In Christ God and Man have Become One Entity, the God-man, God mingled with Man

God did not create mankind – He created man according to God’s kind, making man in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26).

The plants, animals, fish, and birds all were created according to their kind, but man was created in God’s image and likeness, so that man would become the same as God in life and nature but not in the Godhead. God’s original intention in creating man is that man would express Him and represent Him, that is, that man would become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for His expression (see Rev. 4:11; Eph. 1:4-5).

But man fell, sin came in, and now all men are born in sin, having a fallen nature, alienated from the life of God. However, praise the Lord, God Himself became a man to be the God-man Jesus, a new species – a new kind, the God-man kind; this One expressed God, lived out God, and represented God, and through His death and resurrection He reproduced Himself (John 12:24; Rom. 8:29).

Now all those who believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as Lord and Savior are born of God to be God-men, part of the reproduction of Christ in humanity, to express God and represent Him.

As believers in Christ, we are not only men (by human birth from our parents) but we are God-men – we are a new kind, the God-man kind, men mingled with God, having God living and growing in us. Hallelujah!

What God desires from the beginning until today is to have a large group of God-men to be the one new man; the old man, Adam, in whom we all are born, is fallen and cannot fulfill God’s purpose, but the new man created in Christ will fulfill God’s purpose.

God desires to have a group of God-men, the one new man, the corporate God-man bearing the image of God for the expression of God. Today we need to put off the old man with its old ways of living and put on the new man who is being renewed according to the image of Him who created him (Col. 3:10-11).

And the first step God took in order to produce this one new man and thus fulfill His heart’s desire is to become a man – the first God-man.

In Christ God and Man have Become One Entity, the God-man, God mingled with Man

In order for God to obtain the one new man who would fulfill His heart’s desire to be the same as He and express Him, God first became a man.

What the gospel tells us is that God Himself became a man to be Jesus Christ, the God-man, who was conceived in the womb of the human virgin Mary with the divine essence of the Holy Spirit (see Luke 1:35; Matt. 1:20).

The Lord Jesus was not conceived of a man but of the Holy Spirit with the divine essence; in His conception, the Holy Spirit came into humanity, and Jesus Christ had the divine essence (the essence of God) and the human essence (the essence of man).

The footnote in Luke 1:35 is very helpful to explain this matter,

Like the overshadowing of the cloud on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:5) and over the tabernacle (Exo. 40:34, 38). According to this verse, it seems that the Holy Spirit would be only upon Mary as the power for her to conceive the holy child. However, Matt. 1:18 and 20 tell us that Mary “was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit,” and that “that which has been begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.” This indicates that the divine essence out of the Holy Spirit had been begotten in Mary’s womb before she delivered the child Jesus. Such a conception of the Holy Spirit in the human virgin, accomplished with the divine and human essences, constituted a mingling of the divine nature with the human nature, which produced a God-man, One who is both the complete God and the perfect man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctly, without a third nature being produced. This is the most wonderful and most excellent person of Jesus, who is Jehovah the Savior.

The conception of John the Baptist was strikingly different in essence from that of Jesus the Savior. The conception of the Baptist was God’s miracle, accomplished with the overage human essence, merely by the divine power without the involvement of the divine essence. This resulted in the bringing forth of a mere man who was filled with the Spirit of God (v. 15) but who lacked the nature of God. The conception of the Savior was God’s incarnation (John 1:14), constituted not only by the divine power but also of the divine essence added to the human essence, thus producing the God-man of two natures — divinity and humanity. Through this, God joined Himself to humanity that He might be manifested in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16) and might be a Man-Savior (2:11). (Luke 1:35, footnote 2, Recovery Version Bible)

This is truly amazing: God Himself became a man, mingling His divine essence with the human essence to produce a God-man called Jesus Christ, in whom divinity and humanity were distinct yet mingled at the same time.

Jesus Christ, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit in a human virgin, is a mingling of the divine nature with the human nature to be a God-man – the complete God and a perfect man possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctively, without a third nature being produced. Wow!

This is beyond our human comprehension but it is wonderful and real! When we read the Gospels we don’t just see a Man living out a life to please God and do His will but a God-man who expressed God in humanity: Jesus Christ was both human and divine, and the life He lived was a mingled life – God mingled with man.

Thank You Lord for coming as God mingled with man – You brought God into man, mingled God with man, so that You may express God in humanity and become the first God-man. Lord Jesus, we love You as the God-man who has the divine nature and the human nature mingled together for God’s expression. Thank You God for joining Yourself to humanity through Christ’s incarnation so that, just as God was brought into man, so man would be brought into God! Amen! Mingle Yourself more with us today, Lord, for the corporate expression of God in man!

Through Incarnation, God was Brought into Man so that Man would be Brought into God

Why did God became a man? What is the purpose of Christ’s incarnation? If God wanted to save us, He could have found a much easier and non-complicated way than being born in a man, being in the womb of a virgin for 9 months, becoming man to be a baby, a child, a boy, a young man, and a young adult…

The main reason and the highest reason God became man is that, just as God was brought into man through incarnation so man would be brought into God.

God’s purpose is the same from eternity to eternity: He wants man to become the same as God for His corporate expression; for this, God became a man through incarnation to bring God into man so that all those who believe into Him would not only not perish but be brought into God and be made the same as God in life, nature, and expression, but not in the Godhead.

The Lord Jesus as the first God-man lived a life of expressing God; in Him the divine attributes of God were expressed through His human virtues, and thus His human virtues were real, genuine, and full. As a perfect man and the complete God, the God-man has the human nature with its virtues to contain God and express Him with the divine attributes.

This God-man, Jesus Christ, fulfilled and accomplished God’s original intention in creating man; through His human virtues He expressed the divine attributes. As the God-man, Christ possesses two natures: the divine nature and the human nature, and in Him each nature is distinguishable.

Through His death and resurrection, Christ brought His humanity into His divinity, divinizing it and begetting it out of God (Rom. 1:3-4); now there is a God-man in glory.

Also, through His resurrection Christ was reproduced in His many believers, making them the many God-men who have two natures: the human nature received by their human birth from their parents, and the divine nature received through their regeneration, re-birth, of God. Hallelujah!

We today as believers in Christ are the many God-men who have two natures: the human nature and the divine nature, which are both mingled in us and can be distinguished. This is the gospel which we preach to others that they may know God’s original intention in creating man.

Thank You Lord for bringing God into man through incarnation so that man would be brought into God. Oh Lord, we may not understand the full meaning and implications of Your incarnation, but we praise You for bringing God into man to mingle the divine nature with the human nature for God to be expressed in humanity. Praise You for expressing God in man by letting Your divine attributes be expressed through Your human virtues. Amen, Lord, thank You for regenerating us to make us God-men, the reproduction of Christ as the first God-man!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message for this week, and The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 26, 64 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Gospel (2016 International Chinese-speaking Conference), week 5 / msg. 5, The Highest Point of God’s Gospel.
• All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # Flesh He became, the first God-man, / His pleasure that I God may be: / In life and nature I’m God’s kind, / Though Godhead’s His exclusively. / His attributes my virtues are; / His glorious image shines through me. / His attributes my virtues are; / His glorious image shines through me. (Song on God’s High Gospel)
  # Christ is God incarnated, / Born according to God’s plan / To bring divinity, into humanity, / By mingling with man. / Christ is God incarnated, / He became the Son of Man; / A man of flesh yet without sin, / Accomplishing redemption, / He was a perfect man. (Song on God becoming man)
  # Oh! Christ, expression of God, the Great, / Inexhaustible, rich, and sweet! / God mingled with humanity / Lives in me my all to be. (Hymns #501)