer to them, to mankind was to send forth His Son to sum up 
mankind in His own body; to sum up mankind in His own soul, His own 
being, to become the epitome of mankind; to become every man, woman, boy 
and girl that had ever been and ever would be born; to sum up the first 
Adamic creation and take it to the Cross as only the Son of God could do 
in obedience to the Father, and there put the whole creation to one 
certain, sure death. Thus releasing us to become sons of God through the 
receiving of Jesus Christ, that He might be made unto us all that He 
eternally is.  
 
Do you understand that He had to die, and that when He died we died with 
Him, and that we died with Him because He died as us? Galatians 3:13, 
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse 
for us." What did He do to be cursed? It is what He became. He became the 
cursed thing. "For as it is written, cursed is everyone...."  One...O-N-
E. He became that one man. "cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." 
And this was so that the blessings of Abraham might come on the Gentiles 
through Jesus Christ. That we might receive the promise of the spirit 
through faith. It was all that we might come forth in the newness of His 
life. He had to die. Ephesians 2:14, "For He is our peace who had made 
both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, 
having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments 
contained in ordinances, for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so 
making peace, and that He might reconcile both, (that is Jew and Gentile) 
unto God in one body by the Cross." He took into Himself, into His one 
body both Jew and Gentile, and there one died for all. For what purpose? 
That He might bring forth a New Man who is neither Jew or Gentile, but 
Christ all and in all. Christ became the Adamic man to die.  
 
Let us look at the second part of His death, which is His life. "But if 
we be one with Him in death..."(simply because He became one with us), 
"then we who are in Him are one with Him in life, because He is made unto 
us all that He is." The circumcision. The circumcision has to do with the 
understanding of the death. The death took place at the Cross. You died 
whether you wanted to die or not. But the circumcision that must take 
place in the heart of the believer, those who come to life, is the 
realization of that death, therefore circumcision and realization of 
death are one and the same thing. Notice in Hebrews 4:12, "For the Word 
of God is quick..." That means the Word of God is alive. "...and 
powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the 
dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, 
and is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." In 
another place Paul says that the circumcision is of the heart. "We who 
are not of the circumcision of the flesh, but are of the circumcision of 
the heart." That means that our inner man, our soul, our heart has come 
to the realization that "I died with Christ." That is a wound, that is a 
circumcision. That is a cutting away OF ME. It is coming to a realization 
in Christ Jesus, and you can only come to this realization in Christ 
Jesus, because the word that brings you to this life is the Word of Life.  
 
  
"The Word of God is quick.." The Word of God is life and powerful. Only 
the Living Word can bring you to the realization that it is not you but 
Christ who lives in you. Only Christ, the Living Word being revealed in 
you, can bring about a circumcision, that is a severing in the midst of 
your heart. That is a dividing of your life from His life. That is a 
dividing between the flesh and the spirit, a discernment between the one 
who died and the one who now lives. When God, by the Holy Spirit, reveals 
Christ in us, the Living Word, immediately we are brought to a place of a 
circumcision. That is we are brought to the place where we realize "I am 
crucified with Christ. Christ liveth in me. Not I, Christ lives in me". 
That is what circumcision is all about. It is you and I coming to the 
understanding of what took place by the Cross, and that same death that 
Jesus died, becomes experiential. In other words, we embrace it in 
realization. Our inner man comes to realize in truth that it is not me, 
but Christ who lives in me. This is the circumcision. And the 
circumcision is brought about by the Word of Life. So, God reveals His 
Son in me, and as a result of that, Paul says in Galatians 1:16, "It 
pleased God to reveal His Son in me." Galatians 2:20, he says, "I am 
crucified with Christ." The realization, the circumcision, the judgment, 
the judgment of His Appearing. The circumcision. The Living Word who is a 
sharp knife, cutting away, severing from our understanding, the old man, 
causing us to understand in the understanding of life that the old man is 
dead. When Jesus died, he died. It is now Christ who liveth in me, CHRIST 
HIMSELF. Not a mixture of the old man and Christ, just Christ Himself. 
And that He is made unto me all that He is.  
 
Now, this is true salvation. But I have a point here. We are focusing in 
now on Who He is - who He became and Who He is - LORD, JESUS, CHRIST. He 
became Adam that He might die. Who is He? He is forever the Lord Jesus 
Christ. We do not have time on this lesson to investigate these three 
names and how they apply to the Son of God. I will tell you this. These 
names are only given to the Son of God, because through the identity of 
each of these names, we are related to that Son of God. I do not know 
whether you can hear that or not. How do I relate to the Son of God? 
First, I relate to Him through the name of Jesus. I mean that I take upon 
me the name of Jesus. The Scriptures teach that. "You must bear His 
Name." His Name must be written in you." "His Name is Jesus Christ the 
Lord". All three of those names must be written in you. You have to bear 
all three of those names. Those names are not just titles. Those names 
indicate a nature, a character. Those names indicate something that, for 
you and I, He became so that through Him and through His name, we might 
be related to God our Father.  
 
How do we relate to the Son of God first? Through the name JESUS. The 
name JESUS means we identify with Him in His death. The name JESUS means 
that I have come to realize I am crucified, I am dead, when He died, I 
died with Him. To relate to Him through the name CHRIST means for me to 
come to the realization that, "nevertheless I live, yet it is not me, it 
is Christ Who liveth in me". In relating to the Son of God through the 
name CHRIST I am saying that "He is my life. I am raised up together with 
Him, seated together with Him in heavenly places. I am wearing the name 
CHRIST." I am wearing His Name. Not me as an individual, but me as His 
Body. His Body must bear His Name. In the natural, my body bears my name. 
I come around the corner, you do not say, "Look there is Brother Head, 
Brother Arm, Brother Foot." No, you say, "There is JW Luman." Though my 
body is made up of hands and fingers and feet and all kind of things, it 
bears my identity because it is one with me. It has one purpose and that 
is to manifest me. As His Body, we have one purpose, and that is to bear 
His Name and to manifest Him.  
 
But these names - LORD, JESUS, CHRIST, are not titles we bear. They are 
nature, character, points of identity we bear. You cannot say that you 
bear the name JESUS unless you understand that with Him you died. You 
cannot say that you are bearing the name CHRIST unless you understand 
that you have no life but CHRIST and that He and He alone lives in you, 
and that you are His Body. And you cannot bear the name LORD except you 
are having the very mind and nature and character of Christ formed in 
you. But that is the kind of Body that the Holy Spirit is bringing forth, 
a Body that can manifest the Son of God and bear His Name before the 
world and in the world, JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. You are to be identified 
with Him in those names by which He is identified to you. I am not Jesus 
Christ the Lord, but you and I are the Body of Jesus Christ the Lord, and 
we are to bear His full Name, His full Identity in the earth and to one 
another. Therefore. I can embrace you as Jesus. I can embrace you as 
Christ. And I can embrace you as Lord. No, not you individually and call 
you Lord Jesus Christ; but you collectively as His Body and as members of 
His Body, I can embrace as the Lord Himself. That is the question I am 
addressing now. One question was "Did Jesus really become Adam?" The 
other question is "How can Brother Luman call us Lord?" I can call you 
Lord as you relate to Him, not giving you His place, but understanding 
that you are the instrument of God in the earth to manifest Christ, not 
only to the world, but to one another. How is it that I can love Him, 
except I love you? There is no way. How can I serve Him except through 
serving you? There is no way. How can I honor Him except through honoring 
you? There is no way.  
 
I realize there are many who do not want to agree with this, because then 
we have to love one another. Then we have to serve one another. Then I 
cannot have hard feelings toward my brother and go to church and sing 
"Oh, How I Love Jesus". Then I cannot hold my substance from the Body of 
Jesus Christ and say I am faithful to God. Then I cannot retain my 
tithes, my offering, my faithfulness, my service, my gifts, my time, my 
energy from the Lord's Body and say, "Oh, I serve the Lord in 
faithfulness." I understand why many people do not want to bear the 
identity of Jesus Christ the Lord; but I also understand that the true 
Body is beginning to bear that identity, and shall perfectly bear that 
identity. One to another and as One New Man shall bear that identity in 
all the earth. So, I serve you as the Lord. I love you as the Lord. I 
minister to you as unto the Lord Himself, because unto me in my 
understanding, which is very infantile, but is growing by the Grace of 
God day by day, but in my understanding, such as it is, I am beholding 
you as He Himself. Because I understand that the old man, the man you are 
by the first birth, is dead; and I can no longer know you after the 
flesh.  
 
If I do not know you after the flesh, then how do I know you, except 
through Christ? If I cannot know Christ after the flesh, then how do I 
know Him except as He is revealed of the Holy Spirit? "If any man be in 
Christ he is a new creation". How, then, am I to embrace that man except 
as the New Creation in Christ Jesus, "where old things are passed away, 
and behold all things are become new, and all things are of God and 
reconciled to God" in the Body of Christ. How can I relate to you except 
as His Body? And how can I relate to you as His Body if I continually 
separate you from Him, because His Body is not separated from Him. His 
Body, in fact, the Bible says, "is the fullness of Him who filleth all in 
all". Do you understand, I am not substituting the Body for Christ. To 
the contrary, I am saying, the Body of Christ is the only true 
representation of Christ in the earth, and the only true instrument of 
Christ in the earth. He does not have several bodies. He has only one 
Body and that is the Body that you are. The more I know Him, the more I 
love you. The more I desire to serve Him, the more I lay down my life to 
you. The more I desire to minister to Him, the more my ministry abounds 
unto you. Because I cannot find Him except in you, and I cannot find you 
except in Him, for we are raised up together and made to be seated 
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We are One New Man, Christ 
Himself the Head; but we are the Body who bears the name of the Head, 
LORD JESUS CHRIST. May the Lord give us understanding as we continue.  
  
So, as a result of Galatians 1:16 and Galatians 2:20, Paul, coming to the 
understanding, "It is not I, but Christ Who liveth in me", we understand 
that He now lives. Therefore, we have new life. We are His Body. We are 
One New Man. He is Lord. He is Risen Christ. But for what purpose is He 
risen? Look at Hebrews 2:9, "But we see Jesus, Who was made a little 
lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and 
honor that He, by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For 
it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom all things, in 
bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation 
perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are 
sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them 
brethren." He is risen, but for what purpose? That he might bring many 
sons unto glory.  
Now, take some time, and read from Ephesians 1:17 - 2:7, and you will 
find there that it is Paul's prayer for you and I, the Body of Jesus 
Christ, to come to the understanding of our absolute union with Him. That 
God may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the 
knowledge of Him. Not in the knowledge of spiritual things, not in the 
knowledge of other things, but in the knowledge of Him, H-I-M. That you 
and I may come to know Christ by the Spirit of God, by the revelation 
which is brought by that Spirit, that Christ may be revealed in us, that 
we may come to understand His calling. That you may know what is His 
calling, the hope of His calling. The hope of His calling is in you. It 
is CHRIST IN YOU. That you and I may come to understand what is the 
riches of His grace and of His inheritance in the saints, in the saints. 
That you and I might come to understand what is the greatness of His 
power which He works toward us, and then by example that same power which 
He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, made Him to be 
seated at His own right hand in heavenly places far above all 
principalities, powers, names, all dominions. Read it for yourself.  
 
Then, he says, "It is given to Him to be head of all things to the church 
which is His body, the fullness of Him who filleth all in all." Then, he 
goes on in the second chapter to say that "that body that is raised up as 
one with Him, seated as one with Him in heavenly places." Do you see what 
the apostle is saying? He is saying, "I want you to know Christ. I want 
you to know your relationship. I want you to know that He is the hope of 
your calling. I want you to know that He is the treasure in the earthen 
vessel. I want you to know that as God raised Him up, so by that living 
Christ, He has raised you up as one with that Living Christ, as those who 
are the very Body of that living Christ, as those who constitute the 
fullness of that living Christ, who Himself fills all and is in all. I 
want you to come to understand that He is raised up for the purpose of 
raising you up. He is seated in the heavens for the purpose that you be 
seated there AS ONE WITH HIM, so that the Man that God desired from the 
beginning is finally fulfilled in the risen Christ. He is all and in all 
and He is Lord of all, in that He shall fill up the earth with the 
knowledge of the glory of God.  
 
Do you see that the Body of Christ is to bear His Name, JESUS, identified 
with Him in death? The Body of Christ is to bear the name CHRIST, 
identifying with Him in His resurrection. The Body of Christ is to bear 
the name LORD, in that it is to manifest His rulership, his majesty in 
all of the earth, age without end. Do you understand that salvation is 
summed up in our unity, our oneness with the Lord Jesus Christ? We are 
not taking His place. Our place is the Cross. That is where He took our 
place. We are not taking His place. We are manifesting His place. We are 
not taking His life. We are manifesting His life. We are not living in 
His stead. We are manifesting Him who is living in us. We simply have no 
identity that He has not given us. The identity that He has given to us, 
His Body, is His own identity. How do we bear that identity? We do not 
take it upon ourself. We bear it as the Father, by the Spirit of wisdom 
and revelation, reveals the Son in us. And, as He reveals the Son in us, 
we see, we come to know Him in circumcision. We come to know Him as 
JESUS, the One with whom we died. Then, we come to know His as CHRIST, 
the one in whom and by whom we live. And, we come to know Him as LORD, 
the One whose Body we are, the One whom we serve night and day, the One 
as whose Body we live, having no other life but Him, the One whose mind, 
whose nature, whose character is being formed in us as we grow up into 
Him who is the head in all things.  
 
Can then we not embrace one another as the Lord? Can we not serve one 
another as Christ? Can we not lay down our lives one for another as 
Jesus? I trust that you hear what I am trying to say. We have become His 
Body, the very fullness of Him. (Ephesians 1:22-23.) And the express 
purpose of that is that He might have the preeminence in all things. You 
see, He must have this preeminence first in His Body. Then, His Body 
becomes a manifestation of Him in all the earth. Look at Colossians 1:15, 
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. 
For by Him were all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth, 
visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or 
principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him..." 
And, let me remind you that we are part of that. We are part of that New 
Creation that is created by Him and created for Him. "He is before all 
things, and by Him all things consist." He is before you and I, and it is 
only by Him that we have our being. "For, in Him we live and move and 
have our being. He is the head of the body, the church, who is the 
beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have 
the preeminence." Why is He raised up? That we may be raised up in Him, 
joined together in Him, as His very own Body. Why? That He, who is our 
very life, who raised us up, who is made unto us all things, who causes 
us to have our being, our very existence, that in all things He might 
have the preeminence, and that in all things we may manifest His 
preeminence.  
 
What, then, is our relationship to Him? I Corinthians 15:35, "But some 
man will say, 'How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they 
come?' Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die; 
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body which shall be, but 
bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God 
giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed his own body." 
We are His Body. That is our relationship to Him. Not that body that He 
became, that Adamic man and died, not that first man. Verse 44, "It is 
sown a natural body....." Not that body. "....it is raised a spiritual 
body." That is the Body we are. There is a natural body. There is a 
spiritual body; and you and I, who understand that we are His Spiritual 
Body, will bring our natural bodies to be servants of that spiritual Body 
that we are. Do you understand that? So, it is written, "The first man 
Adam was a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The 
first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from 
heaven." Whose Body are we? We are that Spiritual Body, that raised up 
Body. We are that Body of the second man. And, who is He? He is the LORD 
from heaven. We are the Body of the Lord from Heaven. Blessed be His Holy 
Name.  
 
What is our relationship to Him? Galatians 4:1, "Now I say, that the 
heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though 
he be lord of all." Do you understand that verse is talking about you? 
"Now I say, that an heir....." Who is this second man that is raised up, 
this many-membered man, yet who is One Man, the New Man, the Last Man, 
the only Man, the Man whose head is Christ, the Man whose Body is the 
fullness of Christ, the Man who bears the name "LORD JESUS CHRIST", the 
Man who is to manifest the fullness of the Son of the Living God, who is 
the glory of the most high God? Who is this Man? He is the heir of God. 
Do you not understand that, in Christ, we are joint heirs? Joint heirs 
means those who are joined together with Him and become one heir. Do you 
not read in Galatians 3:16, "For the promises are unto Abraham and his 
seed?" S-e-e-d, not seeds, s-e-e-d-s, as of many, but "...unto thy 
seed..." (Which is as of one.) "...unto thy seed.." (Which is Christ, one 
seed.) But, then verse 29, "But if ye be Christ's...." C-h-r-i-s-t-s. 
"...then are ye heirs of God." Then are ye the seed. One seed, one heir.  
 
Do you not understand who this heir is in Galatians 1? It is that many-
membered Man. But, as long as he is a child, that is as long as he is not 
bearing the name, Jesus Christ the Lord; until he grows up and 
establishes his identification with Jesus Christ the Lord, until he 
understands his name, until he understands that his life is Christ, and 
that he has no life but Christ, until he understands his unity with the 
Son of God, as long as he is a child, he differeth nothing from a 
servant, though in fact he is Lord of all. What is our relationship to 
Him? We are His Body. His Body which is the fullness of Him. His Body 
which is to grow up in Him to the full stature of Him, and manifest Him 
in all the earth. When will that Body do that? When it bears His name, 
JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. When it bears His nature, His character. When it 
bears His mind. II Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if any man be in 
Christ...." There is only One Man who is in Christ, and that is the New 
Man, the Last Man. There is not men in Christ; there is just a Man in 
Christ. Get hold of that. There is not men in Him; there is just a Man in 
Him. Because we are all One New Man, made so by Him.  
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation." What is our relationship 
to Him? We are a new creation. Colossians 3:9-11. What is our 
relationship to Him? "We are neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male 
nor female..." You see, in all of that reference, you cannot apply His 
Name. But we are not that. You cannot, as JW Luman, call me Jesus. Do not 
do that, because I am not. You cannot, as JW Luman, call me Christ. Do 
not do that, because I am not. And, you cannot as JW Luman, call me Lord. 
Do not do that, because I am not. But, something has happened to JW 
Luman. At the Cross, he died. Do you understand that in Christ, in 
Christ, you and I are one. We are not JW and Bob and Pete and Jim. We are 
not black and white, and male and female. You have to come to understand 
that. I know, we still have these bodies. But, these bodies that bear the 
name JW and Pete and Mary and Sue, these bodies must be sacrificed and 
become absolute servants to that Body which we are, and as that Body, we 
bear only His name, JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. That is the Body we are. 
Colossians 3:9-11 says, "It is neither this nor that, but Christ all and 
in all." What is our relationship to Him? Christ all and in all. What is 
our relationship to Him? Ephesians 1:22-23, "He who filleth all in all." 
Do you think that He does not fill up His tremendous, great Body with 
Himself? I am telling you, that this is great salvation. Jesus speaks of 
it. "In that day, ye shall know." John 14:1-20. "In that day ye shall 
know that I am in My Father, you in Me, and I in you."   
 
I hope this has answered some of your questions that have been asked with 
regard to our death, which is His death, and with regard to our 
relationship one with another. Our relationship one with another is in 
Christ, by Christ, as Christ. I John 1:7, "If we walk in the light as He 
is in the light, we will have fellowship one with another." Realizing the 
tremendous love of God. I John 3:1, "Beloved, behold what manner of love 
the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of 
God, wherefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. 
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we 
shall be, but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, 
for we shall see Him as He is." Are you not Christ to me? Are you not 
Lord? This is a relationship I am talking about, not a title. I am not 
giving you a title. I am simply expressing a relationship. Our 
relationship one with another must be who He is, for we have no other 
relationship but what He is made unto us. May God bind us together in the 
knowledge of Jesus Christ, that we, bound up in Him, filled with the 
knowledge of Him, may become a living manifestation of Him one to 
another, and as One in all the earth. Therefore, we will declare great 
salvation. May God bless you.