The Divine Sanctification is the Holding Line in God’s Economy to Sonize us Divinely

The divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy to make us sons of God in full; we are daily being sanctified to be divinely sonized by God.

God the Father chose us, the believers in Christ, even before the foundation of the world, to make us holy.

He chose us in Christ to make us holy, the same as He is in His holy nature.

When in time we believed into the Lord Jesus, we became sons of God, and we are now partakers of His holy nature (1 Pet. 1:3).

Furthermore, He predestinated us to be sons of God, brothers of the firstborn Son of God, for us to be His corporate expression.

This is not of our doing or striving. It is not because we were better or more seeking, more beautiful or more kind than others; it is because the Father chose us to be holy and predestinated us to be sons of God.

How wonderful is this!

We can only thank and praise the Lord for His choosing and predestination, and we can cooperate with Him in His work of sanctifying us so that we may be made sons of God in full.

In eternity past, before there was the earth and all things in it, the Father chose us; He selected us, chose us, and predestinated us. He chose us to be holy.

He predestinated us to be sons of God.

And now, as we go on with the Lord and in the church life, as we open the word of God and have the help of the ministry, we are helped to realize how wonderful it is that the Father chose us to be holy and predestinated us to be His sons!

Hallelujah, we have the life of God to be the many sons of God, and we have the nature of God to be part of His corporate expression!

His life and nature are in our spirit.

When we exercise our spirit, live in the mingled spirit, and walk according to the Spirit, we live and walk according to the divine nature, and we are becoming the sons of God in full.

We can cooperate with the Father’s choosing and predestinating by living in the mingled spirit and by walking according to the Spirit.

When we live in spirit, when we have our whole being according to the Spirit, we are being sanctified so that we may be sonized.

We are sanctified, made holy as God is holy, so that we may be sons of God in full.

Today we are in this process of being sonized by being sanctified.

The divine sanctification is the holding line of the work in God’s economy; we were sanctified, we are being sanctified, and we will be fully sanctified so that we may be sons of God in full, part of His corporate expression. Hallelujah!

The Divine Sanctification is the Holding Line in the Carrying out of God’s Economy to Sonize us Divinely for us to be Deified

It is amazing to realize that the divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy to sonize us divinely.

God has an intention, a heart’s desire, which He is carrying it out in His economy.

The holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy is the divine sanctification for the divine sonship.

Every step of God’s economy in His work with us is to make us holy, to make us the same as He is.

We used to be lost in the ocean of humanity, but one day the “line of sanctification” reached us and we were hooked.

When we heard the word of God, when the gospel reached us, we were “hooked” and simply believed into the Lord.

Someone spoke the gospel to us, and a “hook” got into us, and we were captured by the Lord.

This is the Lord’s sanctification; He sanctifies us both outwardly and inwardly so that He may make us holy, even the same as He is.

What holds all our spiritual experiences from our repentance to our glorification is the divine sanctification.

This sanctification goes through regeneration, renewing, transformation, and conformation unto the redemption of our body (Eph. 1:14; 4:30).

The God of peace is sanctifying us wholly until our whole being, spirit, soul, and body, is being preserved complete and without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thes. 5:23).

God is sanctifying us divinely in order to make us sons of God, that is, to sonize us divinely. He is making us sons of God in order that we may become the same as God in His life and in His nature but not in His Godhead so that we can be God’s expression.

God’s divine sanctification is the divine sonizing.

We will never have God’s Godhead, but we believers in Christ have His life and His nature so that we may be His corporate expression.

God the Father sanctifies us in order to sonize us, to make us sons for His corporate expression.

He sanctified us initially by drawing us to Himself, and He sanctified us by regenerating us. He continues to sanctify us after repentance, to draw us to Himself and to saturate our inner being with His holy element.

We say that the divine sanctification is the holding line because every step of God’s work with us is to make us holy.

The carrying out of the eternal economy of God is by the Spirit’s sanctification (1 Thes. 5:23; John 17:17; Eph. 5:26-27; 1 Cor. 6:11; 12:3b; Heb. 12:4-14; Rom. 8:28-29; Eph. 4:30; 1 Thes. 5:19; Rev. 2:7a; Psa. 73:16-17, 25-26).

God is sanctifying our entire tripartite being – spirit, soul, and body – until we become the holy city, the New Jerusalem, the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

If we take the word of God and pray over it, especially the verses quoted above, we will be filled with appreciation for the Lord’s divine sanctification for the divine sonizing.

We can tell the Lord to sonize us a little more today.

By offering the Lord short, living, opening prayers, He advances in His process of divine sanctification to make us sons of God to express Him corporately.

The holding line of the carrying out of God’s economy is the divine sanctification to make us sons of God in full for us to be part of His corporate expression.

Thank You, Lord, for regenerating us to make us sons of God. We open to You. Sanctify us a little more today. Keep us in the divine sanctification so that we may become sons of God in full to express Him corporately. Amen, Lord, we just want to be open to what You are doing in us. We open to Your divine sanctification today. Thank You for sanctifying us in the past and for sanctifying us in the present. Hallelujah, the God of peace Himself sanctifies us wholly, and our whole being with our spirit, soul, and body, is being preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen, Lord Jesus, sonize us more today! Grow in us. Sanctify us. We open to You. We open to the Spirit’s sanctification in our daily life. Have Your way in us. Bring us on with You. May our spirit and soul and body be sanctified fully so that we may be Your expression on the earth today!

How God is Sonizing us by means of the Divine Sanctification to make us the Same as He is

When we speak of the divine sanctification, we do not refer to a concept or something up in the air, something that happens and none of us know what is going on.

The Bible is very specific and gives us many details of how God is sonizing us by means of the divine sanctification to make us the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

First, we see the seeking sanctification, the initial sanctification, which is unto repentance to bring us back to God (1 Pet. 1:2; Luke 15:8-10, 17-21; John 16:8-11).

This is seen in type in Luke 15, where we have the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. The lost sheep is the lost coin, and the lost coin is the lost son.

With the lost sheep, we see the Lord Jesus as the Shepherd going to find us. With the prodigal son, we see God the Father waiting for Him to return.

And with the lost coin we see God the Spirit sweeping and sanctifying us, causing us to come to our senses, and separating us unto Himself so that He can begin to sanctify us.

This is His seeking sanctification resulting in repentance.

The Spirit is like a woman with a broom sweeping in the chambers of our inner being, lighting the lamp of God’s word to enlighten us, and seeking us carefully until He finds us.

There’s an inner searching that goes on in a believer before he repents; this is the Spirit’s sanctification.

The redeeming sanctification, the positional sanctification, is by the blood of Christ, to transfer us from Adam to Christ (Heb. 13:12; 9:13-14; 10:29).

Every step of God’s move in and with man is to save us and sonize us, to make us His sons so that we may express Him corporately.

He sanctified us when He redeemed us, for He positionally sanctified us by the blood of Christ to transfer us out of Adam and into Christ.

Hallelujah for the divine sanctification unto the divine sonship!

The regenerating sanctification, the beginning of our dispositional sanctification, renews us from our spirit to make us, the sinners, sons of God – a new creation with the divine life and nature (John 1:12-13; 2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15).

After positionally sanctifying us as a result of His seeking sanctification,

God regenerated us; even our regeneration is His sanctification, for through regeneration we receive the life and nature of God to be a new creation.

Then, there’s the renewing sanctification, which is the continuation of dispositional sanctification; this sanctification renews our soul from our mind through all the parts of our soul to make our soul a part of God’s new creation (Rom. 12:2; 6:4; 7:6; Eph. 4:23; Ezek. 36:26-27; 2 Cor. 4:16-18).

The divine sanctification is the holding line of the carrying out of God’s economy, and the renewing sanctification renews our soul with all its parts to make us part of God’s new creation.

The divine life in our spirit is spreading into all the parts of our soul to renew our soul and fill us with the divine element of God, thus sanctifying us to make us God’s sons for His corporate expression.

We need to walk in newness of life and serve in newness of spirit.

We need to be saved from being stale and old in our Christian life; instead of being old, we need to be renewed by the divine sanctification so that our soul may be filled with God’s life.

The transforming sanctification, the daily sanctification, reconstitutes us with the element of Christ to metabolically make us a new constitution as a part of the organic Body of Christ (1 Cor. 3:12; 2 Cor. 3:18).

We are daily being transformed by the renewing of our mind; this transforming is the transforming sanctification, a sanctification that goes on daily within us to metabolically make us a new constitution.

As we remain in the process of the divine sanctification, the Lord is sanctifying our whole being both in the past and in the present and in the future until we become sons of God for His corporate expression.

The conforming sanctification, the shaping sanctification, shapes us in the image of the glorious Christ to make us the expression of Christ (Rom. 8:28-29; Heb. 6:1).

The divine sanctification works in us to conform us to the image of Christ.

Our conformation to Christ’s image is our maturity in the divine life through which we participate in God’s divinity in full and are solidified in the possession of His divine element. Wow, Hallelujah!

We will participate in God’s divinity and we will be conformed to the image of the firstborn Son of God. Hallelujah!

The glorifying sanctification, the consummating sanctification, redeems our body by transfiguring it to make us Christ’s expression in full and in glory (Phil. 3:21; Rom. 8:23).

The divine sanctification will reach our mortal body to conform it to the body of Christ’s glory so that we may express God in our spirit and soul and body. Hallelujah!

This is God’s eternal economy, to obtain a group of people who are fully sanctified in their spirit, soul, and body to express Him corporately in His life and nature.

God is working in His divine sanctification to carry out His economy in us by sanctifying us fully until we become His sons in full to express Him corporately.

Thank You, Lord, for the divine sanctification which operates in us to sanctify us fully and make us sons of God to express Him corporately! Thank You for coming to sanctify us initially unto repentance, bringing us back to God to repent and believe into Christ. Thank You for positionally sanctifying us by the blood of Christ so that we may be transferred from Adam to Christ. Thank You for Your regenerating sanctification which renewed our spirit to make us from sinners into sons of God, a new creation with the divine life nature. Hallelujah, we are now daily being renewed to be sanctified in full so that the divine life in our spirit would spread into our mind, emotion, and will to renew our soul. Amen, Lord, we open to Your daily sanctification so that we may be reconstituted with the element of Christ metabolically for us to become a new constitution, part of the organic Body of Christ. We praise You that You will also conform us to the image of the glorious Christ to make us the expression of Christ! Hallelujah for the glorifying sanctification which will redeem our body by transfiguring it to make us Christ’s expression in full and in glory!

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, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” pp. 221-223, 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 1, entitled, The Ultimate Goal of God’s Economy – God Became Man that Man Might Become God in Life and in Nature but not in the Godhead for the Building up of the Body of Christ to Consummate the New Jerusalem.
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