Receive the Life Dispensing to Grow and be Soaked with God’s Holy Element to become Holy

The church as the dwelling place of God grows by life dispensing, the dispensing of the Divine Trinity, and all the building is becoming holy to be as holy as God is through our being soaked and saturated with God’s holy element to be a holy temple in the Lord. Hallelujah!

Ephesians 2 gives us a clear view of how the church comes into being and how the church is built up to be the holy temple in the Lord, the dwelling place of God.

Here we see that we were saved by grace, we were raised up together with Christ and seated together with Him in the heavenlies.

Though we were dead in sins and offenses, God not only had mercy on us but even more, raised us up, seated us with Christ, and made us one with Christ. This is wonderful.

Even more, we were made members of the Body of Christ to be part of God’s building, the holy temple in the Lord.

We were not saved so we go to heaven and enjoy life with God forever and ever. We were saved to be part of God’s building.

We may be satisfied with going to heaven, but God is not satisfied; He wants to gain a corporate expression on earth, a building for Himself, a dwelling place where He can express HImself and have a family.

May we not focus only on our interests, our benefits, and our needs but focus on God’s interests, God’s desires, and His need and benefit.

God saved us not merely for ourselves to gain this or that but for Him to gain a building. The building of God is the centre.

This building, the church as the Body of Christ, is so important that, when Christ was crucified, we were crucified with Him, and when He was raised and seated in the heavenlies, we were raised and seated in the heavenlies with Him.

We were ascended with Christ and seated with Him in the heavenlies for the building of god, the church. Hallelujah!

And the church is the temple of God, the building of God, that grows and is becoming holy, even consummating in the New Jerusalem as the holy city of God.

Today God is building Himself in Christ by the Spirit into us and He is building us into Himself so that He may gain a dwelling place, the church as the building of God and man.

In this corporate building of God and man, God can dwell and man can dwell, and God can be at home while man is at home in God. Praise the Lord!

We now have access to the Father in Christ through the Spirit, and we are daily under the dispensing of the Triune God so that we may grow and arrive at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Praise the Lord!

In this article, we want to see how the church grows by God’s dispensing and how the building of God is becoming holy in the Lord.

Receive the Life Dispensing to Grow: the Church Grows by the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity!

All the building of God is growing into a holy temple in the Lord (Eph. 2:21).

This is an organic building, a living building, a building that is composed of living beings and that grows.

The building of God is growing; it has been growing for many centuries and it is still growing today. We as the church are growing as a holy temple in the Lord.

Our growth is not in and of ourselves but in the Lord and of the Lord.

We need to grow in life by receiving the daily supply of grace, being daily under the divine dispensing, so that we may grow with the growth of God.

The fact that the temple is still growing indicates that, at least from our point of view, the building of God is still not complete; we still need to grow, the temple still needs to grow, and there’s a need for growth.

And this building is “all the building”, referring to the universal church, not the local church.

The universal church is growing, spreading, increasing, and being enlarged. How does the church grow? It is by the dispensing of life, the dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

The church grows by life dispensing; the church grows by the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

All the saints as the members of the Body of Christ are under the divine dispensing; as we enjoy the grace of the Lord, the fellowship of the Spirit, and the love of God, we grow, and all the building is growing.

The threefold God – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit – is dispensing Himself into us as life and as our life supply.

We see this in many verses in the New Testament, especially in Eph. 3:16-17.

The Father is strengthening us with the riches of His glory through the Spirit so that Christ may make His home in our hearts, with the result that we are rooted and grounded in love, we apprehend with all the saints how vast and immeasurable Christ is, and we become the building of God.

The goal of God’s dispensing of life, of Himself, into us, is the church as the building of God.

We simply need to remain open to God’s dispensing. We need to live a daily life under the divine dispensing.

Simply by telling the Lord that we want to remain open to Him throughout the day, He has a way to dispense Himself into us.

As long as the processed and consummated Triune God is dispensing Himself into us as life, we are nourished and grow (Eph. 4:15-16).

As long as we remain open to the life dispensing of the Triune God, we will grow with the growth of God, for His life in us will grow.

And organically, spontaneously, and automatically, we will function as members of the Body of Christ, each having a certain portion and a certain measure for God’s building.

In the churches today we should care for the genuine growth through the dispensing of the divine life (1 Cor. 3:6-7; 2 Pet. 1:5-7).

We need to pursue growing in life by enjoying the life dispensing so that we may arrive unto maturity and grow with the saints into a holy temple in the Lord.

May we remain in this process of enjoying the life dispensing from the Triune God and may we grow together with the saints in the church as a holy temple in the Lord.

Lord Jesus, we open to Your divine dispensing today. Dispense Yourself into us a little more today. Cause us to grow in life. We come to You, Lord: give more of Yourself to us and give us the growth in life! Keep us under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity so that we may grow in life and so that the building of God may grow. Oh Lord, we care for the genuine growth through the dispensing of the divine life. Keep us and keep all the saints open to Your dispensing today. Save us from our own effort, struggle, and striving; keep our being open to Your fine, continual, constant life dispensing so that we together may grow into a holy temple in the Lord!

All the Building is becoming Holy: Separated unto God and Soaked with God’s Holy Element

On one hand, the building of God is growing, and on the other hand, it is growing into a holy temple in the Lord (Eph. 2:21).

We are not just growing in life by receiving the life dispensing; we are also being sanctified to be a holy temple in the Lord.

How are we becoming holy? First, we become holy by being separated unto God positionally.

When we were saved, God operated in us to separate us from anything that is common and unholy.

However, many Christians today are saved but not separated; they are Christians, but not many people around them know or can tell that they are Christians, for they are not separated unto God.

Being sanctified is being separated unto God and also being saturated with God’s holy element.

Positionally, sanctification is being separated unto God; dispositionally, sanctification is being saturated with God’s holy element.

We need both the positional separation unto God and the dispositional sanctification by our soaking up God.

It is relatively easy and quick to be separated unto God, but being saturated with God’s holy element takes a long time.

We need to daily come to the Lord in His word and partake of His holy nature through His promises to soak up God in our being.

Being sanctified dispositionally requires time. God wants not only to separate us unto Himself but also to work Himself into our being so that we may be as holy as He is holy.

Therefore, He uses all things, situations, matters, and people around us to make us willing to be sanctified.

Our wife or husband, our brothers and sisters, and even our workmates are used by the Lord to cause us to be more open to the working of His holy element into our being.

In the church life we are learning to open to the Lord and soak up His holy element into us, for there we are in the process of being sanctified.

The church life is a life of soaking up God. Whether we’re willing or unwilling, we’re being oaked with the divine element.

First, we’re separated unto God, and then we are being saturated with God’s holy element; eventually, we will become one with God.

God is working Himself with His holy life and nature into our being to the extent that our whole being, spirit, soul, and body, will be fully sanctified and preserved complete at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thes. 5:23).

Our spirit is holy because God as the holy One dwells there; our soul is being sanctified by the addition of the holy element of God into our being; our body will be redeemed when Christ returns to be made into the same image of His glorious body.

From within to without, we will be the same as He is – we will be holy. Now we’re in the process of becoming holy.

We are in the process of receiving God’s element, for God makes us holy by imparting Himself – the Holy One – into our being so that our whole being may be permeated and saturated with His holy nature (Eph. 1:4; 1 Thes. 5:23).

God is holy; this is one of His top attributes. When He works Himself into us, His holy nature becomes ours, and we become partakers of the divine nature, the holy nature of God.

As we daily partake of the divine nature by being in the Word of God with a prayerful attitude and keeping our being open to His sanctifying work, we will grow into a holy temple in the Lord.

But if we bring anything common, natural, or worldly into the church, God Himself will stand against us, for such things mar and damage the temple of God.

For us, God’s chosen ones, to be holy is to partake of God’s divine nature and have our whole being permeated with God Himself; this makes our being holy in God’s nature and character, just like God Himself (2 Pet. 1:4; Eph. 5:27; Col. 1:22).

May we be those who daily partake of the divine nature of our holy Father.

May we spend time with Him in His word, allow His word to speak to us and operate in us, and even speak the word of God to be sanctified both positionally and dispositionally.

And may we have an attitude of being open to the Lord with much prayer, asking Him to sanctify us, to keep our being open to Him, and to make us holy in God’s nature and character.

Our destiny is the New Jerusalem: we will become the holy city, being fully sanctified unto God and saturated with God’s holy element and nature.

May we cooperate with His sanctifying work today!

Lord Jesus, impart Yourself as the Holy One into our being so that our whole being may be permeated and saturated with Your holy nature. Sanctify us, Lord, by separating us unto Yourself and saturating us with Your holy element. We sanctify ourselves: we set ourselves apart for You, and we leave anything common and worldly to be with You and with Your saints. Amen, Lord, impart Your holy element into us. Keep us soaking up Your life and nature. Keep our being open to Your divine dispensing, the life dispensing, and the dispensing of Your holy element into us. May we be those who partake of God’s divine nature and have our whole being permeated with God! Amen, Lord, make our whole being holy in God’s nature and character until we become the holy city, New Jerusalem!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Minoru Chen in the message, and portions from, Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 28-31, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Kings (2022 summer training), week 8, entitled, Growing into a Holy Temple in the Lord.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – The ministry of Christ in the stage of inclusion (article via, Affirmation and Critique).
  – Pursuing the filling of the Holy Spirit (via The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity, by Witness Lee).
  – The day-by-day Christian life, article by Ed Marks (via Affirmation and Critique).
  – The accomplishment of the Divine Economy: the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity, portion from, The Divine Dispensing for the Divine Economy, by W. Lee.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Deepest springs of life dispensing, / Like the hart I thirst for Thee; / Desp’rate, may I drink Thy fullness, / ’Till Thy river flows through me. / Fill me now! Fill me now! / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! / Strip me wholly, empty thoroughly, / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! (Hymns #1360 stanza 3 and chorus)
  – Oh, sanctify us, Lord; now add Thyself to us, / In our experience, Thy Person spread in us, / That in reality the church be glorious, / O Lord, do add Thyself, we pray. / Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today; / Lord Jesus, You’re the only way. / We take Your Person, Lord; / Oh, spread Yourself abroad. / Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today. (Hymns #1135 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – By the power of His Spirit / In His pattern He transforms; / From His glory to His glory / To His image He conforms. / He transforms, all sanctifying, / Till like Him we are matured; / He transforms, our soul possessing, / Till His stature is secured. (Hymns #750 stanzas 4 and 5)