Live in the Divine and Mystical Realm to have Salvation, Fellowship and Oneness

As believers in Christ, we need to live in the divine and mystical realm so that we may enjoy all the riches of what God is and partake of His wonderful organic salvation in Christ. Amen!

First of all, we need to see that there is another realm besides the human realm.

It is easy to see what is happening outwardly, all the events, all the ups and downs, all the wars, etc, but we need to see beyond the outward, human realm, and realize there’s another realm.

This other realm is not just the realm of God but even more, the realm that God has become in order for us to get into and live.

God in His economy went through a process in order to become a man and then He became a life-giving Spirit so that He may dispense His life into us and regenerate us to make us citizens of the kingdom of God who live in the divine and mystical realm.

No matter how good, moral, ethical, and gentle we may be outwardly, unless we are born again, we cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Only those who are born of God can enter into the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God is the realm of God and of the divine species.

The apostle Paul lived in the outward, human realm when he was Saul, so he persecuted those who lived in this other realm, the realm of the consummated Spirit.

But when the Lord met him, when he saw a vision of Christ the Head and Christ the Body, his whole being changed, and he lived in another realm.

Paul lived in the divine and mystical realm all the time, so much so that even when he was in prison, with his feet in stocks in the innermost prison, he was singing and praising the Lord.

Outwardly, his situation was terrible, and he did not know what would happen to him, for he was seemingly in the worst situation man could be.

But inwardly he was living in another realm, in the Spirit, to the extent that he was rejoicing in the Lord.

We need to enter into the divine and mystical realm and even become part of this realm by first being regenerated and then being built up in the Body of Christ.

On the personal side, we need to be regenerated and enjoy the Lord personally, have His speaking in a personal and intimate way, and contact the Lord day by day.

On the corporate side, we need to be built up in the Body of Christ by living in the reality of the Body of Christ.

We need both, for just as we depend on the Lord as our life so we also depend on the Body for our supply and our living.

If we know Christ and enjoy Christ, we will also know the Body and live in the Body.

As Believers in Christ, we should Live in the Divine and Mystical Realm

Not only do we need to see this divine and mystical realm and enter into it, but we need to live in the divine and mystical realm (Rom. 8:16; John 14:2-3, 20; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Gal. 3:14; 2 Cor. 3:17-18).

The divine and mystical realm into which we may enter and in which we may live is the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ.

We need to learn to live in this wonderful realm day by day, even moment by moment (Phil. 1:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Gal. 3:14).

God went through a process in order to become a realm for us to see, enter into, become, and live in.

Though we may not see this realm with our physical eyes nor can we feel it with our emotion or understand it with our mind, we can enter into it and live in the divine and mystical realm.

We need to ask the Lord as the Spirit of reality to guide us into all the reality of what He is in the divine and mystical realm.

We want to see, according to the Bible, what are some of the aspects, blessings, and characteristics of living in the divine and mystical realm.

In the divine and mystical realm, we receive the Spirit as the unique, all-inclusive blessing (vv. 2, 5).

The Spirit, the unique blessing that God gives us in the New Testament, can be enjoyed and received only in the divine and mystical realm.

When we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord, we receive an all-inclusive blessing, which is the Spirit as the blessing of the gospel.

Here, in this realm, we enjoy the blessing from God; we simply need to be here, live here, and remain here, and our God as a God of blessing will bless us with the Spirit.

In the divine and mystical realm, we receive the transmission of the ascended Christ and the supply of His heavenly ministry (Eph. 1:22; Heb. 8:1-2).

Christ today is in the heavens, in His heavenly ministry.

As we meet with the saints, as we do the daily things in our life, as we take care of this and that, the Lord is in the heavens praying for us.

He intercedes for us and ministers to us, dispensing the heavenly things into us. He dispenses God into us day by day in His heavenly ministry so that we may live a heavenly life on earth.

How can we benefit from the heavenly ministry of Christ with His divine transmission? It is simply by being in the divine and mystical realm; as we live in this realm, we enjoy His heavenly ministry.

As we live in the divine and mystical realm, having our heart turned to the Lord, we enjoy the transmission of the heavenly things into us, and we can live a heavenly life on earth even as the Lord did when He was on earth.

As we open to the Lord and exercise our spirit, the High Priest in the heavenlies is praying for us and ministering to us, and He flows into us the heavenly elements.

While we live a human life, we also live in the divine and mystical realm, and we enjoy the Lord’s wonderful transmission of all that He is into us.

In the divine and mystical realm, we experience God’s organic salvation (Rom. 5:10).

For us to be saved in life, even to be saved much more in His life, we need to live in the divine and mystical realm.

It is so sad to meet some saints who have been a believer for many years but have not grown in life nor they have been saved in the Lord’s life.

Simply being in the church life for many years doesn’t guarantee that you are saved in God’s life or that you grow in life.

We need to come to the Lord personally and let Him shine on us to show us where we are and how to go on.

We want to go on with the Lord and grow in life, and we want to daily life in the divine and mystical realm so that we may be saved in His life.

May we learn to exercise our spirit in all things so that, organically, we may live in the divine and mystical realm and be saved in the life of God.

May we open to the Lord concerning the things He exposes in our being and let Him judge these things now, in this age, so that they would not be judged in the next age.

May we aspire to run our course triumphantly and arrive at the goal in this age.

The more we live in the divine and mystical realm, the more we are saved in the divine life.

Lord Jesus, we come to You as we are and we exercise our spirit to be one spirit with You. You know where we are and what we need to grow in life and be transformed into Your image. We open to You, Lord. We want to live not only in the human realm but even more live in the divine and mystical realm day by day so that we may be saved much more in Your life. Save us a little more today. Transform us into Your image. Gain what You are after in us. May we be saved in life much more today so that we may be transformed into Your image day by day, little by little.

In the divine and mystical realm, we live in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine species (John 3:3, 5).

Through regeneration, we have become a different species.

We are no longer only men, we are now God-men.

No matter what pronouns others assign to themselves, our real identity in Christ is God-men.

No matter how many failures we have, how many mistakes we make, and how low our condition is, by nature we are God-men, for we have been born of God.

We need to live in the divine and mystical realm day by day, realizing that we are in the realm of the kingdom of God, the realm of the divine species.

Here God is our life and our everything, and we partake of what He is to enjoy Him, grow in life, and become His expression.

In the divine and mystical realm, we live in the fellowship of the divine life (1 John 1:3, 7; Acts 2:42).

In this realm, God as life is flowing.

We don’t merely live in a kingdom where there’s a great King and we all obey Him; we live in the realm of the fellowship of the divine life.

We have fellowship with God and with one another.

We hold Christ as our Head and receive the growth from Him so that we may grow with the growth of God.

And we come together with the saints, day by day and house to house, to enjoy Him, partake of His riches, and also partake of our food with exultation and simplicity of heart.

We are learning to walk in the light, even as the Lord is in the light, and when His light exposes anything of sin or unrighteousness, we confess our sins and the Lord washes and cleanses us with His precious blood.

What a wonderful realm we are in!

If we walk in the light even as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from every sin.

We walk in the light together. We have fellowship in the light.

And as we fellowship, as we live in the divine and mystical realm, the blood of Jesus cleanses us and washes us.

And we continue to walk in the light and enjoy the fellowship of the divine life.

Lord Jesus, thank You for bringing us into the realm of the fellowship of the divine life. We come to You as we are, Lord, and we want to fellowship with You and with one another in the divine life. We hold You as our Head and we receive what comes from You so that we may grow with the growth of God. We come together with the saints to enjoy You and we walk in the light. Amen, Lord, we want to walk in the light, even as You are in the light, so that the blood of Jesus would wash us and cleanse us from any sin! We choose to live in the divine and mystical realm today!

In the divine and mystical realm, we live a spontaneous and effortless Christian life according to the automatic function of the law of life (Rom. 8:2).

When we are in the divine and mystical realm, there’s a spontaneous law operating to impart the divine life into us, regulate us according to God’s life and nature, and shape and conform us to the image of Christ.

As long as we are in Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of life operates in us spontaneously and automatically to shape us in the image of Christ.

This is effortless. It is spontaneous.

We just need to be in Christ, that is, we need to be in the Spirit.

When we’re in the Spirit, when we live in the organic union with the Lord and therefore live in the divine and mystical realm, the law of life is operating spontaneously and effortlessly in every aspect of our daily living.

We may think we have this or that problem, or we may be quite worried that we can’t break through in this or that aspect.

But as long as we live in the divine and mystical realm, the law of the Spirit of life will operate in us to conform us to the image of Christ, shape us according to His likeness, and add the divine element to us to make us the same as Christ in every possible way. Oh, what a blessing!

In the divine and mystical realm, we live a life of truthfulness as the expression of the revealed divine reality (2 John 1; 3 John 1; John 4:23-24).

The word truthfulness is used both in the gospel of John and in two of his epistles. Truthfulness means that the revealed divine reality becomes our genuineness and sincerity so that we may live a life that corresponds to this.

The divine reality becomes our genuineness, our truthfulness.

We may be at work or at school, or we may be a mother taking care of the children and others contact us, those around us eventually realize that something is different about us.

They sense that we live in another realm, for there is truthfulness in us.

We may just have some tea with others and they may sense that we live in the divine and mystical realm, a realm beyond what can be seen outwardly.

And they trust us, they open to us, and are touched by what we are and have.

In this realm there is no diplomacy or politics, nor is there any hypocrisy or pretending; we become truthful, for the divine reality is wrought into us to become our genuineness and truthfulness.

In the divine and mystical realm, we live a life of truthfulness, for the revealed divine reality is wrought into us to become our reality in our daily life.

In the divine and mystical realm, we are mingled with the processed Triune God for the keeping of the oneness (John 17:21, 23).

Oneness is only in the divine and mystical realm. It is only when we live in the divine and mystical realm that we can be one.

The real oneness is in the Triune God (Matt. 28:19; John 17:21, 23).

The genuine oneness is the mingling of the believers with the Triune God (2 Cor. 13:14).

When we are mingled with God, we are one. For us to have such oneness, we need to be in the divine and mystical realm, that is, in the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ.

In that day, the day of Christ’s resurrection, we have been put in Christ, Christ is in the Father, and Christ is in us; when we abide here, in this union, mingling, and coninherence with the Triune God, we are one.

We believers in Christ are one with the Triune God in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ.

The Lord in His concluding prayer after speaking John 14-17 indicated that our oneness should be in the Triune God.

The Father and the Son are a divine and mystical realm into which we need to enter.

In Him, there’s the genuine oneness, and this oneness is the increase and expansion of the divine and mystical realm. Amazing!

We believers in Christ are not only regenerated with God’s life to be His children and be saved from eternal perdition; we are now in another realm, the divine and mystical realm, where we can live and be all the time, and here we are one!

There’s no oneness in the world, there’s no oneness in the United Nations, and there’s no oneness in Christianity, but there’s oneness in the Triune God!

Millions of believers in Christ are in the Triune God, but most of them don’t realize this nor do they have the experience and enjoyment of this fact.

May we highly regard the entrance into the divine and mystical realm and may we live in the divine and mystical realm.

Lord Jesus, thank You for being enlarged to include us and bring us into the enlarged oneness of the Triune God. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ can live in the divine and mystical realm and can therefore be one! Amen, in Christ, in the Spirit, we are one! Praise the Lord, the real oneness is in the Triune God! Hallelujah, genuine oneness is the mingling of the believers with the Triune God! Amen, Lord, mingle Yourself more with us today. More mingling today. Bring us fully into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit so that we may be one for the world to know that God has sent Christ, the Son, and that we are in Him for He loves us even as He loved the Son!

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. 119-121, 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.
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  – The corporate God in 1 Corinthians: living in the divine fellowship of the incorporated Triune God through the divine dispensing of the life-giving Spirit for the producing of the Body of Christ, article by John Pester in, Affirmation and Critique.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – I would inhale Thee, Lord, e’en as I breathe, / And eat and drink Thee as my life supply. / A deeper fellowship with Thee bequeath / That Thou express Thyself through me thereby. / Here in this fellowship Thy light doth shine, / Thy precious blood doth cleanse and make me clean; / May I not only, Lord, Thy light enshrine, / But may Thou be expressed and clearly seen. (Hymns #764 stanzas 4-5)
  – O Lord, Thou art the Spirit! / How dear and near to me! / How I enjoy Thy marvelous / Availability! / Thy law of life in heart and mind / My conduct regulates; / The wealth of Thy reality / My being saturates. / O Thou art ever one with me, / Unrivaled unity! / One spirit with me all the time / For all eternity! (Hymns #539 stanzas 4-5 and chorus)
  – Father God, Thou art the source of life. / We, Thy sons, are Thine expression; / In Thy name, our dear possession. / Father God, Thou art the source of life. / In Thy life, in Thy life, / We have oneness in Thy life. / In Thy life, in Thy life, / In Thy life, O Father, we are one. (Hymns #1081 stanza 1 and chorus)