Participate in the Love of God, the Grace of Christ, and the Fellowship of the Spirit

For us to experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full is to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit; as we enjoy the fellowship of the Spirit, we enjoy the grace of God and are brought to God the Father as love, the source (2 Cor. 13:14). Amen!

We want to advance with the Lord and learn to enjoy and experience the Divine Trinity in full, entering into the depths of our relationship with the Lord to experience all that He is so that we may become His corporate expression on the earth.

Matt. 28:19 is one of the verses that shows us the Divine Trinity, and the emphasis is on being baptized into Him, that is, being immersed into the Divine Trinity.

Christ didn’t just commission us to go and preach the gospel so that the kingdom of God would increase; rather, the great commission is that we disciple the nations by baptizing them into the Triune God.

To baptize someone into something is to immerse that person in that thing; for us to baptize the repenting ones into the Triune God is to put them into the Triune God so that they and Him, Him and they, would have an organic union.

And this is possible because God became a man, passed through human living to set up the pattern of a God-man living, died on the cross, was buried, and was resurrected and ascended; now He is the life-giving Spirit.

As the Spirit, He is everywhere, He is so available, and we can be immersed in Him.

When we baptize people into the Triune God, we put them in Christ, in the death of Christ, in the Body of Christ, and in union with the Triune God.

This is the spiritual reality of our baptism, and we experience it when we call on the name of the Lord with the exercise of our spirit as we get into the water of baptism.

And this is not merely something that happened once when we were baptized, and now we’re just living our life; rather, we need to daily live in the reality of our baptism, that is, we need to live in the organic union with the Lord.

We are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and in spirit, we are one with Him; no matter what we do, no matter where we go, and no matter who we are, Christ lives in us and we should live Him, for He is our very life and person.

When we call on the name of the Lord, pray over His word, fellowship with the Lord, pray, and meet with the saints with the exercise of our spirit, we deepen our organic union with the Triune God, and we can live the Christian life because God Himself in Christ as the Spirit lives in us to be a proper Christian and a normal, functioning member in the Body of Christ.

To Experience and Enjoy the Divine Trinity in Full is to Participate in the Love of God, the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

The concluding verse of 2 Corinthians is, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all (13:14).

For us to experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full, we need to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible shows us that the Divine Trinity is not for our theological study or for our understanding in a mental way but rather, for our enjoyment and experience.

In this verse, we see grace, love, and fellowship, and we see the Lord Jesus Christ, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit.

The source is the divine love of the Father, the course is the divine grace of Christ the Son, and the flow is the divine fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

God the Father is the source; He is love itself, and out of Him springs out and reaches us Christ the Son as grace for our enjoyment.

This grace flows to us and comes to us in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

The end of the book of Revelation shows us that the Triune God is flowing and will flow for eternity; He is flowing in His Divine Trinity, He flows into man, and He flows with man into the New Jerusalem.

He wants to supply us, His redeemed, with Himself as our drink and food, so that we may enjoy Him as the bountiful supply.

We need to pray for this; we need to pray that we would enter into the full enjoyment and experience of the Divine Trinity in our daily life.

We need to pray that this would be our experience both personally and in the Body; may the Divine Trinity be our rich experience and enjoyment, and may all the saints enjoy Him!

As we enjoy Him, we are filled with joy (Rom. 14:17).

To experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full is to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit; this is to enjoy the Divine Trinity.

2 Cor. 13:14 shows us three persons in three aspects: God the Father – love, the Lord Jesus Christ – grace, and the Holy Spirit – fellowship.

In our experience, we begin with the Spirit, for the fellowship of the Holy Spirit reaches us and brings us into the enjoyment of the grace of Christ and the love of the Father.

Even as John wrote in his first epistle, to bring us into the fellowship with the apostles, which is the fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

We can live in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit to have the unlimited grace of the Son with all its supply, and we are then brought further to the source of grace, the love of God the Father.

This matches what Paul says in Ephesians 2, that in one Spirit we have access through the Son to the Father.

We need to be brought back to our Father to enjoy Him and worship Him in spirit and truthfulness.

The Father is waiting for the proper Lord’s Table meeting to take place, in which the saints gather together physically around the elements and enjoy Christ, bring Christ to the meeting, and offer Christ to God for His satisfaction.

The Father desires to have the time of His children’s worship to the Father, a time when we focus not on anything else except the Father Himself to worship Him in spirit and truthfulness, for we are brought by the fellowship of the Spirit to enjoy the grace of Christ and enter into the love of the Father to worship Him!

He is the source, love itself, and we are in love itself; we are in light itself, and we worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus bring us into a deeper and fuller enjoyment and experience of the Divine Trinity today. We want to participate in the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Amen, Lord, give us the experiences we need for us to remain in and enjoy the fellowship of the Spirit which brings us the grace of the Lord and ushers us in the love of the Father. We want to live in the fellowship of the Spirit so that we may fully enjoy the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and be brought into the love of God the Father. Father, we worship You! We adore You! We abide in Your love and we remain in Your light. Abba Father, we love You!

The Love of God is the Source, the Grace of the Lord is the Course, and the Fellowship of the Spirit is the Impartation of Grace and Love

Such a seemingly simple verse, 2 Cor. 13:14, is so deep and so profound, for in it we are shown how to enter into the enjoyment and experience of the Divine Trinity in our daily life.

The love of God is the source since God is the origin and the source.

The grace of the Lord is the course of the love of God since the Lord is the expression of God, the very embodiment of God the Father.

The fellowship of the Spirit is the impartation of the grace of the Lord with the love of God since the Spirit is the transmission of the Lord with God for our experience and enjoyment of the Triune God. Wow!

The grace of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Himself as life for us for our enjoyment; when Christ came, grace came, and this grace is for our enjoyment day by day to live in us, supply us, reign in us, and work in us and through us (John 1:17; 1 Cor. 15:10).

The love of God is the God Himself, for God is love; what God is in His being is love, for love is the very essence of God (1 John 4:8, 16), and this love of God is the source of the grace of the Lord.

The fellowship of the Spirit is the Spirit Himself as the transmission of the grace of the Lord with the love of God the Father for our participation.

Just as there are no three gods but one God who is triune – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, so there are not three separate matters – love, grace, and fellowship – but three aspects one thing for our enjoyment and experience.

The love, grace, and fellowship in 2 Cor. 13:14 correspond to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in Matt. 28:19.

As we are brought into a condition of being qualified by God, even put into God, we can now experience and enjoy the Divine Trinity in full by participating in the love of God, the fellowship of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

In the church life we may quite commonly use the expression of, enjoying the Lord; let’s enjoy Christ, we are enjoying the Lord, are you enjoying the Lord – all these are quite common among us.

But how much do we really enjoy the Lord? As we prepare to share on the Lord’s day in the prophesying meeting, how much did we really enjoy the Lord as grace?

We cannot deny that we did enjoy the Lord a little, but we need this enjoyment to increase and become more real; the enjoyment of the Lord needs to be real both to us and to those around us, who are affected by our living.

As we enjoy the fellowship of the Spirit, we partake of the grace of the Lord, and we participate in the love of God the Father, the source.

The Lord wants to bring us into Himself, as He prophesied in John 14:21, In that day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me and I in you.

Right now we are in the Father by being in the Son; this needs to become real to us, experiential, and enjoyable.

The Divine Trinity is in us and we are in the Divine Trinity by being in the Son; as we enjoy the fellowship of the Spirit, we partake of the grace of Christ and are brought into the love of the Father.

The love of the Father is the source, for God is the origin and the source; the grace of the Lord is the course of the love of God, for the Lord is the expression and embodiment of God; and the fellowship of the Spirit is the impartation and flow of the grace of the Lord with the love of God, since the Spirit is the transmission of the Lord with God. Hallelujah!

We can partake of and participate in the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Spirit, so that we may enjoy and experience the Divine Trinity in full!

Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You; bring us into the enjoyment and experience of the Divine Trinity in full in our daily life. Amen, Lord, may we participate in the fellowship of the Spirit so that we may enjoy the grace of the Lord and be brought into the love of God the Father. We open to You, dear Lord, and we want to contact You in spirit so that we may enjoy the fellowship, the grace, and the love of the Triune God. Increase our enjoyment of Christ today. Increase our participation in the fellowship of the Spirit. Bring us deeper into our enjoyment and experience of the love of God the Father so that we may know Him as the source and the origin. Amen, Lord, become our enjoyment and experience today for our participation in the Divine Trinity so that we may be normal and functioning members in the Body to express You corporately!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas, and portions from, Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msg. 59 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living In and With the Divine Trinity (2021 Thanksgiving Day Conference), week 6, entitled, Living with the Divine Trinity (2) Experiencing and Enjoying the Divine Trinity in Full.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – The love of God, the grace of Christ, / The Spirit’s flowing free, / Enable us God’s wealth to share / Thru all eternity. / The Father, Son, and Spirit-one, / So richly care for us; / Thy love with one accord we sing / And e’er would praise Thee thus. (Hymns #12)
  – Love by grace is manifested, / And the light by truth is shown; / By Thy love we may enjoy Thee; / By Thy light Thou, Lord, art known… / Thru Thy love, as life Thou enter’st / Fellowship with Thee to give; / Thru Thy light we take Thy cleansing / And in fellowship may live. (Hymns #13)
  – God as the Father in the Son / Has been embodied and expressed, / And God the Spirit is the Son’s / Reality to be possessed. / May God the Father’s love to us / In God the Son as grace be known, / Thru God the Spirit’s fellowship, / That God our portion we may own. (Hymns #610)