Partaking of and Living According to the Divine Nature, the base of Gold in the New Jerusalem. 2 Pet. 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust. The greatest sign in the Bible and the ultimate consummation of all of God’s work throughout the ages is the New Jerusalem. We need to see a vision of the holy city, New Jerusalem, and we need to realize that it is not a physical city – it is not the so-called “heavenly mansions” of which many Christians dream of. The New Jerusalem is the processed and consummated Triune God united, mingled, and incorporated with His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified people so that He would have a divine-human incorporation, a corporate organism for His expression for eternity. The vision of the New Jerusalem needs to be a controlling and governing vision in our Christian life and church life, so that we may experience all the aspects of the New Jerusalem in miniature / foretaste in our Christian life today. In this way we cooperate with the Lord for the working out of the New Jerusalem, and we are being headed up in Christ out of the universal heap of collapse and into the glorious oneness of the Triune God Himself. The purpose of our regeneration (John 3:6) is so that the Triune God would increase in humanity and have a bride (John 3:29); the purpose of being born again is to become the New Jerusalem. The purpose of enjoying the flowing of the Triune God as living water is so that we would be united with Him, mingled with Him, and incorporated with Him and flow out together with Him into the New Jerusalem, the totality of the eternal life gushing out of our innermost being (John 4:14). What God desires to gain today is one thing: the New Jerusalem. The burden on His heart, His goal, and His one direction and aim in dealing with people and relating to man is the obtaining of the New Jerusalem. And this city which is God’s masterpiece, a miraculous structure of treasure, has a “triune constitution” – the Triune God is constituted into the city! In the golden base, street, and appearance of the city we see the Father’s divine nature, pure gold. In the gates of pearl we see the Son with His redeeming work. In the precious stones as the foundations and in the flowing river we see the Spirit with His transforming work. The Triune God is the triune constitution of the New Jerusalem, and He is being wrought into us, constituted into us, until together with Him we become this amazing entity, this awesome city, the New Jerusalem.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:12:40 +0000
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