Weekly Pursuit – Week 1 of August
Verses:
John 17:21 “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us.”
Excerpts:
In John 17 [the Son] prayed to the Father. In His concluding prayer He indicated that our oneness should be in the Triune God, with the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit. This oneness, which is the genuine oneness, is the mingling of the believers with the Triune God. To have such a oneness the believers must be in the Triune God as a divine and mystical realm. Here the Father is in the Son, the Son is in the believers, and the believers are in the Son, who is in the Father. This means that the believers are one with the Triune God in the divine and mystical realm of the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit. Christ’s heavenly ministry is carried out in this mystical realm, and God’s organic salvation is practically accomplished in this realm.
According to chapter 17, the believers being in the Triune God is the genuine oneness. This oneness is the increase and expansion of the divine and mystical realm. Countless believers are in the Triune God, but most do not realize it or have the experience and enjoyment of this fact.
Initially, the divine and mystical realm was only the Triune God. Then He was incarnated to begin His increase. He picked up humanity, adding it to Himself in Christ’s resurrection. God, who was only divine, became divine and human. Eventually, the divine and mystical realm will be the New Jerusalem, which is the consummation. This vision gives us a clear view of the entire Bible. ( CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, pp. 170-171, 178)
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