We Believers in Christ have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Life and Nature

As believers in Christ, we are God-men, men born of God, and we have the divine right to participate in God’s life and in God’s nature; it is our right to participate in these things. Hallelujah!

God created us, men, in His image and according to His likeness, and He put the tree of life right there in the middle of the garden of Eden, but man fell and chose to eat from the wrong tree.

It seemed that everything was lost and that God’s purpose was defeated, but God did not give up on His created man.

He wants man to be free from sin and the usurpation of Satan, free to choose God, enjoy God, and even become God, for this is why man was created in the image and likeness of God.

So God became a man, accomplished everything that needed to be accomplished in order to redeem man and bring man back to the right position before God, and He even became a life-giving Spirit to dispense the life of God into those who believe into Him. Wow!

Now every person who believes into the Lord Jesus as he hears the gospel has he right to be a child of God having the life and nature of God.

Today we human beings can be reborn, born again, born of God.

No animal or created being can be reborn, and no one can have the life and nature of another species.

Only man can actually be born of God in his spirit, and he can actually have the life of God and the nature of God. Wow!

This is not a small matter. It is much more than being in the best country in the world and even being the president of the greatest country in the world.

We believers in Christ are part of the kingdom of God and we can participate in God’s divinity.

There are many aspects of God’s divinity, and we can participate in God’s divinity in order to become the same as He is.

We will never become God in His Godhead, for we will never become an object of worship or all-inclusive, almighty, omniscient, or omnipresent; the Godhead is His.

However, we have the right to partake of God’s life and of God’s nature.

We have the right to come forward to God as we are, apply the precious blood of Christ to be washed and cleansed, and enter into fellowship with God to be one with God. Hallelujah!

Day by day we can come to the Lord and fellowship with Him, and in our fellowship with Him, He dispenses what He is into us, cleansing us of what we are by nature and reconstituting us with what He is until we become even as He is.

May we know our rights as divine-human beings. May we know what is our divine right as children of God.

And may we exercise our spirit to partake of what God is and has done for us so that we may be filled with God, transformed by God, sanctified by God, and conformed to the image of Christ.

As Believers in Christ, we have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Life

As God-men, we believers in Christ can participate in various aspects of God’s divinity, as revealed in the word of God.

First, we have the divine right to participate in God’s life (Eph. 4:18; John 1:4; 10:10; 11:25).

Everything starts here. We who believe into the Lord Jesus have eternal life (John 3:15). The eternal life is the divine life, the life of God.

We believers in Christ have received another life, the life of God, into us, and we now have both the human life and the divine life.

We were created in the image of God and according to His likeness, but we did not have the life of God.

But praise the Lord, by believing into the Lord Jesus we have received Him as our life, and now we are children of God, born of God with His life in our spirit (John 1:12-13).

Christ is our life (Col. 3:4); He is our very life subjectively. And since Christ is the embodiment of God, for Christ to be our life means that God is our life.

What a glorious fact, we human beings have the divine life in us to be children of God, God-men!

However, not many believers in Christ realize that they have the divine life, which makes them divine men.

They know they have eternal life, but they don’t know what this life is; at most, many think that eternal life will cause them to live forever.

But the divine life is much more than eternal; it is God Himself coming to us to be our life.

Actually, the Lord Jesus said that He came that we may have life and may have it abundantly (John 10:10).

When He was incarnated, in Him was life, and the life was the light of men (1:4).

When we receive Him into us by repenting and believing into Him, we receive another life, the divine life.

Satan, however, wants to blind the believers and trick them into thinking that man can never have God’s life, for man is so sinful, and even after being born again, we still commit sins and have lusts.

But we need to believe what the word of God says, not what Satan says.

We believe that in us there is another life, the life of God, and we believers in Christ have the divine right to participate in God’s life.

Our life is a human life, and we partake of his human life as we grow, develop, and do things; similarly, we have the divine life, which makes us divine, and we have the right to participate in God’s life.

The divine life we have received is not only holy and heavenly but also divine; we all have become divine!

Life is the content of God and the flowing out of God; God’s content is His very being, and God’s flowing out is the impartation of Himself as life to us.

Rev. 22:1 shows us that, for eternity, God was, is, and will forever be flowing out as a river of water of life to supply all His people.

It is not that God has to do that; He wants to do that. He is not just having pity on us, the sinners; He is delighted in giving Himself as life to us and in us enjoying Him as our life.

This is not so that we may live longer and be happier, but so that He can have His reproduction.

The life of God is divine, having the nature of God, and it is eternal, without beginning and ending, self-existing, ever-exisitng, and never changing (John 3:15; 1 John 2:25; 5:13, 20).

This is the life we have received. We have the divine right to participate in God’s life.

The eternal life of God is indestructible, indissoluble, and incorruptible; it is resurrection life that passed through the test of death and Hades, conquered death, and will swallow up death (Heb. 7:16; Acts 2:24; Rev. 1:18).

We have the divine right to participate in God’s life; we should not remain in our death situation but exercise our spirit and claim the divine life! Hallelujah!

Life is the processed and consummated Triune God dispensed into us and living in us (Rom. 8:6, 10-11).

The life of God is the very person of God coming to us to be our life; He has dispensed, is dispensing, and will dispense all that He is in His life into us for our enjoyment so that He may live in us. Hallelujah!

May we daily exercise our spirit to enjoy Christ as life, take Christ as our life, and participate in God’s life by enjoying this life day by day.

May we live by the divine life and have our whole being by and in this life in our daily life.

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming into us to impart the divine life of God in our spirit. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are born of God with His life and nature, and the life of God is in us! Wow, Lord, how can we, sinners, be not only forgiven and reconciled to God but even more, receive the life of God! Thank You so much for coming into us as life to be our life. Thank You for dispensing the eternal uncreated, self-existing, ever-existing, and never changing life of God into our being. Thank You for giving us eternal life by our faith in Jesus Christ. We now have the resurrection life in our spirit, and this life overcomes any kind of death. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy You as our life. We take You as our life and we want to remain under the divine dispensing of Your life into us. May Your life spread in all the parts of our inner being to saturate us with life and make us men of life who live Christ!

We believers in Christ have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Nature

As believers in Christ, we have been born of God with His life and nature, and we have the divine right to participate in God’s nature (2 Pet. 1:4; Eph. 1:4).

God called us and chose us to be holy and without blemish before Him in love. He chose us to be holy in nature even as He is holy.

To be holy doesn’t only mean that we’re separated unto God but even more that we are separate, distinct, and different from anything common, and we are holy by being saturated with the holy nature of God.

God sanctifies day by day to impart His holy nature into our being to make us holy even as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:15-16).

He wants us, His people to be holy; He first regenerates us and then He dispenses His life and nature into us.

We have the divine right to participate in God’s nature so that we may be holy even as God is holy.

May we daily open to the Lord and ask Him to saturate us with His holy life and nature so that we may partake of His divine nature and become holy.

The divine nature is what God is, that is, the very constituents of His being.

The nature of a wooden chair is wood; the nature of God is what He is in His essence.

God is holy; holiness is His nature, and He chose us in Christ to make us holy, even as He is holy.

We have the right to become holy as God is holy; we will not have the Godhead, for it is His exclusively, but we will have His holy nature to be as holy as God is holy.

To be holy is to participate in God’s holy nature.

He chose us to be holy, and now God makes us holy by imparting Himself as the holy One into our being so that our whole being will be saturated and permeated with His holy nature. Wow!

He doesn’t make us holy in an outward way by perfecting us, correcting us, or adjusting us; He makes us holy by imparting His holy nature into our being to make us organically and intrinsically holy.

We are partakers of God’s divine nature; this means that we’re a partaker of the elements, the ingredients, of God’s being (Eph. 3:8).

All the riches of His being are being dispensed into us.

Day by day we should partake of God’s nature and enjoy the constituents of His being.

When we rise up and have a time with the Lord, we need to open to Him and ask Him to dispense more of His eternal life and holy nature into us.

Not many people today may have access to the Oval Office in the White House in the United States of America, but we believers in Christ have the divine right to participate in God’s nature and in God’s life, and we have access to the heavenly Oval Office.

We can contact God in our spirit and enter into the Holy of Holies, being in God’s presence to enjoy God’s life and nature.

This is our divine right given to us by the divine birth of God.

May we exercise our right to partake of God’s nature and of His life.

The more we come to God’s word and partake of His precious and exceedingly great promises, the more we are constituted of the God of which we partake.

Little by little, day by day, morning and evening and throughout the day, we can come to the Lord to enjoy Him.

The more we enjoy God and partake of Him, the more we are constituted of Him, and His holy nature becomes our holy nature.

When others meet us, they will sense the fragrance of God, for we are constituted with God.

As we partake of God day by day, we will eventually partake of Him unconsciously, and others will see the spontaneous manifestation of Christ in us in our daily living.

Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have the divine right to participate in God’s nature! Thank You, Father God, for choosing us in Christ to be holy and without blemish before You in love. Thank You for imparting Your life and nature into our being. Praise the Lord, we today can participate in God’s holy nature! We can enjoy the elements, the ingredients of God’s being, for we have the right to enjoy the riches of God’s being! Amen, Lord, we come to You to enjoy You in Your word day by day. We come to just partake of what You are. You are so rich and so wonderful. You are holy and righteous. We come to You to enjoy You and partake of what You are. Constitute us with Yourself. Constitute us more with Your divine life and nature. Make us the same as You are. Fill us with the riches of Your being. Amen, Lord, we want to exercise our divine right to participate in God’s life and in God’s nature!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Minoru Chen in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 214-215, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 10, entitled, The God-men’s Divine Right to Participate in God’s Divinity.
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