See and Enter in the Divine and Mystical Realm of the Consummated Spirit

As believers in Christ, we need to see a clear vision and enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ in our daily living; we need to live in the mingled spirit and do all things according to the Spirit. Amen!

This week we come to a new topic in our morning revival entitled simply, The Divine and Mystical Realm.

Wow, what is this realm? How can we know and enter into such a realm? Where do we see such a realm in the Bible?

We will see this week what is the divine and mystical realm, and how the Triune God – who is a divine and mystical realm – went through a process to become the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ for us to enter in and live today. Wow!

We can never enter into the divine and mystical realm of the Godhead, but we can enter into the realm of the Spirit, who is the consummation of the Triune God.

We can become a part of the divine and mystical realm, for we daily experience many precious aspects of His saving life as we simultaneously live in the physical realm and also in the divine and mystical realm.

We believers in Christ, the genuine Christians, are mysterious persons, for we live not only in the outward, human realm, doing the things that all human beings do, eating and working and exercising and suffering and rejoicing, but we also live in another realm, because we have another life.

Day by day we want to abide in the Lord so that He may abide in us, and we want to live one spirit with the Lord, for we want to be prepared for His return so that He may rapture us.

We want to be the living saints whom the Lord takes when He returns; to be such ones, our daily living needs to be in another realm – in the realm of the Spirit, even the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ.

When we speak of the divine and mystical realm we do not talking about the group of people in the Middle Ages who were “the mystics”, the persons who tried to experience something of God in their soul.

They were doing something with their soul to try to have a direct contact with God, somehow, by their contemplation; this many times caused them to suffer.

This is not genuine spirituality, and those engaged in such things were “mystical”.

We realize that there’s another realm besides the physical realm, and we want to live in the divine and mystical realm of the Spirit day by day.

We cannot touch it or feel it with our physical senses, but we can touch it and experience it in spirit.

We can exercise our spirit to see a vision of the divine and mystical realm, and we can touch this realm and live in this realm by being in our spirit.

May the Lord unveil us and have mercy on us to bring us into the realization and experience of the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ in our daily living.

Having a Clear View, a Vision, concerning the Physical Realm and the Divine and Mystical Realm

Paul testified in Acts 26:19, in front of the king, that he could not be disobedient to the heavenly vision.

He was a smart man, very well educated, but he saw something of another realm that transcends the physical realm, and for the sake of living and being in that realm, he suffered the loss of all things, including his freedom, for he lived in the divine and mystical realm.

Where there’s a lack of a vision of this realm of the Spirit, the people cast off all restraint (Prov. 29:18); but when we have a clear, controlling vision of the divine and mystical realm, we will choose to be and live in this realm.

We need the Lord’s light to shine, we need the veil to be lifted, and we need to have our spiritual eyes opened and enlightened so that we may see a clear vision concerning the physical realm and the divine and mystical realm.

We need to appreciate the divine and mystical realm by being impressed with a sharp contrast: earthly versus heavenly, judicial versus organic, objective versus subjective, physical versus mystical (Rom. 5:10; Heb. 8:1). We live in the earthly realm but are heavenly people.

We have been judicially redeemed by God but we need to experience His organic salvation.

We know Christ objectively but want to experience Him subjectively in our daily life.

We live in the physical realm but we want to live at the same time in the divine and mystical realm.

We need to enter into a sphere, a realm, a kingdom, which is much higher than the realm that we’re in right now; this higher realm is the divine and mystical realm.

This realm is higher than the realm we live in right now; it is the mystical realm of Christ’s heavenly ministry.

When we have a clear view of the divine and mystical realm, we will live simultaneously in the physical realm and in the divine and mystical realm.

We enter into the divine and mystical realm by seeing this realm, for in spiritual things to see is to enter (John 3:3, 5).

When we see the divine and mystical realm, we will simply enter into it.

May the Lord grant us to see and enter into this realm, which He Himself is. And may we hear His speaking so that we may follow the inner anointing and leading to enter into the realm of the Spirit and live in this realm.

Regarding the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit versus the physical realm, we need to have a clear vision and revelation from the Lord, for only by seeing this can we enter into it.

Look at the Lord Jesus and the apostles after Him; they did not live merely in the physical realm, trying to do good, be better, make the world a better place, or even just do a great work for God.

Rather, both the Lord and His disciples lived in another realm; they did not do things according to the way man expected them to do, but rather, they did things one with God, in God’s timing, in God’s way, and according to God’s desire.

The Lord said that the words He said to us He did not speak from Himself but the Father who was abiding in Him did His works.

He was in the Father and the Father was in Him, so when He spoke, the Father spoke, and the works He did were the works the Father did in Him.

This is mysterious – it is mystical, and this is divine – it is God being manifested in man. Amen!

This age is an age of ignorance, for so many Christians are blinded and held back by their traditional theology from seeing the divine and mystical realm.

May we come to the Lord regarding this matter and ask Him,

Lord Jesus, grant us to have a clear view concerning the physical realm and the divine and mystical realm. May we realize that we believers in Christ should live not only in the physical realm but even more, in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ. Amen, Lord, may we see this divine and mystical realm and may we enter into it! Cause us to be impressed with the contrast between the physical realm and the mystical realm. Save us from being ignorant concerning this realm, the kingdom of God, and bring us fully into this higher realm. Amen, Lord, we want to be those who live in the divine and mystical realm simultaneously as we live in the physical realm. We want to live in spirit and walk by the Spirit as we live the human life and take care of so many outward things.

We need to See and Enter in the Divine and Mystical Realm of the Consummated Spirit

According to John 14:10-11, the Triune God Himself is a divine and mystical realm; the Father is in the Son, the Son is in the Father, and what the Father does is expressed through the Son’s doing, while the words the Son speaks are the works the Father does.

The Triune God – the three of the Divine Trinity – is self-existing, ever-existing, coexisting, and coinhering.

As such, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are a divine and mystical realm, with the three of the Divine Trinity dwelling in one another (Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14).

This matter is wonderful yet so mysterious, for we human beings cannot apprehend it: how can three persons dwell in one another and do everything in perfect union and communion?

Yet according to John 14:10-11, the Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son.

This indicates that the Father is embodied in the Son and the Son is the Father’s embodiment, forming a divine and mystical realm, the realm of the Triune God.

We cannot enter into this realm, for this is the realm of the Godhead.

If we want to enter into the divine and mystical realm of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, we cannot, because there’s nothing there of Christ’s incarnation, His human living, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, and His dispensing.

In this realm, there’s only God – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

The Gospel of John shows us in a mysterious way how the Triune God is a divine and mystical realm; from the very first chapter we see that the Word was God and was with God, and the Word became flesh (John 1:1, 14).

Then in John 3:13, while the Son was living on earth, He was also living in the heavens in the Father; this is mystical.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, the Lord will be raised up on the cross; this is mystical.

John 14 speaks of the Father’s house, His dwelling place, where the Lord will prepare a place for us; it concludes with the fact that on that day we will know that the Son is in the Father, the Father is in the Son, and we will be in the Son and in the Father.

Wow, this is both divine and mystical!

The Triune God is an incorporation and a realm, a divine and mystical realm; we cannot enter into this realm.

But praise the Lord, we can see and enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ!

The divine and mystical realm into which we may enter today and in which we may live is the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit (Phil. 1:19; Rom. 8:9; 2 Cor. 3:17-18; Gal. 3:14).

We see this realm in John 7:37-39 where the Lord spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive, for the Spirit was not yet, for Jesus had not yet been glorified.

This is a mysterious verse, for the Spirit as the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit was there, being mentioned in both the Old and the New Testament, yet here we see that “the Spirit was not yet”.

How can this be? According to the New Testament, the Triune God was embodied and went through a process in order to become the Spirit, and in this Spirit – the consummated Spirit, the pneumatic Christ – we can enter into and live.

In His resurrection, Christ became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) and today the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17).

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and we can enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit to live in spirit and walk according to the Spirit.

The Bible reveals that the Spirit has become the consummate, all-inclusive, and compound Spirit (John 7:39; 14:16-17; 20:22; Rom. 8:9; Phil. 1:19).

God in Christ as the Spirit was processed and became the consummated Spirit; now He is the all-inclusive, life-giving, compound Spirit. The consummated Spirit is the compound Spirit typified by the anointing oil in Exo. 30:23-25.

We may be familiar with this compound ointment, where four spices were added to one hin of olive oil.

In Christ’s resurrection the Spirit of God was mingled with Christ’s humanity, with His death and its effectiveness, and with His resurrection and its power (Phil. 3:10).

The issue of this mingling is the compound, consummated Spirit (Phil. 1:19). Now we can enter into this realm of the consummated Spirit, and we can live in this realm.

Lord Jesus, thank You for going through a process to become the consummated Spirit as the divine and mystical realm for us to enter into and live today! Hallelujah, today the Lord is the Spirit, and we can live in spirit and walk according to the Spirit so that we may live in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit! Praise the Lord, God went through a process in order to become a realm for us to be in, live in, and even become! We turn to You right now, dear Lord. We turn to our spirit. We exercise our spirit. We want to see this realm, see the kingdom of God, by means of our spirit. Enlighten the eyes of our heart to see Christ as the Spirit, enjoy the life-giving Spirit, and partake of the Spirit day by day! Keep us in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ!

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 Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” p. 99, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 2, entitled, The Divine and Mystical Realm.
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  – In the Spirit of this Jesus / Is His human life so fine. / Human virtues have been added / To the Spirit all divine. / What abundance in this Spirit,vRich supply for all mankind! / How mysterious! Yet how real! / Such a man now lives in me. / Into all my heart He’s spreading— / He, my human life, to be. / Hallelujah! Hallelujah! / I will praise unceasingly. (Hymns #1174 stanzas 3-4)