We reap the Life of Christ a hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirtyfold. These are not percentages such that sixtyfold means that sixty percent of our life is Christ and the remaining forty percent is flesh but is brought into the Kingdom in any case. Rather, the three levels of attainment refer to the abundance with which we reap Christ (the number of bushels to the acre, we might say), and as a result to our level of rulership in the Kingdom of God.

Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Only the eternal Life that is Christ can enter the Kingdom of God and is the Kingdom of God. The part of our life that is not of Christ cannot enter the Kingdom. The Lake of Fire still has dominion over it. Our fleshly nature escapes judgment while Christ is working with us, because of the principle of the firstfruits.

Because there is a portion of Christ in us, in our spiritual nature, our whole personality is holy even though there are parts of our personality that have not as yet entered into Christ, into eternal life. The part of our personality that is not of Divine Life cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Yet it is saved temporarily because of the firstfruits portion of Christ that is in our inner man.

Our task is to persevere in Christ until all of our personality has entered Christ and has become immortal. This is the hundredfold grasp of salvation. It is available to whoever chooses to lay hold on it.

If we are saved but do not press forward in Christ, the part of our personality we have held back from Christ will be cut off and burned. We will lose part of our personality, being saved as by fire.

We shall reap in the Day of Christ what we are sowing today. If we sow to the fullness of life we will reap the fullness of life. If we sow partly to our flesh we will reap part life and part lashes or destruction. The Lord Jesus, who is our Judge, will decide our fate in the Day of the Lord.

The part of our personality we do not surrender to Christ will not enter the Kingdom of God. Only that which has been filled with Christ will endure. We can have an abundant entrance into the Kingdom or we can appear as a naked spirit. It is our decision and responsibility.

Whether we attain the hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirtyfold depends on the extent of our willingness to surrender our personality to Jesus for re-creation, our willingness to be pruned. It is only the new creation that is eternal, that is of the Kingdom of God. As Paul declared, everything that is gain to our first personality is loss to Christ, to the Kingdom of God. It is of the first creation; therefore it will pass away. Only that which is of Christ will live in God's Presence for eternity.

To be continued.