THE EXPERIENCE OF
GOD’S ORGANIC SALVATION EQUALING REIGNING IN CHRIST’S LIFE

MESSAGE THREE

GOD’S ORGANIC SALVATION

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CONFORMATION AND GLORIFICATION

OUTLINE

1. God conforms us that we may have His divine element—the solidifying of God’s organic salvation—Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2:
   1. God conforms us that we may be solidified in the possession of His divine element:
      1. God’s intention is for us to have His divine element in His divine life, nature, and image as His expression, but not in His Godhead.
      2. God regenerates us with His divine life that we may begin to participate in His divinity to have His divine element.
      3. After being regenerated, we begin to grow by the divine renewing, sanctification, and transformation until we mature in the divine life to be a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Col. 1:28; Eph. 4:13), being conformed to the image of Christ, the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29).
      4. Hence, our conformation is our maturity in the divine life through which we participate in God’s divinity in full and are solidified in the possession of His divine element.
   2. God conforms us that we may be solidified in the experience of His organic salvation:
      1. In God’s organic salvation, conformation is the consummation of our transformation in life (2 Cor. 3:18); it is also our preparation before the transfiguration and glorification of our body.
      2. Conformation is to be conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son:
         1. To be conformed to Christ’s death in all things through the power of His resurrection—Phil. 3:10.
         2. To live Christ for magnifying Him through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ—Phil. 1:19-21a.
      3. Such a conformation makes us the reprints of God’s firstborn Son that we may be exactly like Him and be exactly like God in His righteousness and holiness—1 John 3:2; Eph. 4:24.
2. God glorifies us that we may have His divine image in full—the consummating of God’s organic salvation—Rom. 8:30, 23; Eph. 4:30; Phil. 3:21; Col. 3:4b; 1 Pet. 5:10a; 2 Tim. 2:10; Heb. 2:10:
   1. God glorifies us that we may arrive at the consummation of the possession of His divine image:
      1. In regeneration God seals us with His Spirit (Eph. 1:13); this sealing Spirit, who is the Triune God Himself entering into us, causes us to bear God’s image, signified by the seal, thus making us like God.
      2. This sealing of the sealing Spirit is like inking, saturating us from within with the glorious life element of God throughout our life, resulting in the redemption of our body (Eph. 4:30; Rom. 8:23) so that our entire being bears the divine image of God.
      3. At the time of our rapture when we are matured in the divine life, we will be brought from without into the glory of God for our glorification—Rom. 8:30; Heb. 2:10.
      4. Hence, we will be glorified from within through the lifelong saturation with the glory of God and from without through our being brought into God’s glory. By such glorification we will arrive at the consummation of the possession of God’s divine image.
   2. God glorifies us that we may arrive at the consummation of the experience of His organic salvation:
      1. In God’s organic salvation His glorifying work in us begins with His regenerating us with His life of glory.
      2. After regenerating us, God continues, step by step, with His work of renewing, sanctification, transformation, and conformation to transfuse us with Himself as glory, until the glory of His life saturates our being and is manifested in our body; thus His work of glorification in us reaches its consummation.
      3. Our glorification is the top portion of our divine sonship in God’s organic salvation—Gal. 4:5; Rom. 8:23.
      4. The consummation of God’s organic salvation is the New Jerusalem—the universal incorporation of the union and mingling of divinity with humanity—the processed and consummated Triune God incorporated with His regenerated, renewed, sanctified, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite elect.