Jesus Christ is the seed of David, having a dignified human nature which was exalted and glorified along with His divine nature; the seed of David – Christ as the Son of Man according to the flesh – became the Son of God, implying that God’s intention is to make Himself man so that man may become God in life and nature. Hallelujah!
What a Christ we have! He is truly wonderful in His person and in His work.
This week we have been enjoying the death and resurrection of Christ with some of their rich implications and applications to our Christian life.
When Christ died on the cross, He terminated every negative thing in the universe, and even more, He nullified death.
Wow, death has been made of none effect through the death of Christ!
The most powerful thing in this universe, death, was not only defeated but even more, made of none effect because of and through Christ’s death!
Even more, life and incorruption were brought to light through the gospel.
Now all those who believe into the Lord Jesus Christ receive His divine life and start a process of being sanctified, transformed, and glorified so that they would taste incorruption.
This is what the gospel preaches.
The gospel tells us about the Lord Jesus who died for us out of love for us, and through His death He destroyed the one who has the might of death, the devil.
Through His death on the cross, Christ not only redeemed us and reconciled us to God, justified us and made a way for us to approach God, but even more, He nullified death.
Now in His resurrection He is the One who has resurrection life and power, and He comes in us to swallow any death in our being.
Humanly speaking, we grow in life, mature, and then we approach death; death is our portion at the end of our life.
However, spiritually speaking, as we enjoy the Lord and partake of His riches, the divine life operates in us to resurrect our inner being, impart God’s life into us, and swallow up death in our being. Praise the Lord!
All around us, there is death, but the Lord Jesus as our life swallows up death and releases His life into us and also through us.
Jesus Christ went into death, and passed through death, but death could not hold Him; He raised from the dead and was resurrected by God, defeating death. Hallelujah!
In His resurrection, Christ germinated the new creation, of which we all believers in Christ are part.
Today we are part of the new creation in resurrection, and we are learning to walk in newness of life and serve in newness of spirit. Praise the Lord!
The Seed of David became the Son of God: Christ’s Human Nature was Glorified Along with His Divine Nature
2 Tim. 2:8 says, Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel.
In a very particular way, Paul says that Jesus Christ is of the seed of David.
The expression, the seed of David, indicates Christ’s dignified human nature, which was exalted and glorified along with His divine nature (see Rom. 1:3-4).
Jesus was not the son of Joseph or the son of Mary; He was of the seed of David.
In Rom. 1:3-4 we are told that the gospel of God is about the wonderful person of Jesus Christ who is of two natures: according to the flesh, He’s the seed of David, and according to the Spirit, He’s the Son of God in power.
He was out of the seed of David according to the flesh and was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead.
Hallelujah, this is Jesus Christ, our Lord!
On one hand, Jesus Christ is the seed of David; on the other, He has been designated the Son of God.
This shows us that the seed of David became the Son of God.
When God was incarnated, He came to the earth and picked up humanity with Him; that humanity had nothing to do with divinity.
In His resurrection, He sonized that humanity and caused it to become the Son of God, bringing humanity into divinity to make it part of the Son of God. Wow!
This reminds us of the prophecy in 2 Sam. 7:12-14 where we see that, as a response to David’s desire to build a house for God, God told him through the prophet that He will build him a house, and David’s son (his seed) will be called the Son of God. Wow!
David had a good intention to build God a house, and God appreciated his heart; however, God indicated that David was not qualified to build Him a house, for God had to first do something in David.
God had to first build Himself into David and something would come out of David to build a house for God.
From David there will be a seed, the seed of David, who is also the Son of God, and that One is qualified to build God’s house.
The implication in the revelation here is tremendous: a human seed becomes a divine Son!
The Seed of David becomes the Son of God through the process of God building Himself into man and man into God.
Before we can do anything for God, we need Him to do something for us, even in us; He needs to build Himself into our being and have a mutual dwelling place with us, and something will come out for the building up of the Body of Christ.
What we see here in 2 Sam. 7 is that a human seed would become the divine Son.
This word concerning the seed of David in v. 12 and “My Son” in v. 14 implies that the seed of David would become a divine Son.
This corresponds to Paul’s word in Rom. 1:3-4 concerning Christ as the seed of David being designated the Son of God in His humanity in resurrection. Hallelujah!
This also relates to the Lord’s question in Matt. 21:41-45 concerning how Christ could be both the Son of David and the Son of God as the Lord of David.
In Matt. 22 the Pharisees, the Herodians, the Sadducees, and the lawyers came to the Lord one by one with many questions to test the Lord; the Lord’s answer to all these questions amazed them and muzzled their mouths, quieting them.
When they were quiet, the Lord had a question for them: the question of questions, What do you think concerning the Christ, whose Son is He?
The question is not about this or that, rules and ordinates, worship here or there, or anything else; the question is about Christ – who is Christ?
Is He the Son of God or is He the Son of Man?
The Pharisees clearly knew that the Lord was the seed of David, but they could not explain why or how does David call Him in spirit, Lord.
How can the seed of David be the Lord of David? Oh, Lord! This question shut their mouth.
Today we need to be concerned not with the law, the prophets, the ordinances, or dos and don’ts; we need to be concerned with and focused on Christ.
We need to pay attention to Christ, know Him, enjoy Him, and be calibrated by Him.
He is both the Son of God and the Son of Man; even more, He as the seed of David became the Son of God, bringing His humanity into His divinity and therefore opening the way for us to become the same as He is through faith in Him.
It is not enough for us to know about Christ; we need to know Him, enjoy Him, and partake of Him.
He needs to become everything to us. Just as He is God’s centrality and universality, so He needs to become everything to us today!
Lord Jesus, we praise You as the seed of David becoming the Son of God! Hallelujah, the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, became the Son of God through death and resurrection! Wow, Lord, though we may not fully understand how this can be, yet we appreciate You and enjoy You as the seed of David. Hallelujah, the gospel is concerning the Son of God who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead! Oh, Hallelujah, this is Jesus Christ, our Lord! We praise You, Lord, for being the seed of David who became the Son of God in resurrection! We open to You, Lord; build Yourself into us. Make Your home in our heart. Work Yourself with all Your riches into our being. Make us the same as You are. We want to pay attention to nothing and no one else except Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Oh Lord Jesus, be everything to us. We take You as our life and our everything. You are everything to us!
Cooperate with God’s Intention in His Economy to become the Same as God in Life and Nature but not in the Godhead
2 Sam. 7:12-14 is a wonderful yet mysterious prophecy concerning Jesus Christ who came out of the seed of David and was the Son of God.
Rom. 1:3-4 further develops this saying that Jesus Christ came out of the seed of David and, in His resurrection, was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness. Wow, Hallelujah!
We need to realize that this is God’s intention in His economy; He desires to make Himself man so that man would become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.
God became man so that the man Jesus Christ would become God in life and nature, opening the way for us, the many believers in Christ, to be made the same as He is.
Christ is the prototype, and we are the mass reproduction of Christ.
He is the Firstborn Son of God and we are the many brothers being conformed to His image (Rom. 8:28-29).
He is divine and human, and we are human and divine.
This is not some kind of doctrine that the theological elite talks about; this is what God desires, and the result is that an organism is produced, the Body of Christ as the divine-human organism of God and man being mingled together.
This divine-human organism is the church as the Body of Christ, the house of God, and it consummates in the New Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!
Just as the seed of David became the Son of God in resurrection, so we today as the seed of a man can become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead through the process of regeneration, renewing, transformation, sanctification, conformation, and glorification.
God Himself, the divine One, became a human seed, the seed of a man, David.
This seed was Jesus, the God-man, Jehovah the Savior (1:18-21; 2 Tim. 2:8), who was the Son of God by virtue of His divinity (Luke 1:35).
He was the only begotten Son of God in His divinity while He was incarnated and went through human living and death.
But in His resurrection He was begotten by God to be the firstborn Son of God in His humanity having both divinity and humanity.
Through His resurrection He as the human seed became the Son of God in His humanity (Rom. 1:3-4).
In Christ God was constituted into man, man was constituted into God, and God and man were mingled together to be one entity, the God-man.
This implies that God’s intention in His economy is to make Himself man in order to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead (John 3:6, 16; Rom. 1:3-4; 2 Pet. 1:4). Hallelujah!
This is God’s desire and intention in His economy, and we today can cooperate with Him to carry out His desire.
We need to enjoy Christ as the all-inclusive, all-extensive One.
We need to partake of Him as our life and our everything.
We need to know Him as the First and the Last (Rev. 1:17), the beginning and the end.
We need to know Him as the One who fills all and in all (Eph. 1:23) and who is the consummated Spirit today to impart into us all that God is and has accomplished.
He is in us and He is in every member of the Body to be our life and everything.
Christ is the Head and He is also the Body (1 Cor. 12:12; Col. 1:18).
He is making us the same as He is in life, nature, constitution, function, and expression, but not in the Godhead; only He has the Godhead, and only He is the Head.
He is becoming all and in all in the new man (Col. 3:10-11), and He is becoming us so that we may be made Him in every possible way.
May we be those who cooperate with God’s intention in His economy so that He may work Himself into us and build us into Himself until we become the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function.
He made Himself the same as we are so that He may make us the same as He is for the fulfilment of His purpose.
May such a vision control our daily living and may we allow Him to be everything in us for the fulfilment of His purpose!
Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. We praise You for being the seed of David being designated the Son of God in resurrection. We take You as our everything. We want to enjoy You as the all-inclusive, extensive Christ. We take You as the First and the Last. We take You as the beginning and the end. Fill us with Yourself and become our all in all. We take You as the reality of our food, drink, breath, and clothing. Amen, Lord, You are our life and we want to live one with You, even live You out. You are our Head and You are our person; You are the Head and You are the Body. Become all in us to us and in us so that You may be every member of the Body and in the new man! Amen, Lord, we want to cooperate with God’s intention in His economy so that, just as You became man and then were deified in Your humanity, so we would become the same as God in life and nature but not in the Godhead! Oh Lord, take us with You in the organic process of regeneration, sanctification, renewing, transformation, conformation, and glorification to make us the same as You are in every possible way for You to gain the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem!
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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of 1&2 Samuel, msgs. 25, 27, and 31, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by being Empowered in the Grace which is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy (2024 April ITERO), week 4, Christ Nullifying Death and Bringing Life and Incorruption to Light, and Our Remembering Jesus Christ, the Seed of David, Raised from the Dead.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– The seed of David becoming the Son of God, article via, Affirmation and Critique.
– The Seed of David Becoming the Son of God, sharing of enjoyment from the HWMR via, Church in Regina.
– Christ as the seed of David becoming the Son of God, a portion from, The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– We Become Children of God to Grow unto New Jerusalem, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Msg 01 – The Seed of David Becoming the Son of God, a message via, Heavenly Foods.
– Christ’s Birth in Resurrection, article via, Living to Him.
– Christ as the seed of life sown into us to grow within us for God’s building, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
– We Will Reign in Resurrection, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– God’s dynamic salvation being the Triune God Himself processed to become the condensed, consummated, life-giving, all-inclusive Spirit, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Samuel, Chapter 27, by Witness Lee. - Hymns on this topic:
– Lord, Thou art the “Seed of David,” / For the kingdom Thou wast raised; / For God’s glory and His building / On the throne Thou hast been placed. / Truly Thou art “David’s offspring,” / Yet “my Lord” he calleth Thee, / For Thou art his “root” and fountain, / “Lord of all” eternally. / Though “a child” born with our nature, / Thou the “Mighty God” art called; / Thou, “a son” to us art given, / “Everlasting Father” called. / All the blessings God hath promised, / With our faith on Thee depend; / Thou art “Yea” and “Amen” for them, / All the content and the end! (Hymns #191 stanzas 3-4)
– Lord, Thy word of old to David / We have heard and hear it now: / “On Thy throne will sit forever / Thine own seed—this is My vow.” / This has been fulfilled in Jesus / Seated on the throne on high, / Sitting on the throne of David / Resurrected, ne’er to die. (Hymns #1253 stanza 1)
– God’s intention in this universe is with humanity, / So the Lord became the Spirit just with man to mingled be. / We rejoice that we can all partake of His economy. / Yes, mingling is the way. (Hymns #1199 stanza 1)
About aGodMan
Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, p. 165, by Witness Lee
The question of questions is, Who is Christ?
Yes, He’s the Son of God, but He is also the Son of Man. He is both God and man.
Today we need to mainly to do this or that for the Lord but to allow Him to build Himself into us.
God’s intention is to work Himself into us and build us into Himself so that God would become man and man would become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.
1. Christ is risen! Hallelujah!
Risen our victorious Head;
Sing His praises; Hallelujah!
Christ is risen from the dead.
Gratefully our hearts adore Him,
As His light once more appears;
Bowing down in joy before Him,
Rising up from griefs and tears.
Christ is risen: Hallelujah!
Risen our victorious Head;
Sing His praises; Hallelujah!
Christ is risen from the dead.
2. Christ is risen! All the sadness
Of His earthly life is o’er;
Through the open gates of gladness
He returns to life once more;
Death and hell before Him bending,
He doth rise the Victor now,
Angels on His steps attending,
Glory round His wounded brow.
3. Christ is risen! Henceforth never
Death nor hell shall us enthrall;
We are Christ’s, in Him forever
We have triumphed over all;
All the doubting and dejection
Of our trembling hearts have ceased,
’Tis His day of resurrection;
Let us rise and keep the feast
In 2 Samuel 7 “your seed” indicates that the Lord Jesus put on human nature when He was born of Mary of the seed of David by being begotten of the Holy Spirit.
As “My Son” He – the only begotten Son – was designated the Son of God in resurrection. Jesus Christ has the dual natures of divinity and humanity. He is the All-inclusive Christ, the centrality and universality of God’s economy.
He is the Creator and a creature. He is God, yet man and man, yet God. Hallelujah for such a Christ! He is Head of the Body and the Body of the Head.
He is in all the members and He is the all the members.
He is the new man in whom there is only room for Christ! Amen! Lord, work Yourself into us today!
Praise the Lord!
He is man and He is God. He is the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
We cannot understand how the great creator God became a finite man for us to enjoy life.
Hallelujah, our Christ is both God & man.
He is the Creator and the creature.
The First and the Last; the beginning and the end.
He fills all in all, and in the new man there is room only for Christ, not for any nation, race or class of persons.
Praise the Lord! 🙌😃🙋🏼
Today Christ as the seed of David has become all in all to us. HWMR – W4D6
08/17/24 Christ Nullifying Death, and Bringing Life and Incorruption to Light and Our Remembering Jesus Christ, the Seed of David, Raised from the Dead (Week 4, Day 6)
In Second Samuel 7:12-14a, God spoke to David, saying, “When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will raise up ‘your seed’ after you, which will come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. It is he who will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be ‘My son’.”
‘Your seed’ refers to the seed of David, a descendant that would come forth from David. ‘My Son’ refers to the designated Son of God. This means that the ‘seed of David’ will become the designated ‘Son of God.” This prophesy from the Old Testament came to be realized through our Lord Jesus Christ.
When Jesus was incarnated, He came from the descendant of David; thus, He is the Seed of David. When Jesus died and was resurrected, He became the designated Son of God. Therefore, the prophesy that the ‘seed of David’ will become the designated ‘Son of God.’
Being incarnated as a man, He is called the Son of Man, and having resurrected as the Life-giving Spirit, He is also called the Son of God. Before Christ was incarnated as a man, He was already called the Son of God, but at that time, He only possessed divinity in Himself. When He was incarnated to be the Son of Man, His divinity was mingled with the humanity in His flesh.
On the one hand, He is God, having the divine nature. On the other hand, He is a man, having human nature. Therefore, in His incarnation, He was the first God-man, having both divinity and humanity; that is, His divine nature was mingled with the human nature. When He was resurrected, He brought His perfected humanity into His divinity to be the designated Son of God.
Before His incarnation, Christ, as the Son of God, had only divinity, the divine nature. But when He was resurrected to be the designated Son of God, He then possessed both divinity and humanity, that is, having both the divine nature of God and the human nature of man.
The Lord asked the Pharisees, “What do you think concerning the Christ? Whose son is He?” They said to Him, “David’s.” He said to them, “How then does David in spirit call Him Lord…If then David calls Him Lord, how is He his son?” (Luke 20:42-43, 45). From this question of questions, the Lord again revealed the matter of the mingling of God and man. Christ is David’s son as well as David’s Lord. This shows that Christ is man as well as God. As man, Christ is David’s son, and as God, Christ is David’s Lord.
The question concerning Christ is the question concerning the mingling of God and man. This is the answer to all the questions of human life. Man tries to use religion, politics, and conduct to solve the questions of human life. However, in order to know God, human life, the faith concerning Christ, and the meaning of being a Christian, we must know the mingling of God and man.
According to David’s human concept, he was trying to build God a house on earth. But, according to Second Samuel 7:11, God revealed to David that He doesn’t want David to build Him a house, but instead He will make David His House. In Second Samuel 7:13, God continued to reveal to David that it shall be through the Seed of David, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall become the designated Son of God Who will build God His House.
The building of the House of God implies the matter of mingling of divinity with humanity. By man being mingled with God, God and man will eventually have a mutual Dwelling Place on earth (Rev 21:3). Initially, we only have humanity with our human life. When we believed into the Lord Jesus, we received the divine life and nature of God. Thus, the divine nature is being mingled with our human nature. In this mingling, we dwell (abide) in God and God dwells (abides) in us. Eventually, all the believers in Christ will become the corporate Dwelling Place of God, God’s Building, the New Jerusalem.
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Rom. 1:4, footnote 1 on “designated,” Recovery Version Bible
What do you think concerning the Christ? This is the greatest question in the universe. Every human being should hear this question and must answer this question. This is a question that will determine someone’s eternal destiny. Where one will spend his eternity depends on this question.
Many questions today are related to religion, politics, belief, and the law. His question was concerning the Christ, who is the center of all things. People know religion, politics, belief, and the law, but they paid no attention to Christ. This question of questions must be answered by everyone.
We know that with us, according to God’s selection, our eternal destiny has been fully established. It is settled and secured! But this question is still relevant to us at least in 2 ways:
As priests of the gospel we need to have the gospel of God to become “our gospel” as Paul also testified in 2 Tim 2:8, “my gospel. We need to receive, experience, and enjoy this gospel, this living person in our daily living.
Today Christ as the seed of David has become all in all to us. He is the centrality and universality of God. He is the hub and the circumference. He is condensation and consummation of God and man. He is the all- inclusive, all- extensive Christ .
He is God and He is man. He is the creator and He is the creature. He is the First and He is Last He is the beginning and He is the end. He fills all in all and He has been consummated to be the Spirit.
He is our food, our drink, our breath, and our clothing. He is also every member of the body and He is within every member. The body is not the Head , nor the head the body, but Christ is both the Head and the Body. In life, in nature, in constitution, we as the Body are the same as Christ the Head. Eventually, this is very person in the new man. Hallelujah!!!!!