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团体追求:《神在祂与人联结中的历史》第一篇 神在已过永远里的历史
Day: August 1, 2021
Knowing the Truth, Being Absolute for the Truth, and Proclaiming the Truth in the Present Evil Age – Week 3
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Being Constituted with the Truth and Being Absolute for the Way of the Truth and the Propagation of the Truth for the Consummation of the Divine Economy
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Corporate Reading of “The History of God in His Union with Man” Chapter 1 – Sections:
The Three Coexisting and Coinhering at the Same Time from Eternity to Eternity
The Son Coming from with the Father and in the Father’s Name; The Spirit Being Sent from with the Father in the Son’s Name; Among the Three of the Divine Trinity, There Being Distinction but No Separation; God Making An Eternal Economy
God In His Divine Trinity Holding A Council In Eternity; The Second Of The Divine Trinity Preparing To Carry Out His “Goings Forth” From Eternity Into Time To Be Born In Bethlehem As A Man; God Blessing The Believers In Christ With The Spiritual Blessings In The Heavenlies Before The Foundation Of The World; Choosing Them to Be Holy, to Be Sanctified unto Himself with His Holy Nature
Predestinating Them, Marking Them Out, unto Sonship, Making Them Sons to Himself with His Divine Life; According to the Good Pleasure of His Will to the Praise of the Glory of His Grace
The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 1, Sec. 9 of 9
Predestinating Them, Marking Them Out,
unto Sonship, Making Them Sons
to Himself with His Divine Life
In eternity past God predestinated us, marking us out, unto sonship, making us sons to Himself with His divine life (Eph. 1:5a). Thus, God blessed us in eternity past with two things—with His nature and with His divine life. This is the top blessing, which was given to us in eternity past before we were born.
According to the Good Pleasure of His Will
to the Praise of the Glory of His Grace
God’s blessing us in eternity past with the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies was according to the good pleasure of His will (v. 5b) to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in Christ, His Beloved (v. 6).
This is God’s history in eternity past and this involves us. In eternity past God made an economy to produce the church for His manifestation and to head up all things, including us, in Christ. He also held a council to determine that the second of the Divine Trinity should come to die for us to carry out His economy. Then in eternity past He chose us to have His nature and to have His divine life so that we could be holy as He is and be His sons as His children to express Him. This is God’s history in eternity past, and this history is our history. The Christian life began from God’s choosing us and predestinating us in eternity past before the foundation of the world.
We need to know God in such a way from a deeper angle. Our God has a marvelous history, which includes us. Actually, whatever He has done, whatever He is doing, and whatever He will do in His history are all for our Christian life. His history builds up our Christian life.
The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 1, Sec. 8 of 9
GOD IN HIS DIVINE TRINITY
HOLDING A COUNCIL IN ETERNITY
God in His Divine Trinity held a council in eternity (Acts 2:23 and footnote 1, Recovery Version). Acts 2:23 says that Christ was “delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God.” God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit held a council, a conference, in eternity to make the determination concerning the crucial death of Christ for the carrying out of God’s eternal economy. God made an economy, but God had to make a decision regarding how to carry out His economy. For the carrying out of God’s economy, Christ had to die an all-inclusive death.
THE SECOND OF THE DIVINE TRINITY
PREPARING TO CARRY OUT
HIS “GOINGS FORTH” FROM ETERNITY INTO TIME
TO BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM AS A MAN
The second of the Divine Trinity was preparing to carry out His “goings forth” from eternity into time to be born in Bethlehem as a man. Micah 5:2 tells us that Christ was going to be born in Bethlehem, and that was a part of His “goings forth.” Thus, in eternity past the Triune God was preparing to be incarnated, and that preparing was a part of His goings forth. His goings forth are His coming forth. Before God as the second of the Divine Trinity came to be born in Bethlehem in time, He was preparing to come in eternity past.
GOD BLESSING THE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST
WITH THE SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN THE HEAVENLIES BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
God blessed the believers in Christ with the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-6). In eternity past God blessed us before we were created. Before we were created, He blessed us in two things.
Choosing Them to Be Holy,
to Be Sanctified unto Himself with His Holy Nature
In eternity past God chose us to be holy, to be sanctified unto Himself with His holy nature (v. 4). In eternity past God chose us to have His nature, indicating that He would be one with us, that is, that His nature would become our nature. With this nature we are being sanctified, separated unto God. He is holy in nature, and we are being made the same as He is in nature (Heb. 2:11; 2 Pet. 1:4).
The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 1, Sec. 7 of 9
The Son Coming from with the Father
and in the Father’s Name
The Son came from with the Father and in the Father’s name (6:46; 1:14; 5:43a; cf. 1 John 2:23b).
The Spirit Being Sent from with the Father
in the Son’s Name
The Spirit was sent from with the Father in the Son’s name (John 15:26; 14:26). Thus, the Son came in the Father’s name, and the Spirit came in the Son’s name. This shows that the three came as one. The Son came with the Father, and the Father’s name is His name. He came with the Father as the Father. Then the Spirit came with the Father, and the Son’s name is His name. He came with the Father as the Son. Thus, the Son is the Father (Isa. 9:6) and the Spirit is the Son (2 Cor. 3:17), so the three are one.
Among the Three of the Divine Trinity,
There Being Distinction but No Separation
Among the three of the Divine Trinity, there is distinction but no separation. The Father is distinct from the Son, the Son is distinct from the Spirit, and the Spirit is distinct from the Son and the Father. The three of the Godhead coexist in Their coinherence, so They are distinct but not separate. In the Triune God there is no separation, only distinction. The Triune God exists in His coinherence. On the one hand, the three are coinhering; on the other hand, at the same time they are coexisting. Thus, They are one. They are not separate.
GOD MAKING AN ETERNAL ECONOMY
In eternity past God made an eternal economy (Eph. 3:9-10; 1:10). This is God’s history in eternity past. Ephesians 3:9 and 10 say, “To enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, in order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church.” The economy of God’s mystery is to have a church for the manifestation of God. The first thing that God may have done before the foundation of the world in eternity past was to make an economy to produce the church to manifest God. The economy of the mystery hidden in God throughout the ages was to produce the church for the showing forth of God’s multifarious wisdom.
Ephesians 1:10 says, “Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him.” This verse shows that God’s economy is to head up all things in Christ. The above portions of Ephesians show us that God in eternity past made an eternal economy to produce the church for the manifestation of God and for the heading up of all things in Christ. Therefore, this economy is all-inclusive. In the whole universe two things are most crucial: (1) to produce the church for God’s manifestation; and (2) to head up all things in Christ. These two things were determined in an economy made by God in eternity. This might have been the first item of God’s history, the first thing He did in eternity past.
The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 1, Sec. 6 of 9
The Three Coexisting and Coinhering
at the Same Time from Eternity to Eternity
The three of the Godhead coexist and coinhere at the same time from eternity to eternity (John 1:1-2; 14:10-11; 8:29; 15:26; Rev. 1:4-5a). The Father, the Son, and the Spirit coexist. They are distinct. They also coinhere. To coinhere is to live within one another. While the three of the Godhead are coexisting, They are also mutually indwelling one another. In Their coexistence, the three of the Godhead are distinct, but Their coinherence makes Them one.
We believers and the Triune God also coinhere. Christ is in us, we are in Him, the Father is in Him, He is in the Father, and He with the Father and the Spirit is in us (John 14:10a, 17, 20). Thus, we are one with the Triune God. In John 15 the Lord Jesus said, “Abide in Me and I in you” (v. 4a). Christ and we become a mutual abiding place. We abide in Him, and He abides in us.
In eternity past, in the present, and in eternity future, the three of the Godhead are coexisting and coinhering. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This verse says that the Word was with God and that the Word was God. The Word and God coexist, but the Word also is God. Thus, the Word and God are “two-one.”
Verse 2 says, “He was in the beginning with God.” This confirms that He was with God not only in time but also in the beginning. In the beginning, that is, from eternity past, the Word was with God. Christ’s deity is eternal and absolute. From eternity past to eternity future He is with God and He is God.
John 14:10-11 says, “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.” This shows that the Son is in the Father and that the Father is in the Son. When the Son speaks, the Father works. The Son’s speaking is the speaking of the Father because They are coinhering. The Son and the Father are not separate. They are two, yet They are also one. In existence They are two, but They are coinhering, so They are one. The first is in the second, and the second is in the first, so when the second One speaks, the first One does the work.
In John 8:29 the Lord Jesus said, “He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone.” God the Father sent Christ, but the Lord said that He who sent Him was with Him. When the Son came, the Father came with Him. When the Lord Jesus was traveling on the earth, He was traveling with the Father. He said that the Father had not left Him alone. Thus, when He was praying in Gethsemane, the Father was there. When He was dying on the cross, He was dying there with the Father. Jesus the man was dying on the cross with God. Charles Wesley wrote a hymn with a line that says, “Amazing love! how can it be / That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?” (Hymns, #296). This means that our God died for us. When Christ died on the cross, that was God dying for us. Christ died with God because God never left Him alone. Even in His crucifixion, God was with Him.
John 15:26 says, “When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of reality, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning Me.” The Greek word for from, used twice in this verse, is literally “from with.” The Spirit of reality, who is sent by the Son from the Father, comes not only from the Father but also with the Father. John 8:29 shows that the Father was with the Son. Then John 15:26 shows that the Father was with the Spirit. Thus, the three are one. When the Son came, He came with the Father. When the Spirit comes, He comes with the Father. Thus, the Father was and still is with the Son and with the Spirit.