«　WEEK 6　DAY 3　»

　　1 Thes. 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

　　John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.

　　Because man is a tripartite being—having a body, a soul, and a spirit—he may be considered as a "human trinity." Unlike the Divine Trinity, within the "human trinity" there is always fighting. The Bible says that the flesh, our body, lusts or fights against our spirit, which is mingled with the divine Spirit (Gal. 5:17). Our flesh also fights with our mind (Rom. 7:23). The flesh fights against the logical soul, which desires to do the right thing....Whenever our soul desires to do good, the sin in our evil flesh rises up to fight against our soul (vv. 18-21). We also have the Lord Jesus within us, dwelling in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). This causes us further trouble because He says no to the flesh, and most of the time He says no to the soul.

　　Due to the warfare within us, we must learn to cooperate with the Divine Trinity. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, "Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990," p. 478)

　　The Divine Trinity is the model of our Christian life. Among the Divine Trinity there is no warfare. The Father is happy to exalt the Son, the Son is very willing to subject Himself to the Father, and the Spirit is willing to testify concerning the Son. Our "human trinity" is not like this. Therefore, we need a Savior. This Savior is the Divine Trinity, who has come into our spirit. After we are saved, our "human trinity" needs to follow the indwelling Divine Trinity....Eventually, our entire being—spirit, soul, and body—will glorify the Divine Trinity. This cooperation with the indwelling Trinity will result in His glorification, His expression, and His manifestation.

　　Even though we make choices and decisions with our soul, we still cannot act with our soul alone. When the Son did things, He did not do them according to His own will but according to the Father's will. In the same way, our soul should do things not according to its own will but according to the spirit's will. This is our life after we are saved. After we were saved, the Divine Trinity was added to our tripartite being. Instead of exchanging lives with the Divine Trinity, we have been and are being mingled together with Him....The Christian life is the "human trinity"—the body, the soul, and the spirit—mingled together with the Divine Trinity. These two "trinities" are mingled together as one.

　　In our Christian life, God uses four instruments to mingle us with the Divine Trinity: the divine life, the cross, the Spirit, and the Word. These are the Lord's divine provisions....Therefore, we must always have fellowship with the Spirit in the divine life through the cross and through the Word. For this reason we must join ourselves to the holy Word every day, accept the dealing of the cross, and be one with the Spirit so that we may participate in the divine life. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, "Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990," pp. 478-480)

　　Apparently, the book of Numbers is a record of the numbering of God's people and their journey in the wilderness. Actually, such a record is structured with the Divine Trinity....The intrinsic reality of the record in Numbers is the Divine Trinity, as revealed in the separation of the Nazarite, Jehovah's threefold blessing to His people, the function of the tabernacle and the altar, God's continual presence with His people in their journey, and the thirst-quenching rock that followed them as they followed God. This reveals how crucial the Trinity is. The Divine Trinity is our way to follow the Lord, our way to serve Him, and our way to be supplied with life. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "The Divine Trinity as Revealed in the Holy Word," pp. 274-275)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, "Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990," ch. 6