Gluten Free & God Seeking: From the Life Study of Romans

Sunday, January 27, 2013

From the Life Study of Romans - Why is God Triune?

Most people acknowledge that God is the Creator, but that leaves Him in a remote spot and us down here. It helped me when I heard that God never intended it to stay that way. He wants to have a relationship with us, and how God accomplished this is the story of the gospels.

Winter day on the boardwalk on the bay

In order to get into man, God the Creator had to become a man, live a human life, die on the cross for man's sins, and then resurrect. I memorized this in catechism.

But I never knew that in His resurrection an amazing thing happened--the Lord became the life-giving Spirit. You can look this up 1 Corinthians 15:45b. At first this verse may puzzle you. In fact I never understood it until I heard Witness Lee share on it.

This is it in a nutshell: The Lord became the Spirit just so He could become a form that could enter into man's human spirit. Here you can see the Triune God--the Father, Son, and Spirit are all working with the goal to enter into man and regenerate him!

I finished reading the Life-Studies of Romans this past week, and in message 60 of the Life Study of Romans on pages 625-626 Witness Lee shares that God is triune so that He can dispense His divine life into us:

In order for God to dispense Himself into us, He must be triune...The word dispense means to distribute. Suppose we have a large container of juice. In order for people to drink the juice, we must find a way to dispense the juice from the container into them. The best way is to pour the juice into cups and then distribute it among the people present. The juice used to be in the container, but now it is in the people in whom it has been dispensed. When we speak of the dispensation of the Triune God, we mean that God distributes Himself to us and then dispenses Himself into our being just as the juice is dispensed from the container into those who drink it. In His dispensation, God actually enters into our being, fills our vessel, and becomes one with us. This is the dispensation of the Triune God for the fulfillment of His purpose (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Romans. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1975 Print) .