The Bible reveals that Christ has become the pneumatic Christ, Christ as the life-giving Spirit, to be a realm in which we can live, move, and do all things; everything we need to live the Christian life is in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ. Wow, Hallelujah!
We as believers in Christ are those who have been shown mercy by God to believe in the unseen One; though we have not seen the Lord Jesus with our physical eyes nor have we heard Him with our physical ears, yet we love Him and we pursue after Him.
We love the Lord Jesus, we have been captured by His beauty, and now we live a life in fellowship with the Lord.
This means that we are learning to live daily in a different realm; we live not only in the physical realm where many things are happening outwardly but in the spiritual realm, where Christ is.
We believers in Christ have a regenerated spirit, and when we contact the Lord in our spirit, we live in another realm, where the Lord is.
This realm is the divine and mystical realm.
It is a divine realm, for it is the realm where the Lord is, and it is mystical because the Lord causes us to be the same as He is, which is quite mysterious.
We Christians are not doing our best to improve our behaviour according to what the Bible says, nor do we ask What Would Jesus Do right now in my situation.
Rather, we have a living union and communion with the One who indwells us.
Christ as the Spirit indwells us, and our spirit is a mingled spirit.
In our spirit, we can contact the Lord, and we can live in the spirit, walk according to the Spirit, and do all things in the spirit.
When we do this, when we have our being and do all things in the spirit, though outwardly we live in the human, physical realm, inwardly we live in another realm, the realm where God is.
And the God who is in this realm is not merely the Creator of all things, the Almighty God, the One who is self-existing and ever-existing, but the God who became a man, passed through human living, died on the cross, resurrected and was ascended.
Our God is not just God but a God-man, a God mingled with man, a man mingled with God, to be the Man in the glory, the God-man on the throne above all things. Wow!
This One is not just in the heavens, seated on the throne; He is also the Spirit with our spirit, joined to us as one spirit.
When we turn to our spirit and live in the spirit, we live in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ, and here we have everything we need to live the Christian life according to what the Bible shows us.
May we be here, in our spirit, to enjoy and partake of all that God is and has so that we may live Christ, express Him, and manifest Him.
Christ has become the Pneumatic Christ, the Consummated Spirit, to be the Divine and Mystical Realm for us to Live in
![And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. John 1:14 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45 And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Cor. 3:17](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/And-the-Word-became-flesh-and-tabernacled-among-us-jpg.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. John 1:14 So also it is written, \"The first man, Adam, became a living soul\"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45 And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Cor. 3:17")
John 7:39 is a very mysterious verse; in the previous verse, the Lord Jesus said that everyone who is thirsty can come to Him and drink, and then this verse says that this drink is the Spirit, who was not yet.
In Gen. 1 we see that the Spirit of God was there, right from the beginning, but here we are told that the Spirit was not yet.
How can this be? The Bible unveils an amazing fact concerning God: He is not only the Creator, the Almighty One, the One who is above and beyond all things human, but He also became a man.
John 1:14 says that the Word, who was God and was with God, became flesh; God in His economy became a man. He put on the human nature.
On one hand, in His Godhead, in His very person, God can never change, for there’s no need to change or improve.
But on the other hand, in His economy, God became a man. Furthermore, He went through human living for thirty-three and a half years, and then He died on the cross.
On the cross, this God-man who was spotless, sinless, and perfect, was put to death on our behalf, so that He may redeem us and shed His blood for the forgiveness of our sins.
Then, after three days of being in death, He resurrected and became a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45 clearly says that the last Adam, Christ in the flesh, became a life-giving Spirit.
First, God became a man, then, He became a life-giving Spirit.
He was already the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit (or the Spirit of holiness), but He went through a process to become the Spirit, the life-giving Spirit, who is also called the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Amazing!
The consummated Spirit – the Spirit who went through a process to be consummated as the Spirit – is the Triune God who in Christ has passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Now He is “the Spirit” spoken of in John 7:39, who was not yet before the Lord’s resurrection but now is. He can be enjoyed by man.
Before His incarnation, the Spirit could only move man, inspire man, and speak to man, but He could never be inside of man.
![But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. John 7:39 In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Gal. 3:14](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/But-this-He-said-concerning-the-Spirit-whom-those-who-believed-into-Him-jpg.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. John 7:39 In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Gal. 3:14")
Yes, the Spirit could fall upon man and make man do great and wonderful things, but the Spirit could not be in man nor could He remain in man to be mingled with man.
After the Lord’s incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, the Spirit can come into man.
The Lord Jesus came on the evening of His resurrection to His disciples and breathed into them saying, Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:22).
All believers in Christ are those who have the Spirit, the consummated Spirit.
Even more, God went through all these processes so that He could become the pneumatic Christ (Christ as the Spirit), the consummated Spirit, for Him to be a realm in which we can live, move, have our being, and do all things. Wow!
Through His death and resurrection, Christ became the life-giving Spirit and thereby became the pneumatic Christ, ready to be enjoyed, received, and experienced by all those who believe into Him (2 Cor. 3:17-18).
Thus, today we may speak of the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ, in whom we live, move, and have our being (John 7:39; Gal. 3:14; 1 Cor. 15:45).
May we learn to live in this Spirit, walk by the Spirit, do all things according to the Spirit, drink the Spirit, be immersed and baptized in the Spirit, be filled in spirit, and do all things in the Spirit.
Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for going through a process to become the life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah, today we can enter into the divine and mystical realm of the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit! Yes, Lord, we want to be in this realm, live here, and do all things in this realm. Thank You for coming into us as the Spirit to regenerate us, transform us, renew us, sanctify us, and glorify us. We open to Your inner working and to all the things You are arranging for us. Fill us with Yourself. Amen, Lord, fill us in spirit! Fill us with Your Spirit in our spirit and also in our soul! We want to be in the spirit and do all things according to the Spirit. Amen, Lord, we want to live in the spirit, walk by the Spirit, and do all things in and according to the Spirit. Keep us in our spirit today so that we may live, walk, have our being, and do all things in the divine and mystical realm of the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit!
God is Everything to us in the Divine and Mystical Realm of the Consummated Spirit
May the Lord have mercy on us the believers in Christ to show us that we live not only in the realm where we are, such as the country we’re in or the city we live in, but in a different realm, in the realm of the Spirit.
We are not like those around us, the people we meet at work or on the street who do not have God’s life in them; we have Christ as the Spirit in our spirit, and we live in another realm.
Our realm is not the UK or the USA, nor is it Germany, France, the Philippines, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, Ghana, Spain, Portugal, or the country we live in.
Our realm is the Triune God, and more specifically, we live in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit where God is our everything.
In the Triune God, there are no complications, but when we look at the processes He went through, we see many complications; the realm we live in is the complicated and complicating Triune God.
We live here with the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – and here we have Christ’s incarnation, His human living, His crucifixion, His resurrection, and His ascension.
In the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit we have God in Christ as the Spirit to be our everything.
Sometimes we may find it hard to die to the self and be crucified with Christ, for in the self we’re very much alive; if we simply live in the divine and mystical realm, here we have Christ’s crucifixion.
In this realm we have Christ’s resurrection; when we live in this realm, we realize we have been resurrected with Christ.
In John 14:1 the Lord Jesus said, Do not let your heart be troubled. In the physical realm, there are many troubles, and our heart is very much troubled (16:33); but in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, there are no troubles.
In this realm of the consummated Spirit, we believe into God and also into Christ, and we have peace.
We not only believe in God; we believe into God, we are joined to Him as one, and in this organic union with Him we enjoy a peace that is beyond understanding.
When we live in the world but not in the divine and mystical realm, our heart is troubled.
But when we believe into Christ, we enter into the consummated Spirit as the realm, and there are no troubles here.
There are two realms: the physical realm where all the troubles are, and the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, where peace is.
We need to choose to live and be in the mystical realm of the Triune God, where peace is found.
Similarly in John 16:33, the Lord said that, though in the world we have afflictions, in Him we have peace.
He has overcome the world, and in Him we have peace.
Today there are wars raging in many parts of the earth, some being closer to home while others are further away.
People rise against people. Nation fights against nation. One ethnicity hates another ethnicity.
Racism is prevalent, hatred and violence are widespread, and the news media report and even encourage such matters.
![We should not think that believing into Christ is a simple matter. If He had not died on the cross to take away our sins, to crucify our flesh, and to terminate our old man, and if He had not resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit, there would be no way for Him to come into us and to bring us into Him. If we had been there when the Lord Jesus spoke about believing into God and into Him [cf. 14:1], we might have said, “Lord, I want to enter into You. Tell me how to believe into You.” As the following verses reveal, for us to enter into Him, He had to die and be resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit so that we may receive Him by believing into Him and calling, “O Lord Jesus.” Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 113-115](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/We-should-not-think-that-believing-into-Christ-is-a-simple-matter-jpg.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "We should not think that believing into Christ is a simple matter. If He had not died on the cross to take away our sins, to crucify our flesh, and to terminate our old man, and if He had not resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit, there would be no way for Him to come into us and to bring us into Him. If we had been there when the Lord Jesus spoke about believing into God and into Him [cf. 14:1], we might have said, “Lord, I want to enter into You. Tell me how to believe into You.” As the following verses reveal, for us to enter into Him, He had to die and be resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit so that we may receive Him by believing into Him and calling, “O Lord Jesus.” Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 113-115")
There are many troubles in the world, and the more we live in the physical realm, the more our heart is troubled. But in the Lord we have peace.
In the consummated Spirit as the divine and mystical realm, we have peace, for here God is everything to us. Hallelujah!
And this is all because Christ became the flesh and then He became a life-giving Spirit.
If He had not been incarnated and had not become the Spirit, there would be no way for us to enter into Him and be in Him as the divine and mystical realm.
In order for us to enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, which the Triune God became after going through a process, God had to become a man and He had to become a life-giving Spirit.
Now we can simply call, O Lord Jesus, and we can live in another realm, the realm of the Triune God as the Spirit. Hallelujah!
May we be those who day by day live not only in the physical realm, the outward human realm where so much trouble is but simultaneously live in the divine and mystical realm, where God in Christ as the Spirit is everything to us.
In this realm, we have the power of resurrection, the conformity to Christ’s death, the ascension of Christ, and everything we need.
In this divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, the all-inclusive Christ is everything to us for us to live the Christian life and the church life.
Lord Jesus, we believe into You! We turn to You. We exercise our spirit to be one spirit with You. Amen, Lord, we love You and we love to remain in the organic union with You in spirit. Keep us in our mingled spirit today so that, as we live outwardly in the physical realm, we would live inwardly in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit! Amen, Lord, we want to live in our mingled spirit today! Hallelujah, in the realm of the Spirit we have life, peace, redemption, salvation, joy, and everything we need to live the Christian life and the church life! Amen, Lord, we want to remain in this realm of the consummated Spirit to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as our everything. In You, we have peace, and this peace is the real peace, not as the peace in the world is. Hallelujah!
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 Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 113-115, 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 2, entitled, The Divine and Mystical Realm.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– John, the mystical gospel, article by Witness Lee, via, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Divine and Mystical Realm, outline via, Church in Plano.
– Crucial truths of truth in John 14, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Spirit – the Consummated Spirit of the processed and consummated Triune God as the consummation of the Triune God, a portion from, The Christian Life, Chapter 17, by Witness Lee.
– The Triune God as Our Daily Supply is a Foretaste of New Jerusalem, article via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Before and After that day of Christ’s resurrection, a portion from, The Divine and Mystical Realm, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– The Recovery of the Eternal Economy of God, outline via, New Zealand Training Centre.
– 24 Practical Points on Prayer Transcript, via, Living to Him.
– The Three Aspects of the Lord’s recovery, outline via, the Church in Hong Kong. - Hymns on this topic:
– Oh in the Son the Father is, / And now the Spirit is the Son; / The Father with the Son is joined, / The Spirit with the Son is one. / ’Tis when the Spirit strengthens us / And Christ His home makes in our hearts, / The Father’s fulness with His love / Will fill us in our inward parts. (Hymns #243, stanzas 4-5)
– The Spirit of Jesus has / All elements human, divine, / The living of man in Him / And glory of God combine. / The suff’ring of human life, / Effectiveness of His death, / His rising and reigning too / Are all in the Spirit’s breath. / With all these components true / His Spirit in us doth move, / And by His anointing full / The riches of Christ we prove. (Hymns #242, stanzas 3-5)
– Jesus Christ the Lord is living now in us / As the wonderful Spirit within. / He has been transfigured, we enjoy Him thus, / As the life-giving Spirit within. / Now the Spirit of reality is here / As the wonderful Spirit within. / Now the things of Christ are all so real and clear / By the life-giving Spirit within. (Hymns #1113 stanzas 3-4)
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Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 113-115
In the physical realm, in the world, we have a lot of troubles, but in the divine and mystical realm, in the realm of the consummated Spirit, we have peace.
May we live not only in the physical realm but even more, live in the spirit so that we may enjoy Christ as the Spirit to be our life, peace, joy, and everything.
Amen! Thank You Lord! You are in the consummated Spirit, the pneumatic Christ who has overcome the world! In You as such a one we have peace even in the world we have affliction!
Amen brother…our Realm is the complicated and Triune God.
We have been resurrected to live here, where peace is…
Complicated and Complicating…
Amen Lord You’re our realm now and forever 🙏🏾
Amen. Keep us in the realm of spirit lord
Our Christ is a divine & mystical realm into which we may enter and have our being.
In this realm is all that we need: crucifixion, resurrection, life & peace, etc, etc, are all in the divine & mystical realm, the consummated and “processed” Spirit.
Every day, we need to enter into this Christ by believing into Him.
If we cease to believe into the Christ who has become the life-giving Spirit, our unbelief will cause us to miss our greater salvation. We must beware the sin of unbelief.
Israel did not cease to believe in the existence of God.
They ceased to believe into the God who could meet their every need and, consequently, turned to the world with all its idols.
Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he falls….
Amen! Make us fully divine & mystical, Lord Jesus.
Aamen!
Thank you Lord for the washing of the water in Your word. Cleanse and protect us from the defilement of the worldly things, so we can embrace Your Divine Life. You are our joy because You are unspeakable and full of glory.
Amen Lord you are our helper, help us to live in our spirit so we experience and enjoy you in full
Amen Lord! We believe into You! Keep us in the divine and mystical realm today!
Hallelujah! 😃🙋🏽🙏 Amen.
Ammmeenn!!!
Oh what a sweet realm is this!
Not merely or simply the divine and mystical realm of the Triune God; it is the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and of Christ to be our daily salvation.
The more we move out of ourselves into this realm, this realm becomes our salvation; saving us from the troubles of living merely in the physical realm.
AMEN👑
* Through resurrection Christ became a life-giving Spirit with a spiritual body. Adam as a living soul is natural; Christ as a life-giving Spirit is resurrected. First, in incarnation He became flesh for redemption (John 1:14, 29); then, in resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit for the imparting of life (John 10:10b).
Amen “It is the SPIRIT who gives LIFE”
..”in You we have peace ” “And this peace is the real peace.”