The Economy of God by Witness Lee

Author:Witness Lee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Biblical Studies, Religion, General
ISBN: 9780870834158
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Published: 1988-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

THE CROSS AND THE SOUL LIFE

These chapters deal with the basics of God’s economy and its mark. We are not touching here upon some unimportant teachings, but upon the basic things of God’s economy—not merely in the way of doctrine, but in the way of experience. God in His economy intends to dispense Himself into us, which He has already accomplished in the human spirit. The Triune God has been dispensed into us. It is for this purpose that God created us in three parts: body, soul, and spirit. This tripartite being is God’s temple. God’s temple consists of three parts: the outer court, the holy place, and the Holiest of all, the very place where God’s Shekinah glory and God’s Christ dwelt. The three parts of our being correspond exactly with the three parts of the temple—the body with the outer court, the soul with the holy place, and the spirit with the Holiest of all. Today, God in Christ is dwelling in our spirit, the Holiest of all.

THE TRIUNE GOD SPREADING WITHIN MAN

God’s economy is to dispense Himself into our spirit as His abode and to take His residence in our spirit as a base to spread Himself through our whole being. Our spirit is His home, His dwelling place, His habitation, the very place from which He spreads Himself through our whole being. By spreading Himself through us, He saturates every part of our being with Himself. First, He thoroughly mingles Himself with our spirit, then, with the soul, and lastly, with the body. He comes into our spirit to start the mingling by regenerating our spirit. Regeneration is the mingling of God Himself with our spirit. After regeneration, if we cooperate with Him, offering ourselves to Him and giving Him the opportunity, He will spread Himself from our spirit into our soul to renew all the parts of our soul. This is His transforming work. Through transformation the very essence of the Triune God is mingled with our soul, our very self. When our soul is transformed into the image of the Lord, our thoughts, our desires, and our decisions will always express the Lord.

God’s first step, therefore, is to regenerate our spirit; His second step is to transform our soul; and finally, the last step is to transfigure, or change, our body at the second coming of the Lord. The Lord will then permeate our body and His glory will saturate our whole being. This transfiguration is the ultimate consummation of His mingling with our being to the uttermost. At that time God’s economy of dispensing Himself into us will be fully accomplished. Remember these three steps by which God mingles Himself with us in every way. This hymn expresses the final consummation.

Christ is the hope of glory, my very life is He,

He has regenerated and saturated me;

He comes to change my body by His subduing might Like to His glorious body in glory bright!

Chorus

He comes, He comes, Christ comes to glorify me!

My body He’ll transfigure, like His own it then will be.

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