Table Of ContentOur Oneness With Christ
A Study in Living by Grace Through Faith
David Kuykendall
Workbook Section Prepared by John Belken
All Scriptures are taken from the King James Version un-
less otherwise indicated.
Verses marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible, copy-
right 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.
Used by permission.
This work is published by
David Kuykendall Ministries
Dallas, Texas
Copyright 2006
David Kuykendall
Table of Contents
FOREWORD / 4
PREFACE / 6
INTRODUCTION / 8
PART ONE—PERSONAL EXPERIENCES / 10
1. Something for Monday Morning / 11
PART TWO—SCRIPTURAL TEACHINGS / 20
2. Jesus Is “The Last Adam” / 22
3. Sin With a Face / 28
4. In Christ Crucified—Now / 39
5. In Christ Buried and Resurrected—Now / 47
6. Christ in You—Now / 54
PART THREE—BASIC APPROACHES / 59
7. The Approach of Faith / 61
8. The Approach of Choice / 70
PART FOUR—LIFE TRANSFORMATIONS / 78
9. At Last—Spirit-Filled Living / 79
10. What a Difference the Spirit Makes / 86
11. Freedom From Sin / 102
12. Freedom From the World / 110
13. Freedom From Law / 119
14. Life in the Heavenlies / 132
15. God’s Miracle Workers / 148
PART FIVE—PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS / 161
16. Understanding Suffering / 162
17. What About This? / 172
18. Red Flags Waving / 184
19. Obeying Obedience / 193
CONCLUSION / 203
A LAST WORD FROM THE AUTHOR / 214
Foreword
As born-again Christians, we have not yet plumbed the
depth of the potential of our oneness with Christ—which is
“Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27b), with
the concomitant expression of “our being in Christ.” “There-
fore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]
(2 Corinthians 5:17a). This is the “more abundant life” that
our Savior-Lord has promised us (John 10:10).
David Kuykendall, with helpful repeated emphases on our
being crucified, buried and resurrected with Christ, delineates
in his book Our Oneness With Christ how this is practical Chris-
tianity, nay rather practical Christian living on a sound biblical
basis, the blood-bought heritage of every true believer who
seeks to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.
Amen” (2 Peter 3:18). His treatise is profoundly simple and, at
the same time, simply profound.
The more intimate our oneness with Christ, our Savior
and Lord, the easier it is to know His will for our lives and
then, by His grace, to apply the answer practically. “Ye are
dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Colossians
3:3). This should be our daily, momentary experience as chil-
dren of God in Christ.
Our oneness with Christ, when personally realized by faith,
by individual choice, on the basis of grace, will bring our ver-
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tical relationship with God into proper focus with the resultant
proper horizontal relationship with fellow believers becoming
a joyous reality and our witness to those still outside Christ a
fruitful experience.
David Kuykendall appropriately emphasizes the danger
of our “know-it-all attitude” inherent in our unredeemed sinful
human nature. As we enter progressively into our oneness with
Christ, this know-it-all attitude will give place to “living in
total dependence on our Lord.” This is life on a higher plane,
yes, on the highest plane. Thank you, David Kuykendall, for
reminding us to claim, to choose our oneness with Christ, in
death, burial and resurrection too.
Finlay M. Graham, deceased
Southern Baptist Missionary
Preface
Because I have received a number of requests for a work-
book edition of Our Oneness With Christ, I am delighted to
make this work available. I have made very few changes in the
text. The workbook sections are taken completely from the
workbook prepared for a study of Our Oneness With Christ by
John Belken. Because of the need for saving space, I have re-
duced to some extent the workbook features. Again I want to
express my deepest appreciation to John Belken for his excel-
lent work.
In 1 Corinthians 6:17, the apostle Paul reveals, “If you
give yourself to the Lord, you and Christ are joined together as
one person” (TLB).
New Testament writers use several terms to describe what
happened to us when we became Christians: justification, sanc-
tification, reconciliation, adoption, forgiveness, redemption,
regeneration. These are beautiful concepts with which many
have some acquaintance.
Many believers are, however, without insight that at the
time of our conversion to Christ we became one with our cru-
cified, buried and risen Lord. Yet fullness of life and maxi-
mum success in Christian service come only to those who un-
derstand and experience life in terms of their union with their
Lord.
About the middle of this century, many evangelicals found
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a partial solution to their lack of spiritual vitality by embracing
the blessed truth that Christ is “in” the believer. That giant step
forward in Christian understanding and experience by itself,
though, will not give us the life and fruitfulness we seek. There
is a second feature of our union with Christ.
The New Testament also teaches that the believer is “in
Christ.” Many times we are described as being “in Him,” “in
Christ Jesus,” “in Whom,” “in the Beloved.” Highly respected
biblical scholars teach that often these terms mean “in union
with Christ.”
The Christ who is within will neither continuously fill us
with Himself nor burst forth from us apart from our mentally
and experientially embracing this companion truth that we are
“in Him.”
My intention, then, is to analyze and amplify this balanced
view of our “oneness with Christ.” He is “in us,” and we are
“in Him.” The study will include the resultant quality of life
and ministry available to all who understand and live out their
oneness with Him.
David Kuykendall
Introduction
The theme of “our oneness with Christ” is developed in
five parts followed by a conclusion consisting of four personal
testimonies.
Part One—“Personal Experiences”—begins with the ex-
pression of some of our common needs. It then relates the sto-
ries of several who have found the solution to these needs—
and the abundant life—by understanding and living out their
union with Christ. Part Two—“Scriptural Teachings”—con-
tains the basic biblical teachings of our union with Christ. Part
Three—“Basic Approaches”—shows how we may live out our
oneness with Christ. Part Four—“Life Transformations”—sets
forth several changes we can expect by living out our union
with our Lord. Finally, Part Five—“Practical Considerations”—
deals with several practical issues faced by those who begin
the journey of living out their union with Christ.
It would be helpful to read the chapters in the order in
which they are arranged. They build on each other.
The reader will soon discover much repetition. This is by
design. Years of teaching the concept of union with Christ have
revealed two reasons why repetition is essential if the message
is to find rootage in most lives.
First, living out our union with Christ requires for most a
process of “relearning.” Because repetition is essential for
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learning, it is doubly necessary for relearning.
Second, Satan, who viciously opposes the message of liv-
ing by grace, many times successfully “catcheth away that
which was sown in the heart.” He knows that those who under-
stand and live out their union with Christ do great damage to
him and his kingdom.
I trust you will be patient and understanding if the repeti-
tion seems unnecessary for you.
Throughout, the terms “our oneness with Christ” and “our
union with Christ” are used interchangeably. Also, the terms
“the life of grace” and “the life of faith” are used to describe
the experience of those who live out their union with Christ.
Whenever I teach the message of our oneness with Christ,
I begin with: “If you love the Lord dearly, have never before
been aware of what I will share, and the Spirit of God chooses
to reveal these truths to you, you will never be the same again
after this time of study.” I predict the same possibility for you
as you make your journey through these pages. Many exciting
testimonies from those exposed to these truths confirm the ac-
curacy of this prediction.
If life is going well for you now, it is possible that you
will think of this as just another book or, at best, an “interest-
ing” book. If, however, you have come to the “end of self,”
you may be only hours away from entrance into that elusive
life you have desired and sought for years—the life that is
“abundant.”
Part One
Personal Experiences
Part One consists of only one chapter—“Something for
Monday Morning.” The chapter clearly divides into two
sections. The first section presents some of the failures and
frustrations most of us struggle with. The second section is a
series of personal testimonies of several who have found both
victory over those failures and frustrations and the abundant
life promised by our Lord by living out their union with Christ.
These thrilling testimonies are given early as evidence that
the life God-loving believers are seeking is possible for all who
live out their union with Jesus Christ in crucifixion, burial and
resurrection.
