It is amazing to realize that, in His economy, God went through a process in order to become the consummated Spirit, what the Bible calls, “the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3:17; John 7:39; Rev. 22:17).
In His Godhead, in His person, and in His purpose, God can never change; but in His economy one day God became a man – He put on human nature, was conceived in the womb of a virgin, and was born as a child (who was also called, Emmanuel – God with us – and the Almighty God, see Isa. 9:6).
God in man and as a man lived thirty-three and a half years on earth; He lived a sinless and perfect life, expressing the Father and doing the Father’s will, and He ministered publicly for three and a half years to accomplish the work the Father gave Him to do.
After 33.5 years, God as a Man – Jesus Christ – died on the cross, taking away the sin of the world (John 1:29), and after three days He resurrected from the dead to become a life-giving Spirit, to be begotten as God’s firstborn Son, and to regenerate millions of believers to be His Body, His corporate expression and enlargement.
First, God became a man, then this God-man became a life-giving Spirit; as the life-giving Spirit now He is available and eager to enter into man and become man’s life, life-supply, and everything.
When someone hears the gospel and believes into the Lord, he receives the holy breath – God in Christ as the Spirit, the life-giving Spirit. This holy breath, the consummated Spirit, is for our Christian life, and it is vitally important for our spiritual life that we breathe normally day by day, simply by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus! Oh Lord Jesus!
We need to Oh Lord Jesus! our way through the day and become the Oh Lord Jesus I love You! people!
On the one hand Christ as the consummated Spirit is in us and we breathe Him in all the time, and on the other hand the Spirit is a realm into which we enter and in which we live and do everything. Wow, the consummated Spirit is the divine and mystical realm into which we need to enter and in which we may live! This is wonderful!
The Consummated Spirit is the Divine and Mystical into which we may Enter and Live
On the one hand, Christ is in us, and on the other, we are in Christ; being in Christ is primary – we first abide in Him and then He abides in us (see John 15:5). In our experience we first need to be in Him as the true vine; by regeneration we are cut off from the old man, the natural man, and we are grafted into Christ – we are put into Christ, and this Christ is the Spirit, the consummated Spirit.
The Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – is self-existing, ever-existing, co-existing, and coinhering, and as such, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are a divine and mystical realm, the realm of the Triune God (see Mat. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14). However, we cannot enter the realm of the Triune God – no one can even see God, unless Christ makes Him known.
Therefore, through regeneration we enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, which is the processed and consummated Triune God as the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19).
We don’t only have the breath in us as everything to us, but we are also in the consummated Spirit as a realm, which includes all that the Triune God has and has accomplished; everything in this realm is ours spontaneously.
Humanly speaking, where we are – the country we are in – determines what we are; right now thousands of people are fleeing peril and war and desire to live in another country where there’s peace and supply.
In God’s full salvation He has transferred us out of the authority of darkness and into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Col. 1:13). We are now in a realm of life, love, and light, where everything of God, Christ, the Spirit, the death of Christ with its effectiveness, and the resurrection of Christ with its power are all ours in our experience.
We need to constantly be in this realm of the consummated Spirit and explore it, live in it, and enjoy all the blessings in it. When Christ was on earth among men, He could not enter into people nor could people enter into Him; He prayed that His believers would know in that day (the day of His resurrection, His glorification) that He is in the Father, we are in Him, and He is in us (John 17:20-21).
In John 7 when He spoke of the Spirit which His disciples would receive later, the Spirit was not yet because Jesus had not yet been glorified; but in resurrection Christ became a life-giving Spirit, and now He can come into us to impart His life to us, and we can enter into Him and live in Him as a divine and mystical realm.
The kingdom of the Son of God’s love is the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit into which we enter through regeneration and in which we can live today. Hallelujah, today our Christ is the Spirit – He is the “pneumatic Christ”, and we can both breathe Him in as the life-giving Spirit and be in Him as a divine and mystical realm!
Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming the life-giving Spirit, the consummated Spirit as a divine and mystical realm into which we can enter and in which we may live. Lord, thank You for delivering us out of the authority of darkness and transferring us into a new realm, the realm of the consummated Spirit as the reality of Christ and all that He has accomplished! Lord, keep us turning to our spirit so that we may enjoy all the blessings of the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit in our daily living!
Enjoying the “Complications” in the Realm of the Consummated Spirit as our Blessings
With the Triune God Himself as a divine and mystical realm there are no “complications”, that is, this realm is composed of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, together with all their riches and attributes. But if we look at the realm of the consummated Spirit, there are a few complications here: here we have the humanity of Jesus, His death, and His resurrection, all of which are a blessing to us.
The consummated Spirit as a realm in which we can enter and live is typified by the anointing ointment in Exo. 30:23-25; before the Spirit was consummated, He was the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit, but after He passed through a process, He became the compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit in which we have all kinds of elements.
“God wanted us to be in Him. If He were merely the Triune God without Christ’s humanity, death, and resurrection, and we could enter into Him, we would find the Father, the Son, and the Spirit but nothing of humanity, death, and resurrection. However, when we enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ, we have not only divinity but also the humanity of Christ, the death of Christ with its effectiveness, and the resurrection of Christ with its repelling power. Everything is here in this wonderful realm.
My realm is the complicated and complicating Triune God. I am here with the Father, with the Son, who was crucified and resurrected, and with the consummated Spirit. Since I am in such a Triune God, I have whatever I need. If I need crucifixion, I find that in this realm I have been crucified already. If I need resurrection, in this realm I have been resurrected already. Praise the Lord for such a divine and mystical realm!” (Witness Lee, The Divine and Mystical Realm, pp. 38, 40)
Hallelujah, in this divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit all the “complications” brought in by the process the Spirit went through are now our blessings! Just like Paul, we desire to know Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of sufferings, so that we may be conformed to His death (Phil. 3:10) – all these elements are in the compound Spirit.
In this wonderful realm of the consummated Spirit, the compound Spirit, we have whatever we need! Here everything is a blessing to us, even such a thing as death – the death of Christ with its effectiveness is our blessing!
Abraham was promised the blessing of the good land, which is a type of Christ, and the Spirit is the reality of Christ; the reality of the blessing God promised to Abraham is the Spirit, the consummated Spirit as a realm in which we can enter and live in (Gal. 3:14)!
It is so wonderful to be in the realm of God’s blessings, the kingdom of the Son of His love, the realm of the consummated Spirit! In this realm we enjoy all the riches of Christ, His divine attributes and His human virtues, His perfect and uplifted humanity, His God-man living on earth, His all-inclusive all-terminating life-releasing death with its sweet effectiveness, and His death-conquering, life-imparting, powerful resurrection with its power! Hallelujah!
Thank You Lord for bringing us into the realm of the consummated Spirit where we can enjoy and partake of Your divinity and humanity, Your perfect human living, Your divine attributes and human virtues, Your all-inclusive death with its effectiveness, and Your resurrection with its power! Lord, we want to live in the realm of the Spirit to know You, the power of Your resurrection, the fellowship of Your sufferings, so that we may be conformed to Your death! Oh Lord, keep us in this divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit all the days of our life!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother Ron Kangas’ sharing in the message for this week, and The Divine and Mystical Realm, chs. 1, 3 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Crucial Points of the Major Items of the Lord’s Recovery Today (ITERO 2015 fall), week 4 / msg 4, The Consummated Spirit.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# Christ through death has crushed the devil, / World and demons by His might, / From the pow’r of darkness brought me / To the realm of life and light. (Hymns #540)
# Oh! Let us sing joyfully. Sing an unveiled mystery. / We enjoy the realm of the Spirit now, / The divine and mystical reality. / Oh! Enjoy! Sing! Rejoice! / This divine mystery! / We enjoy the realm of the Spirit now, / The divine and mystical reality. (Song on the divine and mystical realm)
# The Spirit is a holy realm, / Divine and mystical; / We enter in and live by Him, / He is so practical. / Sevenfold intensified, / The Spirit’s final stage, / Will overcomers soon produce, / To consummate the age. (Song on the Spirit as a realm)
The Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, is self-existing, ever-existing, and coinhering, with the three of the Divine Trinity dwelling in one another….[John 14:10-11] 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. Therefore, the Triune God Himself is a divine and mystical realm.
The divine and mystical realm into which we may enter today is actually not simply the divine and mystical realm of the Triune God but the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ. (Witness Lee, The Divine and Mystical Realm, p. 36)