CHAPTER FIVE

THE BUILDING UP OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
BY THE TRANSFORMATION IN LIFE

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Scripture Reading: John 3:5-6; 2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2a; 8:30c; Heb. 2:10a; Titus 3:5b

OUTLINE

1. The complete salvation of God:
1. Sanctification in God's calling—1 Pet. 1:2b.
2. The redemption of Christ—Rom. 3:24b.
3. Washing of our sins by the blood of Christ—Rev. 1:5b; 1 Pet. 1:2c; 1 John 1:7.
4. Forgiveness of sins—Acts 2:38.
5. Objective justification by God—Rom. 3:24a.
6. Reconciliation to God—Rom. 5:10a.
7. Objective sanctification by the blood of Christ—Heb. 10:29b.
8. Regeneration by the Spirit—Titus 3:5b.
9. Full salvation of God—Acts 16:31.
10. Daily salvation in the life of Christ—Rom. 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:2.
11. Washing by the Spirit—1 Cor. 6:11a.
12. Anointing of the Spirit—1 John 2:20, 27.
13. Subjective sanctification in the Spirit—1 Cor. 6:11b; Rom. 15:16b; 6:19b, 22b.
14. Subjective justification in the Spirit—1 Cor. 6:11c.
15. God abiding in us—1 John 3:24; 4:13.
16. Christ making His home in our hearts—Eph. 3:17.
17. The renewing of the Holy Spirit—Titus 3:5c; Eph. 4:23; Rom. 12:2a.
18. Transformation from the Lord Spirit—2 Cor. 3:18b; Rom. 12:2b.
19. Conformation to the image of the Lord—Rom. 8:29a.
20. Redemption of the body—Rom. 8:23b; Eph. 1:14b; 4:30b.
21. Glorification in the glory of God—Rom. 8:30c; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:10.
2. The vital importance of transformation in the complete salvation of God:
1. Of the twenty-one aspects listed above, regeneration, transformation, and glorification are the three vital aspects in God's complete salvation:
1. Regeneration brings the divine life into the believers to germinate and generate their spirit—John 3:5-6.
2. Transformation carries the divine essence into all the components of the believers' soul—mind, emotion, and will—to transform them metabolically—2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2a.
3. Glorification saturates the believers' body with the glory of God to glorify them by bringing them into God's glory—Rom. 8:30c; Heb. 2:10a.
4. Regeneration transpires in the believers' spirit at the moment when they receive Christ as their Redeemer, Savior, and life once for all; transformation is taking place in the believers' soul for their entire Christian life until they will be transfigured and glorified in their body; and glorification will be consummated at the Lord's rapture once for all when He comes to meet them.
2. All three aspects are organic and by these three steps the believers' entire being—spirit, soul, and body—will be organically mingled with the processed and consummated Triune God.
3. The significance of transformation:
1. Not merely an outward change.
2. An inward transformation in nature and essence.
3. The move of the divine life in the believers' inner being.
4. The positive organic reaction of the divine life in the believers' entire being.
5. The metabolic constitution in the believers' renewed being.
6. The expression of the divine image's attributes in the believers' renewed being to be the virtues of the believers' new man.
7. The manifestation of the processed and consummated Triune God in the believers' new man.
8. The masterpiece of the consummated Spirit of the Triune God as the Lord Spirit throughout the believers' entire being as the new creation by His renewing work—2 Cor. 3:18b; Titus 3:5b.
9. Accomplished in the believers who, with unveiled face, behold and reflect as a mirror the glory of the Lord—2 Cor. 3:18a.
10. Issuing in the glorious image of the glorified Lord from one degree of His glory to another until the believers enter into His glory to be glorified by the bright splendor of God's glory—2 Cor. 3:18b; Heb. 2:10a; Rom. 8:30c.