Living in and with the Divine Trinity
Message Six
Living with the Divine Trinity (3)
Experiencing and Enjoying
the Divine Trinity in Full
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
(Day1 ¦ Day2 ¦ Day3 ¦ Day4 ¦ Day5 ¦ Day6)
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Rev. 1:4-5 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth…
Word of Appetizer
The Bible shows us that the Divine Trinity is for our enjoyment. What is the experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full? How this experience and enjoyment is consummated?
To experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full is to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
The experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full is consummated by the One who is, who was, and who is coming, by the seven Spirits, and by Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
Spiritual Burden
The experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full— participating in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit—is consummated by the One who is, who was, and who is coming, by the seven Spirits, and by Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The clearest revelation of the Divine Trinity in the New Testament is in Matthew 28:19, which speaks of baptizing “into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.
To experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full is to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
The experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full is consummated by the One who is, who was, and who is coming, by the seven Spirits, and by Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
The Experience of Life
As the baptized ones, we are now in an organic union with the Triune God; therefore, whatever the Father has, whatever the Son has, and whatever the Spirit receives become ours.
It is through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that grace is able to reach us; The grace of Christ comes out of the love of God, and this grace is transmitted to us and comes into us through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Practice and Application
In order to experience and enjoy the grace of the Lord, we need to be in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and as we are enjoying the grace of the Lord, we taste the love of God.
“he who comes forward to God must believe that He is”. We must believe that He is; To believe that God is, is to believe that He is everything to us and that we are nothing; He must be the only One, the unique One, in everything, and we must be nothing in everything.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
T1 The clearest revelation of the Divine Trinity in the New Testament is in Matthew 28:19 (Matt. 28:19)
(Please illustrate that although God is only one, yet there is the matter of the three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.)
T2 The word into in Matthew 28:19 indicates union (Rom. 6:3; Gal. 3:27; 1 Cor. 12:13)
(Please illustrate the meaning of baptism on the positive side and the negative side.)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” ch. 13; Life-study of Matthew, msg. 72
T1 The Lord Jesus is the embodiment of the Triune God (Matt. 28:19; Col. 2:9)
(Please illustrate that today, when we baptize believers into the name of the Lord Jesus we are actually baptizing them into the Triune God.)
T2 In resurrection as the last Adam, Jesus became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; Eph. 3:8)
(Please illustrate that the Lord is the life-giving and indwelling Spirit to impart and dispense the unsearchable riches of Christ into the believers.)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” ch. 2; CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The Subjective Truths in the Holy Scriptures,” ch. 4
T1 The Divine Trinity is for our experience and enjoyment (2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that which three persons and three aspects do we see in second Corinthians 13:14.)
T2 The Lord, God, and the Holy Spirit are not three separate Gods (John 1:17; 1 John 4:8; 2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that the grace of Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is one thing in three aspects.)
Further Reading: Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msg. 59
T1 In order to enjoy the grace of the Lord we must be in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (John 3:16; 1:17)
(The grace of Christ comes out of the love of God, but how does this grace comes into us?)
T2 With the Divine Trinity are the source, the course, and the flow (2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that we have two circulations within us. One circulation is the circulation of blood within our physical body, and the other circulation is the circulation of the Divine Trinity in our spirit.)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 322
T1 The experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full is consummated by the One who is, who was, and who is coming(Rev. 1:4-5)
(Please illustrate that Jehovah means “I am who I am”.)
T2 The experience and enjoyment of the Divine Trinity in full is consummated by the seven Spirits (Rev. 1:4-5)
(Please illustrate that the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God was needed for God’s move on earth.)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch.10; Life-study of Revelation, msg. 4
T1 The seven Spirits of God are the seven eyes of the Lamb (Rev.5:6)
(Please illustrate that the seven Spirits as the seven eyes of the Lamb are for observing and searching and also for transfusing.)
T2 Christ is the living and faithful Witness of God (Rev. 1:5)
(Please illustrate that Christ’s being the faithful Witness refers to His earthly life of thirty-three and a half years.)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 404-405, 407