Conformed to God for New Jerusalem
Hebrews 7—10 speaks about the new and better covenant. Hebrews 12:22-24 ties this new covenant to “the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.”
The Triune God in His new covenant is imparting and dispensing Himself into all of us all the time, making us His components, the components of His ultimate consummation. The ultimate consummation will not be the Triune God Himself alone, but it will be the mingling of the Triune God with His redeemed, tripartite man—this is the New Jerusalem. We all have to be wrought with God and by God so that we might be fully transformed, saturated, and conformed to God Himself….We should remain here and should not be distracted by anything.*
The paragraph above includes imparting, dispensing, transformed, saturated, and conformed. Here are some verses presenting these actions which bring forth the reality of New Jerusalem in all God’s people.
“My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you.” (Gal. 4:19).
“…says the Lord: I will impart My laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them.” (Heb. 10:16b)
“We all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.” (2 Cor. 3:18)
“Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.” (Rom. 8:29)
* From chapter 28, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
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Posted by Don on December 23, 2022
