CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

MESSAGE FOUR

THE PROCESSED TRIUNE GOD

OUTLINE

1. The composition of the Gospel of John and the constitution of the spiritual things recorded in this Gospel are based upon not only the Triune God but also the processed Triune God.
2. The processes that the Triune God has gone through:
1. Incarnation—John 1:14:
1. To become flesh, to put on human nature by partaking of human blood and human flesh, to be a real man through human birth by a virgin—Isa. 7:14.
2. To bring God into man, mingling God and man as one.
3. To court man according to His love (John 3:16), which He had from eternity toward man, by humbling Himself to lay aside His divine form and position to become in fashion as a man (Phil. 2:6-8) that He could have man engaged to Him in the church age (2 Cor. 11:2) and married to Him to be His wife at the beginning of the kingdom age (Rev. 19:7-9).
4. This was accomplished not only by the Son but also with the Father (John 8:16, 29) and through the Spirit (Luke 1:35; Matt. 1:18, 20); hence, He was called the Mighty God and the Eternal Father (Isa. 9:6), but lay in a manger as a human baby (Luke 2:7).
2. Human living:
1. The God-incarnated Jesus lived on the earth as a man for thirty-three and a half years.
2. To experience all the trials and troubles in human living—Heb. 4:15.
3. To manifest God's attributes (1 Tim. 3:16) in His human virtues in the flesh.
4. Going through temptations yet without sin, and having no sin, even though He was made sin—Heb. 4:15; 2 Cor. 5:21.
5. Made perfect through sufferings—Heb. 2:10.
6. Thus, He has qualified Himself to be the Redeemer and Savior of the men of sin.
3. The all-terminating, all-redeeming, life-releasing, and new-man-creating death:
1. Christ as the embodiment of God and through the eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:14) passed through the death on the cross.
2. By, in, and through this death He terminated all the negative things in the whole universe:
1. Satan, the devil, the enemy of God—Heb. 2:14.
2. Sin—Rom. 8:3; John 1:29.
3. The flesh of fallen man—Gal. 5:24.
4. The world, the cosmos, the evil system of Satan—John 12:31.
5. The old creation, represented by the old man—Rom. 6:6.
6. The separating ordinances of the law—Eph. 2:15.
3. Redeeming judicially fallen mankind and all things created by God—Col. 1:20; Heb. 2:9.
4. Releasing organically His divine life held in His human shell as that of a grain of wheat—John 12:24.
5. Through His death Christ creating in Himself as the sphere, as the realm, and as the element the Jews and the Gentiles into one new man—Eph. 2:15.
4. The life-dispensing, germinating, and washing resurrection:
1. After He passed through the process of death, Christ entered into the process of resurrection.
2. By this resurrection He:
1. Was born to be the firstborn Son of God by the designation of His flesh through the Spirit of holiness—Rom. 1:3-4; 8:29.
2. Became the life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b.
3. Regenerated all His believers chosen by God in eternity past—1 Pet. 1:3:
1. 1) Dispensing the divine life to the believers in Christ—John 3:15.
2. 2) Germinating all believers in Christ through regeneration—John 3:5-6.
3. 3) Washing away all the old things from the regenerated believers—Titus 3:5.