Scripture Reading: John 6:35, 51-57; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 3:16-17a; Phil. 1:19-21a
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The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity is the base of and the supply to the believers in their daily living—2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 3:16-17a:
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We need to receive the divine dispensing little by little, day by day, receiving this dispensing again and again in a slow, steady way—Matt. 6:11; Psa. 68:19.
B
The processed and consummated Triune God is within us not in a spectacular way but in an ordinary way; for this reason, we need to live a steady and normal Christian life; the less special and the more normal we are, the better—Col. 1:27; 3:4; Eph. 3:16-17a.
C
All the things of life that the Triune God gives to us through the divine dis-pensing are quiet and calm, and our life as believers should also be quiet and calm—Rom. 8:6; 1 Thes. 5:23; 2 Thes. 3:16.
D
Our destiny is to live an ordinary life in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity—Rom. 8:2, 6, 10-11:
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Our Father has destined that we live in an ordinary way under His con-tinual dispensing—Matt. 6:11, 32-34.
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We need to learn to be satisfied with ordinary days that are filled with reg-ular and normal practices in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.
E
As believers, we experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity by faith; God wants us to do everything by depending on Him, by taking Him as life, and by allowing Him to dispense Himself into us—Eph. 3:17a; Heb. 11:1.
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The way for the believers to experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in their daily living is to eat, digest, and assimilate Jesus as food—John 6:35, 51-57:
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God's economy is that we eat, digest, and assimilate Christ to be constituted with Him—1 Tim. 1:4; John 6:35, 51, 57:
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God's economy is not a matter of outward things but of Christ coming into us inwardly; for this we need to take Christ by eating, digesting, and assim-ilating Him—Eph. 3:17a; John 6:57b.
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God's eternal plan is to dispense Himself into us so that He becomes every fiber of our inward being; He wants to be eaten, digested, and assimilated by us so that He can become our constituent—2 Cor. 13:14.
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The Triune God becomes our life and life supply by entering into us organically to be assimilated into the fibers of our spiritual being—Eph. 3:16-17a; 4:23.
C
To eatthe Lord Jesusistoreceive HimintoussothatHemay be digested and assimilated by the regenerated new man in the way of life; we need to eat, digest, and assimilate Jesus as our spiritual food day by day—John 6:51-57.
D
We should not only believe into the Lord Jesus and receive Him but also eat Him, digest Him, and assimilate Him, allowing Him to become the content of our being—3:15-16; 6:51-57.
E
As we eat the Lord Jesus, we need to have proper spiritual digestion—Ezek. 2:8—3:3; Jer. 15:16; Rev. 10:9-10:
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If we have good digestion, there will be a thoroughfare for the food to get into every part of our inward being—Eph. 3:16-17a.
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Indigestion means that there is no way for Christ as the spiritual food to get into our inward parts—Heb. 3:12-13, 15; 4:2.
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We need to keep our whole being with all our inward parts open to the Lord so that the spiritual food will have a thoroughfare within us; if we do this, we will have proper digestion and assimilation, we will absorb Christ as spiritual nourishment, and Christ will become our constituent for the expression of God—Eph. 3:16-17a; Col. 3:4, 10-11.
F
Any believer who receives the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity by eating, digesting, and assimilating the Lord Jesus will live because of Him— John 6:57b.
Ⅲ
The believers' living is to live Christ and magnify Christ by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ—Phil. 1:19-21a:
A
The basic thought of the Bible is that the Triune God desires to work Himself in Christ into us so that we may take Him as life and live Him—Eph. 3:16-17a:
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God's intention is to have a group of people who are one with Him in His life and nature; those who are one with God in the divine life and the divine nature are able to express Him—vv. 19b, 21.
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God's desire is that Christ would be life in us and be lived out of us—Col. 3:4; Phil. 1:21a.
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God wants the "I" to be crucified in the death of Christ so that in His resur-rection Christ may live in us and be the source of everything in our living— Gal. 2:20.
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Christ is not only our life but also our living—Col. 3:4; Gal. 2:20:
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We live Christ because Christ lives in us—John 14:19-20.
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Christ lives in us to be our life, and we live Christ to be Christ's living— Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21a.
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To live Christ is to magnify Him in whatever circumstances we may be in, expressing His divine attributes in His human virtues—v. 20; 4:11-13.
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Paul's life was to live Christ; Christ and Paul lived together as one person with one life and one living—Col. 3:4; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21a.
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The believers live Christ by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; the Spirit of Jesus Christ is the Christ who is the life-dispensing Spirit—v. 19; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:6:
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This bountiful supply includes divinity, humanity, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, the divine attributes, and the human virtues—Acts 16:7; Rom. 8:9.
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Everything we do and all our living should come about by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ—Phil. 1:19.
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Under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, we spontaneously receive the supply of Christ within and will live a life that expresses Christ— vv. 20-21a.