The revelation concerning the Triune God in the Bible is not for doctrinal understanding but for the dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people for their experience and enjoyment; this is the governing principle in the holy word of God.
This week we come to the fifth week on the matter of the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy.
The topic for this week is, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity revealed in the Book of Ephesians.
What the Bible reveals is beyond human words, for there’s an intrinsic revelation, a golden thread, that is throughout the Bible.
We are the most blessed people, we believers in Christ, for we live in an age when we can know what is the governing principle in the entire Bible – we can see what is the secret that is hidden in God.
If we would have lived in Paul’s age, we may have not seen that much, for he wrote a letter to this church and another letter to a different church.
Today, however, we have the entire Bible, and the Bible is opened up to us to see the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into us throughout the Bible.
What a mystery!
The Divine Trinity is not merely for us to try to understand and figure out, nor is it for our doctrinal or theological apprehending.
Rather, it is for the divine dispensing of the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – into us to be our life and life supply and to be our everything.
As we enjoy the divine dispensing day by day, we are saturated and soaked with God, and our whole inner being is constituted with Him.
The Triune God has gone through a process, a marvellous and mysterious process, and He became the life-giving Spirit, who is all-inclusive and compounded with all that He has, has obtained, and has attained to.
May we have a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him.
May the eyes of our heart be enlightened so that we may know what is the hope of our calling.
This hope has everything to do with the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into our being.
We want to see what are the riches of His glory, the riches of His inheritance in the saints; He is making us His inheritance as we enjoy Him as our inheritance.
May the Lord cleans our lips as we utter such words and may our mind be washed and renewed so that we don’t speak of these things in a natural way.
What a deeper revelation of the Divine Trinity we see in the holy word of God!
And how high is the truth concerning the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into us, as seen from Genesis to Revelation!
This week in particular we come to the book of Ephesians, which is so deep and so high when it comes to the divine revelation of the Divine Trinity dispensing Himself into man!
The Triune God Dwells in us and Dispense Himself into us to be our Life, Life supply, and Unique Blessing
The real blessing, the unique blessing in the whole universe is God Himself.
Real blessing is not having another zero or two to the sum of money in your bank account; it has nothing to do with our earthly possessions or having a wonderful family life.
The unique blessing is the Triune God, and He is blessing us with Himself.
The unique blessing that God gives to us is Himself in His Divine Trinity dispensing Himself into us.
The blessing of God comes to us through the dispensing of the Triune God into us.
We simply need to be an open vessel to the Lord, telling Him that we love Him, and dealing with any problems between us and Him, and He will flow Himself into us.
The Bible reveals that the Triune God is not merely the object of our faith but even more, that He is subjective to us, for He dwells in us and dispenses Himself into us to be our life and life-supply (Rom. 8:2, 6, 11).
As soon as we open, He dispenses Himself into us.
He doesn’t just give us a gift nor does He merely pour out what He is; He dispenses Himself into us.
God has an economy, a household arrangement, according to which He prepares, divides, and distributes the riches of Himself according to a plan into us, His chosen people.
He doesn’t just give us a giant package of Himself and that’s it; He slowly, constantly, and continuously dispenses Himself into us.
There’s something deep and eternal in God, something deliberated in His foresightedness that causes Him to dispense Himself into us for His good pleasure.
This is so that He may gain a group of people into whom He can work Himself so that they would become the same as He is in every possible way, filling them with His life in their spirit, soul, and body.
This causes Hise people to be regenerated, renewed, transformed, and conformed to the image of the Firstborn Son of God, even to become the same as God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
These ones are then built together to be the Body of Christ, the corporate expression of God.
This is the church that He desires to gain for the fulfilment of His eternal purpose.
God has a tremendous plan; He is filled with wisdom and prudence, and He has a counsel – all these are in Him and have been in Him from eternity past.
Based on this, he had a purpose and an intention, and according to this intention, He designed a plan, an economy, an arrangement to dispense Himself with all His riches into His people.
Millions and millions of people are under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.
According to His plan, He created man in His image and according to His likeness, and He created many things on earth.
We were made in the image of God and according to His likeness because God has a marvellous plan to work out His desire by means of His dispensing.
In every age, according to His plan, God comes to man for this one reason, to dispense Himself into us.
All this dispensing of God Himself into us is for our experience and enjoyment.
On one hand, God has a mysterious plan that is worked out from age to age, from eternity to eternity; on the other hand, God is practical and detailed, and His divine dispensing is worked out daily in our daily life, even moment by moment.
This dispensing goes on in our being every moment of the day. We can simply turn to Him and receive His divine dispensing to be our life and life supply.
The entire Bible reveals the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into us, showing us that God is very subjective to us.
He is dwelling in us and He is dispensing Himself into us to be our life and life supply.
May we learn to open to the Lord and allow Him to work Himself into us little by little, day by day, so that He may work out His divine economy in us and through us.
Lord, grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Christ so that we may see that the Triune God lives in us and dwells in us! Hallelujah, the Triune God is not merely the object of our faith but even more, He is dwelling in us and He’s dispensing Himself into us to be our life and life supply! Amen, Lord, we open to Your divine dispensing today. We open to You and we allow You to work Yourself into us a little more today. Dispense more of Yourself into our being today. May Your economy be carried out in us and through us. Make us the same as You are in life and nature but not in the Godhead. Lord Jesus, we open to Your divine dispensing. May there be no hindrance to Your dispensing in us. Flow in us, flow in every part of our inner being, and saturate us with Yourself!
The revelation of the Triune God in the Bible is for the Dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into us for our Experience and Enjoyment
The revelation concerning the Triune God in the Bible is not for mere theological understanding or doctrinal apprehension; it is for the dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into us, His chosen and redeemed people, for our experience and enjoyment.
We see this clearly in 2 Cor. 13:14.
From Genesis through Revelation, the divine revelation of the trinity of the Godhead in the holy Word is not for theological study but for the divine dispensing.
What the Bible reveals concerning the Triune God shows us how God in His mysterious and marvellous Trinity dispenses Himself into us, His chosen people, so that we may participate in Him, enjoy Him, experience Him and even possess Him both now and for eternity.
The love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit are with us not merely for our theological understanding but for our enjoyment and experience.
The entire Bible was written according to the governing principle of the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people as their life and life supply.
This can be seen in Psa. 36:8-9. These verses are so sweet, and many songs have been composed based on these, but we need to see the governing principle in the Bible concerning the Triune God revealed in these verses.
There’s a mystery in the Bible – the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into His chosen people.
Both in the Old and in the New Testament this dispensing is made visible and clear to us.
We are saturated with the fatness of God’s house, He causes us to drink the river of His pleasures, and in His light, we see light, for with Him is the fountain of life and light.
The fatness of His house refers to Christ, for fatness literally refers to the fatty ashes of the sacrifices which become a satisfaction to God. Christ is the reality of all the sacrifices, He satisfies God, and His sacrifice becomes something that is pleasing to God.
We can eat Christ and be satisfied with Him as the fatness of God’s house.
The river of the pleasures of God refers to the river of the water of life, the Spirit flowing from eternity to eternity. As we drink the Spirit, our thirst is quenched; God causes us to drink the river of His pleasures.
The fountain of life and light is with the Father, who is life and light as the source. In His light we see light, and He is the source of life, divine and rich and free.
In these few verses, we see the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.
Every book of the Bible confirms this matter, that the Bible was written according to the principle of the Triune God being wrought into His redeemed people as their enjoyment, their drink, and their fountain of life and light.
This principle can be applied whenever we read the Bible and see the matter of the Divine Trinity.
If we have such a governing principle in our being, the Bible will become an open book to us, and we will enjoy the divine dispensing in every portion of God’s word.
Even in the Old Testament, the seeking saints enjoyed the Triune God in His dwelling place on earth.
How we thank and praise the Lord for revealing to us this governing principle, and how much we want to remain in the enjoyment of the Divine Trinity dispensing Himself into our being!
We can enjoy Christ as the fatness of God’s house, drink the Spirit as the river of God’spleasures, and receive life and light from the Father who is the source. Hallelujah!
Lord, grant us to see the governing vision in the Bible concerning the Triune God working Himself into us to be our life and life supply! Amen, Lord, we come to You to enjoy Christ as the fatness of God’s house, drink the Spirit as the river of God’s pleasures, and be filled with love and light from the Father! Dispense Yourself a little more into us today. Cause us to drink of the river of Your pleasures so that our thirst may be quenched. We want to eat the fatness of God’s house to be satisfied. Lord, with You is the fountain of life, and in Your light we see light! Amen, Lord, keep us enjoying the grace of Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit all the days of our life!
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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 13, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy (2022 Thanksgiving Weekend Conference), week 5, entitled, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity Revealed in the Book of Ephesians, and Eating the Bread of God.
- Further reading on this topic:
– The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, portion from, The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– The Triune God – article in Affirmation and Critique.
– The Triune God – what we believe, on the FTTA Malabon website.
– What is the Dispensing of the Triune God? Read more at the Hearing of Faith, LSM Radio Newsletters.
– Why is God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit? Read via, Holding to Truth in Love to find out.
– The essential and economical Trinity – lesson via, The Church in Plano. - Hymns on this topic:
– What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit, / In person three, in substance all are one. / How glorious, this God our being enters / To be our all, thru Spirit in the Son! (Hymns #608 stanza 1)
– The Father, Son, and Spirit, Thou, / The triune God, my life fore’er; / In me Thou art the full supply / That I Thy holy nature share. / The triune God the Spirit is, / And comes as breath and wind to me; / ’Tis thus I may experience / The Godhead’s wondrous mystery. (Hymns #609 stanzas 2-3)
– God is in Christ to be my supply, / God as the Spirit nourisheth me; / If upon Christ in spirit I feed, / Filled with His life I’ll be. (Hymns #509 chorus)
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Some of you have been reading, studying, and reciting Psalm 36:8-9 for years, but you could not and did not interpret these verses…by the governing vision—the Triune God is working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people to be their life and life supply, to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity, that is, with the Father as the fountain, the Son as the fatness, and the Spirit as the river. This is the vision that should govern and direct how you interpret any portion of the Bible… Without such a vision you may present a good message based on Psalm 36:8-9, yet it will be so shallow, touching nothing of the Divine Trinity. Even if you were to go to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and discover that the fatness refers to the fatty ashes of the sacrifices,Without such a vision you would never think that this refer to Christ. You must have the governing principle. Then when you see the word sacrifices, you would be so clear that this refer to the second of the Divine Trinity, Christ. Then it would It is also easy for you to understand the river of God’s pleasures… Romans 14:17 refers back to this river when it tells us that the kingdom of God is “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” The joy in the Holy Spirit is the river of pleasures, or we could say the river of pleasures is the Spirit of joy. We must realize that the Bible was written under this governing principle…This principle helps us to interpret the fountain of life and in Your light we see light (Psa. 36:9). This principle helps us to see in John that life is in Him and that this life is the light of men (1:4). God is life,and God is light. Therefore, He Himself is the fountain of both life and light. Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” pp. 229-230
Second Corinthians 13:14 is strong proof that the trinity of the Godhead is not for the doctrinal understanding of systematic theology but for the dispensing of God Himself in His Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people. In the Bible the Trinity… is always revealed or mentioned in regard to the relationship of God with His creatures, especially with man, who was created by Him, and more particularly with His chosen and redeemed people. The divine revelation of the trinity of the Godhead in the holy Word, from Genesis through Revelation, is not for theological study but for the apprehending of how God in His mysterious and marvelous Trinity dispenses Himself into His chosen people, that we as His chosen and redeemed people may, as indicated in the apostle’s blessing to the Corinthian believers, participate in, experience, enjoy, and possess the processed Triune God now and for eternity. Amen. 2 Cor. 13:14, part of footnote 1, Recovery Version Bible
The Bible reveals that the Triune God is so subjective to us – He dwells in us to dispense Himself into us to be our life and life supply.
The Triune God is not for our doctrinal understanding but for the dispensing of God into us.
We can eat Christ as the fatness of God’s house, drink the Spirit as the river of God’s pleasures, and be filled with life and light from the Father as the source.
We need a vision to see that the governing and intrinsic principle in the entire Bible is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity being worked into us, His chosen and redeemed people to be our experience and enjoyment, to be our life and life supply.
When we see this then, whatever we speak or preach, will be according to such a principle.
The Father is the fountain of life, the Son is the fatness and the Spirit is the river for us to drink!
How blessed we are if we see the governing vision in the Bible.
Our Father is the fountain of life & light, the Son is the fatness of the sacrifices, and the Spirit is a river of pleasures.
The Triune God is working Himself into us to be our enjoyment, our drink and our fountain of life & light.
Brother, we have the key to open the Holy Scriptures.
This key must become the vision that directs & controls whatever we speak, teach & preach.
Aaameen Lord! We love You, we open to Your dispensing today! We love You Lord!!
Amen Lord.
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Amen brother!
O Lord thank the triune God is in our spirit. You are our light and life and we see through the darkness!
Hallelujah!
Amen brother I enjoyed that the triune is just for our docrinal understanding objective but is for our subjective experience to enjoy through his dispensing it is only Spirit of wisdom and revelation that we can see this in psalms 36 and 2 corinthians 13 may the Lord bring into this enjoyment by receiving this dispensing
Wow brother Praise the Lord! We have the key to open any portion of the Bible.
This is the governing vision which is that the Triune God is working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people to be their life and life supply, to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity, that is, with the Father as the fountain, the Son as the fatness, and the Spirit as the river.
Hallelujah.
Ameeen!!
What a wonderful Triune God we have who desires to dispense Himself in His Trinity for our experience and enjoyment. Ameenn!!!
In such marvellous and mysterious dispensing we participate in, experience, enjoy, and possess the processed Triune God and He enjoys, mingles Himself with us and possess us.
Praise the Lord !!!
Dear brother, The entire divine revelation in the book of Ephesians concerning the producing, existing, growing, building up, and fighting of the church as the Body of Christ is composed of the divine economy, the dispensing of the Triune God into the members of the Body of Christ.