«　WEEK 6　DAY 2　»

　　Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

　　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.

　　Although there is no teaching or doctrine concerning the Trinity here, there is a spiritual fact that those who preach the gospel should baptize the believing ones into the name of the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit [Matt. 28:19]. We are baptized into the Triune God so that we may participate in and enjoy Him. In Word Studies in the New Testament M. R. Vincent says, "Baptizing into the name of the Holy Trinity implies a spiritual and mystical union with him." This shows that the Trinity is not for teaching. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "The Divine Trinity as Revealed in the Holy Word," p. 209)

　　Second Corinthians 13:14...speaks of the Trinity—Jesus Christ the Son, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit—but it does not teach us a doctrine concerning the Trinity. Instead, the way the Triune God is mentioned indicates that we need to enjoy the Triune God as love, grace, and fellowship. Love as the source corresponds to God the Father. Grace as the expression and the course corresponds to God the Son. Grace and love are transmitted into us through the reaching, the fellowship, of God the Spirit. This is the enjoyment of the Triune God as love, grace, and fellowship. This indicates that the Triune God is for our enjoyment.

　　Every direct or indirect mention, indication, or implication of the Trinity in the Bible is not for teaching but for our participation in the Triune God....This needs to be deeply impressed into us. Whenever we study a verse in the Bible concerning the Trinity, we should not be content to look for doctrinal teaching but must realize that this verse is for us to know how to participate in, enjoy, and experience the Triune God. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "The Divine Trinity as Revealed in the Holy Word," pp. 209-210)

　　According to the entire revelation of the sixty-six books of the Bible, the Trinity of the Godhead is for God's dispensing. God's desire with His strong intention is to dispense Himself into His chosen people as their life, as their life supply, and as their everything. To do this, or to carry out this dispensing, He needs to be triune. Without His Trinity He has no way to carry out His divine dispensing. Therefore, His Trinity is absolutely for the divine dispensing. The first verse that clearly bears the denotation of the Divine Trinity is Genesis 1:26. When God was going to create man, there must have been a council in the Godhead (as the one revealed in Acts 2:23—see footnote 1, Recovery Version). In that conference They conversed in this way: "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." This sounds very much like a talk in a council. In the creation of the heavens and the earth there was not such a council, such a talk, that referred to "Us." The "Us" is the Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The first mentioning of the Divine Trinity refers to the divine dispensing. God made man in His own image and according to His own likeness for the coming work of dispensing Himself into man. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, "Elders' Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision," pp. 302-303)

　　The Son as the Father's embodiment was still outside of us. He needed to become the Spirit so that He could abide in the believers. Now that we have the Spirit as the realization of the Son abiding in us, we also have the Father's embodiment and the Father as our object. Actually, the Father as our object is within us, because the object is embodied in the Son and the Son is realized as the Spirit who indwells us. If we have the Spirit, we have the Son, and if we have the Son, we have the Father. Thus, the three of the Divine Trinity are in us. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, "Living in and with the Divine Trinity," p. 303)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "The Divine Trinity as Revealed in the Holy Word," ch. 1