THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
God’s Complete Salvation
Message Three—God’s Complete Salvation—
the Judicial Redemption and the Organic Salvation
Scripture Reading: Rom. 3:21-26; 1 Pet. 2:24; John 3:6b, 15, 36; Rom. 15:16
I. The complete salvation of God has two aspects: the judicial aspect and the organic aspect—Rom. 3:21-26; 1 Pet. 2:24: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
A. God’s judicial redemption is the judicial aspect of God’s complete salvation as the procedure of God’s salvation: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. It is according to the righteousness of God—Rom. 1:17a; 3:21-26; 9:30-31. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. It satisfies all the requirements of God’s righteous law on sinners through the redeeming death of Christ on the cross—Gal. 3:13; 1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 9:12. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. It is accomplished by Christ in His flesh in the material realm of His earthly ministry. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. Resulting objectively in God’s: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
a. Forgiveness of the believers’ sins—Luke 24:47; Eph. 1:7. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
b. Washing away the believers’ sins—Heb. 1:3. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
c. Justifying the believers—Rom. 3:24-25. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
d. Reconciling the believers as His enemies to Himself—Rom. 5:10a. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
e. Sanctifying the believers in their position unto Himself as His holy people—1 Cor. 1:2; Heb. 13:12. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
f. Qualifying the believers to have the position to enter into God’s grace to fulfil the goal of God’s salvation. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
5. God’s judicial redemption is a procedure of the complete salvation of God for the believers to participate in God’s organic salvation as the purpose of the complete salvation of God—Rom. 5:21. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
B. God’s organic salvation is the organic aspect of God’s complete salvation-Rom.5:21: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. It is through the life of God—Rom. 1:17b; Acts 11:18; Rom. 5:10b, 17b, 18b. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. It is the purpose of God’s salvation to accomplish all the purpose that God wants to achieve in the believers in His economy through His divine life. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. Resulting subjectively in the believers’ regeneration, feeding, sanctification, renewing, transformation, building up, conformation, and glorification. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. All the items of God’s organic salvation are carried out not by Christ in the flesh in His earthly ministry judicially and objectively but by Christ as the life-giving Spirit in His heavenly ministry organically and subjectively. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
II. God’s organic salvation—John 3:6b; 1 Pet. 1:3; John 1:12-13: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
A. Regeneration is the propagation of the divine life—John 3:6b, 15, 36; Rom. 15:16; 6:19; 12:2b: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. Regeneration is the center of God’s entire salvation and the commencement of God’s salvation in its organic aspect. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. The regeneration is that through the resurrection of Christ that He may impart the divine life into them as the authority for them to be the children of God, begotten of God as His species—1 Pet. 1:3; John 1:12-13. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. Through regeneration the believers obtain the divine, eternal life in addition to their natural, human l life—John 3:15, 36. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
B. Feeding in shepherding is the nourishment of the divine life—John 10:10-11; 21:15-17: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. Feeding is the continuation of regeneration, shepherding Christ’s flock through His nourishing and cherishing so that His sheep might grow unto maturity in the divine life—Eph. 5:29; John 10:10-11, 14-16; 21:15-17; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 5:4; 2:25. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. Feeding gives the newborn babes (the new believers) nourishment that they might grow unto salvation by the supply of the milk in the word of God—1 Pet. 2:2. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. Feeding is to supply the grown believers with the solid word, which is the Spirit of life—Heb. 5:14; 6:63. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. The issue of feeding is for the believers’ maturity in the divine life unto transformation and conformation to the image of Christ—2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2; 8:29. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
5. Feeding is also, through the mutual shepherding of the believers, for the building up of the Body of Christ to accomplish God’s eternal economy and to fulfill God’s eternal purpose—Eph. 4:11-16; John 21:15-17; 1 Pet. 5:2-3. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
C. Sanctification is to constitute the believers with the divine nature of God—Rom. 15:16; 8:2; 2 Pet. 1:4: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. Sanctification is the inward sanctification of the believes who grow in the divine life through the work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of life, in their nature—Rom. 15:16; 8:2. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. The believers are sanctified with the divine and holy nature of God that they may be made holy unto God for the fulfillment of God’s purpose in choosing them—2 Pet. 1:4; Eph. 1:4. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. Sanctification implies transformation—Rom. 6:19, 22. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. Sanctification is ultimately manifested in the New Jerusalem for it to become the holy city—Rev. 21:2, 10; 22:19. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
D. Renewing is the process of God’s new creation—Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:23: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. The believers are spontaneously renewed in their spiritual life when they are sanctified dispositionally by the Holy Spirit—2 Cor. 5:17. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. Renewing is the continuation of the washing of regeneration, which also makes the believers new while sanctification is going on within them—Titus 3:5. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. The completion of renewing: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
a. By the renewing Spirit mingling with the believers’ regenerated spirit indwelt by Christ as one spirit to spread into the believers’ mind to renew their entire being as a member of the new man—Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:23. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
b. By the believers’ walking in the newness of the divine life in resurrection—Rom. 6:4; Eph. 4:22-24; Phil. 1:19-21. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. Renewing is through the consuming by the believers’ environmental suffering—2 Cor. 4:16. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
5. The believers must be thoroughly and absolutely renewed that they may be practically the genuine new creation of God and for God—Gal. 6:15. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
6. The believers should be renewed to be as new as the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:2. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
E. Transformation is the metabolic function in the divine life—Rom. 12:2b; 2 Cor. 3:18: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. Transformation is not any kind of outward correction or adjustment, but a kind of metabolism, by the addition of the element of the divine life of Christ into their being, to be expressed outwardly in the image of Christ. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. Transformation is accomplished by the Lord Spirit, transforming the believers into the image of the glory of Christ—2 Cor. 3:18. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. The believers should live and walk by the Spirit and walk according to the mingled spirit, that the divine life of Christ may have the way to regulate them and transform them into the image of the Lord in glory—Gal. 5:16, 25; Rom. 8:4b. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
F. Building is to be joined and knit together in the divine life—Eph. 4:16, Rev. 3:12; 21:10-11: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. The building of God is brought forth through the joining and knitting by the transforming Spirit’s work on the believers—Eph. 4:16. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. Building is the issue of the believers’ growing into the Head, Christ, in everything—Eph. 4:15. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. This is the building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the building of the holy city, New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:16; Rev. 3:12; 21:10-11. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
G. Conformation is to maturity in the divine life—Rom. 8:29; Phil. 3:10; 1 John 3:2: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. Conformation is the completion of the believers’ regeneration, feeding, sanctification, renewing, and transformation in the divine life—Rom. 8:29. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. Conformation is that the believers mature in the divine life by the maturing Spirit in the believers’ spirit enriched with Christ to be a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—Col. 1:28; Eph. 4:13. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. Conformation is to be conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son—Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21a; 1 John 3:2. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
H. Glorification is the full expression of God’s complete salvation— 2 Thes. 1:9; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; Heb. 2:10: (1997 ST, msg. 9)
1. The matured believers will be glorified from within through the lifelong saturation with the glory of God and from without through their being brought into God’s glory—Eph. 4:30; 2 Thes. 1:9; Rom. 8:23, 30; Heb. 2:10. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
2. The glorification of the matured believers is their top portion of their divine sonship in God’s organic salvation—which they received at the time of their regeneration—Gal. 4:5; Rom. 8:23. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
3. The redemption of the believers’ body is the transfiguration of their body at the Lord’s coming back—Phil. 3:20-21. (1997 ST, msg. 9)
4. The accomplishment and realization of God’s eternal purpose through glorification is the New Jerusalem—the crystallization of the union and mingling of God with man, the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite elect. (1997 ST, msg. 9)