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The genuine oneness of the Body is the processed and consummated Triune God, who mingles Himself with the believers—Eph. 4:4-6:
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The processed and consummated Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen and redeemed people in their humanity, and this mingling is the genuine oneness of the Body of Christ.
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Because the Body is such a mingling, the Body itself is the oneness.
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The oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness of the Divine Trinity; hence, the oneness of the Body of Christ is the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity—John 17:21, 23.
Morning Nourishment
Eph. 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."John 17:21 "That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me."
One of the most positive items in the New Testament revelation is the genuine oneness of the Body. This genuine oneness is just the processed Triune God, who mingles Himself with us, the redeemed and transformed Christians. The genuine oneness of the Body is nothing less than the Triune God, who is not only triune but also processed and consummated. This consummated, processed Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen people in their humanity, and this mingling is the genuine oneness.
The genuine oneness is not merely a matter of our meeting together.…Our oneness is the oneness of the organic Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is a mingling of the Triune God with His redeemed and transformed people. Because it is such a mingling, the Body itself is the oneness. The three of the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—are three divine factors of this oneness, and these three divine factors are mingled with one human factor, consummating in the Body. This Body is the genuine oneness. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “Elders' Training, Book 10:The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2), “pp. 359-360)
Today's Reading
This oneness was something in the Lord's desire. This desire of the Lord's became His aspiration, and this aspiration was expressed in the prayer offered by the Lord in John 17 (vv. 2, 6, 11, 14-24).…The Lord uttered this prayer out of the divine aspiration. At that time this oneness was not yet a reality; however, a model of this oneness—the oneness among the three of the Divine Trinity—was there. The Father and the Son are one (vv. 11, 21), and this oneness implies or includes the Spirit.In John 17 the Lord used the plural pronouns We (v. 11) and Us (v. 21) to signify the Triune God. The Triune God is one, and that oneness is a model of the oneness of the Body of Christ. Because the oneness of the Body has the oneness among the three of the Trinity as a model, John 17 tells us that this oneness is altogether wrapped up with the Triune God (v. 21). The oneness of the Body of Christ is just the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity.…This enlarged oneness came on the day of Pentecost. Through the outpouring of the Spirit, the Body of Christ was produced (1 Cor.12:13).That Body is the solid oneness.
The genuine oneness, which is the mingling of the Triune God with the redeemed humanity, has three aspects. The first aspect is the oneness in the Father's name by His divine life, and the second is the oneness in the Triune God by His sanctifying word. The first aspect concerns the source and the element of the oneness, and the second concerns the standing of the oneness. If we are in the world and under Satan's hand, we cannot practice the oneness. To practice the oneness, we must be separated from the world and kept away from Satan's hand.
The third aspect of the genuine oneness is the oneness of the believers in Christ in the divine glory (John 17:22-24).… God's glory is His divine life with His divine nature to express Him. If we did not have the Father's life with the Father's nature, it would be impossible for us to express the Father. The expression of the Father comes from the Father's life with the Father's nature. This expression of the Father is the glory.
We must not act or do anything to express ourself; rather, we must do things in the Father's life with the Father's nature to express the Father. This is glory, and it is in this glory that we all are one. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “Elders' Training, Book 10:The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2), “pp. 360, 362-363)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “Elders' Training, Book 10:The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2), “ch. 3; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible, “ch. 2