A Priest is in the Process of being Mingled with God in his Daily Christian Life

According to the entire Bible, a priest is not one who mainly does things for God to serve Him but one who is absolutely and thoroughly mingled with God.

When a priest entered into the tabernacle and passed through the Holy Place to enter the Holy of Holies in God’s presence, he was “smoked” with God and he was inwardly filled with Him. As priests today we need to be those who care for the things of God by being mingled with God in a thorough and absolute way.

God’s purpose from the very beginning has been to mingle Himself with man: this is why He didn’t tell Adam what to do for God but put him in a garden in front of the tree of life.

As believers in Christ we are in the process of being mingled with God: He came into us through regeneration, bringing divinity into our humanity and mingling His divine nature with our human nature. God is in us, Christ is in us, and the Spirit is in us; the entire Triune God as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit has come into us to mingle Himself with us so that we may become His corporate expression.

God’s will is to mingle Himself with us, and He arranges all things, people, and circumstances in our life so that we may be more mingled with God. People come and go, things happen to us, we’re in certain circumstances and with certain people, and many issues arise – in all these things we need to choose and seek to be more mingled with God.

God’s organic salvation can be experienced by us to the extent that we and God are completely mingled as one: we have one life and one living, Christ lives in us and we live out Christ (Gal. 2:20). Praise the Lord!

The key to being mingled with God is our mingled spirit: we need to know our spirit and see a vision of our human spirit mingled with the divine spirit, and we will have our spirit divided from our soul.

We need to allow the living word of God to separate our spirit from our soul, and we need to choose live in the spirit, by the spirit, and according to the Spirit in our spirit. When we live in our mingled spirit, we are in the process of being mingled with God more and more!

A Priest is in the Process of being Mingled with God in his Daily Christian Life

God’s will is the mingling of God with man, and the fulfillment of God’s purpose depends on the mingling of divinity and humanity (see Eph. 1:5, 9; 3:11).

If we thoroughly study the Bible and have an unveiled face to see the Lord, we will discover that God in eternity past planned according to His heart desire to attain the goal of mingling Himself with man. This is the only thing He’s been doing, is doing today, and will be doing for eternity: He mingles Himself with man. He created man, He redeemed man, He sanctifies man, and He transforms man for this one purpose.

If we see that God’s purpose is to mingle Himself with us we will be the priests of today, those thoroughly and completely mingled with God, and we will seek to be mingled with God more. Our Christian life is the mingling of divinity and humanity; to be a Christian is to be mingled with God, to be a God-man (2 Tim. 3:17).

Even though many believers don’t realize this while others even oppose this, as believers in Christ we are in a daily process of being mingled with God, and we are God-men. All the matters in the Christian life are actually matters of God being mingled with man. Real Christian love is the mingling of God with man; it is not merely us loving other people but God mingled with us in loving others.

I was encouraged by the following portion from Witness Lee,

The highest gospel is not merely concerning the forgiveness of sins and deliverance from hell so that we may receive eternal blessing. Rather, the highest gospel is that we would be saved to the extent that God and we, we and God, are completely mingled as one, having one life and one living. We were fallen sinners—wicked, degraded, evil, and desolate—yet we can have one life and one living with God. God can abide with us and live with us. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1975-1976, vol. 1, “Living in the Spirit,” p. 480)

We are all a work in progress, but something really happens in us as we take time to contact the Lord and behold Him: we are being transformed into His image from glory to glory, and God is mingling Himself more with us day by day! He has joined us to Himself as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), and now He wants to mingle Himself more with us.

As priests we need to learn to grasp every opportunity to be mingled with God more. As we’re waiting for the bus, driving to work, or in line to pay for our shopping, we can contact the Lord and open to Him to be mingled more with Him. When we seek the Lord’s will concerning a situation or a decision, we need to choose the situation that is conducive to the mingling of Himself with us.

We need to go on in God’s organic salvation and experience Him to such an extent that we and God are completely mingled as one, having one life and one living (see John 15:4-5; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:19-21a).

Lord Jesus, mingle Yourself more with us today. We want to grasp every opportunity to contact You and behold You so that we may be mingled more with You. May our Christian life be a continual process of mingling of divinity with humanity until we are fully mingled with God. Lord, we want to experience Your organic salvation to such an extent that we and God are completely mingled as one, having one life and one living! Amen! Lord, keep us in the constant process of being mingled with You so that we may be the priests who are thoroughly mingled with God!

If we would Serve God as Priests, we need to See a Vision of the Mingled Spirit

How can we experience the mingling of God with man? How can God – who dwells in unapproachable light and is almighty, all-powerful, all-inclusive, and righteous – mingle Himself with men like us? We can experience this mingling because God is triune: the Father is in the Son, the Son is the Spirit, and the Spirit is the expression and realization of the Triune God to enter into us.

We as men are in God’s image and we have a human spirit (Prov. 20:27), and God went through a long process to become the Spirit to come into us and regenerate our spirit with His divine life. If we miss the Spirit with our spirit, we can’t experience the divine mingling.

If we would serve God as priests, we need to have a vision of the mingled spirit – the divine Spirit mingled with our regenerated human spirit.

1 Cor. 6:17 tells us that he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit – this is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with our human spirit. Rom. 8:4 says that the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us when we walk according to the spirit – this spirit is not merely the divine Spirit but the regenerated spirit of the believers, the human spirit indwelt by and mingled with the Holy Spirit.

God the Father is in God the Son, God the Son is God the Spirit, and God the Spirit is now mingled with our regenerated human spirit (see John 14:9-10, 16-18; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17).

The focus of God’s economy and the key to the divine mingling is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit. As priests we are in the focus of God’s economy: we are being mingled with God by contacting God in the mingled spirit, living in the mingled spirit, and walking according to the mingled spirit.

No matter what we are doing outwardly, inwardly we need to have a clear separation and division between the soul and the spirit (Heb. 4:12) and live simultaneously in two realms: outwardly live in the human realm and inwardly live in the mingled spirit. Outwardly we do this and that, but inwardly we function as a priest, living for God’s interest, at peace with the Lord and one with Him.

May we see a vision of the mingled spirit and live in the spirit all the time so that we may live and function as priests to God, those thoroughly mingled with God!

Lord Jesus, show us a clear vision of our mingled spirit. May there be a clear separation between our soul and our spirit, and may we live in and walk according to the mingled spirit. Lord, thank You for coming as the Spirit to be mingled with our spirit! We choose to exercise our spirit, live by the spirit, and walk according to the spirit so that we may live and function as priests! Oh Lord, show us a vision of the mingled spirit so that we may serve You as priests in the mingled spirit!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, bro. Ron Kangas’ sharing in the message for this week, and portions from, Experiencing the Mingling of God with Man for the Oneness of the Body of Christ, chs. 4-5 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Recovery of the Priesthood or God’s Building, week 2 / msg 2, The Definition of a Priest.
• All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
• Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
  # In our daily life and all we are and do and think and say, / How we need a deeper mingling just to gain the Lord each day; / Lord, we give ourselves completely just to take the mingled way. / Yes, mingling is the way. (Hymns #1199)
  # Through resurrection the Lord is now the Spirit. / Our spirit by Him has been regenerated. / The Lord, the Spirit, mingling / With our spirit, is the most wondrous thing. / Our spirit’s mingled, Lord! (Song on being mingled with God)
  # God and man will have one living, / Always in the mingled spirit; / We two are incorporated / One organic entity! / This the vision of the ages / Will control our daily living / That the Lord may have His Body / Shining as the holy city. (Song on one life and one living with God)