CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD
in the Epistle to the Romans

Message Seventeen

The Most Marvelous, Excellent, Mysterious, and
All-inclusive Transformations of the Eternal and
Triune God in His Becoming a Man

OUTLINE

1. In His becoming the flesh—John 1:14:
   1. He became the embodiment of the Triune God— John 1:14:
      1. Bringing God to man.
      2. Making God contactable, touchable, receivable, experienceable, enterable, and enjoyable.
   2. He became a God-man:
      1. Bringing divinity into humanity.
      2. Mingling divinity with humanity.
   3. As a prototype for the mass reproduction of many God-men.
2. In His human living:
   1. He lived a human life:
      1. Not by His human life.
      2. But by His divine life.
      3. To express the divine attributes in His human virtues.
   2. As the model of the human living of His mass reproduction of the many God-men.
3. In His all-problems-solving death:
   1. He became the flesh of sin (only in its likeness)— Rom. 8:3:
      1. Being made sin and condemning sin in the flesh—2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 8:3.
      2. Being the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world—John 1:29.
   2. He became a serpent (only in its likeness as the bronze serpent—Num. 21:4-9)—John 3:14:
      1. Destroying the devil, who has the might of death—Heb. 2:14.
      2. To judge the world, which is a system, cosmos, of the devil, its ruler—John 12:31.
   3. He became the end of the old man:
      1. Crucifying the old man—Rom. 6:6.
      2. Terminating the old creation.
   4. He became the Peacemaker—Eph. 2:14-16:
      1. Abolishing the law of the commandments in ordinances that separate men from one another.
      2. Reconciling men to God, thus making peace.
   5. He became the grain of wheat—John 12:24:
      1. Falling into the earth and dying to break the shell of His humanity.
      2. To release the divine life for the producing of many grains to constitute His organic Body.
      3. Christ as the one grain became the many grains, and the many grains are the sons of God.
4. In His all-conquering resurrection:
   1. He uplifted His humanity for Him to be begotten of God as God’s firstborn Son—Acts 13:33; Rom. 8:29.
   2. He became, by God the Father’s regeneration, the many sons of God as His many brothers—1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 8:29.
   3. He, as the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ, the all-inclusive compounded Spirit, as the consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God—1 Cor. 15:45b; Exo. 30:23-25.
5. In His all-transcending ascension:
   1. He became:
      1. The Head of all things to be the Head of the Body—Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18.
      2. The Lord and Christ—Acts 2:36.
      3. Our High Priest in God’s New Testament economy—Heb. 4:14; 7:26; 9:11.
      4. The Mediator of the new covenant—Heb. 9:15.
      5. The surety of the better covenant—Heb. 7:22.
      6. The Paraclete (Advocate) of the New Testament believers—1 John 2:1; John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7.
      7. The New Testament believers’ Intercessor at the right hand of God and within them as well— Rom. 8:34, 26.
      8. The heavenly Minister—Heb. 8:2.
   2. For the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy.

I am looking to the Lord that this outline with this short fellowship can be a controlling vision to us for our direction and goal until He comes back. We want to see the most marvelous, excellent, mysterious, and all-inclusive transformations of the eternal and Triune God in His becoming a man. God is complete, perfect, and unchanging, but He has had many transformations. In my youth I was taught that the Lord Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). But after I got into the intrinsic depths of the Scriptures, I found out that merely to say this is not adequate in the interpretation of the deep mysteries concerning Christ, because the Bible shows us that God has been transformed. God became a man. Is this not a transformation? All of His transformations are marvelous, excellent, mysterious, and all-inclusive.