The Divine Trinity is the Framework of the Entire Bible – Especially of Ephesians

The Divine Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible, and especially the book of Ephesians is constructed with the Divine Trinity.

The Bible has many books and speaks of many things, touching many subjects and dealing with many issues, but the framework of the Bible is the Triune God dispensing Himself into His chosen people to be their life and life supply.

This is a great mystery, something that puzzled many Bible readers and theologians alike.

As believers in Christ, we are the most blessed people, for we have the privilege of being under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity day by day, even moment-by-moment.

What does the entire Bible talk about? It doesn’t talk only talk about history, poetry, and prophecy in the Old Testament, and the gospels, the acts, and the epistles in the New Testament.

There’s an intrinsic structure of the entire Bible, a governing principle of the entire divine revelation in the word of God.

The Bible is the word of God, and He spoke it through men who were inspired by the Spirit, moved by the Spirit, and borne by the Holy Spirit.

They wrote at different times, in different settings, and have different backgrounds, but all the books of the Bible talk about the same one thing: God’s eternal economy.

God has an economy, a master plan, according to which He made all things.

We all are here because of God’s will, because of His eternal economy.

And only when we are one with the Lord to fulfil His economy do we find meaning and sense in our human life.

In His economy, God wants to dispense all His riches, all that He is and has, into His chosen and redeemed people.

Just as a country has an economy to dispense the riches of that country to all the people living in that country, so God has a divine economy to do this.

In His economy the unique thing that He dispenses is Himself.

It is not material riches or outward prosperity that He gives His people; it is Himself.

He is the most valuable commodity, the best thing someone can have, for when we have God, we have everything.

Even if we gain the whole world outwardly but we do not have God, we are miserable, empty, and poor.

But when we have God, though we may not have many things outwardly and we may not be as prosperous as others, we have everything, for God in Christ as the Spirit is our everything.

In His economy, God intends to dispense all that He is into us to make us the church, the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all and in all.

As believers in Christ, we simply receive and enjoy all that God is under the divine dispensing, and we grow in life, are being transformed, and are built up together to be the organic Body of Christ for His corporate expression.

The Divine Trinity is the Framework of the Entire Bible

Just as a house has a framework that supports it, and this framework is hidden yet vital, the Bible has a certain framework that is hidden but supports it and causes it to stand strong.

A house has a foundation and a certain structure; sometimes it has some pillars that support it, and there are metal beams that support the entire house.

These supporting elements, the framework of the house, may not be visibly seen but rather, what we see is the brickwork, the painting, the wooden panels, and other things.

The Bible is constructed with the Divine Trinity, and the Divine Trinity is the framework of the Bible.

And you don’t need to go to a Bible seminary to learn this; you simply need to open the Bible and read and pray over it, and you can also read the footnotes in the Recovery Version and the life studies of the Bible.

As we dive deeper into the word of God, we realize that both the Old Testament and the New Testament with all their books have a certain framework, a structure, something solid that supports them and holds them to stand strong.

The Divine Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible, and the whole Bible is constructed with the Divine Trinity.

When we realize that the Divine Trinity is the framework of the Bible, everything in the Bible will make sense and will fall into its proper place.

We will read the Bible with the glasses of God’s economy, seeking to see how the Triune God dispenses Himself into us in many aspects as revealed by the books in the Bible.

Instead of wasting our time on the internet, scrolling mindlessly through TikTok, or spending a lot of time on Instagram, we should spend time in the word of God with the help of the life-studies to see, enjoy, partake of, and participate in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

May we spend our time day by day to be in the Word of God, studying and enjoying the Triune God and the divine dispensing in the Bible.

It will take our whole life to do this. From the very first book in Genesis, where we see the creation of man, we see the Divine Trinity.

And even in the very last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 22, we still see the Divine Trinity, this time being mingled, joined, and fully one with the transformed and glorified church.

As we read the Bible and spend time with the Lord in His word, may we pay more attention to the framework of the entire Bible, which is the Divine Trinity.

May we not dwell upon or overemphasize the “accessories” or “outward painting” that we can see in the many details expounded in the Bible; may we remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity so that we may live a life for the fulfilment of God’s eternal economy.

If we see the governing and controlling vision in the Bible, the vision of God’s economy, we will place ourselves and remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, and we will live a proper Christian life and church life for the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose.

May we understand what the will of God is, not be foolish but redeem the time, and get into the Word of God in a consistent and solid way day by day. And may we keep our heart open to the Lord, telling Him,

Lord Jesus, we want to see You, enjoy You, and partake of You as we come to Your word. Work Yourself into us a little more today. Grant us to see and realize that the Divine Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible. May we see the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in all the books of the Bible, and may we keep our being open to this dispensing. Hallelujah, our rich, all-inclusive, vast Triune God wants to dispense all His riches into us, and we can simply open, receive, partake, and enjoy all these riches under the divine dispensing! Amen, Lord, unveil us more and more every day to see Your dispensing, remain under Your dispensing, and cooperate with the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in our daily life!

Every Chapter in Ephesians is Structured with the Divine Trinity

Ephesians is the only book in the Bible in which every chapter is structured with the Divine Trinity as its basic element.

We would not necessarily see and realize this with our natural mind, but when we receive the divine revelation, we will see that every chapter of this wonderful book is structured with the Divine Trinity.

If we don’t know the Triune God, we cannot comprehend the profoundness of the book of Ephesians.

Ephesians reveals the church, and the church revealed in this book is composed of the Triune God and expresses the Triune God.

May we see a vision that governs us and directs us so that we may realize that we need to live in and move with the Divine Trinity.

In Ephesians we see the divine revelation concerning the producing, existing, growing, building up, and fighting of the church as the Body of Christ.

This entire book is composed of the divine economy, showing us the dispensing of the Triune God into all the members of the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 1 unveils that God the Father chose and predestinated the members of the Body of Christ in eternity (Eph. 1:4-5).

Also, it reveals that God the Son redeemed them (Eph. 1:6-12) and that God the Spirit, as a pledge, sealed them (vv. 13-14).

In this way, the Triune God imparts Himself into His believers for the formation of the church, which is the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all and in all.

The first chapter of Ephesians speaks of this wonderful dispensing of the Divine Trinity into man to produce and build up the church.

Ephesians 2 shows us that, in the Divine Trinity, all the believers – both Jewish and Gentiles – have access unto God the Father, through God the Son, in God the Spirit (Eph. 2:18).

We don’t just have access to God; we have access to God the Father through Christ the Son and in God the Spirit.

This shows that the tree of the Godhead coexist and coinhere simultaneously, even after the Triune God went through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.

In Ephesians 3 the apostle prayed that God the Father would grant the believers to be strengthened through God the Spirit into their inner man so that Christ, God the Son, may make His home in their hearts that they may be filled unto all the fullness of God (Eph. 3:14-19).

This is how the Lord builds His church – by building Himself in His Divine Trinity into our being. Eph. 3 reveals the climax of the believers’ experience of and participation in God in His Trinity.

Every chapter of Ephesians is structured with the Divine Trinity, for the Divine Trinity is the framework of the entire Bible, especially of the book of Ephesians.

Ephesians 4 portrays how the processed God as the Spirit, the Lord, and the Father is mingled with the Body of Christ (Eph. 4:4-6), so that all the members of the Body may experience the Divine Trinity.

The issue of our enjoyment and experience of the Divine Trinity (one Lord, one Spirit, one Father) is the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 5 exhorts us to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father (Eph. 5:19-20).

And this is to praise and thank the processed God in His Divine Trinity for our enjoyment of Him as the Triune God. Hallelujah!

Ephesians 6 instructs us to fight the spiritual warfare by being empowered in the Lord (God the Son), putting on the whole armour of God (the Father) and wielding the sword of God the Spirit (Eph. 6:10, 11, 17).

Every chapter of Ephesians is structured with the Divine Trinity, and in every chapter, we see not merely the doctrine of the Triune God but how we can experience this divine dispensing.

In every chapter in Ephesians, we see the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity and how we can experience and enjoy the Triune God in His dispensing.

We can only give thanks and praise to Him and keep ourselves under the divine dispensing so that He may gain the church as the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all, the fullness of God, the one new man, the wife of Christ, and the corporate spiritual warrior!

Thank You, Father, for choosing us and predestinating us in eternity to be Your many sons. Thank You, Christ, for redeeming us, to be members of Your Body. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for coming to seal us and be the pledge of our inheritance. Hallelujah, we are now believers in Christ and members of the Body of Christ who daily live under the divine dispensing for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ! Thank You, Lord, for opening a way for us to contact God and partake of God as our life and life supply. We now have access to the Father through Christ the Son in God the Spirit. Amen, Lord, mingle Yourself more with us today. Dispense Yourself more into us all throughout the day. We just come to You as open vessels, ready to receive, enjoy, and partake of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Minoru Chen in the message, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1986, vol. 3, The Revelation and Vision of God, p. 429, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy (2022 Thanksgiving Weekend Conference), week 5, entitled, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity Revealed in the Book of Ephesians, and Eating the Bread of God.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – The Divine Trinity in John 14, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
  – Seeing the Divine Trinity in John 14-17, portion from, The Revelation and Vision of God, Chapter 7, by Witness Lee.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – How rich the source, the Father as the fountain, / And all this wealth He wants man to enjoy! / O blessed fact, this vast exhaustless portion / Is now for us forever to employ!… / How real it is that God is now the Spirit / For us to touch, experience day by day! / Astounding fact, with God we are one spirit, / And differ not in life in any way! (Hymns #608 stanzas 2 and 5)
  – Chosen in Him Thy well-beloved Son, / We have our part in joy before Thy face; / Predestined, ere this world had yet begun, / For that blest world, where all bespeaks Thy grace. / Sons loved and loving, whom Thy Spirit fills, / Our endless portion Christ in us to be; / Each with some trait of Him whose love us thrills, / For Thy delight and joy eternally. (Hymns #53 stanzas 3-4)
  – Now the Triune God has come to dwell within / As the wonderful Spirit in us. / We are mingled with the Lord, we’re one with Him / As the life-giving Spirit in us. (Hymns #1113 stanza 1)