The Triune God is our Entrance (2)
First Peter 1:2 tells us that we were “Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.”
The foreknowledge of God the Father was exercised in eternity past. The span of this entrance began from eternity past. Then in time the Spirit came to sanctify us, and the Spirit’s sanctification is based upon the Father’s choosing. The Spirit came to us based upon the Father’s selection of us. Our obedience unto faith in Christ resulted from the Spirit’s sanctifying work….Again, we see that God is triune in one entrance to bring us into God, into God’s interest, into the kingdom of God, and into the economy of God, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem. The Bible reveals that the Triune God is our triune entrance.
The entrance to New Jerusalem is available to everyone. Jesus commanded His disciples, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to all the creation” (Mark 16:15).
The gospel invites all people to believe into Jesus Christ and to receive salvation. In this way people come into the Triune God, into the Father’s house, and into New Jerusalem. This is invitation to all people is seen in the three gates on each of the four sides of New Jerusalem.
The gates are available to people in all directions. Hence in Luke 13:29 Jesus tells us that people “will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline at table in the kingdom of God.” These four directions match the four directions of the gates of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:13.
* From chapter 35, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on March 6, 2023
