As believers in Christ, we have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, and now we walk in Him; the Christ in whom we need to walk is the Christ in His full ministry of three stages, and we need to see the progressive revelation of God in the Bible – from the “bachelor God” to the incorporated God, the New Jerusalem. Wow, Hallelujah!
What a rich, all-inclusive, and extensive Christ we have! He is everything to us, and He has been given to us as our portion.
We need to know Christ, enjoy Christ, absorb Christ, and walk in Christ. We walk in Christ as our good land to take possession of all His riches by walking in the spirit and by the Spirit.
Day by day we need to turn to our spirit, for the key to God’s organic salvation and the key to our fellowship with God is our mingled spirit.
We believers in Christ are not just human beings; we have another life in us, the divine life, and within our spirit there’s a new person – our new man, the inner man, the spirit regenerated by God with His life and nature.
This is why so many times when others say things, we cannot agree with them or join them, and when they want to go do something, there’s an inner sense in us that bothers us.
The Lord Jesus as the Spirit is in our spirit, mingled with our spirit, and we need to live in the spirit and according to the spirit to know Him, take possession of Him, and partake of His unsearchable riches.
The Bible tells us again and again that God is Spirit and we can contact Him, receive Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him by means of our spirit.
God is Spirit, and if we want to worship Him, our mind or emotions are not the way – it is our spirit that needs to be used and exercised to worship God.
God regenerates us with His life in our spirit, and our spirit is the dwelling place of God the Spirit. On His side, the essence of God is Spirit, and even more, God went through a process to become a life-giving Spirit so that He may dispense and impart His life into us.
We now have the divine life of God in our spirit, and the Lord Jesus as grace is with our spirit.
Day by day we believers in Christ need to walk in the Spirit and according to our spirit; the Holy Spirit is mingled with our spirit to become a mingled spirit, and in this spirit we need to live, act, and have our whole being.
Our Christian life is a daily life, a daily living, in the mingled spirit and according to the Spirit.
It is in this Spirit with our spirit that we have a bountiful supply, and it is in our spirit that we pray, are sanctified, are renewed, and are transformed to be the same as Christ in every possible way.
Praise the Lord for our spirit, a mingled spirit!
The Progressive Revelation of God in the Bible: the Bachelor God becoming the Incorporated God
The Christ in whom we’re rooted and in whom we need to walk is a wonderful, all-inclusive Christ, and the Bible reveals a progressive revelation of God.
The central revelation of God is the progressive revelation of God in the Bible – the “bachelor” God, the incarnated God, the redeeming God, the compounded God, the intensified God, the indwelling God, and the incorporated God! Amen!
In the beginning of the Bible, we see that God created man in His image and according to His likeness, and He said, It is not good for man to be alone (Gen. 1:26; 2:18).
When He said this, He was referring not to man only but also to Himself.
This can be quite shocking to many people, Christians and non-Christians alike; how can we say that it’s not good for God to be alone?
God in Himself is rich, complete, and perfect, and He needs no one for His existence, work, or doing.
But He needs someone to match Him; He needs a counterpart.
If you don’t believe this, just check the 2-3 chapters in the beginning and in the end of the Bible: they both speak of a couple.
The Bible presents a progressive revelation of God; in Genesis, we see the “bachelor” God, a God who is single and who is looking for a counterpart.
The whole Bible develops this thought; God wants to gain a counterpart, a wife.
In the Old Testament God considered the people of Israel as His wife, and many times He was jealous over them because they left Him and went after idols, thus forsaking their Husband.
So one day the bachelor God became the incarnated God; in the Gospels, we see not only a God in heavens doing things for His people on earth but even more, an incarnated God.
God was born in man (Matt. 1:18) to be Emmanuel, God with us (v. 23).
The incarnated God came not only to accomplish the work of redemption and become a life-giving Spirit to regenerate man and make man part of God’s corporate expression; even more, He came to court and woo man.
When God was incarnated, He became God-plus, God plus human life and nature, human living, crucifixion, death, and burial. He was processed, for He went through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and burial.
The bachelor God became the incarnated God.
In the third stage, the incarnated God became the redeeming God; on the cross, Christ became the Redeemer.
By passing through crucifixion, God became the redeeming God. He redeemed us to bring us back to Himself, paying the highest price for us.
Also, the redeeming God conquered death, subdued it, and walked out of death. Praise the Lord for the incarnated God becoming the redeeming God!
After His death, He entered into resurrection to become the compounded God. Wow.
The Lord today is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17), and in this Spirit, we have everything: God, man, humanity, divinity, incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, and resurrection.
Everything has been compounded in the compounded God who is now the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to cause all things to work out for our salvation so that we may magnify Christ in every circumstance (Phil. 1:19-21).
As such a One, He came in the evening of His resurrection to breathe Himself into His disciples and impart the divine life and nature into them (John 20:22).
He is now the indwelling God, for He is not just a person outside of us who went through many processes but even more, He came to dwell in us (Col. 1:27; 3:4).
Christ is now in us; He is the indwelling God, the God who as the Spirit dwells in our spirit to be the inner indwelling Christ (Rom. 8:10-11).
Christ became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) and came into us to dwell in us and live in us.
This is the progressive revelation of God in the Bible, from the bachelor God to the incarnated God, the redeeming God, the compounded God, and now the indwelling God.
Furthermore, in Revelation 1-5, we see the seven Spirits of God; due to the degradation of the church, the compounded God who dwells in us has been intensified sevenfold to produce the overcomers, build up the Body of Christ, and consummate the New Jerusalem.
Now God is the intensified God – the God who was processed and consummated is now intensified sevenfold to accomplish God’s administration on the earth and carry out His organic salvation in an intensified way to produce the overcomers and consummate the New Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
At the end of the Bible, we see the New Jerusalem, which is the bride, the wife of the Lamb (Rev. 21:2); in this holy city we see both God and man, and God here is the incorporated God.
We say that God is the incorporated God because He is incorporated with man to be not only united in life and mingled in nature but even more incorporated in person, indwelling man and man dwelling in God, to be the New Jerusalem. Wow!
In the holy city, we see the name of the twelve apostles on the foundations of the city and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel on the gates of the city; both the Old Testament saints and the New Testament believers are incorporated with God to be the holy city, New Jerusalem. Wow, Hallelujah!
For eternity, the bachelor God is the incorporated God, the married God, for He worked throughout the ages to obtain a bride for Himself, a bride composed of the created redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified man!
In the Old Testament, we see the bachelor God, in the Gospels we see the incarnated God and the redeeming God, in the Acts and the Epistles we see the compounded God and the indwelling God, and in the book of Revelation, we see the intensified God and the married God, the incorporated God.
Wow, what a progressive revelation of God in the Bible!
We need to see this progressive revelation of God and enjoy Him at every stage, for today in the church life we have a foretaste of all that God is, has, has accomplished and will accomplish!
We enjoy not only the bachelor God but even more the incarnated God, the redeeming God, the compounded God, the indwelling God, the intensified God, and the married God.
In the church life today we have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem, for whenever we come together and exercise our spirit to enjoy Christ, speak Christ, and be in Christ with all the saints, we enjoy a sweet foretaste of the Bridegroom with His bride.
We can all testify that many times in the meetings of the church we touch something of eternity, something of the incorporated God, for we are incorporated into God and God dwells in us in a rich way! Praise the Lord!
Lord Jesus, grant us to see the progressive revelation of God in the Bible! May we see that the God who created all things is a “bachelor” God who is looking for a counterpart to match Him for their marriage. Amen, Lord, thank You for coming through incarnation to be the incarnated God, Jesus Christ in the flesh. Thank You for going to the cross to be the redeeming God, conquering death, subduing death, and walking out of death. Hallelujah, Christ resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit, and now He is the compounded God with a bountiful supply for us to enjoy and partake of today! Wow, Lord, thank You for coming into us to dwell in us and be the indwelling God, the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit dwelling in our spirit. Praise the Lord, God as the Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to be the seven Spirits of God, the intensified God, for the carrying out of God’s administration, the producing of the overcomers, and the consummation of the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah, for eternity God will be the incorporated God, the married God, for He will marry the bride composed of all the created, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified people of God! Praise the Lord, today in the church life we can enjoy God as He is revealed in every stage! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy You, partake of Your riches, and minister You to others so that we may have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem today!
The Christ we Walk in is the Christ in His Full Ministry of Three Stages
When we say that Christ is all-inclusive and exhaustless, we base our claim on what the Bible speaks concerning this wonderful One.
The Bible reveals Christ in a wonderful and progressive way, and we can enjoy Him in every stage and at every time.
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of Christ in His full ministry of three stages: incarnation, inclusion, and intensification.
The Lord’s recovery is God becoming the flesh, the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit, and the life-giving Spirit becoming the sevenfold intensified Spirit to build up the church that becomes the Body of Christ that consummates the New Jerusalem. Amen!
In John 1:1, 14, and 29 we see that God became the flesh; the eternal Word of God was incarnated to become man, and this is the first stage of Christ’s full ministry.
In His incarnation, God became man; the “bachelor” God became the incarnated God and the redeeming God. Hallelujah!
Before His incarnation, God was God and man was man, but after incarnation, God became man, and God entered into man.
Then, in the second stage of His full ministry, God became the Spirit.
The flesh, which is God becoming flesh, became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17). Wow!
First, God became man, even flesh; He became flesh without the sin in the flesh.
Then, He became the life-giving Spirit, and as the life-giving Spirit, He was compounded with everything that He has accomplished and attained.
Now Christ is in the stage of His inclusion, and everything that He has, has done, and has attained is included in Him as the life-giving, compound Spirit with our spirit.
This is Christ in the stage of His inclusion.
Finally, in the stage of His intensification, Christ as the Spirit was intensified sevenfold to be the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God (Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6).
As the compound Spirit and as the sevenfold intensified Spirit, He is the indwelling God.
![That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me. John 17:21 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and [through] the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love. Eph. 4:16 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. Rev. 19:7](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/That-they-all-may-be-one-even-as-You-Father-are-in-Me-and-I-in-You-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me. John 17:21 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and [through] the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love. Eph. 4:16 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. Rev. 19:7")
He did not just go through a lot of processes without us being involved or without us partaking of what He is; He went through all these things so that we may enjoy Him and partake of all that He is in spirit!
The result of our enjoying Christ in the stages of His incarnation, inclusion, and intensification is that we become the built-up church that becomes the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem!
This is the incorporated God, the Body-Christ, that consummates the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah!
The New Jerusalem is the ultimate union, mingling, and incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the processed and consummated tripartite church (John 17:21; Eph. 4:4-6, 16; Col. 2:19; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:2, 9-10). Wow, Hallelujah!
This is the Christ we walk in, this is the Christ we partake of, and this is our destiny as believers in Christ.
Whether we cooperate with the Lord to walk in such a Christ today or whether we do this in the next age under a different dispensation, God will gain what He is after!
The bachelor God will become the married God, the incorporated God, and we all will be part of the universal incorporation of God and man, the New Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
This truly is the highest peak of the divine revelation, and it can be accomplished in us little by little, day by day, as we contact the Lord, enjoy Him, and walk in Christ.
Lord Jesus, cause us to see that the Christ we need to walk in is the Christ in His full ministry of three stages. Hallelujah, we enjoy and walk in a Christ that is in His incarnation, inclusion, and intensification to be the built-up church becoming the Body of Christ and consummating the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah! Wow, Lord, thank You for stepping out of eternity onto the bridge of time to become the incarnated God for the accomplishing of God’s redemption. Thank You for going through death and resurrection to be the compounded God who became the indwelling God for us to enjoy, experience, and partake of! Hallelujah, we now enjoy the indwelling God who has been intensified sevenfold, and we become the church, the Body of Christ, for His corporate expression on the earth! Praise the Lord, our destiny is to be the New Jerusalem, the ultimate union, mingling, and incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the processed and consummated tripartite church! Hallelujah!
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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1973-1974, vol. 1, “The Vision and Experience of the Corporate Christ,” pp. 479-484, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 10, entitled, Governing Principles That We Need to See and Experience in Order to Possess Christ as the Good Land.
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– The Vision, Experience, and Enjoyment of the Glorious and Excellent Christ as the Supreme… – a video message via, Youtube.
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– Ten great things accomplished by Christ in His full ministry in three stages, a portion from, How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– Introduction to the Full Ministry of Christ, article via, Affirmation and Critique.
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– The ministry of Christ in the stage of incarnation, article by John Campbell via, Affirmation and Critique.
– Reaching the high peak of Zion, a portion from, Practical Points Concerning Blending, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee. - Hymns on this topic:
– In the flesh by incarnation, / Into man He God hath brought; / By His death and resurrection, / Into God He man hath brought; / God and man together mingled, / In Himself is fully wrought. (Hymns #277 stanza 3)
– Pure myrrh and cinnamon, / Calamus and cassia— / These are Thy elements, / Jesus my Lord! / In olive oil they’re blent / In wondrous measurement— / O what an ointment this, / Anointing us! / Four-in-one mingled, / Compounded Spirit, / Sweet with Christ’s suffering death, / Full of the fragrance / Of resurrection— / O what an ointment flows / In spirit, Lord! (Hymns #1116 stanza 1)
– Sevenfold the Spirit is / For the deadness of the church, / That the saints may turn and live, / That the Lord may burn and search. / Now the Spirit of our God / Has become intensified: / ’Tis not one but sevenfold / That the church may be supplied! (Hymns #1122 stanzas 2-3)
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Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1973-1974, vol. 1, “The Vision and Experience of the Corporate Christ,” pp. 477-478
Dear brother, we need to see the progressive revelation of God in the Bible from the bachelor God in the Old Testament to the incarnated Godin the Gospels, the indwelling God in the Acts and the Epistles, and the incorporated God, the married God, in Revelation. Wow.
Today in the church life we enjoy God as He is revealed in every stage, and we have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem.
Hallelujah.
Amen my dear brother.
What a marvelous God we have in us.
Batchelor-Incarnated- Redeeming- Compounded- Intensified- Indwelling- Incorporated- Married and Ultimately Incorporated God-
Wow Wow Wow!!!
Amen brother. Our God was alone.
Now, He has many crazy lovers who are making themselves ready to be His beautiful bride.
For this, God went through many progressive stages.
This reveals how precious is the bride to God.
Through many centuries, God has steadfastly & resolutely pursued & courted those who are to be His bride and His wife for eternity.
We should not think it strange that we must endure many trials & difficulties.
All precious gems and metals have to go through the process of refinement & beautification.
May we never cease to walk by the Spirit so that we would eventually enter the New Jerusalem, the full incorporation of divinity & humanity.
Hallelujah!
We will enter into the reality of the New Jerusalem by entering into the reality & practicality of the Christian life today…
Aaaaameeen! How wonderful we can enjoy God as He is revealed in every stage in the church life!
In the church life, we sense the flow of the river of life and experience the foretaste of the New Jerusalem!
Amen! We want to enjoy You more today for the Body!
The central and progressive revelation of the Bible is that the “bachelor” God – in Jesus as the Emmanuel – “God Plus” God with us – became the incorporated God consummated in the New Jerusalem with the consummated tripartite church, His bride, His counterpart.
Listen to the audio version of this article via,
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A very good hymn on this topic is, Drink a river pure and clear that’s flowing from the throne.
1. Drink! A river pure and clear that’s flowing from the throne;
Eat! The tree of life with fruits abundant, richly grown;
Look! No need of lamp nor sun nor moon to keep it bright, for
Here there is no night!
Do come, oh, do come,
Says Spirit and the Bride:
Do come, oh, do come,
Let him that heareth, cry.
Do come, oh, do come,
Let him who thirsts and will
Take freely the water of life!
2. Christ, our river, Christ, our water, springing from within;
Christ, our tree, and Christ, the fruits, to be enjoyed therein,
Christ, our day, and Christ, our light, and Christ, our morningstar:
Christ, our everything!
3. We are washing all our robes the tree of life to eat;
“O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!”—Jesus is so sweet!
We our spirits exercise, and thus experience Christ.
What a Christ have we!
4. Now we have a home so bright that outshines the sun,
Where the brothers all unite and truly are one.
Jesus gets us all together, Him we now display
In the local church.
Sing along with this hymn via, https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1151 and listen to it via,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOhHh3AWfZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIufmvZdD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrCvdyjaHlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RajWdUmAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51TRo90zo5w
5/29/24 Governing Principles That We Need to See and Experience in Order to Possess Christ as the Good Land (Week 10, Day 3)
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of Christ in His full ministry of three stages—incarnation, inclusion, and intensification. The Lord’s recovery is God becoming the flesh, the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit, and the lifegiving Spirit becoming the sevenfold intensified Spirit to build up the church that becomes the Body of Christ and that consummates the New Jerusalem.
Actually, in the three stages of His full ministry, God underwent into His three “becomings”:
a.) In the stage of incarnation ~ God “becoming” the Flesh,
b.) In the stage in inclusion ~ the Flesh “becoming” the Life-giving Spirit, and
c.) In the stage of intensification ~ the Life-giving Spirit “becoming” the Sevenfold-intensified Spirit.
These are the processes, by which, God is also being revealed progressively in His five statuses in the Bible:
1.) Bachelor God ~ Before His incarnation, God was single and was longing to have a Counterpart, a Bride for His Wife.
2.) Incarnated God (in the stage of incarnation) ~ By “becoming” the flesh, God brought divinity into humanity, and He became the first God-man, God mingled with man.
3.) Redeeming God ~ By dying on the cross, God accomplished redemption for man.
4.) Indwelling God (in the stage of inclusion) ~ By “becoming” the Life-giving Spirit, God could enter and indwell the spirits of His believers, producing the church, the many God-men, to be the corporate Body of Christ.
5.) Incorporated God (in the stage of Inclusion) ~ By “becoming” the Sevenfold-intensified Spirit, God finally incorporated Himself with the overcomers, the fully matured God-men, to become His corporate Bride, the New Jerusalem.
In Genesis 1 God is revealed as the “bachelor” God. In the four Gospels He is revealed as the incarnated God. At the end of the Gospels He is the redeeming God. In the Acts and the Epistles God becomes the indwelling God, the life-giving Spirit. Eventually, in Revelation He becomes the incorporated God.
In the Lord’s recovery today, we not only know the “bachelor” God Who is looking for a Counterpart, the “incarnated” God Who brought the infinite God into the finite man, the “redeeming” God Who accomplished redemption for the sinful man, and the “indwelling” God Who then dwells in the spirit of His believers, but we also are enjoying the “incorporated” God, the Body-Christ.
The “incorporated” God is the fifth and final stage of the progressive revelation of God in the Bible. This “incorporated God is also known as the “married” God. To be “married” is to be “incorporated” with another person. God becoming the “married” God means that He is “incorporated” with all His redeemed people.
Revelation 21:2 describes a City that is a Bride. The Holy City is an organic (living) city composed of all God’s redeemed people. Revelation 21:12 reveals that the names of the twelve tribes are inscribed on the twelve gates of the City, and verse 14 reveals that the names of the twelve apostles are on the twelve foundations of the wall.
The names of the twelve tribes and the twelve apostles being on the City signifies that all God’s redeemed saints from both the Old Testament and New Testament times will be included in this organic City, the corporate Bride of Christ, to be the Wife of Christ for eternity, known as, the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:2, 9).
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