«　WEEK 2　DAY 3　»

　　John 3:15 That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life.

　　Rom. 8:30 …Those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.

　　Rev. 21:11 Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal.

　　The co-workers must see that we should do only one work, which is to make God’s chosen people regenerated ones, sanctified ones, renewed ones (the new man), transformed ones, conformed ones (those conformed to the image of the firstborn Son of God), and glorified ones. All those who will be in the New Jerusalem are this kind of people. We go up level by level until we reach the highest point, where we become the same. There is no more flesh and no more natural being. All are in the spirit. All are in the kingdom of the heavens, and all are beings of the New Jerusalem. [We] should only do the work of the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, p. 529)

　　First, as the God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s life. John 3:15 tells us that everyone who believes into the Lord Jesus will have eternal life. Eternal life is the divine life, the life of God…. Through regeneration He has put, has dispensed, His life into our being.

　　As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s nature. [In] Ephesians 1:4…we see that God chose us in Christ with a particular purpose—to make us holy. Holy means not only sanctified, separated unto God, but also different, distinct, from everything common…. For us, God’s chosen ones, to be holy is to partake of God’s divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

　　Because we have become God-men through regeneration, we also have the right to participate in God’s mind. This means that we, who are human, can have a divine mind. Philippians 2:5 says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” We need to let Christ’s mind be our mind.

　　Next, the God-men have the divine right to participate in God’s being. Our basis for saying this is Paul’s word in 2 Corinthians 3:18 about our being transformed into the Lord’s image “even as from the Lord Spirit.” This indicates that the work of transformation is done not by something of the Lord Spirit but by the Lord Spirit Himself. Hence, we are being transformed with God’s very being.

　　As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s image. Second Corinthians 3:18 says that we are being “transformed into the same image.” This is the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ. In God’s creation man was made in God’s image in an outward way, but the image into which we are being transformed is something inward. To be transformed into the same image is to be conformed to the resurrected and glorified Christ, as the firstborn Son of God, to be made the same as He is (Rom. 8:29).

　　Eventually, we will be brought into God’s glory to participate in His glory. Hebrews 2:10 says that God is leading many sons into glory. Paul refers to this in Romans 8:30: “Those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.” Glorification is the step in God’s complete salvation in which God will completely saturate our body with the glory of His life and nature. In this way He will transfigure our body, conforming it to the resurrected, glorious body of His Son (Phil. 3:21). This is the ultimate step in God’s organic salvation, wherein God obtains a full expression, which will be manifested ultimately in the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 214-217)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans,” msgs. 5-6