Today our Life is Hidden with Christ in God and Christ is Leading us into Glory!

The Christ who dwells in us is our life, and this life is hidden with Christ in God; this is typified by the manna hidden in the golden pot.

Our life is hidden with Christ in God, therefore we should set our mind on the things which are above, not on the things which are on the earth (Col. 4:1-4).

What are the things which are above? It is Christ in His heavenly ministry, where He is the High Priest interceding for the saints and the churches, the heavenly Minister who supplies us with the riches of Christ, and the universal Administrator for the fulfilment of God’s purpose.

For us to have one life and one living with Christ, we need to seek the things which are above, so that we may be one with Christ in His heavenly ministry.

We need to join ourselves to the Lord’s heavenly ministry and participate in His divine enterprise, echoing on earth the prayers He utters in heaven, being one with Him to minister the life supply, and praying in one accord with Him for His economy to be carried out on earth.

Christ today is busier than ever interceding for the churches we the High Priest, ministering the life supply to the saints, and administrating the universe for the fulfillment of God’s purpose.

We should not be passively reading the Bible and attending the meetings of the church but actively cooperate with Christ in His heavenly ministry. We need to exercise our spirit to touch the Lord, enjoy Him, and experience Him, and as we do this, we enjoy the divine transmission from the throne of God to our spirit.

The divine transmission from the throne of God conveys to us what Christ is doing in the heavens, so that we as the church may cooperate with Him here on earth.

Just as the seven Spirits are before God’s throne moving to and fro on earth to accomplish what the throne decides, so the Spirit with our spirit transmits to us what Christ is doing, and if we are one spirit with the Lord, we will cooperate with Him in prayer.

What is happening in the local churches should be a result and reflection of what is taking place in the heavenlies, where Christ is. We could say that the local churches are the embassies on earth, and the headquarters is in the heavens at the throne of God.

In order for the recovery to be the Lord’s recovery, it must be under His direction; we all need to set our mind on the things which are above, and we will be one spirit with the Lord, having the same life and living as Him for the living of the one new man.

Our Destiny is Glory: Christ is Leading us into Glory for us to be Manifested with Him in Glory!

Our destiny as children of God and believers in Christ is nothing else but glory; Christ came into us as our life, He is in us as our hope of glory, and He will bring us all the way to glory.

First He Himself became a man, putting on the flesh of sin, and He took His humanity through death and resurrection to glorify it; He cut the way into glory, and He is now in glory not only as God but also as a man. There is a Man in the glory, and His name is Jesus Christ.

He fulfilled God’s purpose, He died according to God’s plan, and He resurrected and was ascended to be glorified by God; now the man Jesus Christ is sitting at the right hand of God in glory! Hallelujah!

Whenever someone believes into the Lord Jesus and receives Him as their Saviour and life, he gets regenerated with His life, and this life is hidden, mysterious, and divine. Today our life is hidden with Christ in God, but when Christ is manifested, we also will be manifested with Him in glory (Col. 3:4).

Today we are not making a show or display of the divine life within us, but we enjoy this life, experience this life, and are hidden with Christ in God. We need to remain hidden in God, waiting for the time when we shall arrive at our destination and enter into glory with Christ.

Our destiny is glory, and today Christ is leading us – His many brothers, God’s many sons – into glory, for us all to be manifested with Him in glory (Heb. 2:10; Col. 3:4). Christ is our life within today, and in the future He will be our glory.

Our life and living today has to be hidden, not a boasting or a display; but one day, when Christ will appear, we will be manifested with Him in glory. This is our destiny and this is the goal toward which we pursue.

At the appointed time, the time for the divinely ordained display, there will be the manifestation of the sons of God in glory. At that time the divine life within us has saturated every part of our inner being; Christ will come with glory from without and He will also be manifested from within us with much glory!

Hallelujah! What a destiny we have, and how we desired to be manifested as the sons of God in glory! He has already cut the way into glory, and now He’s leading many sons into glory, so that He and we may be glorified for God’s corporate expression!

Eventually, in the one new man we will be in Christ’s glory, and everyone will see the manifested and corporately expressed God-man!

Hallelujah, our destiny as children of God and believers in Christ is glory! Christ is leading us – the many sons of God – into glory! Thank You Lord for coming into us as the hope of glory. Spread into all our inner being until our mind, emotion, will, and all our inward parts are swallowed up in the divine life. Lord, fill us with Yourself and break through in every part of our being so that You may be manifested through us. Amen, Lord, hasten the day of Your coming, when we will be glorified with You in Your glory!

Our Life is Hidden with Christ in God, as Typified by the Hidden Manna in the Golden Pot

As believers in Christ, our real life is the Christ who dwells within us; this life is not openly manifested but is hidden with Christ in God (Col. 1:3-4).

A good type of this is the manna hidden in the golden pot, mentioned in Exo. 16:32-34 and Rev. 2:17. In the tabernacle there was the Holy of Holies, in the Holy of Holies there was the ark, in the ark there was the golden pot, and in the golden pot there was the hidden manna.

The hidden manna was in the golden pot, the golden pot was in the ark, and the ark was in the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle.

The hidden manna typifies Christ as a particular portion given by God to His overcomers (Rev. 2:17). The golden pot typifies the divine nature of the Father (1 Pet. 1:4). The ark made of acacia wood overlaid with gold typifies Christ as the embodiment of God, the mingling of God and man. And the Holy of Holies is nothing else but our mingled spirit indwelt by the Spirit of God, the holiest of all.

Christ as the hidden manna is in God the Father as the golden pot; the Father is in Christ as the Ark with His two natures (divinity and humanity); and Christ as the indwelling Spirit lives in our regenerated spirit to be the reality of the Holy of Holies (see John 14:16-20; 2 Tim. 4:22).

Within us we have the golden pot – the divine nature of God, received by us through regeneration. In the divine nature in us there’s Christ, whom we enjoy as our life supply; this Christ is preserved in the divine nature which is now in our inmost being.

Christ is our special portion of food hidden in the divine nature; when we touch the divine nature, the reality of the golden pot, we enjoy Christ as the manna hidden within it.

The hidden manna in the golden pot in the ark in the Holy of Holies is a sign of the universal incorporation; by incorporation we understand the mutual indwelling of persons, just as the Son is in the Father, the Father is in the Son, and the Spirit is in the Son and in the Father.

The universal incorporation can be seen by the Son being in the Father (the hidden manna is in the golden pot), the Father being in the Son (the golden pot is in the Ark), and the Son as the Spirit being in our spirit (the Ark is in the Holy of Holies).

This is what the Lord Jesus spoke of in John 14:16-20, where we have four “in” – “I am in My Father”, “You in me”, “I in you”, and “the Spirit of reality…shall be in you”. The Son is in the Father, we are in the Son, the Son is in us, and we are indwelt by the Spirit of reality; this is the incorporation of the processed God with us, His regenerated believers.

The way to be incorporated into the Triune God is to eat the hidden manna; the more we eat Christ as a particular portion given by Him to His overcomers, the more we are incorporated into the Triune God as a universal incorporation.

We need to touch the divine nature and live according to God’s holy nature, fleeing the corruption which is in the world by lust, and we need to eat Christ.

We need to be shined on by the Lord to be sanctified and separated from anything that is not Christ, and we will eat the hidden manna to be incorporated into the Triune God. Our life is hidden with Christ in God, so we need to eat Christ and live according to the divine nature day by day!

Thank You Lord for being the hidden manna for us to eat and be incorporated into the universal divine-human incorporation! Hallelujah, Christ is our life, and our life is hidden with Christ in God! Lord, we want to partake of You daily, even enjoy a special portion of You, and walk according to the holy and divine nature within us, so that we may be incorporated into the Triune God. Shine on us, Lord, and sanctify us, that we may be dealt with, separated, and thoroughly sanctified, thus being qualified to partake of Christ as the hidden manna and be incorporated into the Triune God!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message given by the brothers for this week, and portions from, The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory, ch. 4 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery – to Bring Forth the One New Man (2018 ICSC), week 4, Experiencing Christ as Our Life, Our Person, for the One New Man.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # By that final transformation, / We’ll be fully sanctified; / God will bring us into glory, / With His Son identified. / All creation is expecting / Sons of God revealed to be, / That they might be freed from bondage / Into glorious liberty. (Hymns #741)
  # We in faith were regenerated; / God and man thus incorporated. / This took place through Christ’s resurrection. / For His divine, glorious multiplication. (Song on, The Issue of Christ being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory)
  # In my spirit deeper still / I would touch the Lord I love, / Touch Him in His hidden depth / And His hidden manna prove. (Hymns #769)