Regenerated, Transformed, and Transfigured for New Jerusalem
God in His divinity was perfect from eternity. In time He came as the man Jesus in incarnation and added humanity to his divinity. Then he added the experiences of human living, death, resurrection, and ascension. Now He is the perfect and complete God-Man.
Such a God, a processed and consummated God, is absolutely qualified and ready to mingle Himself with His people so that they can be redeemed, regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified. God today is not so simple, and neither are we. God is completed, and we are enjoying Him as the consummated One. One day we will be consummated. That consummation will be the glorification, the redemption, the transfiguration, of our body of humiliation into the body of Christ’s glory (Phil. 3:21).*
In death Jesus redeemed us and in resurrection He regenerated us with the divine, eternal life. This made our spirit alive. Now, as the Spirit, He is transforming our soul, and when He returns visibly He will transfigure our mortal body. This prepares the three parts of our being for New Jerusalem.
Philippians 3:20-21 says, “For our commonwealth exists in the heavens, from which also we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory, according to His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.”
This verse promises that we will be conformed to His glory. This is the glory expressed by New Jerusalem. By regeneration, transformation, and transfiguration we will participate in this glorious expression.
* This is the 11th of a series with quotes from chapter 28 of The Central Line of the Divine Revelation by Witness Lee, copyright by Living Stream Ministry.
Posted by Don on August 9, 2021
Regenerated, Transformed, and Transfigured for New Jerusalem
