Christ and the Believers form the Organism of the Triune God in the Divine Dispensing

As believers in Christ, we live in the Divine Trinity by abiding in Christ as the true vine; we are branches of Christ, the vine, and we need to abide in the vine so that we and Christ, the vine and the branches, would be the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing. Amen!

The Lord Jesus said that He is the vine and we are the branches; as branches, we need to simply abide in Him, and He will abide in us.

We need to abide in the Lord by turning to Him, living in Him, and doing all things in Christ; when we abide in the Lord, He abides in us, and we and Him have one life and one living.

When the Lord said that He is the vine and we are the branches, He didn’t exclude the Father and the Spirit; rather, the Father is the husbandman who takes care and is the source of the vine, and the Spirit of reality is the One who makes God real to us.

It is easy to say that we want to abide in the Lord, but this abiding involves very much, for by our abiding in the Lord, we live in the Triune God.

All that the Father is and has is embodied in Christ, the Son; then, all that the Son is, has, has attained, and has obtained, is realized in the Spirit of reality (John 16:13-15).

Our abiding in the Lord is our living in the Triune God, for Christ is the vine in which we abide, the Father is the source and cultivator of the vine, and the Spirit of reality is the life-juice in the vine.

Everything the Father is and has, He gives to the Son, and everything the Son is and has, is disclosed and made real to us by the Spirit.

The Spirit of reality comes in to make God real to us; He doesn’t speak His own things but makes the things of Christ and of God real to the believers.

And we, as believers in Christ, are the many branches abiding in Christ as the vine; as such ones, we are the beneficiaries of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

The more we contact the Lord and live one with Christ, the more we receive and enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

The Father is the source, the Son is the embodiment and expression of the Father, and the Spirit makes God and Christ real to us.

All that the Spirit has, is wrought into us as the branches; then, we express and testify God in a corporate way.

Just as the vine is expressed through the branches, and without the branches the vine is not fully manifested and expressed in its riches, so Christ is expressed through us, the believers in Christ, and without us, He has no full expression or manifestation.

But praise the Lord, when we allow Christ to make His home in our heart as we’re strengthened by the Father through the Spirit into the inner man, God is glorified in the church! Hallelujah!

Christ and the Believers, the Vine and the Branches, form the Organism of the Triune God in the Divine Dispensing

As believers in Christ, we were cut off from the old source, the old Adam, and we were grafted into Christ, the true vine; now we are branches in Christ, the vine.

All believers in Christ are members of Christ to form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing. Wow!

Where is God today? He is not only in the heavens somewhere: He is in His believers, and the believers in Christ together with Christ, the branches and the vine, form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing.

The Lord Jesus declared that He is the vine and that we, His disciples and believers, are the branches; this implies that both Christ and His believers are one tree.

This tree is the organism of the Triune God, and it is brought in and maintained by the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

The vine the Lord spoke of in John 15 is a universal vine comprising Christ the true vine and His believers as the branches.

It is through this vine, through this organism, that the Triune God flows out in humanity, dispenses Himself into man, and expresses Himself.

It is amazing to realize that we believers in Christ are actually branches of the infinite God, for we are organically one with Him (1 Cor. 6:17).

We have been organically joined to the Triune God, and we are part of God, the branches in the vine.

Just as you can’t differentiate or separate the branches from the vine, for the branches are part of the vine and the vine is in the branches, so we are organically joined to Christ to be members of Christ.

May the Lord shine on us to show us that we are members of Christ, part of Christ; Christ is our Head, and we are the many members of Christ to express Him.

Together, Christ and the believers, the vine and the branches, form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing.

However, there is one condition for us to be in reality part of the organism of the Triune God: we need to abide in Christ.

If we live in our natural life, if we express the self and it is the natural man who lives, we are not living as branches in Christ as the true vine; rather, we are by nature branches of Adam, even branches of the devil.

We were born in the old man – we were born branches of the devil, and his evil life and nature is in us by birth.

But praise the Lord, Christ branched out in us when we were born again, and we were cut off from the old source, the old man, to be grafted into Christ through faith and baptism in Him.

As branches of Adam, we were also branches of satan; but through regeneration and baptism, we were cut off from this old and evil tree and we were grafted into Christ, the true vine.

Now we as branches in Christ are filled with Christ as life, for He as the Spirit flows in us to supply our every need.

We may not feel that we’re filled with Christ, and we may not think that we are branches, for we may not see it too much; however, we simply need to say amen to the Lord’s word.

The Lord said that we are branches in Him as the vine, and we say a strong Amen, Hallelujah, we are branches in Christ as the vine!

By faith, we are organically joined to the Lord, and when we contact the Lord in spirit, we are richly supplied and nourished to live the Christian life and to manifest Christ.

When we’re in our spirit, when we live in Christ, we and Christ form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing.

Hallelujah, the believers in Christ as the branches and Christ as the vine together form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing! Wow, Lord, what a miraculous normality and reality, for us human beings to be organically joined to God in spirit so that we may express God on the earth! Amen, Lord, keep us abiding in You today so that Your life may fill us and saturate us little by little. Make us part of Your corporate expression by our abiding in Christ and remaining under the divine dispensing. Amen, Lord, we are branches in Christ, the true vine, and together we are the Body of Christ to express God corporately one earth! Hallelujah, we all are branches in Christ, the vine, and we and Him, Him and us, form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing!

We need to Abide in the Lord as Branches in the Vine, for Apart from Him we can do Nothing

When someone believes into the Lord Jesus, He branches into this one, making him a branch in Him (John 3:15; 15:4-5).

Through faith in Christ, we are grafted into Him; we are cut off from the old source, Adam, through repentance, and by faith, we are joined to Him to be branches in the true vine.

When a branch is grafted into a tree, it has to be cut off from the old source, and the tree also needs to be cut; then, the branch is attached and even bound together with the tree until there is an organic union being formed.

After the branch is joined to the tree, there is a mingling happening between the branch and the tree, and the riches of the tree gets into the branch.

Even if a branch is inferior and the tree is superior, the inferior branch doesn’t degrade the superior tree; rather, it is the other way around.

The riches of the superior tree overcome all the limitations and inferiorities in that branch, as long as the branch abides in the tree.

This is the situation with us: we were cut off from an inferior source and, being similar to Christ by being created in His image and according to His likeness, we were grafted into Him, the superior source.

We got joined to Christ, and our entire tripartite being is joined to Him. We were joined to Him in spirit – the point of connection between us as the branch and Christ as the tree is our spirit, but our entire being was connected and attached to Him.

On one hand, we were joined to the Lord in spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), and in spirit we are one with Him; on the other hand, our entire being is joined to Him, and even our physical body is a member of Christ.

As soon as we were joined to the Lord, we began to be mingled with Him, and His life began to work in us and saturate us to be expressed through us.

When this process of mingling is complete, we as the branch become one with the vine – together we form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing.

The secret to all this, the secret to us becoming part of the corporate expression of the Triune God is our abiding in Christ as a branch abides in the vine.

Apart from Christ, we can do nothing; just as a branch can do nothing and even is nothing apart from the vine, so we as branches in Christ, the true vine, can do nothing and even are nothing apart from Christ.

We are nothing, we have nothing, and we can do nothing apart from Christ, for we are in Him and He is in us – we are organically joined, and we need to remain in Him, abide in the Lord.

Only when the branch abides in the vine can the riches of the vine be dispensed into the branch to cause it to grow and bear fruit.

It is only when we as branches abide in Christ as the true vine that we can receive and enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity to grow in life and bear fruit.

Day by day we need to remain in the vine by abiding in the Lord; our destiny as branches is to abide in the Lord, for apart from Him we can do nothing.

To be in the Lord is a matter of union, and to abide in the Lord is a matter of fellowship (1 Cor. 1:9, 30); we need to not only be joined to the Lord but also remain in fellowship with Him.

We need to allow the flow of the divine life, the flow of God in Christ as the Spirit, to come in, flow in our being, fill us, and flow out of us to others also.

Fellowship is the circulation of the divine life in the true vine, Christ; we need to abide in Christ by remaining in fellowship with the Lord to receive and enjoy all the riches of Christ.

Lord Jesus, thank You for branching into us to make us branches in Christ, the true vine. Hallelujah, we were cut off from Adam and grafted into Christ, the true vine, and we are joined to the Lord in spirit. Keep us abiding in You, dear Lord, as branches in the vine. We want to abide in You to enjoy You as our all-inclusive portion for our daily enjoyment. Apart from You, Lord, we can do nothing and even are nothing; keep us in You, abiding in You, by remaining in fellowship with You. We want to be in You and have You be in us day by day; we want to abide in You so that You may abide in us. Amen, Lord, make us in reality the members of the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Mark Raabe, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 32-34 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living In and With the Divine Trinity (2021 Thanksgiving Day Conference), week 2, entitled, Living in the Divine Trinity (1) – Abiding in Christ as the True Vine.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – Members of the Christ of God to Form the Organism of the Triune God in the Divine Dispensing, here.
  – The Organic Union of the Dispensing Triune God and the Believers, here.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – I am the vine, / You are the branches; / He who abides in Me / And I in him, / He bears much fruit, / For apart from Me, / Apart from Me / You can do nothing. / 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. (Scripture song)
  – I’m a branch that’s been, Lord, grafted in. / I’m supplied in You in this life union. / Here Your riches, Lord, in this sweet life flow. / As I dwell in You, I will surely grow. / As I dwell in You, and You in me, / Here I’m joined to You, Lord, practically. / As I stay with You, as You’re with me, / We will mingle, Lord, subjectively. (Song on, Just to be in You)
  – Oh, how precious this abiding, / Oh, how intimate and sweet; / As the fruit of life is added, / And our joy is made complete. (Hymns #1163)