The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy
Message Five
The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity Revealed in the Book of
Ephesians
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Eph. 3:16-17 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
4:4-6 One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Word of Appetizer
Why is it said that the sixty-six books of the Bible are altogether built upon the Divine Trinity as their support and framework, or what is the purpose of the divine revelation of the trinity of the Godhead?
The revelation concerning the Triune God in the holy Word is not for doctrinal understanding but for the dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people for their experience and enjoyment.
The Bible was written according to the governing principle of the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people as their life and life supply.
Spiritual Burden
According to the entire revelation of the sixty-six books of the Bible, the Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—is for God’s dispensing, that is, for the distribution of God into His chosen people; God is triune so that He can dispense Himself into us, work Himself into us, for us to enjoy so that we can be built up to be the Body of Christ and prepared to be the bride of Christ for His second coming when the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ for Him to reign forever and ever.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The revelation concerning the Triune God in the holy Word is not for doctrinal understanding but for the dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people for their experience and enjoyment.
The Divine Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible; the whole Bible, especially the book of Ephesians, is constructed with the Divine Trinity.
The entire revelation in Ephesians concerning the producing, existing, growing, building up, and fighting of the church as the Body of Christ is composed of the divine economy and the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the members of the Body of Christ; thus, the crucial focus of Ephesians is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the believers.
The Experience of Life
Chapter 2 of Ephesians shows us that in the Divine Trinity all the believers, both Jewish and Gentile, have access unto God the Father through God the Son, in God the Spirit. Through God the Son, who is the Accomplisher, the means, and in God the Spirit, who is the Executor, the application, we have access unto God the Father, who is the Originator, the source of our enjoyment.
In chapter 3 the apostle prays that God the Father will grant the believers to be strengthened with power through God the Spirit into their inner man so that Christ, God the Son, may make His home in their hearts, that is, occupy their entire being, that they might be filled unto all the fullness of the Triune God; this is the climax of the believers’ experience and participation in God in His Divine Trinity.
Practice and Application
Chapter 5 exhorts the believers to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, to God the Father.
Chapter 6 instructs us to fight the spiritual warfare by being empowered in the Lord, God the Son, putting on the whole armor of God the Father, and wielding the sword of the Spirit.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The Trinity… is always revealed or mentioned in regard to the relationship of God with with His chosen and redeemed people (2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that the divine revelation of the trinity of the Godhead is not for theological study.)
T2 The Bible was written under a governing principle (Psa. 36:8-9)
(Take Psalm 36:8-9 as an example to illustrate what is the vision that governs and guides how we interpret any portion of the Bible.)
Day 2
T1 The Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible (Eph. 1:4-5, 7, 13)
(Please illustrate that the church revealed in Ephesians is composed of and expresses the Triune God.)
T2 The book of Ephesians is constructed with the Divine Trinity (Eph. 4:4-6)
(Please illustrate that the entire divine revelation in the book of Ephesians reveals the church is composed of the dispensing of the Triune God into the members of the Body of Christ. )
Day 3
T1 Ephesians 1 shows that God has blessed us with a threefold dispensing (Eph. 1:4-5, 22-23)
(Please illustrate that the issue of the dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the transmitting of the transcending Christ revealed in Ephesians 1.)
T2 The Father’s choosing, the Son’s redemption, the Spirit’s dispensing (Eph. 1:4-5, 22-23)
(Please illustrate what the Triune God’s rich dispensing and the transmission of the transcending Christ issued.)
Day 4
T1 Ephesians 2:10 indicates that God’s salvation produces God’s masterpiece (Eph. 2:10)
(Please illustrate that we are the masterpiece of our Triune God by His threefold life dispensing.)
T2 After Christ accomplished His all-inclusive death, He came to announce the gospel (Eph. 2:15-17)
(Please illustrate that how could Christ announce the gospel to us after He was crucified and buried.)
Day 5
T1 A beautiful picture of the Divine Trinity in His deeper work within us (Eph. 3:14, 16-17)
(Please illustrate that the picture presented in Ephesians 3 shows the very beautiful, fine, and deep coordination of the Triune God.)
T2 We are strengthened into our inner man (Eph. 3:16-17)
(Please illustrate with experiences that what does it mean to be strengthened through the Spirit with power according to the riches of God’s glory into our inner man?)
Day 6
T1 God the Father is above all, through all, and in all (Eph. 4:6)
(Please illustrate that Ephesians 4 shows us a mingling of the Triune God with the Body.)
T2 One hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:4-5)
(Please illustrate that what are the two aspects of Baptism.)