Partake of the Triune God by the Hidden Man of the Heart with the Spirit of Glory

The central focus and basic structure of 1 and 2 Peter are the energizing Triune God operating in His economy to bring His chosen ones into the full enjoyment of the Triune God; we can partake of His riches as the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of Christ by means of the inner man of the heart, our human spirit. Praise the Lord!

When we read the books of 1 and 2 Peter we will be quite impressed with the subject of these books, which is God’s government; however, the basic structure and central focus of these books is not God’s government.

We may naturally be inclined to think that Peter speaks mainly about the government of God with His judgment, but there is such a thing as a central focus and a basic structure of his epistles.

This central focus and basic structure have to do with the basic structure and central focus of the entire Bible, for it relates to God’s economy.

Peter tells us, in his unique way of writing, that the Triune God comes to us to be our full enjoyment for our participation so that we may be regenerated, grow in life unto salvation, be transformed, and be built up to carry out the economy of God.

Even though the phrase, God’s economy, is not seen in the Epistles of Peter, the basic thought is there.

Even though the term, The Triune God is not seen in his writings, Peter speaks of the Triune God working together, operating in us and around us, and doing all things in order for us to be in the process of God’s complete salvation for the carrying out of His economy.

May we come to the Epistles of Peter with the glasses of God’s economy on, realizing that God desires to do one thing: gain His habitation with and in man. Praise the Lord!

Our Christian life is under the government of God, but the government of God is not merely so that we may be disciplined or chastised but so that we may be brought back to a deeper and fuller enjoyment of the Triune God.

When we consider the matters of God’s government and the historic examples of His dealings in His government, we should not be distracted by these matters.

Rather, God’s government needs to bring us back to the central focus and the basic structure of these Epistles, which is the Triune God as our full enjoyment.

May the Lord unveil us to see that the Triune God is operating to accomplish His full salvation so that we may be regenerated, that we may feed on His word, and that we may grow, be transformed, and be built up in order that He may have a dwelling place and that we may be glorified to express Him. Hallelujah!

1 and 2 Peter shows us the Triune God Operating in us to Accomplish His Full Salvation

From the very first few verses of 1 Peter chapter 1 what we see is not the government of God or His judgment but the Triune God.

The Triune God is the first basic matter covered by Peter in his writings.

The Triune God operates from eternity to eternity and even more in time to bring us into the enjoyment of Himself so that we may partake of His full salvation.

1 Pet. 1:2 says that we were chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Christ.

Hallelujah, the Father foreknew us, the Son sprinkled us with His precious blood, and the Spirit sanctified us unto our redemption!

Then, verse 3 tells us that the Father has regenerated us. Christ – God the son – has accomplished redemption with His precious blood; the Spirit – God the Spirit – applies God’s full salvation to us, His chosen people; and the Father regenerates us, for He foreknew us and now He imparts His life into us. Hallelujah!

This is what Peter tells us right from the very beginning of his epistle.

The central focus and basic structure of 1 and 2 Peter are the energizing Triune God operating in His economy to bring His chosen ones into the full enjoyment of the Triune God and partake of God’s full salvation. Wow, Hallelujah!

Our Triune God is an energizing Triune God. He is full of vitality and energy, and He operates relentlessly and constantly to do one thing: to bring us, His chosen ones, into the full enjoyment of the Triune God.

On the positive side, the Triune God went through a process in order for the Father to regenerate us, the Son to redeem us, and the Spirit to apply God’s full salvation to us.

On the negative side, God uses His government with His judgment in a wise way so that we may be brought back to the enjoyment of the Triune God and advance in the process of God’s full salvation. Hallelujah!

God uses both positive and negative matters for one purpose: to accomplish His eternal economy, which is to work Himself into us and build us into Himself so that we and He, He and we, become one entity, the Body of Christ, for the corporate expression of the Triune God.

We are chosen by God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

We can testify of this wonderful matter in our Christian life today.

We were far away from God, but the Father chose us and foreknew us, and the Spirit came to sanctify us.

Think back on how the Lord saved you.

You have been far away from Him, not even considering Him, or you may have even opposed Him, but the Lord reached out to you through His sanctifying Spirit, and He brought you to a seeing of the wonderful Christ to be sprinkled with His blood.

In ourselves and by ourselves, we did not seek God nor did we ask for Him, but He sought us by His Spirit just as the woman lights the lamp and searches for the lost coin in Luke 15.

In ourselves, we were far from God, lost in the world, and away from the flock of God, but the Shepherd came to search us out, find us, and put us on His shoulders to bring us back to His flock.

And the Father is eagerly waiting for us, even running toward us to hug us, kiss us, and welcome us back. Praise the Lord!

God created us in His image and according to His likeness so that we may participate in His economy so that we may partake of God, enjoy God, and be constituted with God so that we may be part of the Body of Christ, His spiritual house. Praise the Lord!

Hallelujah, the Triune God works together to reach out to us and bring us into the full enjoyment of Himself! Thank You, Father God, for foreknowing us and choosing us in eternity past, even before the world began. Thank You, God the Spirit, for sanctifying us by shining the light of God’s word into us to find us and bring us back to God. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for dying for us to accomplish Your wonderful redemption and sprinkle us with Your blood. Hallelujah for the energizing Triune God operating in His economy to bring us, His chosen ones, into the full enjoyment of the Triune God! Lord, bring us back to the enjoyment of the Triune God again and again. Even today, Lord, keep us enjoying You! Operate in us in Your economy to keep us enjoying You so that we may be renewed, transformed, perfected, and built up as Your spiritual house, Your dwelling place. Hallelujah, the Spirit applies God’s full salvation to us, His chosen people, so that we may remain in the full enjoyment of the Triune God!

Partake of the Triune God by the Hidden Man of the Heart, our Spirit Mingled with the Spirit of God

Peter unveils in his Epistles that the Triune God not only operates in us and around us to bring us into God’s full salvation but also that the Triune God is our portion and we can partake of Him.

This is indicated by him saying that we are partakers of His divine nature in 2 Pet. 1:4.

Hallelujah, God is our portion and we can partake of what He is, His very nature!

How can we, human beings, partake of what God is? How can we enjoy God as our portion?

It is not merely by thinking about it and mentally apprehending it.

The way for us to partake of the Triune God with all His riches is the hidden man of the heart (1 Pet. 3:4), which is our human spirit.

By means of the hidden man of the heart we can enjoy all that God is as our portion.

In 1 Pet. 4:14 we see the Spirit of glory and of God; the Spirit of glory is the Spirit of God.

In 1 Pet. 1:11 we also see the Spirit of Christ.

Our human spirit as the hidden man of the heart and God’s Spirit as the Spirit of glory and as the Spirit of Christ are mingled together, and this mingled spirit is the means for us to partake of God as our portion.

Hallelujah, our human spirit, as the hidden man of the heart, and God’s Spirit, as the Spirit of glory and as the Spirit of Christ, are the means for us to partake of God, in His divine nature, as our portion (1 Pet. 1:2-3, 5, 11; 2:1-3, 5, 9; 3:4; 4:14; 5:10; 2 Pet. 1:4). How wonderful!

According to the basic structure of 1 and 2 Peter, the Triune God has been processed to become our portion so that we may participate in Him, partake of Him, and enjoy Him through His Spirit – who is the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of glory – and by the exercise our spirit, who is the hidden man of the heart.

By regeneration we have received the Triune God into us as the Spirit and we are mingled with Him as one spirit; our spirit has now become the hidden man of the heart.

What a thought that God was processed to become the Spirit coming into our spirit to mingle Himself with us and become one spirit with us so that we may partake of the Triune God!

In both the Epistles of Peter and Jude’s Epistle we see the indication that the Triune God has passed through a process in order to do many things for us and even to become everything to us so that we may partake of Him as our enjoyment.

Today we can and should partake of the Triune God as our portion by exercising our spirit, the hidden man of the heart.

Thank the Lord that He has given to us the divine provision, for the divine power has granted to us all things related to life and godliness in order for us to partake of the divine nature.

This divine provision gives us the divine life and the divine light (2 Pet. 1:19).

At the end of his second Epistle, Peter said, Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3:18).

On the negative side, God exercises His government to arrange all things around us, deal with us, and discipline us as He sees fit, so that we may partake of His holiness.

On the positive side, the Triune God passed through a process in order to become our portion, and today we can enjoy Him and partake of the Triune God by means of our spirit, the hidden man of the heart.

May the Lord enlighten us to see that, even though Peter covers many matters in his Epistles, the basic structure of his writings is the Triune God becoming our grace that we may enjoy Him, grow in life, and through the growth in life be perfected, established, strengthened, and grounded in the Triune God.

The Triune God is operating in order to accomplish a threefold salvation so that we may be regenerated, feed on His word, grow in life, be transformed, and be built up in order that He may have a dwelling place and that we may express Him.

As we live a Christian life under the government of God, we need to be open to the Lord and be one with Him for Him to carry out His organic salvation and bring us fully into the enjoyment and participation of the Triune God.

He has done everything for us and He is doing everything in us in order to carry out His economy, and we just need to cooperate with Him by exercising our spirit, the hidden man of the heart, so that we may partake of His riches in spirit and be partakers of His divine nature.

Lord Jesus, thank You for making us partakers of the divine nature! Hallelujah, we can exercise our spirit, the hidden man of the heart, to partake of the riches of the Triune God contained in the divine nature! Praise the Lord, the Triune God is now our portion in our spirit. Amen, Lord, we want to be those who daily partake of what You are in spirit so that You may carry out Your economy in us and with us. Thank You for coming into us as the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of Christ to dwell in us, mingle Yourself with us, and do everything in us. Hallelujah, our human spirit as the hidden man of the heart and God’s Spirit as the Spirit of glory and as the Spirit of Christ are the means for us to partake of God as our portion! Amen, Lord, we choose to exercise our spirit today! We want to pay attention to our spirit. Hallelujah, the Triune God became our grace so that we may enjoy Him, grow in life, and through the growth in life be perfected, established, strengthened, and grounded in the Triune God!

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 Ed Marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Luke, pp. 26-28, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living a Christian Life and Church Life under the Government of God for the Economy of God (2024 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 1, The Government of God for the Economy of God.
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  – Three Foundational Truths and Why They Matter, via, Shepherding Words.
  – The Triune God processed to become our enjoyment, a portion from, Life-Study of 1, 2, & 3 John, Jude, Chapter 48.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – Now the Triune God has come to dwell within / As the wonderful Spirit in us. / We are mingled with the Lord, we’re one with Him / As the life-giving Spirit in us. / Oh, He’s the wonderful Spirit in us, / He’s the wonderful Spirit in us! / God is in the Son, the Son’s the Spirit now— / He’s the wonderful Spirit in us! (Hymns #1113 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Promises, promises, all God’s called ones share; / Promises, given us, great and precious are. / These we take to partake of God’s nature true, / Having thus escaped the world’s corruption too. / Christ within, as the pow’r, in our spirit lives; / Christ without is the Word—all God’s promises. / Now the key is that we daily contact both, / Calling, praying, reading to produce the growth. (Hymns #1211 stanzas 4-5)