How Christ as a Grain of Wheat was Glorified in His Resurrection to be Enlarged

Hallelujah, Christ as a grain of wheat was glorified in His resurrection to be enlarged and expanded, and we all are included in the divine-human incorporation of God and man!

We can experience, enjoy, and express Christ as the grain of wheat; through His resurrection, Christ was glorified to become a life-giving Spirit, regenerate us as the many children of God, and become the firstborn Son of God, and Christ and His believers were incorporated to be the enlarged divine-human incorporation of God and man. Wow!

This week in our morning revival we focus on two great matters in John 11 and 12: first in ch. 11 we see Christ being resurrection, and in ch. 12 we see Him as the grain of wheat.

As resurrection, Christ comes into us to be our life and our everything, and He applies Himself as resurrection life to every part of our being.

We are old and stale in ourselves, and by default, we live in our natural man, which rather damages than builds up the Body of Christ.

But if we simply turn to our spirit, if we just contact the Lord and enjoy Him in our spirit by calling on His name and praying over His word, He applies Himself as resurrection life to our being.

As we enjoy the Lord as the resurrection life, we are renewed day by day.

We are saved from oldness, deadness, lukewarmness, and staleness, and we are brought into newness, livingness, fervent love for the Lord, and spiritual freshness.

In the Old Testament, we see that the Aaronic priesthood became stale, and God had to come in and gain Samuel to be a fresh, new Nazarite to serve God and speak the word of God according to the needs of God’s people.

What keeps us in newness is first the cross; when the death of Christ operates in us, we are being renewed day by day. Before we can experience Christ’s resurrection life, we need to allow the cross to operate in us.

Also, the Holy Spirit renews us; Titus 3:5 speaks of the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.

We need to be washed and renewed day by day.

We may enjoy the Lord today and we may open to Him in our circumstances to experience something of Christ today, but the next day we need to keep opening to the Lord to allow Him to wash us, cleanse us, and renew us.

We need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind (Eph. 4:23); when our mind is renewed, the mingled spirit (our human spirit mingled with the divine Spirit) spreads into our mind to renew our mind.

As the mingled spirit spreads into our mind, it becomes the spirit of our mind, and we are being renewed.

We are remodelled, remade, and reconstructed with the divine life and with the Holy Spirit.

Our mind is dominated by our mingled spirit, and in all the things we think, consider, and speak we are governed by the Lord in our spirit.

In this way we become new, for the Lord is new and fresh. May we remain in this renewing process day by day!

Experience, Enjoy, and Express Christ as the Grain of Wheat: He was Glorified in His Resurrection to be Multiplied and Enlarged!

John 12:23-24 is a wonderful portion of God’s word; after some people from far away who came to Jerusalem expressed their desire to see the Lord Jesus, He said, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Wow!

In the Lord’s eyes, to be glorified was not to be enthroned in Jerusalem as King but rather, for Him to go through death and resurrection so that He may be glorified in His resurrection to be multiplied and enlarged. Hallelujah!

We need to see that, when Christ was incarnated, His humanity became a shell to conceal the glory of His divinity.

His flesh – which Christ became through incarnation, John 1:14 – became a shell to conceal the divine glory.

He wanted to be glorified, to be baptized with the baptism of His death, so that He may release the fire of the divine life on earth.

Just as the life of a grain of wheat is concealed within its shell and is released when it is buried and dies, so the Lord’s divine life was concealed in the shell of His flesh and, when He died, this life was released.

When He was on earth, the Lord prayed, Father, the hour has come, glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You (John 17:1).

Then He also prayed, Now, glorify Me along with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was (v. 5).

The Lord yearned to be glorified, that is, to go through death and enter into resurrection.

He was pressed and constrained, longing to be baptized with the baptism of His death for the release of the glory of His divinity (Luke 12:49-50).

While the glory of His divinity was concealed by the shell of His humanity, He was pressed and constrained, longing to be baptized with the baptism of His death for the release of the glory of His divinity with the fire of His divine life.

The Lord wanted to release and cast the fire which was within Him, the fire of His divine life; He cast that fire on the earth through His death and resurrection.

What is this fire? It is the impulse of the believer’s spiritual life. It means that the fire in our spirit is the impelling force of our spiritual life.

We all were regenerated in Christ’s resurrection; now there’s an impelling force in us, the divine fire of the divine life. Hallelujah!

This fire started from the Lord’s resurrection, and since then a fire has been burning on the earth.

From Jerusalem to Judea and then Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth, the fire of the divine life has been spreading rapidly and burning in so many believers in Christ!

We believers in Christ have caught the divine life of the divine life, for the concealed glory of Christ’s divinity was released in His death and imparted into us in His resurrection, and now the divine fire burns in us all! Hallelujah! No one can stop this fire. Praise the Lord!

If the Lord Jesus would not have died, He would have remained the same; but He died, He went through death and entered into resurrection, and in resurrection He was glorified!

Christ was glorified in His resurrection.

The release of the glory of Christ’s divinity was through the breaking of the shell of His humanity by His death. He was the unique grain that contained the divine fire with His divine glory.

But when the shell of His humanity was broken through His crucifixion, all the elements of His divinity – His divine life and His divine glory – were also released! Hallelujah!

In this sense, His death is considered a life-releasing death with His glory released simultaneously.

We can say that the Lord’s death was a fire-releasing death; this is not the fire of natural enthusiasm but the fire of His divine life.

The release of the glory of Christ’s divinity was His being glorified by the Father with the divine glory in His resurrection through His death (Luke 24:26).

In His human living, Christ prayed that His Father would glorify Him; the Father answered His prayer by raising Him from the dead, for in His glorification Christ was glorified (John 17:1; Acts 3:13).

Such a glorification transferred Christ from the stage of incarnation into the stage of inclusion; in this new stage, Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit in resurrection.

Furthermore, as this Spirit, He regenerated us all to be the many children of God, He Himself being the Firstborn Son of God begotten by God in His humanity in His resurrection.

Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being willing to go through death and resurrection so that You as the unique grain of wheat may release Your life and impart it into us to produce us as the many grains of wheat! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have been regenerated by God in the resurrection of Christ to be the many sons of God! Praise the Lord, Christ cast the divine fire of His divine life on the earth through His death and resurrection, and we believers in Christ have caught this divine fire! Amen, Lord, thank You for regenerating us with Your life and for burning in us as the divine fire! We praise You for being glorified in Your resurrection. We want to enjoy, experience, and express You as the grain of wheat. Amen, Lord, even as You were willing to fall into the earth to die so that many grains may be produced, we are also willing to be one with You in Your death so that You may produce many grains. May the fire of Your divine life be released and spread throughout the earth, especially to those around us, so that many may be regenerated and catch the divine fire!

Through His Death and Resurrection Christ brought all His Believers into an Incorporation with the Processed Triune God

The Gospel of John, a gospel on Christ as the God-Savior, is very mysterious and wonderful.

This book shows us that God desires to be man’s life and everything so that man and God would be one, even be incorporated together. Wow!

In John 14:16-20 the Lord showed us that, through His death and resurrection, He would bring all His believers into an incorporation with the Triune God.

The Triune God is an incorporation by their living in one another and doing things in oneness.

The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father, and the Father and the Son are in the Spirit, for the Spirit brings the Father in the Son to the believers, being sent by the Father in the name of the Son to disclose and reveal God to man. How about that!

All that the Father is and has, is in Christ the Son, who was sent by the Father and is in the Father.

When Christ was on earth, He did all things one with the Father, even doing the works of the Father, and He did everything by the Spirit.

There was no separation between the Father, the Son and the Spirit, for from eternity to eternity the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are an incorporation.

They coinhere mutually, dwelling in one another, and they work together as one, doing nothing independently but all in oneness and mutuality.

The entire Bible shows us the beautiful oneness, mingling, and incorporation of the Triune God, for the three of the Godhead are incorporated together as one! Hallelujah!

God’s desire in His economy is to include us into this incorporation.

His intention is to incorporate Himself with all the believers of Christ into one incorporation.

For this, He was incarnated and passed through death and resurrection, and in His resurrection, He produced a divine-human incorpration.

He said, In that day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me and I in you (v. 20).

On the day of Christ’s resurrection we know that Christ is in the Father, we are in Christ, and Christ is in us.

God in Christ as the Spirit is in us, we are in Christ, and Christ is in God; we are incorporated into the divine incorporation which has been enlarged to contain the redeemed and regenerated humanity.

The processed and consummated Triune God has been incorporated with the regenerated and transformed humanity to become one universal, divine-human, enlarged incorporation! Wow!

On the one hand, Christ was glorified in His resurrection; on the other hand, He enlarged the divine incorporation to include man!

And there are three practical illustrations of this wonderful incorporation as seen in John 14, 15, and 16.

First, we have the Father’s house, which is the enlarged Christ as the Body of Christ; we all are the “dwelling places” in this house, for we are in God and God is in us. We see this in John 14.

Then in John 15, we see the Son’s vine; we are the branches in Christ, the vine, and the Father is everything to the vine, while the Spirit flows as the life-sap of the vine to reach us and make us the enlargement, growth, and spread of Christ. Wow!

We are so one and mingled with God that we become part of God, part of His growth and expansion.

We will never become part of His Godhead; we only become the same as Christ in life, nature, and expression, but not in the Godhead.

Lastly, in John 16 we see the new child born of the Spirit, which was born in Christ’s resurrection; we became the new man in Christ’s resurrection, and Christ and us, we and Christ, are fully one, dwelling in one another and doing everything together.

We may not fully understand this and we may not tangibly comprehend it, but this is a reality in our mingled spirit, and whenever we turn to our spirit and live in our spirit, we are one with God, God is one with us, and we live in God, God lives in us, and we do all things in God and God in us.

Hallelujah, we are part of the enlarged divine-human incorporation of God and man!

Praise the Lord, through His death and resurrection as the grain of wheat, Christ brought us as believers in Christ into an incorporation with the Triune God! Wow, Lord, praise You for bringing us into You and for coming into us! Hallelujah, we are in God and God is in us. Just as the Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Spirit, and just as the Father and the Son and the Spirit coinhere and do all things as one, so we and God are incorporated together! How amazing it is that God wants to enlarge His divine incorporation to include man! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are part of the divine-human enlarged incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated believers in Christ! Wow, Lord, we are now the many abodes in the Father’s house, the many branches in the Son’s vine, and the newborn child of the Spirit to be incorporated with God! Unveil us to see this wonderful reality! Keep us in our spirit today so that we may live in this divine-human incorporation!

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 Ed marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” chs. 1-6, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2024 July Semiannual Training), week 9, Christ as the Resurrection and the Grain of Wheat.
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  – Once Thou wast the only grain, Lord, / Falling to the earth to die, / That thru death and resurrection / Thou in life may multiply. / We were brought forth in Thy nature / And the many grains became; / As one loaf we all are blended, / All Thy fulness to proclaim. / We’re Thy total reproduction, / Thy dear Body and Thy Bride, / Thine expression and Thy fulness, / For Thee ever to abide. / We are Thy continuation, / Thy life-increase and Thy spread, / Thy full growth and Thy rich surplus, / One with Thee, our glorious Head. (Hymns #203 stanzas 3-4)
  – Oh, praise the Lord, God died in man, / In man to be released. / The grain of wheat fell to the ground, / And now a multitude is found / Filled with the life of God, / Filled with the life of God; / Oh, hallelujah, for such a life! (Hymns #1087 stanza 3)
  – Thou art the true and heav’nly vine, / And we in Thee are branches; / In Thee abiding, Thou in us, / We share in all Thy riches… / Thou art the ladder Jacob saw, / By Thee the heav’n is open; / In Thee we are the house of God, / And earth is joined to heaven. (Hymns #187 stanzas 23 and 25)