We Know the True One Subjectively and we are in the True God, in His Son Jesus Christ

Thank the Lord that we, believers in Christ, can know the true One, for the God who is objective is becoming subjective to us, even becoming the true One in our life and experience, and we are in Him who is true, in His son Jesus Christ.

Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us abiding in You today! May we see that we not only have an understanding for us to know God subjectively but even more, we can be in the true One! Oh Lord, we give ourselves to You to enjoy You and experience You today.

May we see that we are not outside of God but in God as the true One! Hallelujah, we are in the true God, in His son Jesus Christ! Amen!

It is so good to see that the Son of God has come through incarnation and through death and resurrection as the Spirit to bring God to us as grace and reality so that we may have the divine life and partake of God as love and light.

God became a man through incarnation – the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.

He came full of grace and reality so that we may have the divine life and also enjoy Him as love and light so that we may even become the same as He is as love and light.

Christ, the Son of God, has come not only through incarnation and death, but even more, through resurrection.

He has come into us as the Spirit of reality to bring us into the reality, the subjective enjoyment and experience, of the Triune God.

He came into us, into our spirit, so that we may not only have an understanding of what God is and what He has done but even more, enjoy and experience Him subjectively.

He wants to be subjective to us. He wants to work Himself into us. So we need to daily come to Him and ask for the daily portion of grace for us to go on with Him, partake of His riches, and be built up in the Body.

Day by day, the Lord’s grace is sufficient. Day by day, we can turn to our spirit, live in the spirit, and walk according to the spirit, so that the grace-giving Triune God would become our portion for our enjoyment.

God is light. When we open to Him and enjoy Him, we are filled with light, and we become light in the Lord.

God is love; when we enjoy Him as love, we will partake of His riches as love, and we become love itself. He wants to make us the same as He is, so He grafted us into Himself, and He wants to live in us and be expressed through us.

The more we give Him ground in us, the more He can make us the same as He is in life and nature.

We Know the True One, Him who is True, for God is Subjective to us in our Experience

In 1 John 5:20 we see that we can know the True One, that is, know Him who is true. The Greek word translated “true” is alethinos, which means “genuine, real,” the opposite of false and counterfeit. Actually, the Greek word simply means “the True.”

God is the True, Him who is true, the true One. We love the True! We love Him in a truthful way.

We need to realise that this is an aspect of God who wants to make Himself known to us through our dear brother John, who paid quite a price to be able to go all through the sufferings, persecution, and imprisonment.

Only our Triune God is true; everything and everyone else are false. People in the world today are false, unless they are in God, knowing the True One.

Even we ourselves are not true, not genuine, unless we know Him who is true and are in the true One.

The term, the true One, which is subjective, refers to God becoming subjective to us. How can we know the true One? It is by God being subjective to us. This means He is related to our being experientially. God becomes subjective to us.

When we go to bed, we can tell the Lord, Lord Jesus, I turn my heart to You. I open my whole being to You. Become subjective to me. Wash me and cleanse me. Be in me in an experiential way. I want to know the teaching of the anointing in a subjective way. Amen!

May we not stop with objectively knowing about God or knowing about the teaching of the anointing, but go on to know God experientially.

We need to ask the Lord to become real to us, and we need to pray that we know Him as the True One.

In this verse the God who is objective becomes the true One in our life and experience. In our normal, ordinary, human life, the True One is becoming subjective to us in every aspect.

We open to Him. We abide in Him and He abides in us. We contact Him and He works in us. We let Him make His home in us and He infuses us with Himself. The true One is the divine reality becoming reality to us.

The true One is the divine reality, and we know the true One, know the divine reality, by experiencing, enjoying, and possessing this reality.

This is what we mean when we speak of knowing the true One; it is not just a mental knowledge but knowing Him who is true in a subjective, intimate way.

We know the true One, the divine reality, by experiencing this reality, enjoying this reality, and possessing this reality.

The Son of God has come and has given us an understanding so that we may experience, enjoy, and possess the true God, the divine reality. The true God is the divine reality.

If we are children of God, we are given by God to have this understanding, this inner knowledge, of the divine reality in our spirit by means of the Spirit of reality.

1 John 5:20 indicates that God has become our reality in our experience.

Only God is reality. Only God is real. Only God is true. But He wants to become our reality, even to work Himself into us to the extent that we know the true One subjectively and express Him.

There is no reality on earth; we human beings do not possess reality. But God is becoming our reality. This will take place in our experience.

As we are experiencing the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit, the Lord is able to become our reality more and more. We can’t explain this in human words, but this is something that is becoming our reality in our experience.

For example, a married couple can try to explain what married life is to someone who is single, but they can never understand it until they themselves get married. Only by getting married can we know what the married life is.

Similarly, only by enjoying, experiencing, and partaking of the true God, the divine reality, can we know the divine reality. The more reality, the more we experience God.

The God who was once objective to us now has become our subjective reality. Amen! He is in us, we are in Him, and we know the true One.

We should not wait until He becomes our reality in full, but we should thank the Lord for being our reality today.

He is knocking at the door of our heart (Rev. 3:20), and we need to let Him in. He wants to come in and dine with us, but we need to open and let Him in. Even if the door of our heart is open, He would not come into an open door without being invited.

May we learn to close our vessel to the enemy’s attacks, be emptied of what we are, and allow God as the true One to become our reality.

Satan today is seeking to usurp many human beings, including the believers in Christ. Many times we open to the Lord, but we do not close our vessel to the enemy’s attacks, and a demon can come in and take advantage of us, even trouble us.

We need to learn to be bold and declare in the Lord’s name that we know the true One, we are in the true One, and we do not agree for the demon to be there in us or have any ground in us. When we do this.

When we open every part of our being to the Lord and close our vessel to the enemy, God as the true One becomes our reality and we have peace and joy; also, the enemy is defeated and put to shame. We open the door to the Lord and close it toward the enemy.

Lord Jesus, thank You that we can know the true One! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ know Him who is true, the True! Amen, Lord, may we see and realise that You are the true One, the True! Wow, only our God is true, the Triune God is the True, and everything and everyone else are false! Amen, Lord, may we see this and realise this in our experience. May the objective God become subjective to us. We open to You, Lord Jesus. We open to enjoy You, experience You, and possess You in our experience. May the God who is objective become the true One in our life and experience. Amen, Lord, we want to know the divine reality, the true One, by experiencing, enjoying, and possessing this reality! Hallelujah, the Son of God has given us an understanding so that we may experience, enjoy, and possess the true God, the divine reality! Amen, Lord, become our reality today. May God become our reality in our experience day by day! We open our vessel to You and we close our vessel to the enemy.

We are in Him who is True, in His Son Jesus Christ – we’re in the True God!

1 John 5:20 is an amazing verse, very deep and full of meaning, for it shows us the secret to us being in the True, that is, being in Him who is true. We are in Him who is true.

We are in the True, in His Son Jesus Christ. We do not just know God – we are in God! Wow! This verse seems to say that Christ came and helped us understand who God is, and now we know God.

Actually, this verse tells us that we subjectively know God and we are even in God. We don’t only know God: we are in God. We do not only have the knowledge of Him, we are also in an organic union with Him.

As seen in Romans 11, we as a branch in the poorer tree have been cut off and have been grafted into Christ, the cultivated tree. By repentance and faith in Christ, we were cut off from the old tree and we have been brought into an organic union with the Lord in spirit.

This wonderful picture in nature, the matter of grafting, shows us what happened between the Lord and us; we were cut off from the old man and were grafted into Christ in spirit.

The life of Christ now flows in us, for we are joined to Him organically. Before believing into the Lord Jesus, we were a branch in the fallen tree of death with so many negative things.

But the Lord Jesus came for our redemption, and through His death and resurrection, put us into an organic union with Him.

In Ephesians 1:4-5 we see that God chose us before the foundation of the world, and 1 Peter 1:3 tells us that we were regenerated in the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

Through faith in Christ, we were put into Christ. Now we are no longer in the tree of sin but in the tree of life we have been grafted into the all-inclusive Christ.

We are now an open vessel and the Lord, in His way and time, will flow into us. As seen in John 15:1-5, we are branches in Christ, the vine, and everything we need is in Christ, into whom we’re grafted.

The all-inclusive Christ is the vine, and now we are attached to Him, we open to Him, and we enjoy His divine dispensing. All the time, non-stop, there’s a dispensing going on in our spirit, and the Triune God flows in us.

Thank the Lord that His mercy reached to us, and His grace came to us to dispense God into us. Day by day we need the Lord’s mercy, and His mercy opens the door for His grace to come in. We want to be an open vessel for the Lord’s dispensing today.

Every morning, we turn our heart to Him, exercise our spirit, and open our vessel to Him. We ask Him to give us the measure of grace we need for today.

The God who is objective to us is becoming subjective to us, for we enjoy and experience His divine dispensing. We are one with Him organically. No longer are we outside the True, and no longer are we outside His Son Jesus Christ.

When John says that we are in the true One, He is making a crucial point: not only do we know the true One and not only do we experience, enjoy, and possess Him as the divine reality, but we are in this reality.

We are in the true One. We are in His Son Jesus Christ. We are in Christ, and Christ is in us. To be in the true God is to be in His Son Jesus Christ.

Since Jesus Christ as the Son of God is the embodiment of God (Col. 2:9), to be in Him is to be in the true God; this indicates that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the true God.

To be in the true One is equal to being in His Son Jesus Christ, for the true One and Jesus Christ are one in the way of coinherence – mutually indwelling and living in one another.

We are in the true One by being in His Son Jesus Christ. Whether we say that to be in the true One is to be in His Son Jesus Christ, or we are in the true One by virtue of being in Jesus Christ, the outcome is the same, and the meaning is actually the same. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming not only to give us an understanding of what God is but even more, we are in the true One! Hallelujah, we are in Him who is true! Wow, we not only know God: we are in God! We not only have the knowledge of Him – we are also in an organic union with Him! Amen, we are no longer outside the True – we are in Him who is true! We are no longer outside of Christ but we are in Christ! Praise the Lord, we are in the true One, in His Son Jesus Christ! May we see this. Grant us a revelation for us to see that we are in the true One by being in His Son, Jesus Christ! Praise the Lord that we are in the true One by virtue of being in Jesus Christ! Hallelujah, to be in the true One is equal to being in His Son Jesus Christ! Amen, Lord, keep us in You today. Keep us in the organic union with You. Keep us in our mingled spirit, one spirit with You all the time! Praise the Lord, we are in the true One by being in His Son Jesus Christ!

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 brother Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of 1 John, msg. 40, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 36, The True One – day 4.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – With God’s own essence it anoints me, / God to know subjectively, / That I may have His very element / Fully saturating me. / ’Tis by this inner life-anointing / I in fellowship may move; / In God, the light of truth, I’m walking, / And the love of grace I prove. (Hymns #266 stanzas 3-4)
  – The Son within the Father is, / And now the Spirit is the Son. / The Spirit, Son, and Father God / Are now in us and with us one. / God as the Father in the Son / Has been embodied and expressed, / And God the Spirit is the Son’s / Reality to be possessed. (Hymns #610 stanzas 4-5)
  – No more in vain need we struggle, / Trying the way in to find. / Praise God—we’re in Him already, / Hallelujah, abiding in the vine. / Abiding in the vine, / Abiding in the vine, / All the riches of God’s life are mine! / Praise God, He put us here, / Never to leave; oh, we’re— / Abiding, abiding in the vine. (Hymns #1162 stanza 2 and chorus)