God’s eternal purpose is to dispense Himself into His people to make them the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead for His enlarged and expanded expression.
The answer to all questions is God’s economy, and His intention is to mingle Himself with man to produce the church as the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem. Amen!
We believers in Christ have been saved by God from living in the vanity of our human life and we now live a life for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose.
God saved us and called us for His purpose and according to His purpose.
Our God is not aimless; He has an eternal purpose, and everything He does is according to His purpose.
For Him to carry out His purpose, God created all things; He created the heavens, the earth, and all things in them.
Furthermore, He created man in a particular way so that man could be one with God, filled with God, even saturated with God, so that man would become the corporate expression of God.
The way man was created was so purposeful and full of meaning!
However, sadly to say man fell; Satan came in and deceived man, and man fell, and later Satan entered into man’s flesh and corrupted the man created by God.
When man fell, he lost the meaning of his existence. The fallen men today have no meaning for their existence.
Because they are empty and meaningless, they are trying to find a purpose in life.
Some think that, if they have more money, they find the meaning of their life; however, more money and more possessions can never satisfy the deep longing within man.
Some think that, as long as they find a good spouse and have a loving family life, this will make them happy and will become the meaning of their human life.
However, they soon discover that no one on earth can satisfy man, and nothing and no one here can give meaning to man’s life.
This is because man was created for God, and only when God comes into man to mingle Himself with man and mingle man with God is man satisfied and lives a life full of meaning. Amen!
The meaning of human life is the meaning of the universe, for man is the center of the universe, and man is here for God.
When we discover that God comes into us to fill us and mingle Himself with us for us to be one with Him and even become the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead to be part of His corporate expression, we will be full of meaning in our life, and our human life will have an aim.
We are here for God’s eternal purpose, and we’re one with Him for Him to carry out His purpose. When God carries out His purpose and we’re part of it, our life is full of meaning.
What is the Purpose of God in Creating Man and in Dealing with His Chosen People?
The book of Job is a very interesting book, for here we see a righteous man who did everything “by the book” but who was “tested” by God when He allowed Satan to do certain things to him and his family.
This book leaves us with a twofold question: what is the purpose of God in creating man, and what is the purpose of God in His dealing with us, His chosen people (Job 1:1; 10:13; 13:3-4)?
We need to know the answer to these questions, for this relates to the meaning of our human existence.
In God’s eternal purpose there are no accidents; rather, He allows things to happen and He arranges for many things to take place for one particular goal.
The answer to this twofold question is not found in Job but in the New Testament.
What is the purpose of God in creating man? What is the purpose of God in dealing with His chosen people?
The answer to both questions is the economy of God, which is God’s eternal intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity to be their life and nature so that they may become the same as He is for His fullness, His expression (Gen. 1:26; 1 Tim. 1:3-4; Eph. 1:22-23; 3:9, 19).
Why did God create us? Why are we here on earth? Why are there so many sufferings in our life and in the world?
The answer is clear: God’s eternal purpose, His economy.
The New Testament unveils to us that God’s intention in His creation of the universe including man is to work Himself into man.
Paul saw this, and he cooperated with God in his epistles to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things (Eph. 3:9-10).
According to His economy, God wants to display and make known His multifarious wisdom to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies through the church, according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord (v. 11).
The desire of God’s heart, His eternal intention, is to dispense Himself into His people so that they are filled with Him and become one with Him to become the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function, but not in the Godhead so that they become His corporate expression.
God’s purpose in dealing with us, His loving seekers today, even in the way of loss, is that we may gain God to the fullest extent so that He may be expressed through us for the fullness of His eternal purpose in His creation of man (Rom. 8:28-29; 2 Cor. 4:16; Jer. 48:11).
In other words, God’s eternal purpose has to do with His corporate expression; He wants to be expressed through a corporate group of people.
The way He does this is not by forcing man or coercing him to do what He wants but by coming to man through the gospel to draw man, attract man, and come into man.
God made a particular organ in us that only He can fill – our human spirit.
Satan has affected our human body to transmute it into the flesh, and he has corrupted our soul to make it into the self; however, Satan has no ground in our spirit, for our spirit is reserved only for God.
Praise the Lord, when we received the Lord Jesus as our Savior and life, He came into our spirit, and now He is the Spirit with our spirit, constantly dispensing all that God is into our being.
Even when we go through times of suffering and loss, when things not only do not go our way but we seem to be doing worse and worse, we can open to the Lord and allow Him to work Himself into us a little more.
We may not be able to do much to change our outward situation, but we can open to the Lord from deep within to receive and enjoy His divine dispensing.
He loves us, and even when we suffer loss, He wants us to gain Him to the fullest extent so that He may be expressed through us for the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose.
Lord Jesus, cause us to see God’s eternal purpose and be an open vessel to receive Your divine dispensing. Hallelujah, God’s eternal purpose is to dispense Himself into us so that we may become the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead for Him to gain an enlarged and expanded expression on the earth! Amen, Lord, we open to You. Dispense Yourself into us a little more today. Keep our being open to Your divine dispensing. Make us the same as You are in life, in nature, in expression, and in function, but not in Your Godhead, so that You may gain Your corporate expression on the earth. Hallelujah, we were created by God in His image and according to His likeness for God’s economy! Praise the Lord, even in dealing with us and in our suffering loss, God still wants to work Himself into us so that we may gain God, be one with God, and even become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead so that we may be His corporate expression! Amen, Lord, gain the fulfilment of Your eternal purpose in us and with us today!
God’s Eternal Purpose is to Mingle Himself with Man to gain the Body of Christ, His Corporate Expression
When you read the Bible you realize that it was not man who wrote it but it was God, for the Bible is not written according to human logic but according to God’s thought.
There are many things that are “left out” in the description of how the universe was created, how the history unfolded, and even in the life of the Lord Jesus.
However, the Bible presents us with a clear view of God’s move.
In the Old Testament God’s move was not in man but with man and among man, for He could not get into man.
![And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him [to be] Head over all things to the church, Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Eph. 1:22-23 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev. 21:2](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/And-He-subjected-all-things-under-His-feet-and-gave-Him-to-be-Head-over-all-things-to-the-church-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him [to be] Head over all things to the church, Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Eph. 1:22-23 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev. 21:2")
But one day, God stepped out of eternity into time and entered with His divinity into humanity to become a man.
He was conceived in the womb of a virgin for nine months, and He was born to be a man called Jesus, the first God-man.
This Man lived a perfect and wonderful human life, and many things that He did and spoke are recorded in the four Gospels, which can be considered His biography.
Then, He was put on the cross and died, and He accomplished many wonderful things in His death.
After He died, He was buried and, on the third day, He resurrected.
In His resurrection, He became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).
Through resurrection He brought His humanity into His divinity (Rom. 1:3-4).
Furthermore, in His resurrection, Christ was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God in His humanity to be the leading One of the many sons of God.
Finally, in His resurrection, we all, who believe into the Lord Jesus, have been begotten of God to be the many sons of God (2 Pet. 1:3), the many members of the Body of Christ to constitute the Body of Christ, which is the church (Eph. 1:22-23).
The Body of Christ is the new man in the new creation, and Christ is everything and everyone in this new man (Col. 3:10-11).
Eventually, this Body will be enlarged and consummated to be the New Jerusalem as the fullness, the corporate expression, of God for eternity. Wow!
The Bible reveals the move of God in man, and the intention of God in creating all things is clearly revealed in the New Testament.
God’s intention in the creation of all things, including man, was that man would be mingled with God to produce the church as the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem for His glorious expression for eternity (Zech. 12:1; Rev. 4:11; 19:7; 21:2).
God’s eternal purpose, according to the desire of His heart, is to have the church to be the organic Body of Christ for the manifestation of His multifarious wisdom (Eph. 1:9-11, 22-23; 3:9-11). Wow!
What God desires in His eternal purpose is to gain the church as the Body of Christ for His corporate manifestation.
For this, He created all things, He went through the long process in His incarnation, and He comes into us to regenerate us and make His home in our heart.
God’s eternal purpose is the reason He does everything, and we can cooperate with Him today simply by living in the spirit.
We Christians should just deal with the Spirit in our spirit; He is in us to impart God into us, make God’s will known to us, and lead us in all things.
![And to enlighten all [that they may see] what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord. Eph. 3:9-11](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/And-to-enlighten-all-that-they-may-see-what-the-economy-of-the-mystery-is-which-throughout-the-ages-has-been-hidden-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "And to enlighten all [that they may see] what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord. Eph. 3:9-11")
We have life and live by Him, so we need to also do all things by Him and walk by Him in our daily life (Gal. 5:25; Rom. 8:4).
We need to pray by the Spirit, read the Bible by the Spirit, love others by the Spirit, and preach the gospel by the Spirit.
Everything we need is in the Spirit; we simply need to partake of the all-inclusive grace with our spirit (Gal. 6:18) and live according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit.
When we take care of our spirit, doing all things by exercising our spirit, Christ will make His home in our heart, He is transforming us, and we do all things in Him and with Him.
The divine Spirit lives in us to pray, to read the Bible, to speak God’s word, to love our spouse, to visit sinners for the preaching of the gospel, and to do all things in us and with us.
We simply need to live a life for God’s eternal purpose by exercising our spirit so that He may gain the church, the Body of Christ, for His corporate expression.
When we live a mingling living, a living in which we are daily mingled with the Triune God, the Lord has a way to live in us, be expressed through us, and do all things in us.
May we learn to open to the Lord concerning God’s eternal purpose and cooperate with Him for the fulfilment of His purpose in our daily life.
Lord Jesus, we want to live a life for God’s eternal purpose today by exercising our spirit and living according to the Spirit. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to live one spirit with You today. Thank You for living in us to pray, read the Bible, speak God’s word, and do all things in us and with us. We open to You. We want to pray by the Spirit, live by the Spirit, love others by the Spirit, and preach the gospel by the Spirit, so that You may gain the church, the corporate expression of God. Amen, Lord, gain the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose in us, with us, and among us. Gain the church, the Body of Christ, the enlarged and expanded expression of God in man! Gain Your heart’s desire on earth, the church as the organic Body of Christ for the manifestation of Your multifarious wisdom! We want to cooperate with You for the fulfilment of Your purpose by living in our spirit today!
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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Job, pp. 91-95, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by being Empowered in the Grace which is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy (2024 April ITERO), week 2, God Calling Us according to His Own Purpose.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– God’s eternal purpose – God mingling Himself with man, a portion from, The Crucified Christ, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– The Triune God Dispensing Himself to Us, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Psalms, James, and the Divine Inspiration of the Bible, via, Shepherding Words.
– How Your Spirit, Soul, and Body Can Be Wholly Sanctified by God, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– God’s eternal purpose – a people to express God, a portion from, Lesson Book, Level 3: Two Spirits—Two Spirits – the Divine Spirit and the Human Spirit, Chapter 1, by Witness Lee.
– The Mingled Spirit, article by John Pester in, Affirmation and Critique.
– Radio Newsletters – What is God’s Purpose? More via, The Hearing of Faith.
– What Does God Want? More via, Bibles for America blog.
– The eternal purpose of God as revealed in Ephesians 1, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
– God’s eternal purpose – the Gospel of John, article via, CSoC website.
– God’s need and God’s goal – book review via, Conversant Faith. - Hymns on this topic:
– God’s intention in this universe is with humanity, / So the Lord became the Spirit just with man to mingled be. / We rejoice that we can all partake of His economy. / Yes, mingling is the way. (Hymns #1199 stanza 1)
– God has worked in three directions / For His plan so marvelous: / As the Father, Son, and Spirit / To dispense Himself to us! / All creation gives the setting— / Heav’n and earth are for this plan; / ’Tis for this God made a body, / Soul and spirit—three-part man. / As the center, as the kernel, / Of God’s plan our spirit is; / Calling on the name of Jesus / Makes our spirit one with His. / From the center to circumference / God would saturate each part; / Feeling, mind, and will renewing, / Making home in all our heart. (Hymns #1325 stanzas 3-4)
– Thy dwelling place, O Lord, I love; / It is Thy Church so blessed, / It is Thy joy and heart’s delight / And where Thy heart finds rest. / For her, Thyself Thou gavest, Lord, / That she be Thine, complete; / For her, I too my body give, / Thy heart’s desire to meet. (Hymns #852 stanzas 1-2)
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Life-study of Job, pp. 91-95, by Witness Lee
Aaaaameeen! God’s dispensing is God’s intention in creating the universe!
The Bible was written not according to human logic but according to God’s move!!
The answer to why did God create man and what is the reason for our suffering is God’s economy. God’s economy is to dispense Himself into us to be our life and everything to make us the same as He is for us to be His corporate expression.
And we can cooperate with God by living in our spirit today, for God as the Spirit lives in our spirit.
I was so impressed that the Spirit is the consummation of the Triune God.
Therefore, as Christians, we should just deal with this Spirit.
Hallelujah, We should pray by the Spirit, read the Bible by the Spirit, love others by the Spirit, and preach the gospel by the Spirit.
Brother, the divine Spirit lives in us to pray, to read the Bible, to speak God’s word, to love our spouse, and to visit sinners for the preaching of the gospel.
Amen brother. Jesus is the answer for all human questions.
Praise Him for being our answer. He didn’t come to make us good people, but He came to make us Gid-men. He is the mystery of God.
To be the answer for all questions of the Old Testament, He incarnated in the New Testament.
He passed all the way through to dwell in us as the life-giving Spirit.
Praise the Lord for making us like Him in life and nature.
In other words, He brought God to us by His incarnation and then brought us to God through the power of resurrection as the many sons of God so that we can have the right of inheritance.
Praise the Lord for His salvation and call to be His coworkers.
Amen brother.
How blessed we are to see and understand the need for trials & tribulations in our human life.
In the mingled spirit, we can learn to be content in want or in plenitude, in comfort and in affliction.
We Christians can live a mystical & divinely human life beyond the comprehension of mortal men because we have the wonderful Spirit of Christ in us.
Let us exercise our spirit all the time in all our living & doings.
Amen, for the dispensing of the divine spirit for the corporate expression of God’s economy.
Praise the Lord! 🙌😃🙋🏼
In the New Testament, we see the answers to two great questions
God has enlightened us concerning His economy, His intention and eternal desire in creating man, which is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity, as the Father in the Son by the Spirit – with His life and nature to be His expansion and enlargement – the church – for His expression and representation.
As the consumated Spirit He indwells us redeemed and regenerated believers that we may be transformed and grow in life as we live and walk by the spirit – as the source of our praying, reading the Bible, loving others and preaching the gospel.
May the eyes of our heart today, be fully open to see that the economy of God, which is God’s eternal intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to be their life and nature so that they may become the same as He is for His fullness, His expression— Hallelujah.
The Spirit [is] the consummation of the Triune God.
We should pray by the Spirit, read the Bible by the Spirit, love others by the Spirit, and preach the gospel by the Spirit.
HWMR – W2D2
The book of Job leaves us with a twofold question concerning the purpose of God in creating man and in dealing with His chosen people-1:1; 10:13; 13:3-4:
THE MYSTERY HIDDEN IN GOD’S HEART 💚
1. Job was upright and he was perfect in the eyes of man,
But he suffered loss and affliction according to God’s plan.
Job thought that this was unfair, so he and God had a chat.
What was hidden deep in God’s heart, and why would God let him go through that?
2. The mystery hidden in God’s heart is
God’s eternal economy.
His heart’s desire’s to dispense Himself
into all of His chosen people
To be our life and nature that we might be
the same as He is,
His duplication, an organism, the Body for
God’s fullness-His expression.
3. See God has a purpose in bringing His loved
ones through suffering;
His goal is that we’d be emptied and our heart
would be wide open to gain Him.
So when you’re suffering just seek God to gain
in you what He’s after,
Then the life of Christ comes in.
Listen to The Mystery Hidden In God’s Heart by William Jeng on https://on.soundcloud.com/t3zUH
Lord, build up Your Body for Your corporate expression.
Amen, lord gain your corporate expression.
07/30/24 God Calling Us according to His Own Purpose (Week 2, Day 2)
The forty-two chapters of the book of Job leave us with a twofold question concerning:
The answer to this question is found not in the Old Testament but in the New Testament. This answer is the eternal economy of God for His dispensing of Himself into His chosen people.
The economy of God consists of ten main items:
All the other items unveiled in the New Testament are related to these ten main items either directly or indirectly.
The New Testament gives us the answer to the twofold question in the book of Job. God’s purpose in His creation of man is to make man His corporate expression by imparting His divine life and nature into man’s tripartite being. And God’s purpose in His dealing with His chosen people, His believers, is to strip man of everything that hinders him from receiving and gaining God in order for him to be saturated with God’s life and nature to make him the expression of God.
Galatians 6:18 says, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers.” The grace of the Lord is the Lord Himself as the Spirit of life to us for our enjoyment. All that the Lord is as grace to us is in our spirit. In order for us to enjoy the Lord, to partake of the Lord as grace, we must turn to our spirit and remain in our spirit.
Romans 8:4 says, “That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.” The word “spirit” here should refer to the human spirit that has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. This regenerated spirit is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with our human spirit to be one spirit (1 Cor 6:17).
The word “walk” in Greek denotes the general walk in our living. Thus, to walk is to do things, to behave ourselves, to conduct our daily life, to speak, and to have our being. Our walk includes all the different aspects of our daily human life. Therefore, whatever we are, whatever we do, whatever we say, and wherever we go, we need to be in our spirit.
The Spirit in our spirit is the means for God to accomplish His purpose in creating man and in His dealing with His believers in order for them to receive Him, to contact Him, to gain Him, to contain Him, and to become one with Him until all his negative elements, which he received due to the fall, might be replaced with His positive elements so that he might become the testimony, the expression of God.
Amen Lord Jesus! May we give you the best cooperation!
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Job. What was the bottom line on all of his loss, all of his suffering? Job was very nearly perfect but apparently lacked something. And what was that something?
He lacked a testimony. Our testimonies are born of suffering. They are our experiences of God, of Christ, through tribulation, through troubles. Our testimonies are our, God’s and our victories over the travails of life.
Yes, God wishes to gain a people. This has always been His desire. But He longs for something more than a people. He longs for a counterpart, a bride. He longs for intimacy with each and every one who has accepted Him into His heart. Creator Savior God have accomplished so much, much more than we could possibly enumerate or articulate. Let us not fool ourselves by thinking we’ve got this…we do not.
But it’s ok. He does not desire that we continuously list and count His many wonderful attributes and accomplishments. What He wants is what He always has wanted…an intimate, open, loving, close, dependent, honest reciprocating relationship with each and every one of us. And through this His body shall be accomplished.
Love you saints.