Week 8 The Revelation of Truth
LESSON EIGHT
THE ORGANIC SALVATION
Hymn 841
Scripture Reading:
Rom. 5:10 For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled.
THE ORGANIC ASPECT OF GOD’S SALVATION
The organic aspect of God’s salvation is through the life of God (Rom. 1:17b; Acts 11:18; Rom. 5:10b, 17b, 18b, 21b). Whereas the judicial aspect is according to the righteousness of God to accomplish God’s redemption, the organic aspect is through the life of God to carry out God’s salvation, including regeneration, shepherding, dispositional sanctification, renewing, transformation, building up, conformation, and glorification. This is the purpose of God’s salvation to accomplish all that God wants to achieve in the believers in His economy through His divine life. (The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, p. 16)
Regeneration
Regeneration is to generate the redeemed believers with the divine life that they may be born of God to be His children of His species (John 1:12-13; 3:6b). (The Divine and Mystical Realm, p. 28)
Shepherding
Shepherding includes feeding, as the nursing mother feeds the baby for the baby to grow, as mentioned in 1 Peter 2:2. (The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, p. 32)
Sanctification
Dispositional sanctification is to sanctify the believers who are growing in the divine life in their disposition with the holy nature of God (Rom. 15:16; 6:19, 22; 1 Thes. 5:23).
Renewing
Renewing is to have our mind changed in our religion, logic, and philosophy concerning the universe, mankind, God, etc., by the Spirit of truth with the revelations of the Scriptures. (Titus 3:5; Rom. 12:2b; Eph. 4:23; Rom. 8:6; Phil. 2:5; 2 Cor. 4:16). (The Divine and Mystical Realm, p. 28)
Transformation
Transformation is not an outward change or correction but the metabolic function of the life of God in the believers.
Building up
Building up is the God-men’s being joined and knit together with other God-men in the divine life by their growth in the divine life. (The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, p. 47)
Conformation
Conformation is to be conformed to the full-grown image of the firstborn Son of God, who is the first God-man, as the prototype for mass reproduction. (The Divine and Mystical Realm, p. 30)
Glorification
Glorification is the spreading forth of Christ’s glory from the believers by their growing to maturity in Christ’s life. (The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, p. 63)
THE ULTIMATE CONSUMMATION OF GOD’S COMPLETE SALVATION
BEING THE NEW JERUSALEM
God’s organic work is from regeneration to glorification, from God’s entering into man to man’s practically being brought into God. Regeneration is God entering into man, whereas glorification is man entering into God. Thus, man is altogether mingled and joined with God to express the image of God. That is glorification. The ultimate consummation of God’s complete salvation is the New Jerusalem—the crystallization of the union and mingling of God with man, the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite elect. (The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, p. 74)
References: The Organic Aspect of God’s Salvation, chs. 1-5; The Divine and Mystical Realm, ch. 2.
