This morning we were enjoying the many aspects of abiding in the Lord by the teaching of the anointing, by walking even as the Lord walked, by keeping God’s commandments, and by eating the hidden manna to be incorporated into the divine human incorporation of God and man.
For us to take God as our dwelling place means that we abide in Christ and by being identified with Christ we abide in God as our dwelling place. This is a mutual dwelling place – God dwells in us and we dwell in God.
This is what God is after today, the mutual dwelling place of God and man.
Abiding in Christ by the anointing
The way for us to abide in Christ is according to the teaching of the anointing – the anointing teaches us all things, especially that we abide in Christ (1 John 2:27). Inwardly, we obey the teaching of the anointing, and outwardly, we must walk even as the Lord walked (1 John 2:6).
All the believers in Christ have in them the compound Spirit, the consummated Spirit of the processed Triune God, and this Spirit is not static, passive, or silent. The Spirit in our spirit is continually anointing us, flowing in us – He is active, aggressive, moving, and working!
The moving of the Spirit in us teaches us all things – the way we are taught is by being anointed by this compound Spirit.
The more we read the Bible, the more we can accumulate the words and the knowledge for God to speak to us and teach us through the teaching of the anointing within.
The Spirit of reality guides us into all the reality of what Christ is, reminding us of the things concerning Christ, and inwardly subjectively teaching us all things. We just need to give heed to the anointing and allow the Spirit to operate in us, anoint us, paint us, and coat us with all that God is by listening to the anointing within.
Eating the hidden manna to abide in Christ
One simple yet neglected way to abide in Christ is by eating the hidden manna in the ark in the tabernacle (Heb. 9:4; Rev. 2:17). The more we eat Christ and are constituted with Christ, having Him deposited into our inward being, the more we are incorporated into the Triune God.
The more we eat the hidden manna, the more we become a part of the ark and of the tabernacle, which are a type of the Triune God. The more we eat Christ, the more we become part of the universal divine-human incorporation of God and man! Eventually, the New Jerusalem will be the tabernacle of God and the center is Christ as our food and drink!
I praise the Lord for the ministry of the age which opens up the Bible and especially the economy of God, God’s heart’s desire, and God’s goal.
What is the goal of God in His processes, His works, His ways, and in all that He is doing? It is not merely to save men and bring them to heaven, and it is not only to defeat Satan and regain the earth. No!
In His economy, God desires to have an enlarged, universal, divine-human incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God and the regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite man.
This is what the Bible reveals especially in the New Testament, with many types and symbols concerning this in the Old Testament. Paul, Peter, and John wrote their epistles and unveiled little by little, here and there, bits and pieces of this complete view. The Triune God became a man, redeemed man, and wants to bring man into God through the process of the organic salvation, so that man and God, God and man, would dwell together, live together, and be incorporated to be one entity for eternity. What a glorious destiny we have!
Abiding in Christ to enjoy all His riches
This divine-human incorporation is being realized today by our daily abiding in Christ. God put us here, in Christ, and all we have to do is to abide in Him and let His words abide in us.
The issue of our abiding in Christ is firstly that all that God in Christ as the Spirit is will be dispensed and constituted into our being. All God’s riches, all His attainments and accomplishments, all His attributes, and everything He is – all is being dispensed into us as we abide in Christ.
Just as a branch abiding in the vine receives all the riches of the vine and bears fruit for the glorification and expression of the vine, we abide in Christ and enjoy His riches, and we bear fruit for His glorification!
Lord, keep us abiding in You by taking heed to the anointing within. Praise You for being the living, moving, anointing, and active Spirit in our spirit. Anoint us more today and teach us more subjectively concerning all things. Lord, we want to listen to the anointing. Also, we want to be those eating Christ as the hidden manna to be constituted with God and be incorporated into God. Lord, obtain what You are after – even in us!
References and Further Reading
- Sharing inspired from, Life Lessons (vol. 3), Crucial Principles for the Christian Life and the Church Life (ch. 3), The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory (chs. 4-5), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on the Crystallization-Study of Psalms (2), week 16.
- Hymns on this topic:
# Abiding in the vine! All the riches of God’s life are mine! Praise God, He put us here; never to leave – oh, we’re abiding, abiding in the vine!
# Abide in Me, and I in you, / As the branch cannot bear fruit / Of itself unless / It abides in the vine, / So neither can you / Unless you abide in Me.
# Yes, in my spirit now He is moving! / Yes, I have the anointing! / God in me is flowing! / Thank God, I see it! / His Word revealed it! / I will apply it ever! / The anointing lives in me! - Picture source: the anointing.
