Scripture Reading: John 1:1; 14:7-21, 23; 3:34; 16:13-15; 1 John 2:27; 3:9; Rev. 21:9-10; 22:13

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«　WEEK 6　DAY 1　»

　　John 14:6 …I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

　　23…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.

　　The subject of John’s writings is the Triune God dispensing Himself into His chosen people as the life and life supply to make them all divine to express Him in full for eternity…The reality, the center, and the content of the entire universe is that the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—wants to dispense Himself into His chosen people as their life and life supply to make them divine to express Him in full and for eternity. This should also be our center, our reality, and our content. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 237)

　　The Divine Trinity in the divine move and in our experience is revealed… in John 14:6-24…Verse 6 shows that the believers come to the Father through the Son—the Father being the object of the believers. John 14—16 records the last conversation that the Lord had with His disciples while He was on this earth. In His last talk to them He indicated that all His believers should seek after the Father. In other words, they should take the Father as their object. If we are going to reach the Father as our object, we must reach Him through the Son, who is the way.

　　Verses 7 through 14 [of John 14] show the Father embodied in the Son seen among the believers—the Son being the Father’s embodiment among the believers. In these verses the Lord showed us that He is in the Father and that the Father is in Him. The Son and the Father are one. They mutually indwell each other. The Son dwells in the Father, and the Father dwells in the Son. In this way the Son was the Father’s embodiment among the believers.

　　Verses 15 through 20 go on to show us the Son realized as the Spirit abiding in the believers—the Spirit being the realization of the Son abiding in the believers. The Father is embodied in the Son, and the Son is realized as the Spirit. The Son as the Father’s embodiment was only among the believers, but the Spirit as the realization of the Son is now abiding within 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.

　　The Father as the object, the Son as the embodiment, and the Spirit as the realization are in us, the container…The object, the embodiment, and the realization are the excellent treasure in us, the earthen vessels (2 Cor. 4:7). As earthen vessels, we contain the excellent deity in three aspects.

　　Verses 21 and 23 of John 14 show the Son manifesting Himself to His lover and the Father coming with Him to make an abode with the Son’s lover. After the abiding of the Spirit in us, the Son will manifest Himself to His lovers. It is possible to be a believer of Jesus Christ but not be a lover of Him. When we believe in Him, the three of the Divine Trinity come to abide in us. But after we believe in Him and know that He is abiding in us, we need to love Him. In verses 21 and 23 we see the request of our love toward Him. We may be the believers of Christ, but how many among us are the lovers of Jesus? The Father as the object is in Jesus as the embodiment, this embodiment is in the Spirit as His realization, and this realization is the very Spirit who is now abiding in all of us. But we need to ask whether or not we enjoy the manifestation of the Lord Jesus to us daily and even hourly. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” pp. 303-304)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” ch. 4

«　WEEK 6　DAY 2　»

　　John 16:13-15 But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will not speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare it to you. All that the Father has is Mine…

　　In the morning we may have had a time with the Lord to enjoy His manifestation, but later we might become unhappy with our spouse and lose the Lord’s manifestation to us. This, however, does not mean that we have lost the abiding of the Spirit within us. Some Christians feel that when they lose the manifestation of Jesus, they have lost their salvation, but this is not true, because the Spirit always abides in the believers. Those who believe they can lose their salvation actually believe in “elevator salvation.”…Our salvation, however, is…a “stairway,” from which we can never be removed. Although we are on this stairway, we want to enjoy the blessing of the top part of the stairway…This is why we need to love the Lord Jesus and say, “Lord Jesus, I love You.” As we love Him, we are brought up to the top floor. Then we see everything in the heavens. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” p. 304)

　　When we love Him, not only does His Spirit abide in us but also He Himself will manifest Himself to us. This means that we have the presence of the One whom we love in our fellowship with Him. If we love Jesus, Jesus loves us, and the Father loves us also. When the Son manifests Himself to us, the Father comes with Him to make an abode with us, to stay with us. We need to be brought more and more into the manifestation of the Son to us, with the Father and the Son making an abode with us. We need to go up the stairway of the Lord’s salvation by loving Him. Then He will manifest Himself to us, and the Father and the Son will make Their abode with us for our enjoyment.

　　The divine transmission of the Divine Trinity to the believers is revealed in John 16:13-15. This transmission is just like the transmission of electrical current. When the electricity is switched on, there is a current of electricity, a moving of electricity, and that moving is the transmission. First, all that the Father has is the Son’s (v. 15). This means that what the Father has is transmitted into the Son. Second, all that the Son has is received by the Spirit (v. 14b). This is a further step of this transmission. The Father transmits to the Son, and then there is a transmitting from the Son to the Spirit. Third, all that the Spirit has received of the Son is disclosed to the believers (vv. 13, 15b). Eventually, all that the Trinity is and has is ours.

　　Stanza 3 of Hymns, #501 talks about this transmission. This stanza says, “All things of the Father are Thine; / All Thou art in Spirit is mine. / The Spirit makes Thee real to me, / That Thou experienced might be.” Whatever the Father has is the Son’s, whatever the Son is has been received by the Spirit, and then the Spirit discloses to us whatever He has received of the Son. This transmission is from the Father to the Son, from the Son to the Spirit, and from the Spirit to us. This is the move of the Divine Trinity. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” pp. 304-306)

　　Our God is triune for the purpose of working Himself into us. He is the Father, the whole “melon.” He is also the Son, being “cut into pieces.” He is also the Spirit, being “pressed into juice.” In order for a big melon to enter into man, it must pass through all these processes. These steps are the stages of the dispensing. Not only does the melon need to be dispensed, but it must also be digested and assimilated into the constitution of man. In the same way, the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—has been processed to become the life-giving Spirit so that we can drink Him and so that He can become our element. This is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” p. 357)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” ch. 1

«　WEEK 6　DAY 3　»

　　John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

　　3:34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.

　　1 John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world.

　　Christ was ministered by John as God in the beginning (John 1:1). Both Paul and Peter also ministered in this way, pointing out that Christ, the Son of God, is God Himself (Rom. 9:5; Heb. 1:8; 2 Pet. 1:1)…The beginning means the source. This God is the very source of life. He is also the eternal life (John 3:36). This eternal life is for dispensing. Then at the end of John’s writings, in chapter 22 of Revelation, you can see that eternal life is flowing as the river of water of life (v. 1). That flowing of life is the dispensing of life. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 237-238)

　　According to John, Christ is the eternal Logos (John 1:1; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). This is a wonderful term. It means “the Word.” The Word defines, explains, and expresses God…This is the wonderful Christ, the second of the Trinity.

　　Christ is the only begotten Son of God (John 1:18; 3:16; 1:34; 20:31). God in eternity is for dispensing life; the eternal Logos is for dispensing life; and the only begotten Son of God, who declared God, is also for dispensing life.

　　In John’s writings Christ is the eternal life (1 John 1:2; John 11:25; 14:6). This is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which is not only everlasting timewise but eternal and divine in nature. Eternal life is for life dispensing. Life flows, and life dispenses itself. This is the eternal life, which is an eternal dispensing.

　　Christ is also the Giver of the Spirit (3:34). The Spirit is the Triune God reaching us. When the Triune God stays in unapproachable light, He is the Father (1 Tim. 6:16). When He reaches us, He is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). The Spirit is the Triune God reaching us, and Christ is the Giver of such a reaching Spirit. The reaching is the dispensing…The reaching and dispensing is by the Spirit given to us by Christ the Son.

　　Christ is not only the Son of God with the divine nature but also the Son of Man with the human nature. He is the Son of Man for redemption, to take away our sin and solve the problems between us and God, that God might be dispensed into us.

　　John ministered Christ as the Lamb of God (John 1:29; Rev. 5:6; 13:8; 22:1). The Lamb of God was not the Son of God but the Son of Man. God does not have blood to shed for our redemption, nor does the Son of God have blood, but the Lamb, the Son of Man, has blood. This is not the blood of goats or oxen but the genuine blood of a genuine man, which is able to redeem us. Men need a man’s blood to redeem them. This redeeming is for the dispensing of God as life.

　　As the Lamb, Christ is the propitiation concerning our sins (1 John 2:2)… Because of our sins there was a turmoil, a storm, a problem between God and us. There was no peace. Christ as the Son of Man who was the Lamb of God died on the cross to be our propitiation…He solved the problem. So He is our propitiation. He calmed the turmoil, and He appeased God. So now there is a kind of peaceful condition between God and us. This is for life dispensing. If there is not such a peaceful condition, there is no way to dispense life. When we are going to eat, we must stop any fighting. We cannot eat well if we are quarreling with our wife or with the brothers. If we are quarreling and fighting, there is no life dispensing. Eating and life dispensing need a peaceful situation. The Lord Jesus became the propitiation concerning our sins between us and God to create a peaceful situation for life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 238-239)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” ch. 10

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　　1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

　　Rev. 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

　　Christ is our Advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1). This means that He is our Attorney. He takes our case legally. Satan, the enemy of God and our subtle enemy, is subtly legal. The Bible tells us that he accuses us before our God day and night (Rev. 12:10)…He would say, “God, You are righteous. Look at all the children whom You love. Not one of them is righteous. And You are so holy. But look at Your children; every one is dirty.” This kind of accusation is somewhat legal. But God the Father would say, “Satan, look at Jesus Christ the righteous One. My children have a good Attorney.” Then our Attorney, Jesus Christ, would turn to Satan and say, “Satan, don’t you see My blood? Satan, shut up! Don’t say anything!” (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 239-240)

　　According to Revelation 12:10-11, Satan is accusing God’s children day and night. But they can overcome him by the blood of the Lamb. Once we realize that we are unclean, unholy, and unrighteous, we are defeated and the life dispensing stops. But we have the blood of Jesus. He is our Advocate, our Attorney. We have to tell Satan, “Shut up! Don’t say anything!” Then we need to praise the Lamb! Hallelujah to the Lamb! Hallelujah for the blood! When we shout Hallelujah, life is dispensed into us once more. Christ, our Advocate, is taking care of our case so that life dispensing can keep going on all the time.

　　Our Christ is the Alpha and the Omega (22:13a). In the Greek alphabet Christ is the first letter, Alpha, the last letter, Omega, and all the letters in between. He is every letter. In ourselves we are no letter, but we are in Christ. As He is an Alpha, so we are an alpha. As He is an Omega, so we are an omega. He is every letter of the alphabet for the dispensing of life. He is inexhaustible, and His dispensing of life is inexhaustible.

　　John’s writings touch the divine things. With the divine things there is no beginning and no ending, because whatever is divine is eternal, having no beginning and no ending. I believe that John purposely wrote his books using these kinds of expressions. He had an intention to show us that whatever he ministered to us is eternal, with no beginning and no ending. So he told us that Christ is the eternal One. He is the First, and He is the Last (Rev. 2:8; 22:13b). Because He is the First, no one and nothing is before Him. Because He is the Last, no one and nothing is after Him. This indicates that He is everything. Christ as the eternal One may be illustrated by a circle, which has no beginning and no ending. Christ occupies everything and every place. He does not give us any position. We are nothing, and He is everything. Hallelujah! He is the First and the Last. This is also for life dispensing.

　　Christ is not only the First and the Last but also the Beginning and the End (v. 13c)…The Lord Jesus is not only the First but also the Beginning, the Origination. He is not only the Last but also the End, the Completion, leaving nothing to anyone. He occupies the entire universe. In time, in space, and in all things He is everything…He is the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Origination and the Completion.

　　Christ is also the beginning of God’s creation (3:14)…God’s dispensing is to dispense His life into His creature…He is the Beginning, the Origination, of God’s entire creation, so the entire creation is under His direction for the purpose of dispensing God into His chosen creatures. When you get into the Bible and see all the items of Christ’s being, you can see that they are for the divine dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 240-241)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” ch. 1

«　WEEK 6　DAY 5　»

　　Rev. 3:7 …These things says the Holy One, the true One… 14…These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness…

　　1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

　　In Revelation 3:7 Christ is revealed as the Holy One and the true One. In order to dispense life to others, He must be holy, and He must be true.

　　Christ is the faithful and true Witness (v. 14b)…He never tells a lie in His testimony. This also is for dispensing. A liar, a false witness, can never give life to others. If you are going to give life to others, you must be faithful, and you must be true. You must have no falsehood. Then you will be qualified to give life to others. Because He is living and holy and faithful and true, He is qualified to impart life into us. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 241-242)

　　Revelation 3:14a says that Christ is the Amen. What does Amen mean? This is the unique, heavenly, and divine language…When you say Amen, you mean “that’s it.” Oh, the divine dispensation is so wonderful! That’s it! Oh, the Triune God dispenses Himself into me! That’s it! I am so happy that I am in the church life. Amen! That’s it! The glorious church life! That’s it! It is real; it is yes forever. Amen is a kind of eternal yes. “That’s it” is just Christ Himself. Christ has a name, and His name is called Amen—That’s it! This is also for life dispensing.

　　Out of Christ being ministered, the children of God have been brought forth. The issue of Christ being ministered is that many have been born of God. These children first of all have the eternal life (John 3:15-16, 36; 1 John 1:2; 5:12-13, 20). To have the eternal life simply means to have some living dispensing. Because you have the eternal life, it flows within you. This flowing within you is the dispensing of life.

　　We are partakers of the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light (1:3-7; 2:6). The fellowship is the flowing. There is a life that flows between God and us. Even between the members of His Body there is such a flow. This flow reaches all of us and even God Himself. So this is a kind of fellowship. Electricity is a good illustration. Within the lamps in a house and within the power plant itself there is the flow of electricity. That flow is the fellowship between all the lamps. The current brings every lamp into the fellowship with the plant.

　　Within us there is a flow. That flow is the eternal life, and that is the fellowship. We all are partaking of such a fellowship. To partake of such a fellowship may not be so substantial as partaking of the divine nature, which Peter mentions (2 Pet. 1:4). But this fellowship is more enjoyable. For example, there are two ways to eat chicken: one is to eat the solid chicken, and the other is to eat soup made of chicken. When you are weak or sick, chicken soup is better than chicken. We may use the chicken to illustrate the divine nature, and chicken soup to illustrate the fellowship of the divine life. Which do you prefer? If you are a strong person, you may like solid chicken. This is good, but it is more tasteful to eat the chicken soup…Without a solid chicken, you could not have chicken soup. Likewise, without the divine nature you could not have the fellowship of the eternal life. The divine nature is the solid thing, the substance, and the fellowship of the divine life is the fellowship of this substance. This is for the life dispensing. The way to partake of the fellowship of the eternal life is to abide in the Lord and walk in the light. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 242-243)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” ch. 2

«　WEEK 6　DAY 6　»

　　1 John 2:27 …The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you…His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

　　Rev. 21:9-10 …Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

　　When we enjoy the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light, we are under the teaching of the divine anointing (1 John 2:20, 27). The children of God are also brought forth to be taught by the divine anointing. The anointing may be considered as a kind of oiling. Many machines need to be oiled. If they are not oiled, they do not run smoothly. Instead, they make a lot of noise. Sometimes we Christians make a lot of noise, either to our wife or to our husband or to the elders or to the brothers. This means that we are short of anointing. We need to get oiled. Hallelujah! We have a source of oil because the anointing is within us. All the time it anoints us. This again is life dispensing. This anointing teaches us, oils us, and regulates us all the time…This is life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 243)

　　We were begotten not just of our parents but also of God with a divine seed (1 John 3:9). This divine seed is God’s eternal life…By the virtues of this birth and seed we can practice the divine righteousness (2:29), we can practice the divine love (4:7; 5:1), and we can overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols (vv. 4, 16-21)…In the spiritual language virtue means life energy…We can overcome the negative things because we have the energizing life. This energizing is the dispensing of life.

　　The church is…the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (Rev. 14:1-5, 15-16). A harvest is a gathering of all the living produce of the farm. This signifies the maturity of life and the riches of life by life’s dispensing.

　　We also become the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29; Rev. 19:7-9). In John 3 Christ is the Bridegroom, and the church is the bride as His increase. In Revelation 19 the church as the wife has made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb for His satisfaction.

　　Eventually, there will be the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man. This will be the New Jerusalem, the holy city, the tabernacle of God, the bride, and the wife of the Lamb as the consummate expression of the Triune God (21:2-3, 9). Such a corporate entity is built with God the Father’s nature, signified by the gold, God the Son’s overcoming death and life-imparting resurrection, signified by the pearls, and God the Spirit’s work of transformation, signified by the precious stones (vv. 11, 18-21). The New Jerusalem, as a consummate expression of the Triune God, is supplied and nourished by the Triune God (22:1-2, 14, 17). God as the Father is the source, the Spirit as the water of life is the flow, and the Son as the tree of life is the life supply. In Revelation 22 a river of living water flows from the throne of God. Within this river grows the tree of life. This is a clear view of the Triune God in His dispensing. The Father as the source is on the throne with the Lamb because He is the redeeming God, the Lamb-God…Out of this redeeming God flows the river, signifying the Spirit. In the flow of the river of water of life, the Lamb becomes the tree of life…The life-dispensing river circles the entire city as it flows downward from the throne of the Lamb-God in a spiral flowing. This flowing is the dispensing of the Triune God into His chosen people as life and the life supply in fullness for eternity. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 244-246)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” ch. 3