God’s Judicial Redemption is the Procedure for us to Enjoy God’s Organic Salvation

God’s judicial redemption is the procedure for us to enjoy God’s organic salvation and thus partake of and enjoy God’s complete salvation.

The complete salvation of God is of two aspects – judicial and organic; the judicial aspect was accomplished in the physical realm of Christ’s ministry objectively by Christ in His flesh, and His organic salvation is accomplished in His heavenly ministry by Christ in resurrection. Hallelujah!

What a great light it is for us to see that God has a complete salvation including not only our redemption and salvation from the lake of fire but even more, His organic salvation to make us fully one with Himself, even to make us the same as He is in life and nature for His corporate expression.

We are saved not only initially, from sin and from eternal perdition; we are daily being saved, even saved to the uttermost.

We were reconciled to God and now we’re being saved in His life. We need to be saved from so many things that are not Christ Himself.

We need to be saved not only from the world, from sin, and from the defiling and unclean things, but even more, we need to be saved in the Lord’s life.

The book of Romans concerns the gospel of God; the whole book is the gospel of God.

The gospel of God is to make sinners sons of God to constitute the Body of Christ expressed as the local churches.

Most Christians, however, only know the gospel based on the first three or four chapters of Romans, and in this, we include Martin Luther.

Man being justified by faith is in the first few chapters of Romans, but Romans has more than three or four chapters: the gospel of God presented in Romans includes all the sixteen chapters of this book.

The gospel of God in Romans presents to us God’s full salvation to make us, sinners, into sons of God so that we may constitute the Body of Christ to be the many members of the Body, and this Body is expressed in many local churches.

First, we see that in the first few chapters, sin is exposed and Christ’s redemption is brought in so that fallen man would be redeemed back to God and reconciled to God.

But then in Romans 5, we see a turn, for it goes beyond being reconciled to God: now we are being much more saved in His life. Amen!

On one hand, we are so grateful to the Lord for dying for us on the cross in order to obtain a wonderful redemption, based on which we have forgiveness of sins, we are cleansed of our sins, we’re justified before God, we are reconciled to God, and we are sanctified positionally before God.

On the other hand, we need to know, participate in, and experience and enjoy the wonderful organic salvation that God has for us, something that is not merely objective but subjective.

God’s Judicial Redemption was Accomplished by Christ in His Earthly Ministry for us to Apply Objectively

God’s complete salvation is of two aspects—the judicial aspect and the organic aspect (see Rom. 5:10,21; John 1:12-13; 1 Pet. 2:25; Rom. 6:19, 22; 2 Cor. 4:16; 3:18; Eph. 4:15-16; Rom. 8:28-29; Phil. 3:20-21).

The judicial aspect of God’s salvation was accomplished by Christ Himself; it was accomplished in the physical realm of Christ’s earthly ministry objectively by Christ in His flesh (John 1:14; Col. 1:22).

God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ, lived on the earth for thirty-three and a half years.

While He was in that physical realm in the flesh, He was carrying out His earthly ministry.

Then, He went to the cross at the end of His life to be the Lamb of God and be sacrificed for us.

He accomplished redemption to take care of all of man’s problems before God.

The judicial aspect of God’s salvation was accomplished by Christ in His flesh through His earthly ministry, and this was according to the righteousness of God (Rom. 1:17a; 3:21-26; 9:30-31).

Even though God loves us and wants to dispense Himself into us to transform us and make us the same as He is, He cannot do it unless His righteousness is satisfied.

Because man sinned, he touched and offended God’s righteousness. Although He is loving, He is also wise, purposeful, and righteous in His procedure.

He cannot readily accept man unless His righteousness is satisfied. Righteousness is the foundation of God’s throne; in order to take care of His righteousness, Christ came to be the Redeemer.

It is through God’s fulfilling all of the requirements of His righteous law on sinners by Christ’s redemptive death on the cross (Gal. 3:13; 1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 9:12).

Through Christ, who is the righteous dying for the unrighteous, we were redeemed, reconciled to God, and justified before God.

Christ fulfilled all the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory. Praise the Lord! In His flesh, Christ carried out His earthly ministry by accomplishing God’s judicial redemption.

And this redemption obtained by Christ has some wonderful results.

As a result of Christ’s redemption, God forgives the sins of those who believe into Christ (Eph. 1:7), the believers’ sins are washed away (Heb. 1:3), the believers are justified (Rom. 3:24), the believers who were God’s enemies are reconciled to God Himself (5:10), and the believers are sanctified in their position unto God to be His holy people (Heb. 13:12; 10:29). Hallelujah!

All these were accomplished by Christ in His earthly ministry, especially through His redemption on the cross.

There’s nothing we have to do to obtain these; no amount of effort, striving, good works, and righteous deeds can cause us to be washed of our sins, forgiven of our sins, justified before God, and reconciled to God.

Praise the Lord for His wonderful redemption which brought us many objective results that can be applied to us before God!

Simply through our faith in Christ, we are forgiven of our sins, our sins are washed away, we are justified, we’re reconciled to God, and we’re sanctified in our position unto God Himself.

Though we may not feel all these matters, though we may not understand how this can be, in the spiritual realm Christ has already accomplished redemption in His earthly ministry, and we can partake of the wonderful results, all of which are the procedure for God to carry out His organic salvation.

Hallelujah for the judicial aspect of God’s salvation which was accomplished in the physical realm of Christ’s earthly ministry objectively by Christ in the flesh! Amen, Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming a man, living a perfect human life on earth, and dying on the cross to obtain a wonderful redemption. Thank You for fulfilling all the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory. We believe into You and we take You as our righteousness. We believe in Your redemptive death on the cross and we take You as our righteousness before God. Hallelujah, through Christ’s redemption, we can be forgiven of our sins, our sins are washed away, we are justified, we are reconciled, and we’re sanctified positionally unto God! Praise the Lord, we are God’s holy people who can receive and enjoy the life of God to be saved by God in His life organically!

God’s Judicial Redemption is the Procedure of God’s Complete Salvation for us to Participate in God’s Organic Salvation

Most Christians focus on and know mainly the judicial redemption of Christ, but they do not realize that God’s judicial redemption is the procedure of God’s complete salvation for us to participate in God’s organic salvation.

What Christ carried out in His earthly ministry was a procedure of the complete salvation of God for us as believers in Christ to participate in God’s organic salvation.

God’s organic salvation is the purpose of God’s complete salvation.

It is important for us to see the difference between the procedure of God’s complete salvation and the purpose of His complete salvation.

The procedure God takes is judicial, according to His righteousness; the purpose is organic, according to His life.

The procedure is in the physical realm and the purpose is in the mystical realm.

It is not enough for us to be saved from eternal perdition by being redeemed by Christ; we need to still be saved, even saved much more, by God’s organic salvation in the accomplishing of God’s economy (Rom. 5:10, 21).

We need to advance from the physical realm of Christ’s earthly ministry and enter into something higher – the mystical realm of Christ’s heavenly ministry. In His heavenly ministry, Christ became a life-giving Spirit (Rom. 8:9-10; 2 Cor. 3:17-18).

As the life-giving Spirit, Christ is carrying out His heavenly ministry to save us much more in His life.

If He were just a man in the flesh, He could not enter into us as life; however, as the Spirit who gives life, He comes into our spirit to regenerate us with His life and dwell in us.

We are truly revolutionised in our Christian life when we realize that it is not about us trying to do this or that for the Lord but us cooperating with the Lord as the life-giving Spirit to be saved in His life organically.

Christ is carrying out His heavenly ministry by accomplishing God’s organic salvation subjectively in eight steps.

The judicial aspect, God’s judicial redemption, is according to God’s righteousness, and it is the procedure of God’s salvation to satisfy the requirements of God’s righteous law on the sinners.

How we thank the Lord that we, who were once sinners, can believe into the Lord and take His redemption, and we can be forgiven before God (Luke 24:47), washed (Heb. 1:3), justified (Rom. 3:24-25), reconciled to God (5:10) and sanctified unto God positionally (1 Cor. 1:2; Heb. 13:12).

By such a righteous procedure, we can now enter into the grace of God for the accomplishment of the purpose of God’s salvation.

We are not only washed, cleansed, justified, and sanctified unto God, and now we’re waiting for God to take us to the heavens when Christ returns.

No, there is much more to salvation than this. There’s the organic aspect of God’s salvation through the life of God.

The organic salvation as the purpose of God’s complete salvation includes regeneration, shepherding, dispositional sanctification, renewing, transformation, building up, conformation, and glorification. Hallelujah!

In this way, God achieves what He wants to do in the believers in His economy through His divine life.

All the items of God’s organic salvation are carried out not by Christ in the flesh in His earthly ministry judicially and objectively but by Christ as the life-giving Spirit in His heavenly ministry organically and subjectively.

What God is working out in us, His organic salvation, is in the divine and mystical realm, it is subjective, and it is intrinsic, having as a result the church as the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem for God’s corporate expression. Hallelujah!

Hallelujah, God’s judicial redemption is the procedure of God’s complete salvation for us to participate in God’s organic salvation! Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for making sure that we have the right standing and covering in order for us to enter into the enjoyment and participation of God’s organic salvation. We open to You, Lord, and we allow You to work in us and to work Yourself into us. May Your life in us grow and operate until Your economy is carried out in us. Hallelujah, Christ today is the life-giving Spirit with our spirit to accomplish God’s organic salvation subjectively in us! Amen, Lord, we open to Your daily saving us in Your life. Accomplish in us all that You want to achieve in us, Your believers, in your economy through Your divine life. May we all be brought through the steps of regeneration, shepherding, dispositional sanctification, renewing, transformation, building up, conformation, and glorification until we express Christ gloriously!

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 James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” chs. 2 and 4, 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 7, entitled, The Two Aspects of God’s Complete Salvation — Judicial Redemption Plus Organic Salvation.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – Thy righteousness has caused Thy Son / To die for us that we be won, / Redemption thus was bought; / Thy righteousness has justified / When Christ’s redemption was applied, / Salvation thus was wrought. (Hymns #21 stanza 3)
  – Incarnation, / Human living, / Crucifixion, / Resurrection, / Became Spirit, / And ascended man! / God became a man / According to God’s plan / To dispense Himself as life to us. / He was processed thus: / Oh, how marvelous! / Then like Him we’re processed through… / Regeneration, / Sanctification, / Then renewing, / Transformation, / Conformation, / Glorification—we / Become God in life / And nature, not in Godhead / Through His organic salvation. / We are processed thus: / Oh, how glorious / To express the processed Triune God. (Song on, Incarnation, human living, crucifixion)
  – Full salvation! Full salvation! / Lo, the fountain opened wide, / Streams through every land and nation / From the Savior’s wounded side. / Full salvation! Full salvation! / Streams an endless crimson tide. / Oh, the glorious revelation! / See the cleansing current flow, / Washing stains of condemnation / Whiter than the driven snow: / Full salvation! Full salvation! / Oh, the rapturous bliss to know. (Hymns #321 stanza 1-2)