GOD’S COMPLETE SALVTION PART II

  1. God’s organic salvation being the second aspect of God’s complete salvation - carried out by Christ’s life. Rom. 5:10b
    1. It is through the life of God - Rom. 1:17b; Acts 11:18; Rom. 5:10b, 17b, 18b, 21b.
    2. As the purpose of God’s salvation, it accomplishes all that God wants to achieve in the believers in His economy through his divine life.
      1. Objective judicial redemption redeems us positionally from condemnation and eternal punishment; subjective organic salvation saves us dispositionally from our old man, our self, and our natural life.
    3. All of the items of God’s organic salvation are carried out not by the Christ in the flesh in His earthly ministry judicially and objectively but by the Christ as the life-giving Spirit in His heavenly ministry organically and subjectively.
  2. The subjective results of God’s organic salvation:
    1. Regeneration is the propagation of the divine life:
      1. The Spirit of God regenerating the believers in their receiving spirit with the life of God that they may become children of God - John 3:5-6; 1:12-13
      2. That, in addition to their natural life, the believers may have the eternal life of God and live by it while denying their natural life - John 3:15-16; Matt. 16:24
    2. Feeding in shepherding is the nourishment of the divine life:
      1. Feeding is the continuation of regeneration through Christ’s shepherding His flock by nourishing and cherishing that His sheep may grow in the divine life unto maturity - Eph. 5:29; John 10:10-11, 14-16; 21:15-17; Heb. 13:20; I Pet. 5:4; 2:25.
      2. Feeding nourishes His newborn babes (new believers) that they may grow and be saved gradually through the supply of the milk in the word - I Pet. 2:2.
      3. Feeding supplies His growing believers with the solid word, which is the Spirit of life - Heb. 5:14; John 6:63.
      4. Feeding results in the believers’ maturity in the divine life unto transformation and conformation to the image of Christ - II Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2; 8:29.
      5. Feeding is also by the believers through the mutual shepherding for the building up of the Body of Christ for the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy and the achievement of God’s eternal purpose - Eph. 4:11-16; John 21:15-17; I Pet. 5:2-3.
    3. Dispositional sanctification constitutes the believers with God’s divine nature:
      1. Dispensing God’s divine nature into the inward parts of the believers to gradually sanctify every inward part with the element of God’s holy nature - Rom. 6:19, 22; 15:16.
      2. That the believers may practically partake of and enjoy God’s holy nature and thus become holy - II Pet. 1:4.
    4. Renewing is the process of God’s new creation:
      1. Infusing the inward parts of the believers with God’s attributes, which are forever new, can never become old, and are everlasting and unfading - Titus 3:5b; Rom. 12:2a.
      2. That, by passing through the death of Christ on the cross and the discipline of the Holy Spirit of God in the environment, as well as the metabolic life-dispensing of the Spirit, the believers may be renewed day by day by putting off the oldness of the old creation and living out the newness of life of the new creation - II Cor. 4:16; Rom. 6:4.
    5. Transformation is the metabolic process in the divine life:
      1. Transforming the believers metabolically with the life element of God’s firstborn Son, the first God-man, who passed through death and entered into resurrection, until they are transformed into His image, from one degree of glory to another higher degree of glory until they are raptured and transfigured to enter into His glory - II Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2a; Phil. 3:21.
      2. This is the mass reproduction of God’s firstborn Son as the God-man, as the prototype, to make every one of the believers a God-man, the same as Christ, the firstborn Son of God.
    6. Building up is the joining and knitting together in the divine life:
      1. God’ building is brought forth through the joining and knitting together by the working of the transforming Spirit on the believers - Eph. 4:16.
      2. It is the issue of the believers’ growing into the Head, Christ, in all things - Eph. 4:15.
      3. This is the building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the building of the holy city, New Jerusalem - Eph. 4:16; Rev. 3:12; 21:10-11.
    7. Conformation is the maturity in the divine life:
      1. Conformation is the completion of the transformation of the believers in the life of Christ Who is God’s firstborn Son, the first God-man - Rom. 8:29.
      2. Conformation is also the preparation of the believers before the transfiguration of their body in glorification.
    8. Glorification is the full manifestation of God’s complete salvation:
      1. The work of the Spirit of God in glorifying the believers begins with His regenerating the believers with God’s glorious life.
      2. After regenerating the believers, the Spirit of God continues, step by step, with His work of feeding, dispositional sanctification, renewing, transformation, building up, and conformation to transfuse the believers with the Triune God as glory, until the glory of God’s life saturates the believers and permeates out of their body. Thus, the work of the Spirit of God in glorifying the believers reaches its consummation - Rom. 8:30, 23.