THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
The Divine Trinity
Message Three—The Accomplishments of the Processed Triune God
Scripture Reading: Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4-16; John 1:14; Gal. 5:24; Rom. 8:3b; Acts 13:33
I. The accomplishments of the processed and consummated Triune God, everything He has done and is doing for us, are heavenly, spiritual, mysterious, marvelous, excellent, divine and human as well.—1 Cor. 2:13; Heb. 6:4; 2:14; Col. 1:27; 1 Pet. 2:9. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
II. Whatever God has done and is doing is all for the organic Body of Christ in God’s new creation—2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:12. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
III. All the accomplishments of the processed and consummated Triune God are for the carrying out of His New Testament economy—Eph. 1:10; 1 Tim. 1:3. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
IV. God’s incarnation (John 1:14) was clearly promised and prophesied in the Old Testament; a seed of the woman would come to bruise that serpent’s head; this seed of the woman is Christ—Gen. 3:15; Matt. 1:20; John 1:14: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
A. To bring God into man by having God incarnated to be a man in the flesh—Gen. 3:15; 22:18; 2 Sam. 7:12-14; Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Micah 5:2. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
B. To mingle divinity with humanity; to be born of the divine Spirit and of a human virgin—Matt. 1:20. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
C. To produce a God-man—Emmanuel, as the prototype for the mass reproduction of many God-men—Matt. 1:23. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
V. The second great accomplishment of the processed and consummated Triune God was His passing through human living for thirty-three and a half years—Luke 3:23: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
A. By living a human life to express the divine attributes as human virtues, thus expressing God in humanity—Luke 3:23-25. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
B. By living a crucified human life to express the divine life—Phil. 2:6-8. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
C. To set up a model for the many upcoming God-men—being crucified to live that God might be expressed through humanity—1 Pet. 2:21. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
VI. On the cross Christ died an all-inclusive death—John 19:30; Gal. 5:24; Colo. 2:14; Gal. 2:20a; John 12:24: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
A. Crucifying the flesh of sin—Gal. 5:24; Rom. 8:3b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
B. Condemning sin and taking away sin (including sins) by shedding the blood—Rom. 7:18; 8:3b; John 1:29; Heb. 9:26b, 28a; John 19:34b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
C. Destroying the devil, who has the might of death and who is related to the flesh of man—Heb. 2:14; John 12:31b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
D. Judging the world and casting out its ruler, the devil—John 12:31; Gal. 6:14b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
E. Crucifying the old man—Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20a; 6:14b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
F. Terminating the old creation by the crucifixion of the old man—Rom. 6:6. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
G. Abolishing the law of the commandments in ordinances—Eph. 2:15a. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
H. Releasing the divine life from the one grain into many grains, signified by the flowing of water at the death of Christ—John 12:24; 19:34b. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
VII. The all-conquering resurrection—Acts 13:33; 1 Pet. 1:3; 1 Cor. 15:45b: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
A. By uplifting the humanity of Christ into His divinity and by having Christ born of God, that is, by designating the seed of David by the divinity (the Spirit of holiness) of Christ in the power of resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God—Acts 13:33; Psa. 2:7; Rom. 1:4; 8:29; Heb. 1:3-6. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
B. Regenerating all of God’s chosen people to be the many sons of God and the many brothers of the firstborn Son of God—the resurrected God-man, Christ—1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10; Rom. 8:29. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
C. Consummating the Spirit of God to be the life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
1. The Spirit of Christ—the pneumatic Christ, the pneumatized Christ—Rom. 8:9. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
2. The ultimate consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God, who is embodied in the pneumatized Christ realized as the life-giving Spirit. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
3. The reality of resurrection, which is Christ Himself and the processed and consummated Triune God—John 11:25; 1 John 5:6. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
VIII. The all-transcending ascension—Eph. 1:20-21; Acts 2:36; Heb. 4:14; 7:26; Rom. 8:34: (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
A. Christ in His ascension transcending Hades (where the dead people are being held), the earth (where the fallen men are moving against God), the air (where Satan and his power of darkness are acting against God), and all the heavens (where Satan can go)—Eph. 1:20-21; 4:8-10; Heb. 4:14; 7:26. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
B. To be transmitted into the church, which is the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all—Eph. 1:22-23. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
C. To be the Head of the Body, the church, having the first place in all things—Col. 1:18. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
D. To be made both Lord and Christ—Acts 2:36; 5:31. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
E. To be our High Priest in God’s New Testament economy—Heb. 4:14; 7:26; 9:11. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
F. To be the Mediator of the new covenant—v. 15. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
G. To be the surety of the better covenant—7:22. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
H. To be the Minister in the heavenly Holy of Holies—8:2. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
I. To be the Paraclete (Advocate) of the New Testament believers—1 John 2:1; John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
J. To be the New Testament believers’ Intercessor at the right hand of God and within them as well—Rom. 8:34, 26. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)
IX. All these excellent, divine, and human accomplishments are for the producing and building up of the organic Body of Christ as the organism of the processed and consummated Triune God, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as the expansion and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God in humanity for eternity—Eph. 1:23; 4:12, 16; Rev. 21:1-22:5. (The Practical Way to Live a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, msg. 1)