Faith is for appreciating, substantiating, and receiving the unlimited riches of the Triune God; by faith we receive Christ and enter into the Triune God to be joined with Him as one, having Him as our life and life supply and everything. Hallelujah!
Without faith is impossible to be well-pleasing to God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
If we want to be pleasing to God and come near to God, we must believe that He is; this implies that we are not. God is and we are not.
By faith, we receive all that God is, and through love we enjoy all that He is and has done for us.
It is by faith that we receive and enjoy the divine life; it is by love that we love the Lord and those who belong to Him, thus enjoying all that God is and has done for us and in us.
Many times in our Christian life we realize that it is impossible for us to do and be what God wants us to do and be; we can’t do it, we can’t bear it, and we can’t be it.
Faith, therefore, is admitting that we can’t but that He can; everything is possible through faith and with faith. And faith is not of us but it is of God.
When in His mercy God appears to us, when we have a revelation of Christ in our being, we are infused with Him as our faith.
Faith is God Himself being infused into us to become our believing ability; through the faith which He Himself is in us, we believe into God and enter into an organic union with Him.
In the organic union with the Lord, when we abide in Him through faith, He in us can do it, bear it, and be it; He can fulfill God’s purpose and meet His demands in us.
Faith, therefore, is to believe that God is and we are not; in everything, God is and we are not. Like Paul, we realize that we are crucified with Christ and it is no longer us who live but Christ who lives in us.
Therefore, the life which we now live, we live in faith, the faith of the Son of God who loved me and died for me.
He loved ME – not just us in general, but me, the sinner, the person. The Lord Jesus loved each one of us, He died for each one of us, He laid His life down for us; through faith, we are joined to Him as one, and we receive all that He is to us and for us.
In the organic union with the Lord, as we abide in Him and realize that we are nothing but He is everything, we can do all things in Him, who empowers us.
Faith enables us to do what we cannot do; faith enables us to be poor in spirit and pure in heart, and faith enables us to fulfill all of God’s commandments.
Love, on the other hand, enables us to enjoy Christ and all that He is to us.
Faith is for Appreciating, Substantiating, and Receiving the Unlimited Riches of the Triune God
Faith is given to us by God so that by faith we may receive Christ and enter into the Triune God and be joined to Him as one (2 Pet. 1:1).
Faith is not of ourselves but of God; by faith, we receive Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God, and by faith we enter into the Triune God to be organically joined to Him, having Him as our life, life supply, and everything.
God wants to give us the all-inclusive Christ; He knows we are not able to do this, so He infuses Himself as faith into us to enable us to receive Christ and also enjoy Christ.
Now Christ is our life; He is our life and life supply, and He is becoming our everything. He knows what we need today, so He supplies us. It is by faith that we receive what God is to us.
Faith is for appreciating, substantiating, and receiving the unlimited riches of the Triune God (John 1:12; Eph. 3:16-17).
It is by faith in the Lord that we receive the forgiveness of sins and eternal life (Acts 10:43; John 3:16).
Forgiveness of sins is not a concept or a doctrine; it is part of the gospel, and we receive it by faith. When we repent and believe into the Lord, God forgives our sins and also forgets them.
We may still remember some of the sins that we already confessed to the Lord, but to Him, all these are washed away, no longer there.
God, the omnipotent God, can forget; He has “divine amnesia” concerning the sins which He has forgiven us, and we receive His forgiveness by faith.
When we believe in the Lord, we actually believe into Him (John 3:15-16).
The literal translation, the accurate translation of “believe in Him” in John 3:15 and 16 is “believe into Him”; the preposition in Greek means “into”, not merely “in”.
It is one thing to believe in something, for example, believe in George Washington or in a great hero in history; it is something else, however, to believe into Jesus.
To believe into the Lord is to be organically joined to Him. Both our faith and our baptism are not merely “in Christ” but “into Christ”; we believe into Christ and we are baptised into Christ (John 3:15; Matt. 28:19).
By believing into Him, we enter into Him to be one with Him, to partake of Him, and to participate in all that He has accomplished for us.
It is an organic union with the Lord in which we continually receive what He is, what He has done, and what He has accomplished and obtained; by faith, we are joined to the Lord to receive the unlimited riches of the Triune God. Hallelujah!
By believing into the Lord, we are identified with Christ in all that He is and in all that He has passed through, accomplished, attained, and obtained (1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 2:5-6; Col. 3:1).
The kind of faith that the Bible is talking about is not merely a set of beliefs, a system of belief, or something that is true and sound that we believe in.
We believe into the Lord and we are identified with Him in all that He is and in all that He has passed through, accomplished, attained, and obtained.
All that He is and has accomplished, all the unsearchable and immeasurable riches of the Triune God embodied and expressed in Christ, all these are our enjoyment and experience through faith in Christ. By faith we simply receive.
It is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, and this all-inclusive One has become everything to us.
Christ Himself is our life, and in our organic union with Him by faith, we receive all that He is. Faith is therefore for our appreciating, substantiating, and receiving the unlimited riches of the Triune God!
Thank You, Lord, for the wonderful faith that You infused into us to make us one with You and give all that You are to us! Hallelujah, faith is for appreciating, substantiating, and receiving the unlimited riches of the Triune God! Amen, Lord, by faith in You we receive the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. We believe not only in Christ but also into Christ, for through our faith into Him we are joined to Him organically to receive all He is. Amen, Lord, we thank You for bringing us into the organic union with the Triune God so that we may partake of all that He is and participate in all that He has accomplished for us! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are identified with Christ in all that He is and in all that He has passed through, accomplished, attained, and obtained!
Hallelujah for the Wonderful Faith and the Super-Excellent Love for us to Receive and Enjoy the Triune God!
Paul concludes his epistle to Titus with a simple yet very profound verse, Titus 3:15, “All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all.”
Here we see love and faith again. Faith here refers to subjective faith, the act of our believing; our subjective faith brings us into an organic union with the Lord (John 3:15; Gal. 3:26), and this faith operates through love (Gal. 5:6).
We can be one with the Lord in the element and operation of this faith so that we may care for the suffering saints and the faithful serving ones of the Lord.
Faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ; faith is given to us by God that by it we may receive Christ and be joined to Him organically, while love is given to us by God for us to enjoy Christ and all that He has done for us.
Through faith we appreciate, substantiate, and receive the unlimited riches of the Triune God; faith is the substantiation of things unseen, the appreciation and substantiation of all that God is in Christ as the Spirit to us and for us.
The conclusion of Titus – actually, the conclusion of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus – is the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love for us to receive and enjoy the Triune God. Hallelujah!
For us to stand against the degradation of the church, for us to overcome the downward trend in the church, we need the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love.
Such love and such faith are indispensable for us to effectively stand firm and overcome the downward trend and factor in the church today.
Satan is operating to bring in degradation in the church, but when we don’t walk by sight or care for the outward situation but believe into the Lord and love Him, we receive and enjoy the unlimited riches of the Triune God.
May we not walk by sight or care for the outward situation but rather, enjoy and receive the Triune God, to whom we have been joined in the wonderful faith.
May we love Him and love those who belong to Him through the super-excellent love.
It is only by living in this way, by the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love, that we can become the overcomers whom the Lord is calling and is desiring to obtain, as seen in Rev. 2-3.
There’s the current of the church’s degradation taking place outwardly, but intrinsically, we enjoy the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love which are out of the Triune God, and we are joined to Him to receive and enjoy Him as our everything.
God really really desires to become joined to us and give Himself with all that He is to us; He passed through the process of incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension in order to become a life-giving Spirit to dispense all He is into us (1 Cor. 15:45).
He is now the Spirit who gives life, the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2) who includes divinity, humanity, and Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, together with the reality of the all-inclusive Christ (John 14:16-20).
Such a wonderful Spirit lives and dwells in our regenerated Spirit (Rom. 8:16; 2 Tim. 4:22). Hallelujah!
When we as believers in Christ contact the Triune God through prayer and by looking to Him through the exercise of our spirit, He infuses Himself into us in many ways to become the faith within us toward Him and the love outside of us toward those who belong to Him.
The Triune God infused into us becomes the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love. Such faith and love are the reality and expression (1 John 4:8, 16) of the Triune God in whom we believe and whom we worship and receive. Hallelujah!
How we thank and praise the Lord for faith and love through which we can receive and enjoy the unlimited riches of the Triune God!
Lord, we come to You to contact You through prayer and by looking to You, by means of our spirit. Infuse us with Yourself in many ways to become the faith within us toward You and the love outside of us toward those who belong to You. Amen, Lord, infuse us with the wonderful faith and the super-excellent love as we remain in our organic union with you! Praise the Lord, we have been joined to the Triune God through faith, and through love, we enjoy Him, love Him, and love all those who belong to Him. Amen, Lord, keep us organically joined to You through the wonderful faith and keep us enjoying You by the super-excellent love so that we may become the overcomers whom You are calling today!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a message by bro. Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Titus (msgs. 1-3), by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Meeting God’s Need and Present needs in the Lord’s Recovery, week 3, entitled, The Need to Develop Our Faith in the Lord and Our Love for Him.
- Recommended further reading:
– Our work of faith must grow exceedingly, / The labor of our love increase abundantly, / His sanctifying work in us go on and on, / While in patience of hope we will watch till He come. / The love for all the brothers, in our midst is found, / But in these days our love must increase and abound. / The Lord direct our hearts into the love of God / And prepare us in full for the day of the Lord. (Hymns #1305)
– Touching Thee in faith, I take Thee / In Thy riches full and free; / All I am I open to Thee, / All Thou art Thou giv’st to me. / Touching now Thine outstretched scepter, / O most mighty King of kings; / Of Thy fulness now receiving, / High I mount on eagle wings. (Hymns #559)
– Who can tell of all the wonders / Which Thy love for me has wrought, / Yet the greatest of these wonders / Is that Thou to me art brought. / Oh! to me Thy love has given / All Thou art as my supply; / As true life I now may share Thee / And Thy riches e’er enjoy. (Hymns #152)
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