We need to be Divine and Mystical persons Living in the Divine and Mystical Realm

This week in our morning revival time with the Lord we are approaching the topic of, Becoming divine and mystical persons living in the divine and mystical realm for the building of the divine and mystical temple of God.

When it comes to knowing the Lord and experiencing Him, we need to have a heart to seek Him. Our all-knowing Triune God knows our heart and spirit: do we have a heart to know Him, and are we seeking Him? If yes, we cannot be passive inwardly: our whole being is longing for the divine reality. We need to be hungry and thirsty for God and the things that matter to God.

When the Lord Jesus was on earth, one time He cleansed the temple – and the disciples were impressed, yet at the same time they realized that the zeal of God’s house consumed the Lord. The Lord’s inward being was consumed by a zeal for the Father’s house, not mainly for the outward physical structure but the divine reality.

Today there’s an intense desire in the Lord to have the temple of God, which equals the Body of Christ. The Lord knows that, when the Body is built, then the Bride is ready and He can return.

We need to be like Mary who, on the day of the Lord’s resurrection, was not satisfied with just “knowing the facts” concerning the Lord being raised (the body was not there, the stone was removed, the towel and covering were neatly folded, etc) but lingered to see and touch her Lord. We need the Lord’s mercy to have a heart and seeking for the Lord.

The Lord promised that, if we search for Him with all our heart, we will seek Him and we will find Him (Jer. 29:13). If we call unto the Lord out of our seeking heart, He will answer to us, and He will tell us great and hidden things which we do not know (Jer. 33:3).

If we seek the Lord with a pure heart we will realize that we need to be in a realm that is much higher than the one we’re in now; we need to be brought into a divine and mystical realm. Though outwardly we live in a physical realm, in our spirit we need to be in the divine and mystical realm.

We need to be Divine and Mystical persons Living in the Divine and Mystical Realm

When believers hear of a “mystical realm” they may reject it automatically since there are many “mystics” out there, and many times a “mystical person” may not be according to what the Bible tells us.

However, when we use the word “mystical” we don’t refer to the mystical experience of those who claim to have a direct contact with an alternate reality, and neither do we equate it with “mysterious” – even though a mystical person is mysterious.

Mystical is having a spiritual reality of spiritual meaning that cannot be substantiated by the five senses and cannot be grasped and understood by human intelligence.

There’s a physical outward realm in which our human senses operate, and our mind is much conditioned by the physical realm with its space, time, and causality. But there’s another realm, a reality, which is God Himself, and in His economy the processed Triune God has included us, His believers, in Him (John 17:20-21).

There is a realm of reality and of spiritual meaning embodied in Christ and revealed in the Scriptures that our senses cannot substantiate and our mind cannot grasp directly, but our regenerated spirit with its intuition and fellowship can contact, and our regenerated being with its renewed mind set on the Spirit will increasingly understand, issuing in spiritual understanding!

Such a realm is much spoken of by John in his gospel, where he uses simple Greek to describe a profound reality. In the gospel of John we see a revelation of the divine and mystical realm of the Triune God and of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ for the building up of the divine and mystical temple of God.

In Revelation, we see the ultimate consummation of the divine and mystical realm – the New Jerusalem, where God’s redeemed dwell in God as the temple and God dwells in them as the tabernacle of God with man, and for eternity in the new heaven and new earth, there will be a corporate God living forever. Wow!

Today the local churches are 90% in the physical realm, which is normal and practical, but what is on the Lord’s heart is that something would be forming within the local churches that is divine and mystical; a reality must be forming in the inner being of the saints so that they would be not just in the local churches but in the reality of the Body of Christ to have a corporate God-man living and be conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection to become the temple of God.

God wants to see in the churches something now that is a precursor of what the New Jerusalem will be in eternity; if there’s no such divine and mystical reality built up, the Lord cannot and will come back. We need to have a heart and a seeking spirit to know the divine and mystical things in the same way God knows them, to the extent that He has revealed them.

The temple of God is a divine and mystical corporate organic entity: it is divine (we are becoming God in life, nature, constitution, and expression) and mystical (in a realm of reality beyond the human senses and intellect, yet profoundly real). This is what’s on the Lord’s heart.

If He is to have the temple church life, we need to become divine and mystical persons living in the divine and mystical realm throughout the course of our human life, no matter where we are and what is happening.

Lord Jesus, by Your mercy we want to seek You in a pure way so that we may experience You and enjoy You for the building up of the church as the temple of God. Lord, grant us that we may be divine and mystical persons living in the divine and mystical realm of the processed Triune God for the building up of God’s temple. Thank You for bringing us into Your kingdom, the realm of the divine life, where we can know You and enjoy You to grow in life and build up the church Lord, bring us into another realm, the divine and mystical realm, where You are and where Your economy is being fulfilled!

The Triune God is a Divine and Mystical realm and Christ is a Divine and Mystical Person

As seen in John 14:10-11, the Triune God Himself is a divine and mystical realm: the three of the Divine Trinity – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – are self-existing, ever-existing, and coinhering, and as such, they are a divine and mystical realm.

The kingdom of God is God Himself, just as the plant kingdom is the plants, the animal kingdom is the animals, and the human kingdom is the human beings. The kingdom of God as a realm of life is God himself; the Triune God is a realm. The Father is embodied in the Son, and the Son is the Father’s embodiment, thus forming a divine and mystical realm.

This is the realm of the Triune God, the realm of the Godhead, into which we as human beings cannot enter; we can enter into another aspect of the divine and mystical realm of the processed Triune God in His economy.

Christ, the first God-man, is a divine and mystical person: He is divine (He is God) and mystical (He is man). When people saw the Lord Jesus, heard His words, and watched His works, they were astounded and said, Where did this man get this wisdom and these works of power? (Matt. 13:54-55)

All that Christ did and said was divine and mystical; He didn’t merely live a human life but God was living through Him, and He was God manifested int he flesh (1 Tim. 3:16). Every part of the Lord’s living was a divine fact; God lived in Him, and He lived out God. We need to know the mystical Christ, who lived as a human being but was a mystical person because He did everything in God, through God, of God, and by God.

He testified that His teaching was not His, He didn’t seek His own will, He didn’t come in His own name, and He didn’t seek His own glory. Everything He did as a human He did in God, through God, and by God, and God was manifested in His humanity, causing Him to become divinely and mystically human.

The Lord lived as a man of prayer. He did not live as a common man praying common prayers to God, as a pious man, a so-called godly man, praying to God in a religious way, or as a God-seeking man praying to God for the divine attainments and obtainments. His being a man of prayer was not even as merely a Christ-seeker praying desperately to gain Christ in His excellency (Phil. 3:12-14, 8). Instead, He was a man in the flesh praying to the mysterious God in the divine, mystical realm. The Gospels tell us that He often went to the mountain or withdrew to a private place to pray (Matt. 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 9:28). (Witness Lee, The God-man Living, p. 89)

He wasn’t merely “spiritual” – He was divine (He was God) and mystical (God lived in Him in His human living). Christ manifested God in a mystical, human way. He is the temple of God, and His living was a divine and mystical living. He slept in the boat in the midst of the storm, and later He rebuked the wind and the sea.

Christ is a God-man – so human yet so divine, so divine yet so mystical; He was approachable, pleasant, and He expressed God. The Lord’s mystical human life was a divine realm, and this realm is the kingdom of God (John 3:13, 3). The Lord Jesus was a God-man, and all He said and did were divine facts accomplished in His human life mystically (John 5:19; Matt. 7:28-29).

In our married life, family life, and church life we should be living in another realm intersecting and interfacing with the human life, making it divine and mystical. As God-men we have the human and divine living together, and Jesus Christ as the first God-man is shepherding us into the divine and mystical realm today.

Lord Jesus, thank You for bringing God into man, mingling God with man, and living in a divine and mystical realm. Lord, by Your life and in Your mercy we want to be those who live in the divine and mystical realm today so that, whatever we do and wherever we are, we would live in spirit one with You as we do and say and work things. Amen, Lord, we want to manifest You in our humanity by living in the realm of the divine life, in the mingling of God with man – the divine and mystical realm of the processed Triune God!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, bro. Ron Kangas’ sharing in the message for this week, and The Divine and Mystical Realm, chs. 2-3 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Church as the Temple of God – The Goal of God’s Eternal Economy (2015 Thanksgiving Conference), week 6 / msg. 6, Becoming Divine and Mystical Persons Living in the Divine and Mystical Realm for the Building of the Divine and Mystical Temple of God.
• All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # Oh! Let us sing joyfully. Sing an unveiled mystery. / We enjoy the realm of the Spirit now, / The divine and mystical reality. / Oh! Enjoy! Sing! Rejoice! / This divine mystery! / We enjoy the realm of the Spirit now, / The divine and mystical reality. (Song on the realm of the Spirit)
  # By this bread which signifieth / Thy one body mystical, / We commune with all Thy members / In one bond identical. / By this holy cup of blessing, / Cup of wine which now we bless, / Of Thy blood we have communion / With all those who faith possess. (Hymns #221)
  # Jesus Christ, the genuine, complete, / Moral, perfect Man revealing God; / In His saving grace to fallen man, / In the Jubilee of grace. (Song on Christ as a Man)