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The charge given in Matthew 28:19 was given by the Lord Jesus after He had entered into resurrection, which was the consummation of the process of the Triune God:
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The Triune God has passed through a process that began with incarnation, included human living and crucifixion, and consummated with resurrection—John 1:14; Rom. 6:4.
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In resurrection Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God, became the life-giving Spirit, the consummation of the Triune God, for the believers to be baptized into the Divine Trinity—1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17.
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To be baptized into the person of the Trinity is to be baptized in the all-inclusive, consummated Spirit who is the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God—Matt. 28:19:
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This is to be baptized into the riches of the Father, into the riches of the Son, and into the riches of the Spirit—Eph. 3:8.
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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—1 Cor. 6:17; John 15:4-5, 7.
Morning Nourishment
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.Eph. 1:13 …Having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise.
1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
By the time the Lord Jesus gave the charge to His disciples recorded in Matthew 28:19, He had already died an all-inclusive death on the cross, had been buried, had entered into Hades to overcome the power of death and everything related to it, and had come out of death and had entered into resurrection. Furthermore, He, the pneumatic Christ, had already breathed Himself as the life-giving Spirit into the disciples (John 20:22). Having done all this, He charged them to disciple the nations and to bring them into the Triune God so that they may have an organic union with Him….To baptize believers into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is in fact to baptize them into the processed Triune God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1323-1324)
Today’s Reading
Unless baptism in the Holy Spirit is specifically designated, the word baptism in the New Testament indicates baptism through water implying the significance of the baptism in the Spirit….The baptism mentioned by the Lord Jesus in Matthew 28:19,…to baptize believers into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is to baptize them both in the water and in the Spirit. Physically, we baptize believers in water, yet the water symbolizes the divine name, the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This means that when we put people into the water of baptism, we put them into the person of the Triune God.In Matthew 28:19 the Lord Jesus charged the disciples to baptize the believers into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. But later, in practice, the believers were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. This indicates that to be baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus is equivalent to being baptized into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit because the Lord Jesus is the embodiment of the Triune God (Col. 2:9).
Today, when we baptize believers into the name of the Lord Jesus we are actually baptizing them into the Triune God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1324-1325)
In resurrection as the last Adam, Jesus became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). As God, He became a man in incarnation (John 1:14). As such a One, He also became the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is the totality of the Triune God, the consummation of the Triune God. As the life-giving Spirit, He is the Son, and embodied in the Son is the Father. Thus, the Father and the Son are here with this life-giving Spirit, who is the consummation of the Triune God and the totality of the Triune God.
We need to realize that we have the Spirit indwelling us, and the indwelling Spirit is the consummated Triune God. He is the life-giving and indwelling Spirit to seal the believers of the Son (Eph. 1:13), that is, to impart and dispense the riches of God’s being as the unsearchable riches of Christ into the believers as the members of Christ for the constituting and building up of the organic Body of Christ (3:8, 10; 4:16). The indwelling, life-giving Spirit is the sealing Spirit. The sealing ink of a seal saturates the sealed material. We are the sealed material, and we have the Spirit as the sealing ink saturating us. This saturating, this sealing, mingles us with God. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” pp. 345, 347)
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