‹‹ WEEK 1 — DAY 1 ›› Morning Nourishment John 3:15 That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life. John 11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live. John 14:1 Do not let your heart be troubled; believe into God, believe also into Me. The Gospel of John is a book of life. This life is simply the Triune God Himself....Life always has an issue. Living things bring forth fruit. Surely the divine life will have a divine result. In the Gospel of John the Triune God as the divine life brings forth the church. Though this actual term is not used in John, the implication is strongly apparent. (The Mending Ministry of John, p. 37) Today’s Reading Believing God is different from believing into God. You may say that you believe God, but do you believe into God? In Greek the preposition in means “into,” that is, to believe into God. In other words, this is not an objective believing; it is a subjective believing. The basic thought of John 14 is that the Lord intends to help or instruct the disciples to be in God. We must remember that to believe God is objective but to believe into God is subjective. It is this kind of subjective believing that brings us into God. In effect, the Lord was saying, “If you believe into God, you must also believe into Me.” The preposition into is very important. It is regrettable that many have the wrong concept, thinking that to believe in God means to believe into God To believe in the Lord means to receive Him (John 1:12). The Lord is receivable. He is now the life-giving Spirit, with His complete redemption, waiting for and expecting us to receive Him. Our spirit is the receiving organ. We can receive the Lord’s Spirit into our spirit by believing in Him. Once we believe in Him, He, as the Spirit, enters into our spirit. Then we are regenerated by Him, the life-giving Spirit, and become one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17). The phrase “believes in” in John 3:16, 18, and 36 literally translated should be “believes into Him.” When we believe in the Lord, we believe into Him. By believing in Him, we get into Him to be one with Him, to partake of Him, and to participate in all that He has accomplished for us. By believing into Him, we are identified with Him in all that He is and in all that He has passed through, accomplished, attained, and obtained. As we become one with Him by believing into Him, we are saved and regenerated by Him as life. It is by believing into Him that we partake of Him as life and are regenerated in Him. (Life-study of John, pp. 354, 117) As the many branches of the vine, the believers of Christ are members of the Christ of God to form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing. In John 15:5 the Lord Jesus declared, “I am the vine; you are the branches.” Such a statement implies that Christ and His believers are one tree. Christ and the believers, the vine with the branches, form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing. The vine in John 15, therefore, is a universal vine comprising Christ and His believers as the branches. In this vine, this organism, the Triune God lives, expresses Himself, and dispenses Himself to the uttermost. Christ, the infinite God, is the vine, and we are His branches. We are actually branches of the infinite God, organically one with Him. This means that we have been organically joined to the Triune God. Now we are part of God, even as the members of our bodies are parts of us. If we are in the light, we shall see that we are members of Christ, that we are part of Him. Lee, Witness (2014-02-21). The Holy Word for Morning Revival - The Intrinsic Significance of the Church (Posición en Kindle189-206). Living Stream Ministry. Edición de Kindle.
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