CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

MESSAGE ELEVEN

THE ORGANISM OF THE PROCESSED
AND CONSUMMATED TRIUNE GOD
AND
THE BELIEVERS' ONENESS INCORPORATED
WITH THE ONENESS OF THE TRIUNE GOD

OUTLINE

1. The organism of the processed and consummated Triune God:
1. John 14—16 is a long discourse given by Christ to His disciples on the night before He was crucified concerning the issue of His glorification by the Father with His glory.
2. The issue is a divine and human constitution of the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified elect as an organism of the processed and consummated Triune God—14:7-20:
1. The Father is embodied in the Son, coinhering with the Son, and seen among the believers—vv. 7-11.
2. The Son is realized as the Spirit to abide in the believers—vv. 15-20.
3. In this constitution God the Father is the source, God the Son is the element, and God the Spirit is the essence, constituted with the believers as the constituents (Eph. 4:4-6). It is expressed:
1. As the Father's house for His dwelling (John 14:2), referring to:
1. 1) The divine family with the children born of God—1:12-13.
2. 2) Bethel (the house of God) as the place for the heavenly ladder to bring heaven to earth and join earth to heaven—1:51.
3. 3) The temple of God as the house of God, which was Christ Himself before His resurrection and was enlarged with His believers through His resurrection—2:16-22.
4. 4) A mutual abode for the Triune God and the believers built up by the Father and the Son (14:23), consummating in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21).
2. As the Son's vine for His spreading to express the Father—John 15:1-16:
1. 1) An organic union of the Son as the tree with His believers as the branches—vv. 1-5.
2. 2) To bear fruit for the glorification of the Father, that is, the expression of the Father as its source and Husbandman—vv. 1, 4-16.
3. As the Spirit's child for His moving—16:20-22:
1. 1) Created by Christ on the cross by abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances—Eph. 2:15.
2. 2) Regenerated by the Father in Christ's resurrection to be God's children, who are the constituents of the house of God—1 Pet. 1:3; John 1:12-13.
3. 3) Born by the Spirit in the believers' spirit—John 3:6b.
4. 4) God's elect are the suffering, delivering woman—16:20-21.
5. 5) As the returning Christ who left them by His death—16:22.
6. 6) To be the new man—Col. 3:10-11.
7. 7) Put on by the believers through the renewing in the spirit of their mind—Eph. 4:23-24.
8. 8) Consummating the Body of Christ.
2. The believers' oneness incorporated with the oneness of the Triune God:
1. In the Gospel of John, chapter 17 is Christ's closing prayer to His discourse in chapters 14—16.
2. The Son lifting up His eyes to heaven to pray to the Father indicates the economical Trinity working together—the Son praying on earth and the Father hearing in heaven—17:1a.
3. For the glorification of the Son that the Father might be glorified as the Son has glorified the Father in His earthly living and ministry—vv. 1b, 4-5.
4. Based upon the oneness of the believers—vv. 2-3, 6-23a:
1. By the Father's eternal life conveyed in the Father's name and in the Father's word—vv. 2-3, 6-12.
2. By the Father's sanctifying word as the truth—the divine reality—through the coinhering of the Triune God and the believers—vv. 13-21.
3. By the glory given to the believers by the Son through the coinhering of the Triune God incorporated with the believers—vv. 22-23a.
5. Incorporated with the oneness of the economical Trinity for the church life constituting the Body of Christ:
1. The Divine Trinity is economically one in harmony.
2. The Father gives His glory to the Son that the Son may express Him in His nature, life, and attributes in the divine sonship for the Father's glorification.
3. The Son gives the divine glory in the divine sonship to His believers, who are the many sons of God sharing the divine sonship with Him.
6. Kept in the Father's love through their coinhering for eternity as the New Jerusalem—vv. 23b-26.