Sons with God’s Life and Nature
The New Jerusalem is the composition of all the Old Testament and New Testament saints. All these saints have been regenerated by God and have become sons of God who have God’s life and nature. Through God’s life and nature, they have been transformed into the image and likeness of God that they may be matured and qualified to inherit all that the processed Triune God is and that they may be built together as God’s eternal building to be the mutual dwelling for God and for themselves. Thus, the New Jerusalem will be God’s rest, satisfaction, and expression in eternity.*
Colossians 3:4 declares that Christ is our life! And 2 Peter 1:3-4 proclaim that God and Jesus our Lord “granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness” and “granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature.”
By laying hold on the eternal life (1 Tim. 6:12) and partaking of the divine nature we are being transformed into the image of God’s Son (Rom. 8:29). To “lay hold” and to “partake” is by the exercise of our human spirit.
The simplest way to do this is to call aloud on the Lord Jesus. “The same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him” (Rom. 10:12). By His rich operating in us we are being built together on the way to New Jerusalem.
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 257, p. 2694, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
Posted by Don on November 4, 2024
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