Scripture Reading: John 1:14, 16-17; 3:6b, 15-16; 4:14; 6:57b; 7:37-39; 20:22
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God's economy is the processed and consummated Triune God dispensing Himself in His Divine Trinity into His chosen, redeemed, and regenerated believers to be their life and life supply so that they may become His corporate expression—1 Tim. 1:4; Rom. 8:6, 10-11; 12:4-5; Eph. 1:4-14, 22-23:
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The economy of God is His plan and arrangement out of His desire and purpose—vv. 5, 9-11.
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The dispensing of God is His imparting and distributing according to His plan and arrangement—3:16-21.
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The Gospel of John reveals the accomplishment of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the believers' experience, enjoyment, and application of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity:
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In the Gospel of John there is a line concerning the accomplishment of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity—1:14; 3:16; 10:10b; 12:24; 19:34; 20:22:
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The incarnation was for God to dispense Himself into humanity—1:14, 16-17:
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The phrase full of grace and reality in verse 14 indicates that the incarnation was for God to come to dispense Himself into us.
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When God is dispensed into us, He is the grace we enjoy and the reality we gain and possess—vv. 16-17.
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God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone who believes into Him would have eternal life—3:16:
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God's giving His Son to us is His dispensing.
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The Son is the embodiment of the Father (14:10-11); thus, when the Father gave His Son to us, that was God's giving Himself to us in His embodiment.
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Eternal life is in the Son; to receive eternal life is to receive the Son as the embodiment of the Triune God as a gift from Him—1 John 5:11-13; John 3:15-16, 36a.
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God gave us His Son, and we receive eternal life by believing into the Son; in this way the Triune God dispenses the Son as eternal life into the believers—vv. 15-16, 36a; 1:12-13.
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The Son came that we may have life and may have it abundantly; this is a matter of the divine dispensing—10:10b.
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The Son died to release the divine life and to dispense the divine life into the believers—12:24; 3:14-16:
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The purpose of Christ's death was not only to take away sins but also to release the divine life from within Him—1:29; 12:24; 19:34.
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The Lord Jesus as the grain of wheat—containing the divine life and glory—released the divine life through the breaking of the shell of His body in death to produce many grains to be formed into one loaf, which is the church, the Body of Christ—12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17.
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The Lord's death released the divine life for the believers, and His resurrection applied the divine life to the believers—John 20:17, 22:
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In resurrection Christ the Son was transfigured as the Spirit to be the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God so that He could be dispensed into the believers—7:37-39; 14:16-20.
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The breathing of the pneumatic Christ in His resurrection into the disciples imparted the processed and consummated Triune God for the divine dispensing; Christ breathed Himself into the believers as the holy breath—20:22; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17.
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Christ, who is God, was incarnated and given to us as the Son; He died, resurrected, and became the Spirit to breathe Himself into the believers; this is the accomplishment of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity— John 1:1, 14, 29; 3:14; 12:24; 19:34; 20:22.
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In the Gospel of John there is a line concerning the believers' experience, enjoyment, and application of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity— 1:12-13; 3:6b, 15-16; 4:14; 6:57b; 7:37-39; 20:22:
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The intrinsic view of the Gospel of John concerning the Triune God is that He has been processed and consummated to be available for His believers to receive, breathe, drink, and eat—1:1, 14; 7:39; 20:22; 4:14; 6:57b:
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We have been born of the Spirit in our spirit to receive eternal life and thus become children of God with the life of God—3:3-6, 15; 1:12-13.
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Christ is not only our life but also the holy breath for our breathing; our breathing is our inhaling the pneumatic Christ—11:25; 14:6; 20:22.
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As believers, we may drink of the pneumatic Christ as the living water to quench our thirst—4:10, 14; 7:37-39.
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As believers, we need to eat Jesus as the bread of life, the living bread, the true bread, the bread of God—6:32-33, 35, 41, 48, 51, 57b.
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As we experience, enjoy, and apply the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, five results will be manifested:
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Out of us will flow rivers of living water—7:37-39.
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We will bear fruit—15:5, 16a.
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We will feed the lambs in the flock—21:15; 10:16.
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We will become the bride of Christ, which is the Body of Christ as His increase—3:6b, 29-30.
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We will become the organism of the Triune God for His glorious expression—15:1, 5, 8.