THE TRIUNE GOD TO BE LIFE TO THE TRIPARTITE MAN
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The Triune God Being Life to Us by Dispensing Himself into Us as Grace for Our Enjoyment
 
  
Scripture Reading: 1 Pet. 5:10; John 1:14; 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 10:29; Phil. 4:23; Rev. 22:21
Ⅰ 
Grace is the greatest truth and the highest revelation in God's New Testament economy—John 1:14; Heb. 10:29; 1 Cor. 15:10; Phil. 4:23.
Ⅱ 
Grace is the Triune God processed and consummated for us so that we may enjoy Him—John 1:14, 16-17; 1 Pet. 5:10; 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 10:29; 1 Cor. 15:10, 45b; Rev. 22:21.
Ⅲ 
Grace is the wonderful Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God in three aspects—Gal. 6:18; Phil. 4:23; Philem. 25:
A 
Grace is the wonderful Christ in what He is—John 1:14, 17; 8:58; Rom. 5:17, 21; 1 Cor. 15:10; cf. Gal. 2:20.
B 
Grace is the wonderful Christ given to us, dispensed into us, superabounding with faith and love in Christ Jesus—1 Tim. 1:14.
C 
Grace is the wonderful Christ doing everything in us on our behalf—1 Cor. 15:10, 58; 2 Cor. 12:9.
Ⅳ 
Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—13:14; Num. 6:22-27; Psa. 36:8-9:
A 
The New Testament is a history of the grace of God as the incarnation of the Triune God in His Divine Trinity processed and consummated and moving and living in and among the believers—John 1:14, 16-17; Rev. 22:21.
B 
Grace is the Triune God in His incarnation to be dispensed into the believers by the Father as the source, by the Son as the element, and by the Spirit as the application—2 Cor. 13:14:
1 
The source of grace, the element of grace, and the application of grace are the three persons of the Divine Trinity to be our everything—Matt. 28:19.
2 
In the divine dispensing, grace is called the grace of God, the grace of Christ, and the grace of which the Spirit is—1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 1:12; 8:1, 9; 9:14; 12:9; 13:14; Heb. 10:29.
C 
Grace is the embodiment of God, who became a God-man with divinity and humanity, passed through human living, died, resurrected, and entered into ascension; now He is the life-giving Spirit dwelling in us—1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17.
D 
Without being processed, the Triune God could not be grace to us—John 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:45b:
1 
The Father is embodied in the Son, the Son is realized as the Spirit, and the Spirit enters into us as grace for our enjoyment—Heb. 10:29.
2 
The processed and consummated Triune God dispenses Himself into us to be our portion as grace so that we may enjoy Him as everything in His Divine Trinity—2 Cor. 13:14.
E 
Grace means God is everything, God does everything, and God gives everything— 1 Pet. 5:10.
Ⅴ 
The New Testament believers' living under the grace in God's economy is a total living of experiencing the processed and consummated Triune God as grace—Gal. 6:18; Heb. 4:16; Rev. 22:21:
A 
The Christian living must be the living of grace, the experience of grace; our Christian life is essentially a life of having God as our grace—2 Cor. 1:12.
B 
A total living means that our entire living is a living of the Triune God processed to be grace to us—13:14.
C 
The compound Spirit is moving within us daily as the anointing so that we may enjoy the processed Triune God as grace—1 John 2:20, 27.
D 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of grace, is with our spirit, which has been regenerated to be the dwelling place and vessel of the Triune God— Heb. 10:29; Gal. 6:18; Phil. 4:23; Philem. 25; 2 Tim. 4:22.
E 
We are those who have received grace, which is the Triune God—the Father given to us in the Son, and the Son realized as the Spirit dwelling in our spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17.
F 
The riches of God's grace surpass every limitation, for they are the overflowing riches of God Himself for our enjoyment—1 Pet. 5:10.
G 
To grow in grace is to grow in the increase of God—2 Pet. 3:18; Col. 2:19.
H 
Because we are saints, the grace of the Lord must be with each one of us in every aspect of our daily life—Rev. 22:21.
Ⅵ 
The consummation of the believers' experience of the grace of God in His economy is the church as the Body of Christ, which consummates in the New Jerusalem—Eph. 1:6-8, 22-23; Rev. 21:2:
A 
Grace is the circulating Triune God dispensing all that He is into us for our enjoyment; the entire church life depends on grace as the circulation of the Divine Trinity within us—1 Pet. 5:10; Acts 4:33; 2 Cor. 8:1; 13:14.
B 
The consummation of the believers' experience of the grace of God in His economy is the church as the Body of Christ—Eph. 1:6-8, 22-23:
1 
The practical life and building up of the Body of Christ comes forth out of the inward enjoyment of the grace of God—1 Cor. 1:9; 2 Cor. 13:14.
2 
Every part of the organic Body of Christ is an issue of the grace of God in the economy of God—Rom. 12:4-6a.
C 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ dispensed to His believers throughout the New Testament age consummates in the New Jerusalem, in which the processed and consummated Triune God will be the grace enjoyed by all the believers for eternity—Rev. 21:2, 9-10; 22:21.
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