Divine-Human Incorporation: the Father’s House, the Son’s Vine, and the Spirit’s Child

In the resurrection of Christ, He produced an enlarged, divine-human, universal incorporation of the processed Triune God with the regenerated believers as the Father’s house, the Son’s vine, and the Spirit’s child, and we are all part of this divine-human incorporation! Hallelujah!

It is really amazing to see that Christ did not just die for us on the cross and then was raised by God the Father on the third day but even more, He accomplished so much in His resurrection!

In John 12:23-24 the Lord Jesus responded to His disciples telling them that now is the time for the Son of Man to be glorified.

When the others heard this, they might have naturally thought that the Lord would make a triumphant entrance into Jerusalem and would be crowned as King.

However, God’s view of Christ being glorified is very different.

The Lord said, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Wow!

In other words, instead of seeking to have an outward glorification, the Lord took the way of death and resurrection.

A seed is “glorified” after it dies, germinates, grows, and bears fruit or a flower.

Similarly, the Lord as the grain of wheat is glorified after He passes through death, enters into resurrection, and then in resurrection He is multiplied into many grains.

God the Father glorified God the Son in His resurrection; this glorification has to do with the release and impartation of the divine life from within Him into many believers to be His reproduction and duplication.

Christ was glorified in His resurrection by being multiplied to be reproduced in millions of believers in Christ who were regenerated in His resurrection!

Also, He Himself was begotten by God to be the Firstborn Son of God, and He was transfigured to become a life-giving Spirit. Hallelujah for Christ’s resurrection!

The Bible is so wonderful, showing us not only what God did for us but also what Christ is to us, and what happened to us in Christ according to God’s view!

In time, we all were regenerated or born again at a particular time, but according to God as revealed in His word, we were all regenerated in the resurrection of Christ more than two thousand years ago! Praise the Lord!

And now we are an incorporation: the Triune God is an incorporation, and through the resurrection of Christ this incorporation was enlarged to include us, the redeemed and regenerated human beings! Praise the Lord!

As the Enlarged, Divine-Human Incorporation, we are the Father’s House for His Rest, Satisfaction, and Manifestation

In the resurrection of Christ, the enlarged, divine-human, universal incorporation of the processed Triune God with the regenerated believers came forth from Christ as the transfigured grain of wheat in three aspects, as revealed in John 14-16.

In John 14 we see the first aspect of this enlarged, divine-human incorporation: the Father’s house.

In John 14:2 the Lord said that in the Father’s house, there are many abodes; these abodes are the many believers in Christ as the many members of the Body of Christ.

Christ went through death and resurrection to prepare a place for us so that we may be in God and God may be in us.

Through faith in Christ, we believers in Christ become part of the Father’s house to be the many abodes in the Father’s house.

All the believers in Christ are the abodes in the Father’s house.

And the Father’s house is built up by the constant visitation of the redeemed elect of the Father and the Son with the Spirit (John 14:21, 23; Eph. 2:19-22; 3:16-19). Hallelujah!

On one hand, we are the abodes in the Father’s house; on the other hand, we need to be built up by the Father and the Son’s visitation to be the abodes in the Father’s house, and this happens when we love the Lord.

When we believers in Christ give ourselves to love the Lord, enjoy Him, and spend time with Him, just opening to Him and being in His word, the Father and the Son come to us to make an abode with us.

When we love the Lord, we become the mutual dwelling place of the consummated Triune God and His redeemed elect.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, we can just love the Lord.

When we turn our heart to Him and tell Him, Lord Jesus, I love You! The Father and the Son come to be with us, to make an abode with us, and by the Spirit, They build the Triune God into us and us into the Triune God so that we become the mutual abode of God and man.

This is the divine-human incorporation, where God dwells in man, man dwells in God, God moves in man and man moves in God, and God does things in man and man does things in God. Hallelujah!

Throughout the day we can open to the Lord and allow Him to build Himself into us.

We may be at home or at school, or we may be at work or on the street; wherever we are, the Father and the Son come to visit us to do a building work in us.

By the constant visitation of the Triune God, the church as the Father’s house is built up and we become a mutual dwelling place of God and man, the divine-human incorporation.

If we just love the Lord and keep His word, the Triune God comes and makes an abode with us. The Father and the Son come and dwell with us and we with Them. Hallelujah!

The Father’s house is for His rest, satisfaction, and manifestation.

Lord Jesus, we love You! We just love You, dear Lord Jesus! We give ourselves to You today to love You and to be in Your word. Oh Lord, we love Your visitation. Come and visit us again and again so that You may make Your home in our heart. Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, we want to remain open to Your continual visitation. How wonderful it is to have the constant visitation of the Triune God to make us the mutual dwelling place of God and man! Amen, Lord, we open to You! We love You! Keep our heart turned to You throughout the day. Come in, Lord, again and again, to do a building work in us, making us an abode that will be a mutual dwelling place for the Triune God and for us! Hallelujah for the divine-human incorporation, the Father’s house! Amen, Lord, may the Father’s house be built up by the constant visitation to the redeemed elect of the Father and the Son with the Spirit!

The Divine-Human Incorporation is the Son’s Vine for God’s Enlargement, Spreading, and Glorification

The second aspect of the divine-human incorporation of the processed Triune God with the regenerated believers coming forth from Christ as the transfigured grain of wheat is the true vine in John 15.

The true vine, the Son’s vine, is for God’s enlargement, spreading, and glorification (John 15:1-8, 16).

Christ is the vine and we as the many believers in Christ are the branches abiding in Him.

First, we were branches in a wild tree, an uncultivated tree, but we were cut off and we were grafted in Christ as the cultivated tree, the vine tree.

Through repentance and faith in Christ, we were cut off from the old source, the old man and the world, and we were grafted into Christ.

Christ is the true vine; there are other vines out there, including the vine of the world, but Christ is the true vine.

This vine is universal, for it spreads all over the earth!

Christ as the true vine needs the entire earth for its spreading; He spread from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth! Praise the Lord!

The divine-human incorporation is the Son’s vine to be God’s enlargement, spreading, and glorification!

The vine and the branches have an intimate relationship, an organic relationship, to the extent that you can’t tell where the vine is and where the branches are, for they abide in each other and are fully one.

The universal true vine, Christ and His Body, has spread all over the earth to places such as Russia, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, and the United States of America.

This true vine keeps spreading, for the Lord is always growing, increasing, and multiplying. Hallelujah!

The true vine is a sign of the all-inclusive Christ, and the true vine is the organism of the processed and consummated Triune God. Hallelujah!

We were part of a wild olive tree but have been grafted into the cultivated olive tree (Rom. 11:17, 24) through our believing into Christ (John 3:15).

Now we are branches in Christ, the vine, and we simply need to abide in the Lord.

We have been regenerated with the divine life to be brought into the life union with the crucified and resurrected Christ, and we were incorporated with the processed and consummated Triune God!

Hallelujah, when others look at us today they see Christ, for we are branches in Christ, the vine!

As the gospel is being preached and Christ comes into human beings, they are brought into a life-union with Christ and incorporated with the Triune God.

All believers in Christ are branches in Christ, the true vine, to be the expansion, enlargement, multiplication, and increase of Christ, and we bear fruit for the glorification of God! Amen!

As we abide in Christ, we bear fruit for the Father to be glorified (John 15:4-5, 8, 16). In this, the Father is glorified, as we abide in Christ and bear much fruit.

Lord Jesus, we praise You as the true vine to be the organism of the Triune God! Hallelujah, we are branches in Christ, the vine, and we can abide in Him to be part of the increase and enlargement of Christ! Thank You, Lord, for regenerating us with the divine life and for bringing us into the life union with the crucified and resurrected Christ! Hallelujah, we have been brought into the enlarged, divine-human incorporation of God and man to be the many branches that abide in Christ, the true vine! Amen, Lord, we want to abide in You. We choose to abide in You. May we be the branches to faithfully abide in Christ to bear much fruit for the glorification of the Father. Flow in us, Lord, and constantly supply us with Yourself as everything that we need so that we may bear fruit for Your glorification! Praise the Lord for Christ as the vine and we as the branches – the divine-human incorporation of God and man!

The Divine-Human Incorporation is the Child of the Spirit, the New Man, to Carry out God’s Economy

The third aspect of the enlarged, divine-human incorporation of God and man is a new child, a new man, born by the consummated Spirit (John 16:21, 13-15).

Christ as the grain of wheat falling into the earth to die and being transfigured in His resurrection produced a divine-human incorporation of the processed Triune God and the regenerated believers in Christ.

This divine-human incorporation is seen in John 16 as the child of the Spirit, which is the new man, created by Christ on the cross.

When the Lord spoke about this third aspect, He said that a woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her hour has come.

But when she brings forth the little child, she no longer remembers the affliction because of the joy that a man has been born into the world. Hallelujah!

This new child that the Lord was speaking about refers to the new man, for a new child, a new man, was born by the consummated Spirit through Christ’s death and resurrection (Eph. 2:15).

The disciples were like a woman in labor, especially when the Lord was put to death and remained in death, for they had much sorrow; but then they forgot about their sorrow when the new man came into existence! Hallelujah!

The new man was created by Christ on the cross by abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances (Eph. 2:15).

This new man was also regenerated by the Father with the resurrected Christ in His resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 1:4) and born by the Spirit in the believers’ spirit (John 3:6). Praise the Lord!

The Lord’s disciples as the first group of Christ’s believers suffered Christ’s departure through His death, and they were like a delivering woman (16:20-21).

The Christ who returned in His resurrection was the newborn child (v. 22) to be the new man (Col. 3:10-11).

Today we believers in Christ are part of the new man, with Christ as our life and our person; He is not only our life but also our very person.

We are part of the divine-human incorporation of the processed Triune God and the regenerated believers in Christ, having Christ as our life and everything, and also having Christ as our person for the new man.

Day by day we put off the old man and put on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind (Eph. 4:23-24).

Our putting on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind will eventually consummate the Body of Christ, which is the church, and this consummates the New Jerusalem!

The New Jerusalem will be the consummation of the divine-human incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated and glorified tripartite man.

Today we are in the process of becoming the New Jerusalem, and one day we will reach that consummation.

As the one new man, we take Christ as our person and are renewed in the spirit of our mind so that we may carry out God’s eternal economy.

Lord Jesus, thank You for creating the one new man through Your death and resurrection for God to be incorporated with man as one entity! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are part of the one new man to carry out God’s eternal economy! We exercise our spirit, Lord, to put off the old man and put on the new man. We exercise to put on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind. Amen, Lord, we take You as our life and person. You are our life and You are our person. We want to live in our spirit today, living one spirit with You so that we may be one with You to fulfil God’s eternal economy! Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us in the process of being renewed in the spirit of our mind until we are fully one with You and we consummate the Body of Christ, which will consummate the New Jerusalem! Praise the Lord for the one new man, the divine-human incorporation of God and man!

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,” pp. 342-343, 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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